On Sunday, the Cougars out shot Cloud County Community College 14-4 but came up short on the score board falling 3-0.
Monday, things were reversed as the Cougars scored 11 goals and were making goals at an alarming rate in registering the 11-2 win over the Northwest College, out-shooting the Trappers 21-5.
“[Sunday] we were just having a day where we couldn’t get them in. We were having a bad day,” Torres said. “ We have been practicing our shooting. We have a shooting drill we do before every game, and I think we will pick it up in future games.”
Whatever the shooting drill was, it paid dividends Monday evening as the Cougars were hitting shots at an alarming rate and it didn’t take them to get things rolling. Austin Albers started things by taking a pass from Tony Rocha to score less than a minute into the match.
WNCC added three more goals in the first seven minutes of the match. Rocha netted the second goal off an Luis Anaya assist with 41:01 to play. A few seconds later, Austin Roy scored off an assist by Mark Zigray.
Morgan Wall made it 4-0 with 38:07 to play off an assist by Nikko Ouzounis.
“If we pick up the pace in every game like we did in this game, this team does a pretty good job,” Torres said. “We just need to play with that intensity every day and we might have a chance to have a winning record this year.”
WNCC wasn’t through scoring as they took a 6-0 lead into intermission. Torres scored the fifth goal as he headed the ball into the back of the net off an assist by Wall. Then, with 15 minutes to play in the half, Alliance’s Raul Sanchez, who is listed as a goalkeeper, took a long pass from goalkeeper Cesar Bazana, bounced the ball off his chest and kicked the ball into the net.
Rocha scored his second goal eight minutes into the second half for a 7-0 lead.
Northwest avoided the shut out as Dusty Curtis scored with 32:40 to play in the match. Northwest would score a second goal with 6:20 to play as Tylan Jones took a free kick and went high into the net.
WNCC, however, had four more goals between the Trappers scores. Torres hit his second goal of the match off an assist by Roy with 27:33 to play. Wall added his second goal off a pass from Jesus Duque.
Sanchez added his second goal with 12:31 to play as Alliance’s Tanner Herien received the assist to make the score 10-1.
Freshman Nathan Southard, of North Platte, picked up the Cougar’s final score with 8:19 to play off an assist by Gustavo Rincon.
The Northwest win was definitely a match that Cougars needed to get its confidence up after Sunday’s disappointing loss against Cloud County.
In that match, the Cougars definitely had many, many opportunities to score goals all day long. Right off the bat, the Cougars Albers and Roy had golden scoring opportunities, but couldn’t convert.
Then, it was Cloud County’s Alberto Navel-Gimeno who netted the first goal as he scored just seven minutes into the match. Ten minutes later, Enrique Becerra put Cloud County up 2-0 as he hammered a shot in the top right corner with 27:04 left in the half.
WNCC, however, continued hammering away at shots on goal. The Cougars had a prime scoring opportunity with 10 minutes to go in the half as Duque delivered a pass to Torres, who hammered one to the goal. Cloud goal keeper Jose Ocampo went vertical and with one arm extended, pushed the ball outside the frame of the net.
Cloud County added another goal to take a 2-0 lead into halftime and then added an insurance goal in the second half as Navel-Gimeno netted his second score of the match.
The Cougars, who had seven scoring opportunities in the first half, had nine more in the second half. WNCC’s offensive attack started early as Albers missed on three shots and then Tony Rocha had a shot that just missed.
The Cougar men (4-4) will be back in action Sunday when they will face the University of Colorado Gold team in Boulder, Colo.
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