Broncbuster Men's Soccer

Busters sign 16 for Soccer

Published 4/18/2009 in Sports : GCCC

By MIKE KESSINGER

When he looked for an outline of how he wanted to go about recuiting for the 2009 fall season, Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton approached it in two thoughts of mind: Would it be best to field a recuiting class of all freshmen and see how they blend into the college game? Or would it be better to add a few transfers into the mix and see if that could propel the Broncbusters into a second straight NJCAA national tournament?..more...

Busters receive NSCAA Awards

The Buster Men’s Soccer team had three players named to the NSCAA Adidas All South team. Mario Ojeda (Miami, Florida) and Ulises Caba (Guymon, Oklahoma) were named to the first team, and Steve Shaw (Albuquerque, New Mexico) was named to the second team.

Ojeda NSCAA All American

Photo by GC3 Media

Sophomore forward Mario Ojeda (Miami, Florida) was named to the NSCAA All American second team. For complete NSCAA All American list: http://www.nscaa.com/articles/20081212190020407.php

No. 2: GCCC soccer makes first ever trip to nationals

Editor's Note: The following is the ninth in a series highlighting the Top 10 local and area sports stories of 2008 as chosen by the staff of The Garden City Telegram. Today's story, No. 2, is about t ...

The Garden City Men’s Soccer team had two players crack the NJCAA All American list. Freshmen midfielder Ulises Caba (Guymon, Oklahoma) was named to the NJCAA All American Honorable Mention, and sophomore forward Mario Ojeda (Miami, Florida) was named to the NJCAA All American second team. http://www.njcaa.org/sports.cfm?sid=17&divid=1&gender=m&slid=9&menu=5

The freshman group from Florida tried its best to give the Garden City Community College men's soccer team at least a third-place finish at the NJCAA Division I National Championship on Sunday in Phoenix Arizona.

Unfortunately, the Broncbusters came up short to Mercer (N.J.) 5-4. The Busters fell behind early as Mercer scored the first two goals of the game in the 20th and 29th minute. Ulises Caba, a freshman from Guymon, Okla, put GCCC on the board at the 45-minute mark on a pass from Florida freshman Fedarico Argreda. more...

PHOENIX -- As the final whistle blew, the proverbial clock struck midnight for the Garden City Community College men's soccer Cinderella story. The Broncbusters' players fell scattered across the field in defeat, tears streaming down their faces, after a 4-1 loss to top-ranked Yavapai (AZ) College in the NJCAA National semifinals Friday at Rose Mofford Sports Complex.

For a program that has only existed for four years, the Broncbusters made incredible strides throughout the year and have a chance to finish as the third best team in the entire country on Sunday..more...

PHOENIX -- Garden City Community College goalkeeper Chris Raines stood alone in the goal as the final shoot-out whistle blew, knowing that one more miraculous save would propel the Broncbusters to the NJCAA National semifinals for the first time in the program's four-year history. Raines stepped forward, lunged to his right, and blocked Mike Mecerod's kick aside as Raines' teammates stormed the field as GCCC beat fifth-seeded Georgia Perimeter College in dramatic fashion, 0-0, (2-1 Penalty kicks) in a shootout on Thursday at Rose Mofford Sports Complex..more...

When he thinks back to the last week Garden City Community College men’s soccer coach Stephen Gorton uses one word.

It would seem almost appropriate for this time of year when the Broncbusters have been preparing for their first appearance in the NJCAA national championship that starts Thursday at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix.

“It feels like you’re shaking everybody’s hand,” Gorton said. “Taking so many compliments that you just don’t know how to deal with it sometimes. I couldn’t be more happy — for myself, it’s OK, because I don’t want to be the big focus ever. I just kind of like to do my job and win, and have the kids feel like they’re important.”

In a season the Broncbusters made history by being the first men’s soccer program in school history to qualify for the national tournament, all of the focus will be on the players when play starts..more...

All season the Garden City Community College men’s soccer team has had one united goal — make it to nationals.

In front of their home crowd Saturday night, the Broncbusters did just that knocking off No. 3-ranked Jefferson (Mo.) College 1-0 in the title game of the Great Plains District Championships at Memorial Stadium...more...

It's not so much a nervous feeling anymore for Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton. It's more an anxiousness for his team to take the field tonight for one final home game this season.

Of course, if Gorton was a little nervous no one could blame him. This game has quite a lot more at stake than a regular season game. In fact, when the Broncbusters take on Jefferson (Mo.) College at 7 p.m., Garden City will be playing in its biggest game of the program's four-year existence. Win tonight and the Broncbusters head for Chandler, Ariz. to the national championships Nov. 19-23..more...

It was almost dusk Thursday and the 11 members of the Garden City Community College men's soccer team from Miami stood out front of the Dennis Perryman Athletic Complex wearing their jerseys.

As Telegram staff photographer Laurie Sisk gave instructions to what she was looking for in a picture, several of them stood with their arms crossed, shivering while trying to stay somewhat warm as the cooler weather moved in. Not one of them seemed to mind as they listened to what Sisk set them up...more...

TOPEKA -- When the Garden City Broncbusters men's soccer team faces Allen County, it usually expects a rough-and-tumble, physical game.

When the teams met here Saturday afternoon at the Hummer Sports Park, in the Region VI semifinals, coach Steve Gorton's players got just what they anticipated..more...

