Quick strike Cougars advance to region second round with 5-1 win over Johnson County #GoBarton

The sixth ranked Barton Community College men's soccer team rattled the net four times in a span of two minutes Friday in rolling to a 5-1 win over Johnson County Community College in first round Region VI playoff action at the Cougar Sports Complex.

Improving to 15-1-2 on the year, Barton will host the second round at 2:00 p.m. Sunday against Dodge City Community College (11-4-2) with the winner advancing to the Plains District semifinals next week in Texas. Johnson County ends the season at 9-9-1.

Barton had a pair of players with two goals on the day, one of them being freshman Tevin Rochester whose two late first half scores gave the Cougars the edge into halftime. Rochester buried his first in finishing off Roberto Hernandez' fourth assist of the season then fifty-two seconds later out dueled a pair of Cavaliers to chip over the goalkeeper for his 8th of the year.

The KJCCC's leading scorer Gabriel Arraes earned his first of two goals on the day converting the subsequent penalty kick after being fouled in the box 4:23 into second half action.

Approaching thirteen minutes left in the game, Arraes finished off Nicolas Torres' third season assist with a strike to the far post in moving into the program's top ten of season and career goals scored with 17 and 23 respectively.

Sixty-four seconds later Torres rattled the nets for the second time of the freshman's season in sending a 25-yard direct kick to the far post pushing Barton's lead out to 5-0 with 12:05 remaining.

Johnson County spoiled what would have been the Cougars' 12th shutout of the season as Eloy Flores' cross was met in the box by Axxel Chazaro in striking upper-90 for his ninth of the season with 1:32 left in the contest.

Oliver Semmle earned the victory in goal improving to 4-1-1 on the season by turning back three Cavalier shots before surrendering the late goal.

Dodge City, who finished third in the Jayhawk West at 7-3-2, left Chanute victorious today in knocking off the East 2nd seeded Neosho County Community College 3-0 in penalty kicks.

The Cougars and Conquistadors tied 2-all in double-overtime earlier in the season on Barton's home turf but the Cougars' prevailed in Dodge City on a 11:26 remaining late goal by Torres proving the difference maker in the Cougars' 1-0 win back on October 10.

Scoring:
43:09 – Tevin Rochester (7), Assist Roberto Hernandez ()
44:08 – Tevin Rochester (8)
49:23 – Gabriel Arraes (16) *Penalty Kick
76:51 – Gabriel Arraes (17), Assist Nicolas Torres (3)
77:55 – Nicolas Torres (2)
88:28 – Johnson County's Axxel Chazaro (9), Assist Eloy Flores (3)