The Lady Falcons have soared and dived this year, compiling a 7-5-1 record in a series of strange streaks. Lately they’ve slipped again, and on Thursday dropped a 2-0 loss at Greely – their third scoreless outing in a row. Inquiring minds, including that of head coach Marcia Woods, want to know: What gives?

“It wasn’t for lack of opportunities,” Woods said of her team’s inability to put one in against 10th-ranked Greely, who improve to 4-7-1 with the home win, but linger still outside the playoffs bracketing. “We had 18 corners, and we couldn’t convert on them.”

Freeport opened the season 0-2, then won four straight – including one against Cape Elizabeth, always a threat and currently ranked fifth. They dropped one then, a rivalry game with A West’s No. 5, Falmouth, before taking three more Ws.

Their excellent performance through the middle of the season propelled them as high up the volatile ranks as No. 2, but since then they’ve scored exactly zero goals in two losses and a tie and stumbled to eighth in the Heal Points.

The Rangers’ Kayla Barry scored early in Thursday’s bout, putting her squad on top 1-0 roughly eight minutes in. The Falcons stepped up their defense in response, and shut Greely down through the break and into the second half.

But Freeport couldn’t connect stick to ball and ball to cage for any goals of their own. When Ranger Madlen Guild added another for Greely with 17 minutes remaining, the game seemed all but spoken for. And indeed, the scoreboard still read 2-0 at the buzzer.

Falcons goalie Morgan Karnes hashed an impressive 10 saves in the loss, but without an offense actively earning goals at the other end of the field, Karnes’s contributions proved nothing more than a foundation with no edifice to top it.

Just one game remains on the Falcons’ regular-season schedule, and it’s a doozy: Yarmouth, 12-1 and No. 3 in C West. Freeport is obviously a force to be reckoned with, when composed – but that question hangs in the air: Will they find their center, overcome their setbacks and any doubts they feel, and start putting up points once more?

Freeport’s Dani Foster wends between a pair of Rangers in the Falcons’ 2-0 loss at Greely Thursday afternoon.Abby Smith directs the onfield action of her teammates at Greely Thursday afternoon.Freeport’s Bailey Coffin and Greely’s Madlen Guild vie for the ball. Guild had Greely’s second goal in the 2-0 victory.Greely’s Kayla Barry, who had the team’s first goal in their 2-0 win over visiting Freeport, charges in on Falcon Kendra Harrison.