 Now let's head down to Highway 371 to Brainerd, where the Warrior Girls soccer team is preparing for another run as the Conference Champs Clayton Castle has more. Scoring wasn't too hard to come by for the Brainerd Girls soccer team in 2016, scoring a total of 61 goals last season. However, with top scorer Allie Smith graduating, the Warriors will look to find offense from some new faces. So I mean, obviously scoring is a huge part of the game. You can't win if you're not scoring goals. And so we know that'll be a challenge for us, just knowing that our top two scorers graduated from last year. Head Coach Grant Goodminder isn't worried though, saying that the strength of the defense will take some pressure off the offense. So we're excited about that, you know, scoring will be a challenge, but I think we'll be really good defensively. And so we may not need to score four or five goals a game, one or two might be enough most games. Now the Brainerd Girls soccer team graduated its top two leading scores from last year's 12, 3 and 1 squad, but still return four seniors who provide leadership and mentorship to the underclassmen. So we're really excited about Reagan McElfresh. She's played defense for us in the past, and she's going to move up to the midfield and probably score a lot more and get a lot more assists this year. And then Lexi Roby I think will move up to forward and we think she could really have a big year. We have a really good core that's coming back. We have a couple of spots that we need to fill, but I think we're going to do that easily. And I think we have done that. So now it's just time will tell. What will benefit the Warriors in 2017 is that the seniors are excited to be the leaders of this young squad and to develop the team into something great. We're actually pretty close with the younger girls, so I think that maintaining that leadership will be able to incorporate them pretty well and help them not be so afraid. While the season has yet to officially kick off, the team has its sights set on the bigger prize. We hope to be conference champs again. I think that's like our number one goal. And then after that, win our playoff games and then hopefully go to state. The Warriors will kick off their season next Thursday against Rogers, reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. Thanks Clayton. And as he said, they'll be at Rogers High School a week from tomorrow at 5 p.m. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.