COLFAX, Calif. – Senior Miley Blough scored two goals and assisted on a third while goalkeepers Millie Katzeff and Mia Rabinovitz combined for 11 saves, as St. Francis claimed a 3-1 win over previously unbeaten Colfax in the varsity nightcap of a non-league girls' prep soccer doubleheader at Tony Martello Stadium Saturday afternoon.

The Troubadours improve to 11-4-2 overall. The Falcons, who previously had allowed just six goals in their first 16 outings, slip to 14-1-2.

Blough got St. Francis on the board when her corner kick glanced off the Colfax keeper into the net in the sixth inning. Then after Falcon sophomore Evie Reid equalized with 2:20 left in the first half, or the 38th minute, the Troubies regained the lead in the 47th. Blough launched a cross into the box from the left flank that initially struck and stunned a Colfax defender, Monet Zauner had already positioned herself for the follow-up.

Finally, in the 75th, Blough struck again. She was tripped up approximately 10 yards outside of the penalty box, handled her own free kick, and deposited the serve just under the crossbar off the goalkeeper's fingertips for the insurance goal. The brace marks the seventh and eighth goals for the Fresno State commit, and her first multi-goal game since netting a pair against Del Oro on February 4 of her junior season.

Meanwhile, Katzeff and Rabinovitz came through in defense of the goal against a Colfax team that averaged 6.0 goals per game entering Saturday's contest. Katzeff, playing against her former Falcon teammates, had four of her six stops in a short span in the eighth and ninth minutes. She also caught a break when Reid drew a penalty in the 36th, but missed the ensuing kick wide right. Reid eventually got her team on the board to tie the contest by the break.

Rabinovitz halted five shots in her scoreless second half, including back-to-back attempts from point-blank range in the 78th. Lucy Hoffman fired the initial attempt, with Reid coming through with the follow-up. Rabinovitz got enough of the second shot to slow it down, with defender Madeline Squaglia clearing out the ball before Colfax could gain a third chance.

Squaglia later blocked a Reid blast in the 79th for the final shot by either team.

Saturday marked just the second time Colfax and St. Francis have met in the MaxPreps era (2004 to present), with the Troubies winning by a 3-2 final at home on January 18, 2025. Katzeff and Rabinovitz were opposing goalkeepers in that contest, with Reid and Blough each scoring for their respective teams.

The varsity win followed a 5-0 shutout for JV Red, marking the youngest Troubie squad's first win of the year. Paityn Lowery, one of three players on loan from JV Gold, scored three goals during the second half—specifically, in the 45th, 71st and 76th minutes. Livi Daugherty put the finishing touch on a long pass from Gabrielle Angove in the 19th to put SF on the board, then Anna Votaw added her team's fifth goal in the final minute of the contest.

Angove also assisted Lowery's hat trick goal, while Charlotte Gilmore, Isla Pattni and Josie Quiniola had dimes in Red's highest-scoring output since a 5-0 shutout against Monte Vista at Carondelet back on December 7, 2024.

St. Francis JV Gold had the day off, although Lowery, Gilmore and Quiniola stepped up to bolster Red's relatively short-handed roster. Meanwhile, Gold sophomore Elizabeth McNearney joined her older sister, Evelyn, in the varsity contest.

All three teams return to action on Tuesday at home against Granite Bay. JV Red opens the Sierra Foothill League tripleheader at 3:30, with varsity following at 5:30 p.m. JV Gold then plays the nightcap at 7:15 at Cristo Rey's Adamson Family Sports Complex.