Simson Garcia | Sports Editor
Soccer season may not begin until the early fall, but a few round robins in the spring will keep Wolf feet running. Western’s soccer team hosted the Oregon Tech Owls on April 21 in a game that resulted in a shutout, 3-0.
Intended as a round robin of three teams, Warner Pacific College was unable to make it, but the Oregon Tech Owls rose to the occasion.
Western scored early off first-year forward Alyssa Tomassini’s goal. For most of the first 30 minutes, Western’s defense put a barrier on the Owls that they could not get through. Most of where the ball rolled in the game was on Oregon Tech’s defensive end with Western on the offensive attack.
With a little over 30 minutes remaining in the game, the Wolves’s many open field chances finally led to their third goal off a breakaway in transition. Junior midfielder Dacia Alexander had a one-on-one opportunity with the goal keeper and was able to chip shot it over the defender.
While the game was just an exhibition, a few of Western’s soccer players contested that it had the same intensity as an in-season game.
Alexander commented that it was a “good feel-it-out game,” and wanted to match the intensity of a seasonal game. The defense attested for it as the Owls could not get by the Wolves’s staunch front.
“It was good to get into the swing of things,” said first-year defender Brynn Kubo.
Western will play another round robin on April 28 against Peninsula College and the Seattle Stars — a soccer club. The start from midfield begins at noon.
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