Opportunities not converted by Aberdeen turned into chances for Centralia to walk out with a win on Thursday night.

In an Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer opener, the Bobcats had all of the opportunities they needed to seize control of this match in the first 25-plus minutes. However, the Tigers converted their chances with two goals in three minutes to secure a 2-0 win.

Alayna Miller and Anastasia Ulrigg scored for Centralia (1-0, 3-4), which welcomed back Aberdeen (0-1, 1-5) to the league after a two-year absence.

“Right now, the girls don’t seem very relaxed, more uptight out there,” AHS head coach Ryan Housden said. “We need to find out why they are playing so tight out there. The mindset gets back into defense and we have no attack.”

If chances were candy, Aberdeen would have felt like it was celebrating Halloween early on.

AHS senior Dani Buckman finished a six-pass series with a hard shot on goal, forcing a Courtney Leifer-Carlson save in the third minute. One minute later, Abbie Bradt’s header off a Tayler Housden corner kick just went wide of the left post.

Bradt forced a mistake out of Centralia’s defense for a breakaway in the sixth minute and played the ball back to Housden, who found Kyra Gallinger open for the shot. The senior’s shot also went just wide of the left post.

Leifer-Carlson nearly gave the Bobcats a goal when her goal kick in the eighth minute went right to Housden, whose return shot with just Leifer-Carlson between her and the goal was wide right.

A loose ball off Housden in the 17th minute beat Leifer-Carlson, but a Tiger defender cleared the ball before it crossed the goal line.

“I felt like we dominated the first three-quarters of the first half,” coach Housden said. “We just missed some shot opportunities. We didn’t finish them. After the first initial score, we went back onto our (heels) and they took control of the game. We fell into a defensive mindset and they capitalized.”

Tayler Housden presented a dangerous chance in the 26th minute when her goal kick from the right side crossed the goal, but no Aberdeen player was there to put a foot onto it. The missed chance set up Centralia’s counter-attack and first goal.

On a long clearance out, Miller split two Aberdeen defenders to get to the ball and slotted her shot past goalkeeper Reagan Glanz into the left side for the goal in the 27th minute. Energized by the goal, Centralia pressed its attack and was rewarded with a second goal.

On a corner kick in the 30th minute, the ball settled into the middle of the penalty area and into traffic. There, Ulrigg got a solid directional shot on-goal and past Glanz for a 2-0 score.

Centralia kept the attack up until halftime. In the second half, a physical match got more chippy as four yellow cards — five total in the match — were given for hard fouls.

Glanz made the save of the night when she blocked a breakaway shot from Centralia’s Jovanah Navarro in the 71st minute to keep the deficit settled. Glanz finished with four saves.

Coach Housden cited freshman midfielder Emy Walsh for her efforts.

Aberdeen won the junior varsity match, 1-0, over Centralia.

On Saturday, Aberdeen will host rival Hoquiam.