The Western Nebraska Community College men’s and women’s soccer teams tuned up for the regular season with impressive victories over Dodge City Community College Sunday at the Landers Soccer Complex.
In the women’s contest, Gering’s Keah Brost recorded a hat trick and sophomores Jaime Gastelle and Ana Jacobo each added two goals to power the defending Region IX champions to an impressive 10-0 win against the Conquistadors.
The Cougar men also recorded a shutout in a tighter contest. In the end, it was Jose MMacies’ two second-half goals to left the Cougar men to a 2-0 win.
Both teams will now open the regular season on Saturday in Great Bend, Kan. The women will battle Butler County Community College, while the men will face Garden City Community College.
Sunday, however, both Cougar teams gave the fans a hint of the potential success of the two soccer teams.
Brost said they really played well in the final scrimmage on Sunday.
“I think our team is figuring out how to play together and we are in good shape for the season,” the former Bulldog soccer player said. “This is a good way to go into the season because out team picked up some confidence and we also played well together.”
Brost’s career best three goals all came in the first half as the Cougars built a 5-0 lead.
WNCC wasted little time in collecting its first goal as Scottsbluff graduate Laura Abbott fed Brost with a perfect pass which the 5-foot-11 forwarded deposited in the net four minutes into the game.
Four minutes later, Jacobo slammed the ball in the back of the net for a quick 2-0 lead. Brost had the assist on the goal.
The Cougar women went up 3-0 at the 35 minute mark as Gastelle delivered a pass to Laura Abbott for the goal.
Brost finished off the first half scoring with two goals. The first game with 11:15 left as Brost booted a 20-footer into the net off an assist from Miriam Alfaro. Brost got the hat trick four minutes later as Jacobo had the assist on the fifth goal.
WNCC quickly put the game away in the second half, scoring four goals within a 12-minute period. Gastelle started the scoring with a solid shot into the corner at the 34-minute mark of an assist from Brost.
Jacobo followed with a header that was firmly planted in the net off a pass from Lyanne Hernandez at the 30-minute mark.
Gastelle picked up her second goal with a point-blank tap in off an assist from Brooke Dudley with 28 minutes to play to make the score 8-0.
The final two scores came from freshman. Hernandez scored her first goal of her collegiate career, taking a pass from freshman Jordan Lutkin in placing the ball in the top corner. Gering’s Ashley Heimbouch rounded out the scoring as she followed a shot off the goal and hammered into the net.
The Cougar women not only showed a fierce offense, but also put up a tough defense. In the first half, freshman goal-keeper Jessica Taylor touched the ball just twice. In the second half, the Cougar defense thwarted two early back-to-back corner kicks. After that, the Dodge City offense couldn’t manage another shot on goal.
Brost said this team does possess a strong defense.
“We have a really strong defense and they compact well together,” she said. “They are really good in working the ball out and feeding the other players.”
Just like the women’s team, the Cougar men also put up a strong defensive effort in their 2-0 win. WNCC and Dodge City finished the first half scoreless as both defenses dominated.
In the second half, the Cougars speed was too much for the Conquistadors. Macies broke the scoreless game by taking a pass from Kareem Hernandez just inside the midfield stripe and outraced the Dodge City defender, putt in the ball in the left lower corner five minutes into the half.
Macias said that first goal gave the team plenty of confidence.
“It was a nice pass that I got because it was an opportunity for us,” the freshman from Aurora, Colo., said. “That pass gave us the opportunity to score.”
The score stayed that way until the 19th minutes. Macias scored once again, this time taking a pass from sophomore Tony Rocha for the score.
Macias said the team played well, especially in the second half.
“We weren’t communicating that much in the first half. Then, in the second half, coach told us to communicate and that is what we did. That is the reason we won.”
Macias also credited the defense in giving the offense a chance to the win the game. Sophomore goalkeeper David Castillo made a number of saves in both halves.
“The defense also played great,” he said. “They communicated and if wasn’t for the defense, because they pressured and kept coming forward and forward, it makes the midfields and forwards communicate more.”
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