READY TO SHOOT — Big Red’s Bailee Beall lines up a shot during Monday’s tournament opener against Indian Creek. She scored four goals in helping Big Red advance with an 8-0 victory at Harding Stadium. - Andrew Grimm

STEUBENVILLE — Different week, same result — this time with more on the line.

The Big Red girls soccer team opened what they hope is a lengthy tournament run with an 8-0 victory over visiting Indian Creek Monday at Harding Stadium, advancing in the Division III, East District tournament.

Steubenville also defeated the Redskins by the same score last Tuesday on senior night.

Big Red (14-3), the No. 2 seed, advances to test top seed Tri-Valley next Monday in the district semifinals at a site to be announced.

“It was a good way to start the tournament,” Big Red head coach Anni Cutri said. “We needed to build some confidence going into Tri-Valley, this group can hang with Tri-Valley. Hopefully this sets our playoff run up on the right foot.”

Bailee Beall, who had five goals and an assist in last week’s meeting, in the process becoming the program’s all-time leading scorer, again had a big performance with four goals and an assist.

Amelia Collopy had a goal and two assists, Gianna Thomas had a goal and an assist, Lucy Saccoccia assisted on three goals and Kenzy Petrelle and Jolee Lombardo each scored.

“It’s huge for the confidence to see some shots go in,” Cutri said. “We’e been telling a few of the girls to shoot all year and they haven’t been going in, now is the perfect time for them to start connecting.

“Getting our younger some confidence that they can take on a player one-on-one and turn and shoot is big because we’re going to need all (the offense) we can get (as the tournament progresses).”

Steubenville pulled ahead to a 7-0 lead at halftime and the eighth goal — Beall’s fourth — enacted the mercy rule.

“Big Red is a good team, it’s fun to watch players that always seem to know where each other is going to be and (Collopy and Beall) just seemed to know where each other was going to be, that made it very difficult (to defend),” Indian Creek coach Danny Lawrence said. “We did a good job of slowing them down at times, (Beall) didn’t get as many clean looks as she did (last week) and that’s what we wanted to do was make them work for their looks.”

For Indian Creek, which was the No. 7 seed, it was the end of the road for six seniors.

“It’s always tough, we had a senior night, then a makeup game at home after that so we’ve had three last games together so to speak, so tht’s made it a little less painful … night two was the toughest one because it was their last home game,” Lawrence said.

The Redskins wrap up the season at 4-13.

“I learned a lot from them and I hope they learned a lot from me,” Lawrence added. “Next year we’re really hoping to turn the corner, we’ve had the same record two years in a row, so we need to turn the corner. We’re going to work in the off season to do that.”