NO. 13 HAWKS MEN’S SOCCER PREVAILS IN WHALE OF A GAME

WATERLOO, Iowa – The No. 13 Northeast Community College men's soccer team traveled to Waterloo, Iowa to battle Hawkeye Community College Wednesday. The Hawks were victorious in the contest by a final score of 4-3.

The Hawks (15-4, 5-2 ICCAC) were able to overcome extremely windy conditions to grab the victory. The wind wasn't the only adversity that the Hawks faced, as they had to play long stretches of Wednesday's match down a few players. Northeast lost starting goalkeeper Jesus Baez (Madison, Neb.) to a red card in the final seconds of the first half and lost two more players to red cards in the second half. When the final whistle blew the Hawks secured the win with only eight men on the pitch.

STAT SHEET:

Goals: Paul Einero (Cape Town, South Africa), Jeevan Purewal (Wolverhampton, England) (2), Luca Baltzer (Oberstenfeld, Germany)

Assists: Teun van der Donk (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Ewen Guillermo (Noyal-Pontivy, France) (2), Fabian Hasler (Lucerne, Switzerland), Conor Carew (Carlow, Ireland)

HEAR FROM THE HAWKS COACH:

Head men's soccer coach Adam Potter on his team pulling off a win despite having eight men:

"This is an area that we have been talking about the last few days in training," Potter said. "I am very proud of the guys. Today we finally handled adversity as a team and took punch after punch today together."

Potter on the regular season finale upcoming on Saturday:

"Run through the line!" Potter said.

UP NEXT:

Northeast will close the book on a historic regular season at 1 p.m. Saturday in Bettendorf, Iowa against Scott Community College.

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