Region VI Tournament Bracket
CONCORDIA, Kan. – A week after earning their second Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division Title in school history, the number 18 ranked Cloud County Community College women's soccer team will open the 2019 NJCAA Region VI Playoffs on Saturday, October 26th by hosting Johnson County Community College at 1 p.m. at the Cloud County Soccer Field.
Serving as the number one overall seed for the eight-team tournament, Cloud County will look for a repeat of their last Jayhawk West Division Title which ended with a Region VI Championship and first-ever trip to the NJCAA National Tournament in 2017.
First up for the T-Birds will be a pesky Cavalier team that went 11-6-1 overall this year and 7-5 in the KJCCC East Division, and ended the year on a three-match winning streak. JCCC was ranked as high as number 18 this year in the NJCAA Division I women's soccer top 20 poll and has seen all six losses come to teams that have been ranked in the top 20 this year.
Saturday's matchup will mark the first time since CCCC reactivated their women's soccer program that the T-Birds and Cavaliers will meet on the pitch, and first time since August 22, 2013 that the two teams have faced against each other. According to available historical records from the KJCCC, Saturday will mark just third postseason meeting between the two schools, with Johnson County winning each of the previous two meetings (2010 and 2006).
Since dropping two matches as part of a season opening road trip to number four Laramie County and number 10 Snow College, the T-Birds have reeled off 14 straight wins and finished as the only school in the KJCCC to go through conference play unbeaten. In each of their 14 wins, CCCC has allowed just one or zero goals while scoring at least two goals in each of their wins with 12 of the wins coming by multiple goals. Leading the T-Birds offensively is sophomore Izabella Christina with 20 goals and 10 assists, while Franciele Cupertino has scored 11 goals and added 12 assists this season.
The winner of Saturday's matchup will take on the winner of Kansas City Kansas and Barton County on Thursday, October 31st with a location and time to be determined. If Cloud County were to win, they would then host regardless of opponent and would sit just one win away from advancing to the NJCAA Plains District Championships which will take place on November 6th and 7th.
