JACKSONVILLE – The St. Johns Country Day School girls soccer team, led by two goals from Kamy Loustau, blew open a slim 1-0 halftime lead against a game St. Joseph’s Academy team before bursting to a 5-0 14th consecutive district soccer title Friday night at host Christ’s Church in Jacksonville. Loustau leads the Spartans’ scoring now with 26 goals.

St. Johns, under head coach Mike Pickett, has won 16 district titles since 1994 with three runnerup finishes.

“We had no movement in the first half and were a little stagnant,” said Pickett. “We had our chances in the first half, but we hit the goal posts and their goalie is probably the best we’ll face all year.”

St. Johns will return home to face Rocky Bayou Christian (6-4-0) in the region 1-1A quarterfinals on Thurs., Jan. 26. St. Josephs will travel to face district 1-1A champion Tallahassee Maclay.

In the bottom half of the region 1-1A bracket, International Community of Winter Park travels to The Master’s Academy of Oviedo, the district 3-1A champion, while First Academy of Orlando, the district 4-1A champion, will host Lake Mary Prep.

In 2016, St. Johns beat Rocky Bayou 8-0 and St. Joseph 2-0 before beating First Academy 4-0 for the region title en route to the Class 1A title.

Against St. Joseph’s Academy, St. Johns went right to offense with junior Alisa Detlefsen taking the opening kickoff deep into the goalie box, but just going wide on her kick.

St. Joseph was able to keep the Lady Spartans near the 50 yard line for the better part of the first 20 minutes but a handful of long throw-ins from Payton Walton and a slew of strong runs to the baseline by eighth grader Lauren Weiss kept the Spartans within striking distance of scoring.

Junior Payton Crews got her first crack at the goal after a long Walton throw-in found Kamy Loustau camped among the St. Joseph defenders before Crews smashed a hard left-foot line drive that caromed off the left goal post and back on to the playing field.

Before the 20 minute water break, Detlefsen tried with two consecutive corner kicks to get a bounce, but to no avail for the Spartans.

At the 22 minutes to go mark, Detlefsen hit the right side goal post with a hard shot off a Loustau feed as St. Johns kept sending shots to the St. Joseph goal.

At 21:34, Loustau finally broke behind the stellar St. Joseph defensive backs and nailed a right-foot shot into the bottom right corner of the goal to put up the game’s only first half goal.

St. Johns Country Day School goalie Cassidy Wasdin registered her first save near the 15 minute mark as St. Joseph became tactical in intercepting the Spartans passing game at midfield and attempting their own scoring runs.

With two minutes left in the half, St. Johns put up a perimeter defense to protect Wasdin, who fended just three shots, to end the half. Junior Abbey Newton punched up a long 40-yard shot as the half ended, but the shot went just wide left.

“We talked at the halftime break, moved some people and changed the formation a bit,” said Pickett. “I wanted us to get more opportunities in the second half.”

After just 10 minutes in the third period. Weiss found Kirsten Pavlisko, who returned after a minor ankle injury, in front of the St. Joseph goal and fed up a perfect assist pass to put St. Johns up 2-0.

Moments later, Newton was awarded and converted a penalty kick off a handball call on defense on a shot attempt by Loustau to put St. Johns up 3-0.

At 22 minutes, Crews broke through the middle of the St. Josephs defense to put St. Johns up 4-0.

Loustau would score her second goal with less than seven minutes to go to end the game at 5-0.

In other district tournament action, in district 4-3A, Clay beat Orange Park 8-2, but lost to Ponte Vedra in the semifinal while Ridgeview lost to Matanzas 8-2; in district 4-4A, Middleburg lost to Nease 9-1 and Fleming Island, who beat Oakleaf 3-1, lost a 2-1 semifinal to Bartram Trail with just 1:11 left in regulation play; in district 5-2A, Keystone Heights, who beat Interlachen 5-2, lost to P.K. Yonge in that semfinal.

In district 4-4A, Bartram Trail beat Creekside for the title.

In district 4-3A, Ponte Vedra beat Menendez for that title.

In district 5-2A, Santa Fe beat P.K. Yonge for that title.