Jayla Blue shatters Bearden’s all-time scoring record with hat trick against GPS

By Ken Lay

Jayla Blue recorded a hat trick to lead the Bearden High School girls soccer team to a 5-0 victory Thursday.

But it wasn’t just the ordinary three-goal night for the Lady Bulldogs’ senior forward. Blue’s final marker of the night, which came in the 68th minute of Bearden’s 5-0 victory over Chattanooga Girls Preparatory School on the first day of the 2025 Bearden Invitational at Turner-Allender Field, propelled her to a school record.

Blue is now Bearden’s all-time leading goal scorer, passing Brinley Murphy, who is now playing at the University of Florida after beginning her collegiate career at another Southeastern Conference School, South Carolina.

“This is a great feeling, said Blue, who now

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