BEATRICE — The Allen Community College men’s and women’s soccer teams took road victories at Southeast Community College in their final matches of the season on Wednesday.
The Red Devils men’s soccer team earned the No. 1 seed in their regional tournament with the victory. This comes after the Red Devils won the Jayhawk Conference with their win Saturday over Hesston.
The Lady Red Devils (11-4; 5-1) earned a 5-0 shutout win in the opener before the men’s Red Devils’ (11-3-1; 6-2) 3-1 victory.
Women’s Soccer
Allen came out of the gates strong and scored three of their goals in the first half before tacking on two more goals in the second. Lizeth Suarez led the Lady Red Devils with a pair of goals in each half.
Autumn Wyatt kicked off the scoring for Allen in the match 26 minutes in when she took a pass from Rebecca Lord and stuck it in from 20 yards out for the early 1-0 advantage.
Noa Korssen found the back of the net only one minute later on a header-goal during a dominant offensive showing off a Kate Giblin corner kick for the 2-0 lead.
Suarez then scored off of Lord’s second assist for the 3-0 lead heading to halftime.
Even after the trio of goals by Allen, Southeast surprisingly led offensively on the stat sheet with six shots against the Lady Red Devils’ three shots.
Lord hit the back of the net 28 minutes into the second half off a Wyatt assist for the comfortable four-goal edge.
The Lady Red Devils’ final goal of the evening again came off the foot of Suarez from 40 yards out after another successful connection with Lord to mark the 5-0 final score. Lord was credited with three assists in the match.
Allen’s Daniela Gonzalez made four saves in the clean sheet with only four Southeast shots on goal through 90 minutes.
The Lady Red Devils finished the match with 12 shots as opposed to Southeast’s seven.
Jessica Allen led with four shots on goal though none of them rolled in, followed by Suarez and Lord’s two shots on goal apiece. Wyatt and Korssen scored a goal apiece.
Allen will now host Central Community College in a home playoff match next Thursday.
