West Texas\u00a0FC salvaged a draw with a penalty kick in stoppage time on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Ian Silva scored on a penalty kick in stoppage time to help West Texas\u00a0FC secure a 3-3 draw with the Lubbock Matadors SC during a Ranger Division soccer match at Astound Broadband Stadium.<\/p>\n
The refs blew the whistles to end the match\u00a0after Silva\u2019s timely goal as West Texas FC (0-1-1, 1 point) picked up its first point of the season during its first-ever home contest as members of the USL League 2.<\/p>\n
The match had a wild ending as Silva\u2019s goal came only minutes after Theo Butterworth scored to give the Lubbock Matadors SC (2-0-1, 7 points) a 3-2 lead. Butterworth received a yellow card for unsporting behavior on the goal.<\/p>\n
The contest was tied at 1 at halftime after West Texas FC\u2019s Diego Robles scored in the 10th minute and Mouhamed Diop countered with a goal for the Matadors in the 27th minute.<\/p>\n
West Texas FC took a brief lead on a goal by Tom Nkassa in the 48th minute before the Matadors answered with a goal from Braden Schumacher in the 56th.<\/p>\n
West Texas FC returns to the pitch on June 10 when it hosts Texoma FC at 7:30 p.m. at Astound Broadband Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Texas\u00a0FC salvaged a draw with a penalty kick in stoppage time on Saturday night. Ian Silva scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-316670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}