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Lady Scraps-A-Lot. (Kerry Rosenkranz photo)

If Micky LeVine wasn’t so naturally sweet-natured, there might be some girls with missing front teeth right now.

For the second game in a row, opposing players tried to get overly rough with her GU17 Whidbey Islanders’ teammates, and LeVine wasn’t having it Saturday afternoon.

This time around, a mouthy Port Angeles Storm King lipped off to the Islander players and parents, as well as the ref, then tried to get “extra touchy” with Ayla Muller. Enter LeVine, aka “The Enforcer,” and exit the Port Angeles girl, who realized her mistake and decided not to encounter LeVine’s other alter ego, “The Two-Fisted Terror.”

Perhaps it was LeVine holding up her fists and talking into them. “Check one! Check two!”

“Shhhhhhhh … no one tell Micky she’s the smallest one on the team. This is working out well,” said Islander coach (and dad) Sean LeVine.

“I don’t know where she gets it! Must be her mom!,” he added with a laugh.

LeVine’s willingness to stand up for her teammates again, and the fact the Islanders ignored a hostile verbal assault in the parking lot from Port Angeles morons (well, they do choose to live in Port Angeles…) were the bright spots in a 2-0 loss that dropped Whidbey to 1-4-4 on the season.

“On sportsmanship, the example that their team displayed on the field and in the parking lot (players, parents, and coach) is an example of what not to do,” LeVine wrote on his team’s Facebook wall. “Keep cool, play soccer, no mouthiness, help your teammates out, but walk away from or ignore their nastiness, ALWAYS play hard, but be a team of grace and you win every time! I love this team!”

The Islanders had numerous shots on goal, but none could quite find that groove to skip past the goaltender. Port Angeles popped in a fluke goal, then benefited from a mistake where the Islander defenders got momentarily mixed up on coverage and left players open in front of the net.

Once again playing with limited subs due to injuries and illness (team captain Becca Pabona is out for two weeks), the Islanders got whacked around even more by the rough play Saturday.

Kendra Warwick took a shot to the face and stayed on the field for several minutes before realizing she was having trouble moving her jaw. A few minutes of ice on the sideline and back she went in, however.

Vivien Valles twisted an ankle that has already been bothering her, but also tried to reenter the game after a brief encounter with an ice pack.

Sean LeVine lauded the goal-tending of team captain Kenzie Perry and handed his team’s hustle award to Morgan Zylstra, who had to move into unfamiliar territory and play with the defenders.

“She had to play with the back four, where she never plays, but she more than held her own without a break!”, LeVine said. “Her hustle and scrappy style kept that team at bay.”

“That is stepping up, filling big shoes and being a true team player!”