The USC Salkehatchie Indians soccer program continued with Region X action on Wednesday as the men’s and women’s teams traveled to Wilmington where they dropped
two matches to Cape Fear Community College.
The women lost 7-2 and the men came out on the wrong end of a 4-1 score line. “Both teams played well,” according to Head Salkehatchie Soccer Coach, Bill Glass, “the women got behind early but then played steadily and pretty much evenly with Cape Fear for most of the match, then the men came on and played 90 minutes of equally aggressive soccer.”
In the women’s match freshmen Emily Thompson of Lexington took a corner kick for the Indians in the 5th minute and Elisa Routt of Warner Robins, GA finished it off to give Salk the early lead. The team let down a little after that and allowed a quick succession of through balls leading to four strikes by their hosts.
With the score at 4-1, Desiree Wickham of East Marathon, NY tallied on a free kick from about 35 yards but the Indians were not able to get another goal after that. On the men’s side it was a hard fought contest all the way. Salvadore Torres of Barnwell electrified the team when he scored off an assist by Ethan McKenzie of Stockbridge, GA to halve the Indians deficit and make the score 2-1 but injuries forced some juggling of the line up and put some Indians into unaccustomed positions and that led to a couple more goals for Cape Fear to put the game on ice.
“The Indians teams were both happy with the way they played and with the cool rainy weather we found up there which was just perfect for soccer,” according to Glass, “but there was something missing and it took us all a while to figure it out – there were no gnats!.”
The Indians return to action on Saturday when they host perennial Region X power Louisburg with the men starting things off at 1 pm, followed by the ladies at 3 pm.
