by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information
No. 17 ranked Barton County sent Kansas City Kansas Community College’s men’s soccer team to the playoff sidelines in Great Bend Wednesday.
Scoring three times in the first 22 minutes, Barton posted a 4-1 win in opening round play of the Region VI Division I playoffs. The loss ended KCKCC’s season at 5-5-1 while Barton improved to 10-2-1.
Carlos Rodriguez scored KCKCC’s lone goal on an assist from Ronin Richardson at 64:38 of the second half to cut the Blue Devils’ deficit to 3-1 only to have the Cougars’ Gabrielle Privitera score three minutes later to re-open the lead to 4-1.
Barton took control of the game early. Vladyslav Peretyatko scored on assists from Shizu Yohena and Fellipe D’Agostini just 7½ minutes into the game. Ricardo Sepulveda made it 2-0 with 14:35 gone on an assist from Privitera and Genildo Postimo’s unassisted goal made it 3-0 with 21:53 gone in the contest.