In a yo-yo season, the Iowa Western Community College men's soccer team picked the right team to come out with its best match of the season.
The Reivers thumped No. 5-ranked Marshalltown Community College, 3-0, Saturday at Iowa Western in Region XI action.
"We played our best soccer of the season," said Iowa Western coach Ammon Bennett. "We played perfect team soccer.
"We have had a lot of frustration getting everyone on the same page. I give assistant coach (Jeff) Ginn a lot of credit here. I turned to him before this match and told him to see what he could do to get us on the same page."
Freshman Justin Harrington had two goals and freshman Zach VanWagener had the other. Freshman Kourtney Knowles, freshman Lance Fondran and freshman Sibit Lam had assists.
"This is a big game which gives us a confidence boost," said Bennett. "But we have to take this big moment and build on it so we have another big moment."
The Reivers are down to a critical few region games. Iowa Western and Iowa Central are battling for second in the region. Central has the tiebreaker, having beaten the Reivers twice. Central does have a match with Marshalltown left. The second-place team (Marshalltown is still two games ahead of everyone in the region) gets a first-round bye for the post-season tournament. The third-place would have to play three matches in five days to win the title, a tougher road.
Iowa Western has home Region XI matches against North Iowa Area (Wednesday) and Dakota County Tech (Friday) this week to wrap up the regular season.
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