EAGLE — Entering this week’s state tournament, the Thunder Ridge Titans had won eight consecutive district titles, but had thus far been unable to parlay that success into a state championship.

That streak will continue, after the Titans suffered another state tourney loss Friday, this time in a 1-0 thriller at the hands of the Caldwell Cougars at Eagle High School.

After the game, Titan head coach Logan Murri said his team’s problem is that Boise-area teams play a style of soccer that “doesn’t even exist on the eastern side of the state.”

“It’s like this every year,” he said. “The issue is, we have no competition in eastern Idaho. We dominate our conference — everyone (else) fights for second place in our conference. We don’t face good teams until the state tournament, and by then it’s

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