POULSBO — Megan Hyte, Megan Hyte, Megan Hyte.

If you’re seeing triple, then you can relate well to what the Port Angles Roughriders girls’ soccer team felt Tuesday night at NK Stadium.

Hyte scored a hat trick as visiting Port Angeles succumbed to the Vikings 3-1 in what was North’s (1-1-1) first win of the season.

“That No. 2, she’s a force,” Port Angeles coach Tom Harris said of Hyte. “She’s just an all-around great player.”

But Hyte was quick to comment that North’s play is in no way a one-woman show.

“I depend on my teammates to give me a good ball,” said Hyte, who has scored every goal thus far for North Kitsap this season. “Every goal is a team effort.”

And North’s team just got a lot stronger following the return of senior defender Kim Skelly and fellow senior mid-fielder Rachel Parcells. The impact was noteworthy as Port Angeles garnered few shots on goal the entire game — three to North’s 30 — against the Skelly-led defense. Parcells, too, contributed with an assist to Hyte as well as her own near-goal late in the game, a shot that went wide of the right post by about two feet.

Hyte scored the first goal of the game in the 28th minute off an assist from senior midfielder Lindsey O’Neil-Dewing. But the Roughriders responded no more than 30 seconds later during the final two minutes of play in the first half, when senior forward Missy Minor surprised NK with a well-placed shot into the far right corner.

The goal was indicative of the first half, Skelly said, as North just felt “a little off,” due to a poor warm-up.

“It was a bit slow and we played down to their level,” Skelly said of the first half. “The second half, we started playing to our potential.”

North sealed the game with two Hyte goals in the second, both on transition play by the midfielders getting the ball to the senior in the open field. It was off to the races from there. The first goal saw North open the field up for Hyte off senior defender Kelli Gillespie’s pass and the second one from Parcells.

“The past few days, we’ve been working on opening the field up and distributing the ball,” Parcells said. “But we work from the back to get the ball up to the forwards.”

Port Angeles will get to take a crack against the Vikings at home Oct. 7 in a re-match.

NK’s JV team won as well by a 4-1 margin in the early game.

North Kitsap will play its next game at home versus fellow Narrows’ Bridge opponents Bremerton (1-1-1) Sept. 21. Play starts for the junior varsity at 5 p.m., followed by the varsity at 6:45 p.m.