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ELLENSBURG, Wash. – The Central Washington soccer group (0-2) will welcome the defending Lone Star Convention champions, the Angelo State Rams (1-1) for a Saturday night time showdown in ‘The Burg this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. from Tomlinson Stadium.
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LAST WEEK
The Wildcats fell to the 16th-ranked NAIA program, the Montana Tech Orediggers (1-1) to open the house schedule of the 2023 season by a 37-29 rating. The Wildcats and Orediggers went back-and-forth within the first half with MT main 16-14, earlier than the ‘Diggers potent fast-paced offense outscored CWU 21-15 to take the 37-29 victory.
Regardless of the loss, the Wildcats speeding recreation was distinctive, speeding for 318 yards, led by Tyler Flanagan and Tre’jon Henderson. Flanagan led CWU with 149 speeding yards and one landing, whereas Henderson rushed for 137 and two touchdowns. JJ Lemming guided the ‘Cats within the air finishing 14 of 32 cross makes an attempt for 198 yards. Lemming’s favourite goal through the night time was Darius Morrison who had six receptions for 51 yards. Yakima product, Marcus Prepare dinner led CWU with three receptions for 57 yards, whereas Zach Matlock added on 50 yards together with his three receptions.
The Wildcat protection stored busy, particularly Brett McCalla and Tanner Volk who every had 11 tackles on the night time. McCalla had a 0.5 deal with for loss and one cross breakup whereas Volk had the primary interception for the Wildcats of the season and two cross breakups. Brett Accimus added on eight extra tackles and a 0.5 deal with for loss, whereas Patrick Rogers had 4 tackles with one cross breakup and one blocked kick.
“It does not matter what degree of opponent you are taking part in, you have to come out and play, and you have to be good each single week,” CWU Head Soccer Coach Chris Fisk stated. “Loads of credit score to Montana Tech, that they had a heck of a gameplan. We had some key accidents that thrust some backup gamers into beginning roles and particularly defensively we did not do the issues we would have liked to do, particularly with our assignments which precipitated three or 4 of the touchdowns we gave up. What you notice in faculty soccer is each win is earned and each loss is earned, and we would have liked to be higher, particularly defensively.”
ABOUT THE RAMS
Angelo State comes into this season because the defending Lone Star Convention champions. The Rams defeated a gritty West Alabama Tigers group on the street 38-14 earlier than falling final week to the second-ranked nationwide runners up final season Colorado Faculty of Mines Orediggers 31-21.
The Rams have accrued 836 complete yards within the two video games they’ve performed this season, in comparison with their opponents 579. ASU has been distinctive within the air having thrown 601 yards for a mean of 300.5 yards per recreation. The bottom recreation is not any slouch, having rushed for 235 yards or 117.5 yards per recreation.
Lake Erie Faculty switch Gerald Gardner has been main the Rams air barrage having accomplished 56 % of his passes and thrown 570 yards and 5 touchdowns, together with his longest cross coming at 71 yards. Gardner has solely thrown three interceptions. Gardner has discovered Brayden Wilcox essentially the most instances with 10 completions for 65 yards, nonetheless Kyle Bradford leads the Rams with 9 receptions for 192 yards and two receiving touchdowns. Zorhan Rideaux additionally has racked up two landing catches and 119 receiving yards on the younger season.
The Rams speeding assault has been led by Kason Philips who’s had 20 carries for 91 yards. Philips has been sharing speeding duties with Wilcox who’s had 14 carries for 87 yards and one landing. Wilcox additionally has the longest rush of the season for the Rams at 77-yards.
The Rams protection has been led by Eric Rascoe and Ok’hari Watson who’ve accrued 12 and 10 tackles every with each having eight solo tackles. Josh Booker-Brown has carried out the most effective job getting via the offensive line, inflicting 4 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. Andrew Pitts has seven tackles and leads the Rams with 5 cross breakups. Three completely different Rams have recorded an interception, whereas three extra Rams have pressured a fumble.
Bradley Larson has been the beginning kicker for ASU, changing one among two subject aim makes an attempt, each from 30-39 yards away. Larson has transformed one subject aim for 30-yards. Cade Fuller has been the beginning punter, already having 13 punts for 539 yards with two touchdown throughout the opponents 20-yard line.
“Defensively, they’re comparable in what we noticed out of Weber and what we noticed out of Montana Tech when it comes to presenting a whole lot of points,” Fisk stated. “They carry a whole lot of stress packages, they’ve nice personnel on the line of scrimmage, they’ve very gifted secondary gamers. Once more, for the third week in a row, they run a novel scheme that is powerful to get taught in every week and to get your youngsters squared up on it, particularly with regards to cross safety. So, we’ll have our work reduce out for us. Offensively, they’ve some new faces on that facet of the ball. They graduated their quarterback who was the most effective within the Lone Star final 12 months, so that they have some new quarterbacks. They’ve a Wildcat bundle that presents some points for us. They’ve great expertise up entrance within the offensive line, similar to their protection, they only appear to reload yearly with guys that they’ve developed. We now have to win on the line of scrimmage first, after which issues simply fall into place from there.”