READFIELD – As Maranacook kept pushing the issue and changing the number on the portable scoreboard Wednesday, a few of the Black Bears’ rambunctious reserves kept their lungs at an overtime-in-the-playoffs level.

“Intensity!” implored one. “Keep working,” chirped another.

Maybe they didn’t feel that the first half did justice to their domination of Oak Hill, or perhaps they reasoned that another quick goal or two would hasten their own playing time. Whatever the case, it was the girls’ soccer equivalent of begging a speed metal garage band to crank up the volume.

Maranacook started strongly and got even better as the afternoon progressed, hammering out a 6-0 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference victory.

Five different players found the net for the top-ranked team in Western Class B. Junior forward Alyssa Neptune was the lone repeater with two goals and an assist.

The Black Bears’ six senior starters inflicted the rest of the damage. Allison Meyer scored a goal and set up two others. Danielle Poulin, Amy Gifford and Laura St. John each chalked up a goal, and Emma Prysunka registered an assist while anchoring the defense along with St. John and Tiffany Mitchell in front of junior goalie Eryn Neptune.

“This was one of those total team victories,” said Maranacook coach Peter Poulin, who celebrated his 200th career win last Friday. “People who had been playing a little down played up today.”

Alyssa Neptune had a foot in both first-half goals for Maranacook (8-1).

She returned the ball to Danielle Poulin on a nifty give-and-go play at 12:17. Twenty minutes later, Neptune cashed in her first goal of the game when Meyer threaded the needle through two Oak Hill defenders and left Neptune with an uncontested look at Oak Hill goalie Cortney Seguin.

“The killer passes are those angle passes where you beat a couple of defenders,” coach Poulin said. “We had two or three of those today. Actually, we probably had a lot more than that.”

Several leaping stops by Seguin (25 saves) and the tireless effort of defenders Bethany Latulippe, Cadia Rodrigue, Becca Roberts and Courtney Safford kept the Raiders (3-5-1) within striking distance at the half.

Oak Hill’s trouble clearing the defensive zone intensified after the break, however, with Maranacook peppering the cage at a clip of nearly a shot per minute for a lengthy stretch. Neptune rattled the crossbar with one promising bid before Prysunka found Gifford for a point-blank shot and a 3-0 lead at 19:15.

Meyer served up Neptune’s second goal before beating Seguin with a booming, turnaround shot of her own. St. John finished the barrage by cashing in a penalty kick.

“Our passing today was really good,” Poulin said. “Some days, we have one person score three out of the four goals, and other days it’s like today. Everybody who scored today has already scored for us this year.”