WNCC men fall to Northwest

                POWELL, Wyo. – The Western Nebraska Community College men’s soccer team experienced the bad and good on Friday in Region IX conference action.

                WNCC was shutout by Northwest College 2-0 on Friday for the bad news. Now, for the good news, Laramie County Community College and Central Wyoming College finished in a 1-1 tie, which gives WNCC the Region IX conference championship and the No. 1 seed in the playoffs.

                WNCC goes to 6-1-1 in conference play and 7-4-2 overall. LCCC drops to 5-2-1 in conference and 8-3-1 overall. Both teams have one conference left as WNCC will travel to face Central Wyoming on Saturday while LCCC has Northwest. If LCCC wins and WNCC falls, the two teams will be tied and WNCC holds the tie-breaker as they won the head-to-head meeting last Saturday. If Casper also wins Saturday, they could tie WNCC, but the Cougars hold the tiebreaker on the T-Birds.

                Friday’s contest was one where both teams didn’t have a lot of shots. Northwest finished with nine shots while WNCC managed six shots.

                The difference in the game was the Trappers scored two goals in a three-minute period in the first half and that was enough for Northwest to get the win.

                Northwest scored with 32:45 to  play in the opening half when Alan De Paula scored on a Djordy Lefevere assist. Two minutes later, Shota Akima scored on a Shay Lonegran assist.

                WNCC’s six shots came from different players. Those getting shots included Isrrael Rodriguez, Lucas Ovalle, Eduardo Oliveira, Anthony Lemus, Guilherme Lindolfo, and Joao Menezes.

                Owen Henderson, the freshman goalkeeper from Greeley, Colorado, had five saves in net for the Cougars.

 

               

                POWELL, Wyo. – The Western Nebraska Community College women’s soccer team played with a lot of determination and had the third-place team in the conference on the ropes for three-fourths of the contest.

                The final 20 minutes wasthe difference as Northwest scored four goals to claim the 4-0 win.

                The loss drops the Cougars to 3-5-1 in conference play with one match left to play when they travel to Central Wyoming College on Saturday. The Cougars are in seventh place in the conference standings with the top six teams making the playoffs. A win on Saturday and an Otero loss, would tie the Cougars with Otero for sixth, but Otero holds the tiebreaker on the Cougars with the head-to-head win.

                The first half and much of the second half saw the Cougars’ defense play lights out as they thwarted a number of shots from Northwest. Northwest had 34 shots in the contest with 20 on goal while WNCC managed just four shots.

                Both teams entered intermission tied at 0-0. Northwest finally scored in the 67th minute on a Ellisen Lewis goal. Two minutes later, the Trappers scored again on a Nayelli Aguayo goal.

                The score stayed that way until late when Olivia Bradley scored with 3:15 to play. Forty-five seconds later, Sara De Wit scored to make it 4-0.

                Yasmin Urbina had two of the four Cougar shots. The other two came from Tanner Nelson and Audrey Gosvener.