By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director
Northeast Texas Community College Women’s and Men’s Soccer teams made the trip down south to Brenham, Texas to face Blinn College on Wednesday, September 7th in conference play with Blinn coming away with the win in both games.
The women fell to the Blinn Buccaneers 2-0 in a lightning delayed game. Just before halftime of the 5:00pm start, lightning moved into the area forcing a stoppage of the game with the Eagles down 1-0. After the lengthy delay, Blinn added one more goal in the second half to complete the win.
The Eagles have been with out the starting goalie due to injury and field player Lakin Pennington, Freshmen from Hallsville, Texas has stepped in to goal for the Eagles. Pennington has 18 saves in the two and half games she has had to play in goal.
With the lightning delay in the Women’s game, the Men’s game was pushed back from their 7:00pm start to just after 8:00pm. The Buccaneers jumped out to an early 4-0 lead with the Eagles scoring just before the end of the first half to cut the lead to 4-1. Yanis Lakhlifi (France) scored the lone Eagles goal from an assist by Diego Sanchez (Atascocita High School, Humble, Texas)
Blinn would add three more goals in the second half to earn a 7-1 win over NTCC.
The Eagles will next travel to Tyler, Texas to take on the NJCAA #2 TJC Apache women’s team and the NJCAA #4 Men’s Soccer teams on the Tyler Junior College campus Saturday, September 10th at 5:00pm and 7:00pm.
The next home game for the Eagles will be on Saturday, September 17th at 2:00pm and 4:00pm against Jacksonville College.
Tickets can be purchased from the HomeTown Tickets Fan App that can be download to your mobile device or by going to www.ntcceagles.com. No cash sales at the gate.
