Gallery: (4-2-2021) Men's Soccer vs. JBU
LUBBOCK – John Brown University ended Wayland Baptist's season for the second straight year as the Golden Eagles won a Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinal on Friday afternoon at Berl Huffman Soccer Complex, 1-0.
The fifth-seeded Golden Eagles (6-4-1) scored the game's lone goal in the 80
th minute. Alonso Arrieta played a kick in and after the ball settled some 25 yards away, Jacob Zamarron put a clean foot on it and the ball just got past the diving arms of WBU keeper
Gonzalo Santa.
"The moment that decided the game was the piece of brilliance from Jacob Zamarron. A player of his quality needs just one chance and he made the difference today," WBU coach
Robert Ssejjemba said. "It was a very good goal."
It was the team-leading 11
th goal of the season for Zamarron, an All-SAC First Team pick.
No. 4 seed Wayland, playing with a frenzy, got three shots off after the goal, none on-goal, as the Golden Eagles successfully ran out the clock.
The Pioneers were credited with 15 shots, three on-goal, while JBU ended with 12 attempts, five on-target. Daniel Vasquez came off the bench to try six of WBU's 15 shots. Vasquez,
Elton Tettey and
Leonardo Amaral all had on-goal attempts.
"It was a good game, to be fair," Ssejjemba said. "John Brown was very dangerous in the wide areas. They created a lot from their left side.
"But I thought we were wasteful in front of goal. We should have scored a couple of goals in the first half. Even in the second half, we had some half chances that we failed to put away."
It was the second year in a row Wayland's season came to an end at the hands of JBU. Last year in Siloam Springs, the Pioneers fell in the SAC semifinals, 2-1.
The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for Wayland, which defeated JBU when the teams met during the conference regular-season on March 3 in south Lubbock, 2-1 in overtime.
Wayland ends the season with an 11-5-1 record while JBU advances to the semis where the Golden Eagles will host No. 8 seed Central Christian (7-11-2), which upset top-seeded, 18
th-ranked Southwestern Christian in a shootout, 4-1, after the teams battled to a 0-0 double-overtime tie. It was the first on-field loss of the season for the Eagles (11-2-3), who forfeited the final regular-season game to Wayland.
