SELINSGROVE -- If there's anything that has been learned since Harold L. Bolig Memorial Field was converted to a turf surface, it's that the Selinsgrove field hockey squad can score early and often.

The Seals didn't score early, but over the final 13 minutes of the first half they scored often. Selinsgrove produced four goals over that period en route to a 5-0 victory over Lewisburg in the first Heartland Athletic Conference Division I contest for both teams.

Danica Deckard and Hope Burke scored two goals apiece and Ashtin Klingler also found the cage as the Seals improved to 2-0 overall, 1-0 HAC-I.

"This has been a good start for us (to the season)," said Selinsgrove coach Cathy Keiser, whose team was coming off a 5-0 victory over Lackawanna Trail in its opener. "I thought we got off a little slow today, but then they started rolling."

Selinsgrove dominated the opening half from the outset, but a heroic effort by Lewisburg's defense, including sophomore goalkeeper Monica Zagame, kept it scoreless for the first 17 minutes. Zagame had five saves in the first half, and Annie Lesher had two stick blocks of potential goals while perched in front of the cage.

"Lewisburg has a good keeper. She was hanging in there," Keiser noted.

But Selinsgrove's constant possession finally wore down the Green Dragons (0-1-1, 0-1), who were coming off a 2-2 tie against Bloomsburg in their opener. Forward Deckard finally broke through with a goal at the 13:05 mark, with an assist by Gina Kellett.

A few minutes later, Deckard received a green (warning) card when one of the officials stopped play to cite her for two dangerous strokes, even though they were shots on goal that happened to go high. One of the drives struck Lewisburg's Leah Bettner in the arm, temporarily sending her to the sidelines.

"It certainly wasn't intentional, and the player who got hit was in front of the keeper," Keiser said.

When the Seals were awarded a penalty stroke a couple of minutes later, Deckard made up for it. With everyone expecting a typical blast high and to the right or left, Deckard pushed a relatively soft groundball past Zagame to make it 2-0.

Selinsgrove made it 4-0 in short order, with Burke and Klingler both scoring off pads over the final 5:25 of the half.

Burke scored again, assisted by Deckard, midway through the second half to provide the final margin.The Dragons were much improved in the second half, getting more offensive push despite not being credited with a shot on goal. They picked up their only two penalty corners of the game, and their time of possession was much closer to that of the Seals.

"Our improvement (in the second half) was great. It was nice to see that, and we held them to one goal," said first-year Lewisburg coach Betsy Monus. "We'd like to have seen that the whole game."

Monus praised the play of sophomore forward Brodie Ercole, but said the Dragons need to work on more quality possessions.

"Selinsgrove is very skilled, but we tried to do the long ball instead of short passes," she said. "We need to keep it on our stick more."