WCC soccer team vying for league title
Matt Thompson
Sports Writer
mthompson3@wccnet.edu
ROBERT CONRADI WASHTENAW VOICE
Going into the last weekend of the Division 1 Men’s Wide World Sports Center league, Washtenaw Community College’s soccer team owned a share of the lead atop the standings.
Both WCC and the AAFC were 6-1 before the eighth and final game of the regular season.
On Sunday Oct. 11, WCC won a WWSC a tournament, conquering four teams. The workload of this team has been put on the defense. After seven games WCC defense led the league, allowing just 19 goals. The next best defense was AAFC, with 31 goals allowed.
The Washtenaw offense had held its own too.
“It’s wrong for me to say the defense has done it all, ’cause the offense can explode and score four goals real quick,” said WCC midfielder Ababacar Ndoye.
Washtenaw’s offense was the second-best in the league with 47 goals, seven goals behind AAFC. The only meeting between the top two teams came down to the final minutes.
“They scored a lucky goal at the end of the game,” Ndoye said.
AAFC jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, but Washtenaw fought back, tying the game before ultimately losing, 5-4.
“If we played them again, we’d beat them,” Ndoye said. “We want to beat them so bad.”
AAFC’s lone loss was against The What Have Yous. WCC beat The What Have Yous twice, handily, 6-2 and 8-5.
WCC was scheduled to finish the regular season against a 2-4-1 Ajax team, but it will continue to practice throughout the fall. It has six practices scheduled through November and into December.
“We always play together outdoor and indoor,” Ndoye said. “We click and work together; we have a lot of good players.”
