Wellsboro, Athens pick up NTL soccer wins
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | September 8, 2017
Two days after playing to a 2-2 draw, Athens and Wellsboro boys soccer teams picked up NTL wins on Thursday, September 7.
Athens 4, Northern Potter 1
Athens' Ethan Lane had a hat trick for the Wildcats in their win Thursday. Brad Cardona also scored. A.J. Lehman scored for Northern Potter to avoid a shutout.
Wellsboro 6, Galeton 1
Tanner Runyan and Kaeden Mann each scored two goals in the Green Hornets win. Mann scored with 33:56 remaining, Runyan then scored back-to-back goals. The first came at 23:51 off a Gabe Leach corner kick, then with 14:39 on throw-in by Nic Ingerick to make it 3-0 Hornets.
Leach put Wellsboro up 4-0 on a free kick with 25:32 remaining before Galeton's Joel Griffen score the Tigers' only goal to make it 4-1 at 22:19.
Wellsboro's final two goals came from Mann on an assist from Runyan with 21:25 left, and then by Noah Fitch with 1:19 on a Johnny Rowland assist.
Elk Lake 1, Towanda 0
Towanda dropped a non-league game to Elk Lake. Noah Cusatis scored for Elk Lake.
Sayre 4, Troy 1
Sam VanDermark scored in the second minute off a Jordan Rockwell assist for a 1-0 lead. Rockwell scored his first in the 12th minute off a Sam Wheeler assist for a 2-0 halftime lead. Wheeler scored his first of the season in the 12th minute of the second half off Rockwell's second assist. 45 seconds later Rockwell scored off of a give and go with Wheeler. Kaden Murray scored troys only goal of the game in the 16th minute on a penalty kick.
Troy out shot Sayre 14-8 on the game. Troy took 12 corners and Sayre only took one. Josh Nowacoski made 4 saves for Troy and Camden Wheeler had 13 for Sayre.
Sayre plays next at Elk Lake Saturday morning at 10:00 am.
Williamson 8, North Penn-Liberty 5
Simon Fish and Andrew Learn each had four goals for Williamson in their win over Liberty. Andrew Gililand had a hat trick for Liberty.
Ed Weaver is the owner of Circle W Sports in Wellsboro, PA, is the Sports Director for The Home Page Network and the creator of WellsboroAthletics.com and WellsboroFootball.com. You can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.
