MEET the Epsom soccer young guns who are striking fear in opposition defences.
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Tara Thomas, Caitlin Robertson and Caitlin Green are leading the Scorpions' Bendigo Amateur Soccer League women's championship on a goal-scoring spree.
The teenage trio of sharpshooters has knocked in 46 goals in just seven games for the undefeated Scorpions.
Add 14 goals from the trusty boot of Amy Watkins, who has missed the last three games while overseas in Italy, that's 60 of Epsom's competition-best 68 goals for the season.
Not surprisingly, the classy quartet occupy four of the top five spots on the goalkickers' table.
Eaglehawk's Amy Skvarc sits fourth with 12 goals, while Colts United's Rebecca Berry is in sixth place with nine.
Scorpions women's coach Brenton Ellis is counting his blessings with such a potent array of goal scoring talent.
"We're really quite fortunate to have players that can find the back of the next as often as they do," he said.
"What you do see is the stats and them kicking the goals, but the team as a whole is really paying brilliantly to give them those opportunities
"As a coach I couldn't ask anymore really."
Ellis, who is in his first season as women's coach after five years in charge of junior teams, said each player brought a different skill-set to the team.
He said Thomas, who leads the league with 22 goals, had a "natural eye for a goal".
"She can create a goal out of anything. It's always good to have one of those up front," Ellis said.
A one-time defender, Thomas is a few days shy of her 17th birthday.
Seventeen-year-old Green (13 goals) has carved her reputation as a speedy and skilful winger, with a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
At 14, Robertson is the youngest player in the Scorpions line-up and with 11 goals alongside her name.
According to her coach, Robertson creates as many chances for others as she does herself.
She more than anyone embodies the youth movement going on at the Epsom Huntly Recreation Reserve.
The Epsom team's average age is 17, with the oldest player in the squad just 23.
That spells trouble for years to come for the Scorpions rivals.
Despite their devastating goal form, rising star Thomas says there is no hint of rivalry between the girls - not even a friendly one.
"There's no competition between us at all," she said ahead of the Scorpions clash this weekend against Spring Gully.
"We always work as a team - whoever's up there gets (the ball) - it's a team thing.
"It's about Using each other and depending on each other and having someone to fall back on."
In other games this round, Strathdale and Spring Gully clash on Saturday, while Moama-Echuca hosts Eaglehawk and Swan Hill clash with Colts United on Sunday.