EPHRAIM, Utah – The Western Nebraska Community College women’s and men’s soccer teams dropped contests on Saturday in Ephraim, Utah.
The Cougar women dropped a 6-0 contest to Yavapai College while the Cougar men fell to No. 17 Snow College 3-1.
The women’s contest saw Yavapai score three times in each half. Yavapai scored in the 21 minute on a goal by Morgan McLane and then Sophia Fottrell scored twice in the 37th and 40 minute for the 3-0 halftime lead.
Yavapai added two goals in the 67th minute from Reagan Peterson and Gracey Fowlkes and then capped off the game with a goal from Jill Young in the 81st minute.
Yavapai had 31 shots, 11 of which were on goal. WNCC tallied five shots, three of which were on goal. Julia Santos had two shots while Adryana Rodriguez, Nia Trevino, and Stefanie Ceja-Gomez each had one.
Rory Weizenegger had five saves in net.
The men’s contest saw Snow College score twice in the first as Kade Davis scored in the 33rd minute and then Omer Sagiv scored in the 43rd minute for the 2-0 halftime lead.
Snow added a third goal in the 78th minute. Two minutes later, WNCC got on the scoreboard as Tomoaki Kamiya had a free kick and punched it into the net.
Snow had 14 shots, eight of which were on goal. WNCC tallied 12 shots, six of which were on goal. Anthony Lemus had three shots while Kamiya and Randall Jacques each had two shots.
Ever Zubia had five saves in net for the Cougar men.
Both teams will be back in action next weekend then they travel to Estherville, Iowa, to face Iowa Lake Community College and St. Louis Community College.

WNCC volleyball team falls twice on Saturday

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team dropped two more matches on Saturday to finish the Reiver Invite in Council Bluffs, Iowa with an 0-4 record.
Saturday’s action saw the Cougars falls to Salt Lake Community College 25-10, 25-21, 25-14 and then finished up the invite with a 25-16, 25-17, 25-20 loss to Hutchinson Community College.
Against Hutchinson, the Cougars battled in each set gave up some 3- and 4-point services runs to fall. The third set against Hutchinson, the Cougars had a 14-13 lead after two points from Allie Twamley and led 18-17 on a kill from Maria Niedzwiecka. That was when Hutchinson went two 3-point service runs to take the 25-20 win and match.
Twamley had 12 set assists, eight digs, and five service points in the loss. Alex Gonzales-Orozco tallied 17 digs and four points, while Kyana Gabriel had seven kills, 14 digs, and four points.
Dani Cruz led the team with eight kills while also tallying 12 digs and three points.
In the Salt Lake contest, the Cougars best set was the second, but once again, they couldn’t get the set falling 25-21.
WNCC tallied just 14 kills in the set with Emma Hergenreder leading the way with six followed by Eli Braitwaite with three. WNCC hit -.138 for the match.
Hergenreder also had five digs. Gonzalez-Orozco led the way with nine digs while Anika Davison had five and Cruz had four.
WNCC will be back on the road this weekend when they compete in a tournament in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they will face four teams from Florida in Hillsborough Community College and Eastern Florida State College on Friday and then two ranked team on Saturday in No. 1 Florida Southwestern State College and No. 15 Daytona State College.
Daytona State is 1-3 on the season while Florida Southwestern is 4-0. Eastern Florida State is 3-1 while Hillsborough is 1-3.