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Back on track: Broncbusters rebound from first loss with 3-0 win over Cowley

Published 9/24/2009 in None

By MIKE KESSINGER

mkessinger@gctelegram.com

He was 10 yards in front of the goal and Garden City Community College forward Federico Agreda put his hands on his head in frustration. Moments before he had missed a shot right of the goal as Cowley College goalkeeper Blake Anderson came out to defend.

The frustration Agreda showed was evident throughout a night when the Broncbusters missed opportunity after opportunity to simply dominate Cowley on the scoreboard. The final result was a GCCC 3-0 win, but for much of the second half the Busters played with just a one-goal lead. And it all happened in a game the Busters out-shot their Jayhawk Conference foe, 32-4.

"It was really frustrating," Agreda said of the Busters offensive struggles which consisted of 18 shots that were either saved by Anderson or were just shots GCCC missed by hitting off a sidebar of the goal or just missed the score barely wide left or right. "We came from a really tough game in Oklahoma and we worked on defending from the top the whole week and I thought we did a good job. We just couldn't finish, but I think the team did a great job defending."

If the Busters were still thinking of their 4-3 overtime loss at Northern Oklahoma, the attacking mentality didn't show it, neither did the defensive effort that helped keep the Tigers without a goal. GCCC (7-1, 3-0), who slipped to No. 11 from No. 4 in the NJCAA rankings following its first loss, never gave Cowley (0-5-1, 0-3-1) much of a chance offensively on Wednesday.

The Busters kept the ball in its possession on the Tigers' side most of the game as Sammy Duque played his first game in the goal for GCCC, replacing usual starter Andres Benavides for the night.

"I thought he did a heck of a job," GCCC coach Stephen Gorton said of Duque, who had one save. "He organized well, he did the things he was suppose to do. There was one on a corner kick (Cowley) had where he came out big and knocked it out. I thought he played really well."

The Busters scored their first goal with 3:49 left in the first half, when midfielder D.J. Zuniga hit a sliding kick past Anderson on an assist from midfielder Ulises Caba. The pass from Caba was a cross going from the right side of the goal to the left.

"I didn't know when it was going to come," Gorton said of his team's first goal. "I kept thinking 'this is the one, this is the one,' and just weren't going in the back of the net. When that one came I was just like, 'OK, now we're getting settled down.'"

It took the Busters 38 minutes into the second half before Agreda finally scored on an unassisted shot. It took just one minute and 8 seconds for GCCC to strike again as Agreda hit midfielder Tareq Al-Lugman with a pass he finished by scoring from 15 yards out.

"I saw him open and so I gave him the ball -- we all need to score," Agreda said of his assist to Al-Lugman. "Sometimes I'm going to need that pass from him to score, but this time he needed it from me, so I gave it to him."

The Busters will have just one day of rest before playing again. GCCC will play host to Allen County at Memorial Stadium on Friday for a game that starts at 8 p.m.

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GCCC 3, Cowley 0

Cowley 0 0 -- 0

GCCC 1 2 -- 3

First half

GCCC -- Zuniga goal (Caba assist), 3:49

Second half

GCCC -- Agreda goal (unassisted), 7:00

GCCC -- Al-Lugman goal (Agreda assist), 5:52

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