CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Western Nebraska Community College women's soccer team played strong against Laramie County Community College on Saturday, but in the end, the Cougars fell to the Golden Eagles 4-1 in action in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

                The loss drops the Cougars to 3-9-1 on the season and 3-4-1 in conference play. WNCC sits in seventh in conference standings and needs to win twice this weekend to be guaranteed a playoff spot but they also need some help from other teams. WNCC has 10 conference points (three points for a win and one point for a tie), while the sixth-place team, Gillette College, has 12 points and two games left.

                WNCC will wrap up the regular season this weekend when they travel to Northwest College on Friday and then Central Wyoming College on Saturday. Northwest is third in the conference standings with a 5-2 record while Central is behind WNCC in the standings at 3-5.

                Saturday's contest was one where the Cougars had plenty of shots in the contest. LCCC finished with 16 shots while the Cougars had 10.

                The Golden Eagles led at halftime 2-0. Danielle O'Leary scored both first-half goals, netting the first in the 17^th minute and then getting her second in the 24^th minute.

                LCCC made it 3-0 four minutes into the second half when Giselle Heck scored on a one-on-one attack.

                WNCC answered that goal to make it 3-1 in the 52^nd minute when Yasmin Urbina delivered a pass to Millie Selfe and Selfe took a shot from 18 yards out that went into the back of the net.

                Aubrey Yantis finished off the scoring for LCCC when she scored on a penalty kick in the 54^th minute.

                Both WNCC goalkeepers say action and gave up two goals. Emily Villagomez had five saves while Dory Jenson had two saves.