All season the Garden City Community College men's soccer team has been able to find the routine fairly common -- score that first goal, and more will follow. The Broncbusters 5-0 win in their Region VI opener kept it the same as the floodgates opened in the first half and Neosho County never had an answer..more...

In some way it was like the stars were aligned for Steve Shaw to return to Garden City Community College...more...

Garden City Community College's men's and women's soccer teams swept past the Cowley County Tigers Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

The Lady Busters survived with a 2-1, double-overtime victory while the men unleashed their offense in rolling past the Tigers 7-1. The victory raises the women's season mark over .500 at 7-6-1, while the nationally-ranked men upped their record to 13-1-1. more...

A strong weekend for the Garden City Community College soccer teams was capped off Sunday morning with a barrage of goals.

After the men's and women's soccer teams disposed of Hesston on Saturday, both by a score of 2-0, the Broncbusters swept Independence on Sunday...more...

There was not much of a silver lining Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Steve Gorton could put on his teams performance Saturday at Memorial Stadium. "I guess that's all that matters," Gorton said of the Broncbusters 1-0 win against Neosho County. "I guess I thought it was a pretty boring game altogether. We didn't show very much intensity, excitement or anything like that. I'm a bit disappointed in the way they came out to play."

It was Sept. 9, and the Garden City Community College men's soccer team was in new territory. For the first time in the program's four-year existence, the Broncbusters were ranked. A first game 2-0 win against No. 4 San Jacinto (Texas) and back-to-back blowout victories against two other tough non-conference teams, Blue River (Mo.) and Lincoln College (Ill.), propelled them into the poll... more...

It's been tough. We went one win, one tie, one loss -- it's not what we expected, but we're not going to hang our heads. We feel like we're one of the better teams around. We've just got to keep working to prove it." ...more...

On a fall Saturday afternoon that felt more like mid-summer, there were enough reasons for coaches and players to be short in the temper(ature) department when Johnson County Community College visited to the Broncbusters men's and women's soccer teams at Memorial Stadium. ..more...

The Garden City Community College men's soccer squad was becoming accustomed to seeing nothing but wins added to its record. That is, until the No. 8 ranked Broncbusters traveled to Great Bend to face Barton County.

Their winning streak was stopped at seven on Wednesday. Fortunately for the Busters it wasn't the beginning of a losing streak as the two squads finished in a 1-1 draw after an extra 20 minutes of overtime. The two teams held each other in check for the first 45 minutes of action, but NCAA Division II Midwestern State University recruit, Steve Shaw, opened the scoring with his 10th goal of the season at the 61:09 mark. The Cougars caught up with a free kick at the 72:56 mark to send it into overtime. Sophomore goalkeeper Chris Raines was credited with nine saves in the game. There was plenty of scoring in the GCCC women's game with Barton County. Unfortunately, none of the scoring was done by the Lady Busters as they fell 9-0, in their worst loss since 2006. The Cougars outshot Garden City 37-5 for the game. "It is just one of those games you wish never happened and have to put out of your mind as quickly as possible," women's coach

Barton County maintained its unblemished home record against Garden City with the Busters' teams unable to pick up a win. Next action for the Busters teams will be Saturday when they entertain Johnson County. The women's game starts at 2 p.m. with the men to follow at four o'clock. Both games are at Memorial Stadium.

The Garden City Community College men's soccer team, ranked 10th, remained unbeaten over the weekend by winning two Jayhawk Conference road games, 2-0, Saturday at Allen County in Iola, then toppled Coffeyville, 3-1, on Sunday. The Lady Busters earned a split in their two weekend outings, falling 1-0 on an overtime penalty kick to Allen County on Saturday. However, they came back on Sunday to earn a 1-0 victory over the host Lady Red Ravens.....more...

Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton knows what his team is capable of doing. He said from the start that this team would win a lot of games.

On Monday, though, the second-year coach watched his team beat Kansas City, Kansas, 8-1 in a whole new light. For the first time in the program's four-year history, the Broncbusters went into a game ranked, an honor bestowed on Garden City last week after starting the season 4-0...more...

Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton received a call from one of his players around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

It was sophomore forward Steve Shaw informing the Busters second-year head coach that the NJCAA Division I rankings were out, and Garden City is No. 10 in the new poll. It is the program's first ranking in its four-year existence....more...

The only thing on Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton's mind after his team's 5-1 win against Lincoln (Ill.) on Sunday was going home and sleeping....more...

The Garden City Community College men's soccer team will give back to moms this weekend.

Starting this evening, the Broncbusters will host the first Soccer Mom Camp and tournament at Memorial Stadium. Tonight there will be a clinic for mothers starting at 8 p.m. at the stadium. On Saturday, at 11 a.m., the Busters will play Blue River Community College from Kansas City, Mo., and on Sunday will meet Lincoln (Ill.) College at 9 a.m. Jayhawk Conference rival Barton County will be matched up with Lincoln at 1 p.m. Saturday and Blue River on Sunday at 11 a.m. The clinic tonight will enable mothers a chance to be out on the field and receive a tutorial on the game from coaches and players. Games will also be involved in the activities...more...

The Garden City Community College men’s soccer team sent a simple message Saturday afternoon on the Barton County soccer field in Great Bend — the Broncbusters have arrived.....more...

It's the way Garden City Community College men's soccer coach Stephen Gorton describes his program.

In its four years of existence Gorton has been a part of it all, two as an assistant, and now entering his second as head coach. If anyone would be able to say how far the program has come, it would be Gorton...more...