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On Saturday in Rock Springs WY the Western Nebraska Community College Cougars and the Western Wyoming Community College Mustangs faced off in a Region IX match-up. Goals were scored early and often in this match. Western Nebraska got on the board with the first 2 goals by scoring in the 9th minute on a wonderful shot and in the 11th minute off of a bad clear from the WWCC defense. The Mustangs responded with a goal in the 27th minute when Andrew Newbold received a pass from Nathaniel Sellis and hit a low driven ball for the Mustang's first goal. Just 30 seconds later the Cougars answered with another goal to up their lead to 3 - 1. A bad pass from the Cougar's back line gave Taylor Egbert of the Mustangs a ball at his feet which he hit hard and to the upper right into the net. The scoring was done for the first half with a score of Western Nebraska 3 - Western Wyoming 2.The second half was a reversal of fortunes for the scoring for both teams. WWCC evened the match in the 55th minute when Angel Muniz sent a high ball into the box and Devin King headed it into the goal. Five minutes later the Mustangs took their first lead of the match when Spencer Mohlman threaded a pass to Andrew Newbold for his 2nd goal of the match. Another 5 minutes later in the 65th minute Steven Shelly sent a ball to the feet of Andrew Newbold to complete his hat trick. This is the first hat trick for a WWCC Mustang this season. The Newbold hat trick raised the WWCC lead to 5 - 3. The Cougars of WNCC still played hard and aggressive and scored 2 goals to even the score. Their fourth and fifth goal were scored in the 73rd minute and the 74th minute. The 2 teams exchanged chances and possession for the last 16 minutes of regulation but no goals. The score at the end of regulation was WWCC 5 - WNCC 5.
In NJCAA soccer, an overtime is played which consists of two 10 minute periods and a sudden victory rule, meaning first team to score wins. The first 10 minutes of overtime both teams had some chances at their opposition's net but the Cougars had better chances. Thanks to a hard working defense for the Mustangs and some timely saves from Luis Trevisan no goals were scored in the first overtime. In the second overtime the Mustangs took more control of the match and had some great chances to score including some near misses. In the 108th minute a ball was sent to Andrew Newbold who collected it in the offensive third and sent it to a sprinting Devin King. King beat the keeper to the ball and had the game winning goal for the Mustangs with 2:05 left before the teams would have tied. The exciting overtime win extends the WWCC winning streak to 6 matches and improves their record to 8 - 2 - 0 and 4 - 1 - 0 in Region IX play.
Match Facts: Shots; WWCC 27, WNCC 16 - Assists; WWCC 5, WNCC 4 - Cards; WWCC 6, WNCC 2 - Free Kicks; WWCC 20, WNCC 13 - Keeper Saves; WWCC 5, WNCC 8 - Corners; WWCC 6, WNCC 4
Mustang Man of the Match: Andrew Newbold - Andrew scored a hat trick (3 goals in a match) and an assist. Andrew had 7 offensive points today, one of the top 10 matches for offensive points in WWCC history.
Up Next to the Mustangs: Wednesday September 28th versus Northwest College (Region IX) at 5:00pm in Powell WY
