Dodge City women's soccer opened KJCCC play by hosting #14 Barton and despite a late push by the Conquistadors, the Conqs would fall 3-1.
Despite not being able to garner many shot-producing offensive opportunities throughout the first half the Conqs would hang with Barton outside of a 39-second window of time when the Cougars sprayed in a pair of goals to take control. In the 12th minute, the Cougars found a way to get on the board and break the seal on the scoring doing so on set piece with a header to finish the goal. Just 39 seconds later the Conqs saw the Cougars pounce again snaring their second goal which helped Barton lead 2-0 at intermission.
Still locked up at 2-0 the Conqs were able to break through in the second half with more offensive chances and finally got on the scoreboard as Maria Scopino chipped the ball over the defense laying it up for Femke Wiedeman in the box to tally her first goal of the season it coming it the 77th minute. The Conqs made it a brand new ballgame at that point and would threaten to tie the contest but Barton flipped it back to a two-goal advantage in the final two minutes grabbing the 3-1 victory.
In the contest, the Conqs were out-shot 16-9 but the Conqs in the second half were pretty even in shots at 9-8. Wiedeman tallied the goal for the Conqs and Scopino an assist, while Lucia Martinez Garcia had four saves.
The Conqs move to 1-1 on the season with the loss and 0-1 in KJCCC play as they continue conference action on Saturday, August 26th against KCK in Kansas City, Kansas.
