Barton Soccer notches first victory with road shutout

Knocking and knocking at the winner's door, the Barton Community College men's soccer team finally broke through for the Cougars' first win of the 2014 season with a 2-0 conference shutout Saturday at Allen Community College.  Recording two double overtime ties and a heartbreaking loss in the last three games, Barton scored in both halves to get the victory and improve to 1-2-2 on the season and 1-0-1 in conference play while dropping Allen to 1-3-0 on the season and 0-2-0 in conference.  Barton will look to ride the momentum into its next contest as the Cougars host Kansas City Kansas Community College in a conference matchup beginning at 4:00 p.m. at the Cougar Soccer/Track Complex.

Barton fully utilized the first forty-minutes of the first half as the Cougars got on the board literally seconds before the intermission horn.  Rushing to get a corner kick off in the waning seconds, Renan Sousa rebounded his own kick deep beyond the 18' to send the ball back into the box to a leaping Dominic Swindler who perfectly timed the header to the back of the net for the eventual game winner.

Again the Cougars struck late in a half as Barton put the icing on the cake with just 3:02 remaining in the contest.   Following an Allen yellow card, Jaime Cox's free kick seventy-yards from goal found Matt Sherrod slipping past the Red Devil defense.  Sherrod settled the pass then blasted a far post goal giving the Cougars the two goal cushion.