The Western Nebraska Community College women's soccer team got a goal with two minutes left in the match to force overtime and then the Cougars and Northwest College settled for a 1-1 double overtime tie in the team's contest Friday at Landers Soccer Complex.

                Litzi Delarosa, who got the assist in the game-tying goal, said the team played better after halftime.

                "The team started off on a bad start, but we managed to set the pace of the second half and possessed the game and got a lot more shots on goal," Delarosa said.

                The first half saw both teams not get a lot of goals on net. Northwest, however, got the only goal in the first half and it was early with just under five minutes gone in the game when Peyton Roswadovski scored off an assist from Kylie Warren for the 1-0 lead.

                After that there wasn't a lot of scoring chances as Northwest led at halftime 1-0.

                The second half saw a totally different Cougar team come out as the Cougars dominated on offense with a lot of shots on goal, but the Northwest goalkeeper Alexa Williams made 14 saves in net.

                Still, the way the Cougars were shooting was a marked improvement from the first half.

                "The team did not play how we know how to play," Delarosa said. "The second half we started off on the wrong foot but managed to pick up the pace and set the speed of play of how we wanted it to be."

                The Cougars started their offensive shooting as Vanessa Vasquez missed a good chance with 36 minutes to play and then Izzy Wright had a good shot with 31 minutes to play and came up short. A little bit later, Andrea Jimenez came up short.

                Then, the Cougars really dominated on the offensive side from the 17-minute mark to the 10-minute mark where they had four good chances, and nothing would go into the net. With five minutes left, Delarosa had a good shot on goal and couldn't get the tying goal in net.

                Facing pressure to tie the match, the Cougars finally found the bet with 1:45 to play when Vasquez took a pass from Delarosa and blasted the ball past the Northwest goalkeeper to knot the score and send the game into overtime.

                Neither team scored in the two 10-minute overtime periods to settle for a tie.

                WNCC finished with 26 shots with 15 on goal. Northwest had seven shots. WNCC had five corner kicks while Northwest had just one corner kick.

                WNCC goalkeeper Luisa Cordiero had four saves in net.

                WNCC, 1-1-1, will be back in action Saturday at 10 a.m. when they will face Central Wyoming College. Central played Northeastern at Landers on Friday and were shutout by the Plainswomen.

                Delarosa said they need to find the connections to pick up a win on Saturday at home.

                "What we need to do to win on Saturday is connect a lot better," she said. "We need to shift second pass as a team to have more shots in the back of the net."