Staff photo / Preston Byers. Canfield’s Jules Luce scans the field during Wednesday’s Division II, Region 6 playoff game against Boardman at Bob Dove Field in Canfield.

CANFIELD — During Wednesday’s playoff game against Boardman, Canfield scored early and often.

The 12th-seeded Cardinals, who had already beaten the 17th-seeded Spartans twice this season, grabbed the lead less than two minutes into the Division II, Region 6 tilt, and behind a few hat-trick performances, cruised to a 19-4 win at Bob Dove Field.

“I think tonight went fantastic,” Canfield head coach Megan Tyson said. “We’ve been really working on using each other as a team and kind of using everyone, and I feel like tonight really was a great example of that all falling together.”

About 90 seconds after the opening draw, Grace Stone got the scoring started and gave the Cardinals an early advantage. A little over a minute later, Sophia Spatar scored a goal of her own.

Boardman’s Jemma Pavone pulled her team back within one just seconds later, but Canfield soon widened its lead with goals by Stone and Kayleigh Carney.

After Giavanna Kalmer scored to make it a 4-2 game, Spatar and Stone each scored again to go ahead 6-2 at the end of the first quarter.

Other than an Ava Gaps goal, the Cardinals thoroughly dominated the second period.

Carney scored back-to-back goals in the opening two minutes and another later on, while Spatar completed her hat trick, Annabelle Cassidy put one on the board and Olivia Hash scored a pair to give Canfield a 13-3 lead by halftime.

“One of the biggest things that we’ve been really doing is kind of going over the basics of the movement and just kind of, in practice, just really breaking it down so that it can come out on the field and we can kind of see that,” Tyson said. “And I think tonight was just one of those moments where they just kind of got it. They understood it.”

In part due to a continuously running clock, the Cardinals’ scoring output decreased in the second half. Still, Hash scored three more times, Jules Luce put two in the net and Stone scored her fourth and final goal of the night.

In total, half a dozen Canfield players scored a goal Wednesday. Of those six, four had hat tricks: Hash finished with five goals, Carney and Stone had four each and Spatar scored three times. Carney added a pair of assists, and Spatar, Luce, Hash, Cassidy, Stone and Peyton Burnfield also recorded assists.

“I think it means a lot, especially with how our season has been going. … Really boosting the morale,” Tyson said. “I think we really needed a game like this where we really just trusted each other, listened to each other and worked hard together.”

Lily ‘Pickles’ Vondran scored Boardman’s only second-half goal with 5:20 remaining in the third quarter.

With the loss, the Spartans finished their season with a 4-12 record and on a four-game losing streak.

“Hats off to Canfield, they came out ready to play,” Boardman head coach Matt Pavone said. “I had five starters not showing up tonight on time and everything, so it was a little tough out of the gate, and then it just kind of got out of hand.”

“It was a little up and down,” he said of the season. “Hopefully next year, [we can] get these young kids off and running and go from there.”

Canfield (7-8-2) will play No. 3 Gilmour Academy in the district semifinal Tuesday in Gates Mills. The Cardinals lost their previous meeting to the Lancers 13-10 on March 28.

“Gilmour Academy is definitely going to be some tough and challenging competition,” Tyson said. “We’ve played them once this season, and we only lost by three. And that was one of the games where we weren’t in it mentally. So I definitely think that we can come out with a punch and [be] ready to play against them.”