POWELL, Wyo. – The Western Nebraska Community College women's soccer team played with a lot of determination and had the third-place team in the conference on the ropes for three-fourths of the contest.
The final 20 minutes was the difference as Northwest scored four goals to claim the 4-0 win.
The loss drops the Cougars to 3-5-1 in conference play with one match left to play when they travel to Central Wyoming College on Saturday. The Cougars are in seventh place in the conference standings with the top six teams making the playoffs. A win on Saturday and an Otero loss, would tie the Cougars with Otero for sixth, but Otero holds the tiebreaker on the Cougars with the head-to-head win.
The first half and much of the second half saw the Cougars' defense play lights out as they thwarted a number of shots from Northwest. Northwest had 34 shots in the contest with 20 on goal while WNCC managed just four shots.
Both teams entered intermission tied at 0-0. Northwest finally scored in the 67th minute on a Ellisen Lewis goal. Two minutes later, the Trappers scored again on a Nayelli Aguayo goal.
The score stayed that way until late when Olivia Bradley scored with 3:15 to play. Forty-five seconds later, Sara De Wit scored to make it 4-0.
Yasmin Urbina had two of the four Cougar shots. The other two came from Tanner Nelson and Audrey Gosvener.