WNCC women's soccer team shuts out York College, men fall to UNL Club team

The Western Nebraska Community College women’s soccer team found plenty of offense Sunday in their match with York College in blanking the four-year school 5-0 In York.

The Cougars received a big offensive game from Gering graduate Keah Brost, who accounted for two goals and an assist.

The win was especially sweet since the Cougars lost to No. 4 Iowa Western Community College 1-0 in a heartbreaker Saturday.

“We needed this win because we lost on Wednesday to Laramie County and then we lost Saturday. We really needed this win,” freshman Lyanne Hernandez of Lafayette, Colo., said. “I think this game helped us to open up our offense as a team.”

Hernandez said while the win was nice, they could have played even better. York College had a 2-6-1 record coming into Sunday’s contest.

“I think we did good, but we could have done way better,” she said. “Most of weren’t in our game and we played down to their level.”

WNCC quickly took control of the match as Brost scored her first goal seven minutes into the contest from a pass from Ana Jacobo. The Cougars went up 2-0 at halftime as Jordan Lutkin scored an unassisted goal 40 minutes into the contest.

Brost registered her second goal of the match 15 minutes into the second half as Jamie Gastelle recorded assist. Gastelle scored five minutes later off a Jacobo pass. WNCC’s final goal came from Brooke Dudley off an assist from Brost at the 79 minute mark.

WNCC completely dominated York College with 20 shots on goal while limiting the Panthers to just two shots. Jessica Taylor was in net for the Cougars.

Hernandez is hoping the York College win will help jumpstart the Cougar’s for the rest of the season.

“We have to play like a team like we have been doing the past couple of games,” she said. “We just need to step it up a little bit more.”

The Cougar men also had a scrimmage with the University of Nebraska Club team and fell 2-0 in the contest as the Cougars couldn’t get any calls to go their way.

Both teams will be in action this weekend as the Cougar women will compete in the CU-Boulder tournament Friday through Sunday. The women will face the University of Arizona Friday at 5 p.m. and then Johnson & Wales Saturday at 8 a.m. Bracket play will start Saturday evening and run into Sunday.

The men will face the CU-Black team Sunday at 3 p.m.

“This game will prepare us for our games this weekend,” Hernandez said. “We are going to play some hard teams. We have Arizona first and this team lost to them last year, so we are up against a hard match.”