NORTH AUGUSTA 4, SOUTH AIKEN 0 North Augusta girls' soccer coach Sheri Branum told her team from the beginning of the season that she felt they had tremendous talent. It was just going to need a little bit of fine-tuning, a little bit of conditioning and a little bit of belief. Tuesday gave Branum an opportunity for a told-you-so moment with her players, who extended both their win streak and their season with a dominant 4-0 road win at South Aiken in the first round of the Class AAAA playoffs. "So proud of these girls and their work rate," Branum said. "They show up to training ready to train. They've built their fitness and followed the fitness plan I want them to follow. I'm just so proud of their effort and their teamwork and the way they've learned to encourage each other and build each other up on the field." The Jackets (8-9-1), the No. 11 seed in the Lower State bracket, took control early and never stepped off the accelerator against the sixth-seeded T-Breds (10-6-2), beating South Aiken for the second time in a span of nine days. "Came out flat. Came out tired. Kudos to North Augusta, man. Their coaching staff put together a good game plan," said South Aiken head coach Dave Mihoulides. "Their girls were fast. Every 50/50 ball, they were battling and they beat us to every 50/50 ball. We just didn't have it energy-wise tonight, and they definitely beat us to everything. "They instituted their game plan. We got out of our game plan and tried to play their game, and that's not our game. Our game is possession. Our game is not knocking big balls over the top and trying to run on to them. We got out of what we usually do, and that came back to bite us in the butt." North Augusta quickly jumped ahead with Rihanna Prince's goal in the second minute, and that was only the beginning for the Jackets as they kept control of the possession battle against a South Aiken team that leans on that as a strength. "The goal was 10 minutes, all-in, everybody's fast-paced for 10 minutes. And then it was control the ball, do what we're good at," Branum explained. "We've got some speed up front, and we've got some good possession players in the middle, so trying to build that way and use different facets of attacking."