Seward ties No. 4-ranked Tigers for a second time

The Seward County Saints continue to be a challenging opponent for the No. 4-ranked Cowley College men's soccer team as the teams played to a 2-2 tie on Saturday in Liberal, KS. Saturday's game marked the second time this season the teams have battled to a tie.

Cowley (8-1-2) is 8-1 against every other team on its schedule, yet has two ties with Seward. The Tigers remain comfortably in first place in the Jayhawk Conference with a conference record of 6-0-2. Seward (5-4-4) is now 1-3-4 in conference play.

On Saturday, the teams played a defensive first half and went into halftime locked in a scoreless tie.

In the second half, Seward would get on the board first as Matheus Ambrozio rocketed home a free kick that somehow sliced between Cowley's defense and goalkeeper Kamy Ndione with 38:30 left to play.

The score would remain 1-0 before Cowley's Shogo Haraikawa scored to tie the game with 18 minutes left to play. The goal by Haraikawa was his team-leading fifth of the season.

Seward would regain a 2-1 lead when Fernando Moura Filho scored his second goal of the season with 9:25 remaining. However, the Tigers caught the Saints on their heels when Hayata Kobayashi scored off an assist from Jin Tokishi to tie the game at 2-2 with 3:40 left to play.

The goal by Kobayashi was his second on the season and the assist by Tokishi was his third.

Cowley continued to pressure Seward as they out-shot the Saints 18-6, yet the teams would finish in the 2-2 tie.

The Tigers will return home to face Dodge City (4-7-1) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Conquistadors are 3-4-1 in the conference and lost to the Tigers by a score of 5-0 on September 8 in Dodge City.