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The West Plains Zizzers defeated the Webb City Cardinals 3-1 in a hard fought match Monday night. With the win, the Zizzers improve to 17-5-2 on the season and advance to play the Bolivar Liberators in Wednesday night’s District Championship Game. The Liberators advanced by defeating Willard 2-0.
The Zizzers got on the board first. In the 7th minute, Justin Scicluna was tripped in the box and awarded a penalty kick. Justin converted the kick for a 1-0 Zizzer lead. Webb City drew level in the 22nd minute on a nice header by TJ Martin. West Plains wasted little time getting the lead back. In the 23rd minute, Chris Saner’s pass found Stuart Ziegler who gave the Zizzers a 2-1 lead. The assist for Saner was his 11th on the season which sets a new team single season record. Stuart Ziegler finished the scoring in the 27th minute. After being taken down in the box, Ziegler converted his penalty kick for a 3-1 Zizzer lead.
In the second half, Webb City had a chance to cut the lead to 3-2, but shot a penalty kick wide to left of the goal. For the game the Zizzers outshot Webb City 19-7 and 8-5 on goal. West Plains will play Bolivar at 6:00pm Wedneday night at Willard for the District Championship.
Thanks to all the fans including several former players that made the trip from MSU and Neosho County Community College.