Show So Soccer r Club Makes it to Quarterfinals rt at the National Championships Championship d u By Corey Bullock Sports Editor The National Intramural- Intramural Recreation Sports Association held their annual soccer national championships championships championships champi champi- in Austin Texas this past weekend and all of the big name schools were there Purdue the defending national champions University of Texas at Austin the host team and others such as Indiana Wichita State Oregon Kansas State and Ohio State attended the nationals One of the other teams was the theMen's theMen's theMen's Mens Men's Club from Yet if you asked around no one knew where they came from or anything about them at first After posted two shut-outs shut in three games and only allowed one goal in hi the other two games people learned fast where they were 1 from om omand and what they were doing there The lack of respect for started in the Robert Mueller Airport in hi Austin The players met up wi with the team team 1 from om Indiana Where are you guys 1 from asked an Indiana player Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City replied Justin Harryman of Realizing that the two teams would meet in the first round of the tournament one of the Indiana players play play- ers made a finger gesture and said sarcastically where Indiana and met in the first game of the tournament With only three minutes into the first half Francisco Silva scored Following Silvas Silva's lead Jeremy Jordan Brice Flowers Aaron Pond and Dan Fassler all scored as posted a 5 0 first round winIt winIt winIt win It felt good to get a little revenge on Indiana Harryman said Head Coach Matt Chambers of Indiana said We wondered what they were doing here being a community community community com com- college and all but now we know They can play At the end of the game the referee was heard asking Where are these guys from Salt Lake City Remember Home of the Mormon Church Next up for the Bruins were the Oregon Ducks Scoring two early goals held a 2 0 lead through much of the game With 15 minutes left in the game Oregon scored a goal to pull pulI within one but the Bruins held on to win 2 1 I. Francisco Silva and Benji Hoecherl each scored g goals s for the h Bruins Once again people asked Where are you guys from Salt Lake City Utah You know the home of Karl Malone John Stockton and the Utah Jazz On Friday played Wichita State in hi a virtual downpour Jeremy Jordan scored the first three goals of the game while Francisco Silva had two goals and Jorge Estrada and Brice Flowers each added a goal as drowned the Wheat Shockers 7 The defense of goalkeepers Jeremy Harryman and Brandon Horoba and Justin Harryman Warren Ayala Ben and Ben Jones posted their second shut-out shut of the tournament After posting their third straight c a 1 4 l. I 4 F j 4 V 1 w fit C Y r t Ik i y zi f f I i r j t B d' d v w t Jis i o ka tIK xay k t 1 t t its 0 a b yo i i. i ir f s t JJ C. C t ti i fP 1 j z t J t.- t. v I. I j o h y c. cw r w wv dR tf w win faced Purdue the defending defend defending ing national champions in hi the quarte te mals On a soggy field the two teams battled to a 0 draw in the first half The second half was much of the same until Purdue scored a break way goal with close to ten minutes remaining in the game That was the margin of victory as the Boilermakers advanced to the semifinals defeating the Bruins 1 0 Head Coach Enrique Velasquez of said We sho should ld have won the game Soccer is a funny game- game we dominated the game and outplayed them and lost One mental lapse and it cost us the game and our season The refreshing thing about the game is that they came out and tried to intimidate us and we didn't back S I t v 1 J Ia 1 jS h S' S w t to tojo jo 4 A 1 V x 1 y 4 1 y M 1 u. u ot R AY s. s Y I c. c 4 5 4 i t lf k Z iJ 4 4 o L w 1 1 t OJ W- W wt 1 sv f f t if li i t I. I z w tt 4 or It N f 1 t f U r. r 1 it f 0 t. t cl jt Photo bot By BI C Corey Corry J Bu Bullock down Adviser Jim Hampton commented comment comment- ed Purdue was the best team we faced all year and we had our chances to beat them Velasquez added The good thing is that my beliefs that we are one of the best teams nationally were confirmed this weekend Not only by the performance of our players but by the comments of the opposing coaches players and families One of those people making comments comments comments com com- ments was Howard Taylor Director of Competition for the tournament The entire tournament staff and myself were very impressed with their talent and the way they carried carded themselves in winning and losing I thought they were good Photo By Corey Corry Bullock Bollock enough to win the national championship champi champi- Those comments were confirmed when Jorge Estrada and Francisco Silva were voted in by their peers to the All Tournament Team Other notable performances were Jeremy Jordan and Francisco Silva tied for second in hi most goals scored Goalkeeper Jeremy Harryman didn't allow a goal in the entire tournament splitting the goal keeping duties with Brandon Horoba Even after the r members em ers of the team watched as Texas beat Kansas State 5 0 in the championship game The question that everyone still asked was Where are you from The answer Salt Lake Community College |