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.