The Allen Community College women’s and men’s soccer teams defeated Hesston Community College on Sophomore Day on Saturday, 4-0 and 5-3, respectively.
Women’s Soccer
The Lady Red Devils (10-4; 4-1) scored early and often in their shutout victory over the Larks which featured a pair of goals off the foot of Rebecca Lord.
Allen also recognized nine sophomores before the match including Daniela Gonzalez, Hannah Meadwell, Mirla Chavarria, Autumn Wyatt, Catherine Harold, Alejandro Ortego, Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Navidad and Kate Giblin.
Lord began the match scoring 16 minutes into regulation off an assist from Kate Giblin for the early one goal lead. She struck one again 17 minutes into the second half off another assist from Giblin for the 2-0 advantage.
“She had the golden goal at Pratt and she had two today so I’ll be putting her up for player of the week in the conference,” said Allen head coach Jeremy McGinnis. “She started sharing some time on the wing with Jess (Allen) and then I started trusting her a little bit more.”
Jessica Allen was able to get by Hesston’s goalkeeper only four minutes later for the 3-0 lead. Vivian Fota dos San assisted Allen in the goal.
Noa Korssen then struck for Allen’s final goal with nine minutes remaining for the big 4-0 lead. Lizeth Suarez provided the assist on Korssen’s first goal of the season.
“I knew as soon as we got the second goal I was pretty confident, this team is known for giving up a goal. As long as we score two goals, I feel pretty confident, but one is pretty tough to sit on with this group,” McGinnis said.
Allen managed 19 total shots as opposed to Hesston’s two shots.
Allen and Lord led the offensive attack for Allen with six and three shots, respectively. Both also kicked three shots on goal apiece while Korssen and Giblin footed two shots on goal apiece.
“The motto of our season has been if we take care of us, we don’t have to worry about them,” said McGinnis. “If you can take care of yourself, everything else will fall into place one way or another.”
Allen goalkeeper Daniela Gonzalez had a quiet day in goal, making two saves through the 90 minutes of regulation.
Men’s Soccer
The Allen men took a 5-3 victory over Hesston after initially being behind by one goal but never trailing the rest of the way.
