BREWER – The Bangor High girls soccer team struck early Tuesday night en route to a 6-1 victory over Brewer in a Class A matchup at Doyle Field.

The Rams got goals from four different players in taking a 4-0 halftime lead, then cruised to victory during a second half in which both teams went deep into their benches.

“I thought we came out strong and with more intensity than we had in our first game [a 3-1 win over Lawrence of Fairfield on Saturday],” said Bangor coach Larry Smith. “The girls seemed energized to be under the lights, and we were able to pretty handily put away the game in the first half.”

Junior forward Amy Hackett led Bangor with two goals, while Erin MacDermott, Jenny Lucy, Courtney Stevenson and M.J. Boyce added one goal each in support of goalie Tawnya Godinez, who made three saves on four Brewer shots.

Brewer, which was coming off an 8-0 loss against Waterville in its opener Saturday, installed a new four-back defense for this game, and as the game went on, the Witches seemed more comfortable in that alignment.

But Brewer simply didn’t have the firepower to sustain its offense against Bangor, the reigning Eastern Maine Class A champion.

“We played not very well in the first half, and defensively much better in the second half,” said Brewer coach Bill Schwarz. “We put in a new system yesterday, and it takes time to learn it. Saturday we got whomped by Waterville, so this was much better for us.”

Hackett and MacDermott scored goals 2 minutes, 27 seconds apart midway through the first half to stake Bangor to a 2-0 lead. Hackett scored from in close after taking a feed from Casey Hartley with 25:36 left in the opening period. Hartley also set up MacDermott’s goal with 23:09 left, gaining control of the ball along the goal line to the left of the crease and lofting a crossing pass to the far post, where MacDermott was waiting to redirect the ball past Brewer goalie Carolyn Tuck.

Bangor doubled its lead with a pair of goals 54 seconds apart late in the half. Jenny Lucy scored with 2:17 left with a close-range shot after dribbling through several defenders into the goal crease. Courtney Stevenson followed with a similar goal at 1:23, again working her way inside Brewer’s interior defense.

Hackett scored a highlight-reel goal to make it 5-0 with 23:38 left in the match. She gained control of a long clearing pass and blasted a shot from 25 yards to the lower left corner of the goal.

“That’s as good a shot as you’re going to see in high school girls’ soccer,” Smith said.

The teams then swapped goals in the game’s final three minutes. Katie Kenney scored for Brewer, beating Godinez with a shot from the 18-yard line with 2:35 left, and Bangor’s M.J. Boyce countered with 53 seconds left.

Brewer got a solid outing from Tuck, a junior who made 12 saves.

“Bangor is much deeper than we are, they’re more talented than we are,” said Schwarz. “But the girls work hard, and you can’t ask for any more than that.”