Before the season started, Jesus Castillo was an unknown in the Colorado high school soccer sphere, but on Thursday night at Recht Field, he put himself on the map in No. 14 Boulder’s 5-0 stunner over No. 11 Broomfield.

From start to finish, the senior transfer from Mexico was a spectacle to behold, and he wasted no time asserting his authority on the pitch in the Class 5A top-15 matchup. He netted his first goal of the night less than two minutes in, only to book-end the team’s effort with another score in the final nine minutes of play.

Not long ago, he was taking a two-hour bus ride to and from practice to his soccer academy in Mexico.

“Jesus is a player who plays in a space and time that is slow, but it’s so much faster for everybody else,” head coach Hardy Kalisher said. “We talk a

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