It was the cool-down the banged-up Bobcats needed.

The Marshalltown boys’ soccer team followed up Monday’s marquee victory over Class 2A No. 8 Perry at Franklin Field by pasting winless Waterloo East 10-0 on Tuesday back at Leonard Cole Field.

Nine different players scored goals against the hapless Trojans (0-7), who have been outscored 42-2 so far this season. Freshman goalkeeper Angel Gabriel Marroquin made nine saves despite being left out to dry by the defense in front of him on this night.

Andres Ordaz scored two goals and had two assists, while Aaron Ordaz Zambrano added one goal and three assists as Marshalltown (6-4-1) made good on back-to-back nights on the pitch.

Ordaz, Zambrano and Angel Gomez got goals against Perry on Monday as Marshalltown erased painful memories of last season’s 4-4 tie against the Bluejays.

“There were some nerves, but it was more of how we tied Perry last year and it was like ‘that’s not happening again,'” said MHS head coach Scott Johannes. “We’re playing all 80 minutes if we have to, which we did not last year. Perry’s a good squad, they’re consistently in the top-10, so it was a good match.”

In Monday’s debut of the renovated venue at Franklin Field, the Bobcats controlled possession throughout the match against Perry (4-3-1). Playing on the site of the first-ever live radio broadcast of a high school football game from 1922, Marshalltown put its fútbol squad on the field and finished off a win that escaped it a year earlier.

Last spring, the Bobcats led the Bluejays 4-2 before a pair of late tallies tied the score. Doubt crept into Monday’s edition when Marshalltown’s 2-0 lead was cut in half with 18:35 remaining, but a critical conversion by Gomez at the 12:04 mark made it easier for the Bobcats to breath.

“It was a little ‘oh no,’ but at the same time we were in control the whole time,” said Johannes.

Zambrano had a goal and an assist, Armando Estrada assisted on both first-half goals, and Marshalltown eventually ousted Perry under the new lights behind Franklin Elementary School.

“That was fun,” said MHS junior defender Aidan Bell. “Getting that win was helpful for our mindset. We weren’t pressed at all (to win), we felt like we had the ability to do it and we knew we were the better team from the start.”

Ordaz scored the first goal on the Franklin pitch during the 16th minute of Monday’s match.

“We’ve been watching that thing being built and it’s got that sunk-in feeling with the buildings around and the cutaway into all of the terraces — it’s just a beautiful facility,” Johannes said. “And the nostalgia of it — I wasn’t sure if my guys would really catch all that. We talked about how the first radio broadcast was there and afterwards they wanted to get some pictures. So it was a historical moment and they wanted it captured.”

Tuesday’s trouncing of the Trojans was much less methodical. Marshalltown scored eight times in the first half and finished the contest with 23 minutes remaining with the 10-goal mercy rule.

Dennis Gaston had an assist in the first half and buried the game-ending goal on a shot from 27 yards out that Marroquin could only get a glancing glove on.

Estrada, Angel Ramirez Cisneros, Sergio Juarez, Jovani Mendoza, Duriaki Ramadhani and Gomez also got goals, while Mike Gaston and Ramon Mendoza Gomez earned assists.

Marshalltown goalkeepers Jonathan Nunez and Josue Ramos went unchallenged in net, recording no saves in the lopsided shutout win.

The Bobcats are off for the remainder of the week, resuming with a three-match week starting next Monday at home against Ankeny.

“Three of our four losses have been ranked opponents — one of them was a state champion last year — so we knew we had to try our hardest against them all,” said Bell. “We’re just getting warmed up, basically. Now we’re ready. We can take on a lot of people, I feel like, because of our competition.”