Panther soccer teams sweep Keokuk

Mt. Pleasant soccer picked up two blowout wins on Monday against Southeast Conference rival Keokuk. The girls won 5-0 at home and the boys cruised 12-4 on the road.

The Panther girls had a tough first half, seeing chance after chance fail on a wet East Lake field, but when the second half began, the Panthers started putting up goals.

Sydney Doak broke the scoreless tie with 34 minutes left in the game. Doak sent a shot off the left post, which trickled across the goal line for a 1-0 lead.

Mary West made it 2-0 just under six minutes later. Mary West sent one in on a rocket from outside the box to make it 2-0.

Kaela Welcher scored on a deep ball of her own with 23:52 remaining. Doak and West each had goals later in the second half as the Panthers ran away with the win.

'Brennan: We looked like a really good team for one half today,” Panther girls' head coach Brennan Williams said after the game. 'We were pretty disappointed in that first half, not playing to our potential at all. Sometimes that's just the way it is. I challenged them at halftime, and we responded really well.”

Meanwhile in Keokuk, the Mt. Pleasant boys were finishing off their own season sweep of Keokuk. Ovidio Reyes Cardona and Nathan Rauenbuehler each had huge days, scoring four goals and one assist apiece.

Cade Warner, Dillan Malone, Nick Tansey and Jadyn Vongsavath each had one goal. Warner, Carlos Figueroa-Garcia, Brayden Ackles, Tyler Craig and Lucas Lee each had an assist. Logan Lee saved five shots.

The Mt. Pleasant boys moved to 9-3 overall and 4-2 in conference play. They will look to stay in the conference race with a home game against Ft. Madison on Thursday, May 2.

The boys' team is still one game back in the loss column against Fairfield, meaning they'll need to win out and have the Trojans drop one more conference game to earn a share of the conference crown.

The girls won't travel to Ft. Madison until Tuesday, May 7, but when they do, they could wrap up first place in the SEC.

The Mt. Pleasant girls are 8-1 overall and 6-0 in the conference with two more games to go.

Ft. Madison and Washington are both two games behind Mt. Pleasant in the conference race, meaning a win in either of their next two games will earn the Panthers the SEC outright.