BINGHAMTON — The new-look Adirondack Region open women’s soccer team put its firepower on display Thursday in an impressive Empire State Games debut.

“When we’re going, we’re

going,” Shenendehowa graduate Ashley Moore said after Adirondack twice came from behind to post a 6-3 victory over Central at Binghamton University. “In the first half, we came out a little slow, and then we started to feel each other, and it all worked.”

Moore collected three goals and two assists in her first ESG appearance, Jaclyn Levie scored two goals and Maria DeMatteo also connected as Adirondack extended its winning streak to four games and began its quest for a 10th gold medal.

Adirondack managed just five goals last summer in Westchester, beating Long Island (3-0), New York City (1-0) and Hudson Valley (1-0) in the bronze-medal match after opening with a 4-0 loss to Western.

“We’re on a gold-medal mission, and I do not expect to fall short,” said first-year Adirondack coach Betsy Drambour. “If we do, we’ll go down fighting.”

Adirondack is going after the gold with 10 new players, led by Moore, who’ll be entering her junior year at national powerhouse North Car­olina. Six others from Adirondack’s 2007 scholastic gold medal-winning team also dot the roster.

“I’ve always been in tournaments this time of year,” said the 20-year-old Moore. “Betsy called me and said, ‘I’m coaching. Get your butt here.’ I knew her through the Alleycats, and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play for her and play with all these great girls.”

Moore tied the game at one and later assisted on first-half goals by Levie and DeMatteo three minutes apart as Adirondack bounced back from a 2-1 deficit. Moore scored the first and last goals in the second half, the latter coming on a perfectly placed free kick.

“At UNC, she’s a playmaker and a passer. Here, she’s our

go-to player. She has a different role with us,” Drambour said of the high school All-American. “I told her to be the player you were when you were a little kid. I told her to go to the goal.”

“She’s so quick and so fast,”

DeMatteo said of Moore. “She’s a presence out there.”

Christine Ippolito and Mell Cathcart sandwiched goals around Moore’s first tally to give Central a 2-1 edge. After Moore set up Levie’s tying goal, she set up DeMatteo’s go-ahead header in the 31st minute.

“Ashley dragged the defender with her and flicked the ball over her,” said DeMatteo, a graduate of Saratoga Springs High School who will play this fall for Siena. “It was a perfect set-up.”

Moore and Levie gave Adirondack second-half leads of 4-2 and 5-3 before Moore created the final margin with a low, hard drive.

“We were down, 1-0, in the first 15 minutes, and I didn’t know if they were going to start pointing fingers. They didn’t. They rallied, and that was a great thing to see,” said Drambour.

Before last year, Adirondack had reached six straight gold- medal matches and had won four of them in 2006, 2005, 2003 and 2002. With its nine gold medals, the open women’s soccer team has been Adirondack’s most successful, in that respect.

“We haven’t talked about it among ourselves, but when you go to the Games, you’re here to play for the gold,” said Moore.

Adirondack plays Long Island today and 2007 silver medalist New York City Saturday before Sunday’s medal games.

“This was a good momentum builder,” said DeMatteo. “We came out a little nervous, and I think that’s because we all wanted to do so well, but then we settled down and did a lot of good things out there. For a completely different team than last year, it was a good start.”