Northwest Christian Spoils Senior Night for Northwest U.
TUKWILA, Wash. – Northwest Christian University scored two first half goals and earned a 2-1 victory over Northwest University tonight in Cascade Conference play at the Starfire Sports Stadium in Tukwila. This was the final regular home game for eight Northwest U. seniors: Everett Adams, Jeff Dickison, Jason Hatcher, Matt Johnson, Dan Redwine, Flavius Sterciuc, Tim Starr and Micah Williams.
Northwest Christian (3-10-1, 2-8 CCC) came out fast scoring two goals in 24 minutes. Greg Erickson score the first Beacon goal on a penalty kick at the 23:01 mark and 1 minute and 34 seconds later, teammate Alex Crossingham scored the game winner on an unassisted goal.
Senior midfielder Tim Starr (Denver, Color.) got Northwest U. (5-9-2, 3-7 CCC) on the scoreboard at the 40:42 mark with his penalty kick. Neither team could manage a score in the second half as both defenses clamped down. Northwest U. managed 10 shots and NWCU had 7 shots in the second half.
"It's tough to lose on senior night.," commented NU head coach Gary McIntosh. "Most of these guys have played hard for me for fours years and I wanted to see them end on a win at home. Soccer is a funny game at times, we completly dominated the game with shots and still find ourselves on the losing end. You have to give credit to Northwest Christian for getting it done tonight. Losing is not fun, but we need to pick ourselves back up for are last game against Evergreen on Tuesday and finish the season with a win."
Northwest University outshot NWCU, 17-10 and NWCU goalie Cuyler Ziegler had 4 saves in goal for Northwest Christian and Kyle Wall (Jr., Seattle, Wash.) had one save for Northwest U.