Carroll's varsity soccer team won the Caston Tournament on Saturday for the third time in four years.

The Cougars started the day playing Southwood High School from Wabash. With a much improved Southwood team and the Cougars playing a little short-handed, Southwood gave the Cougars a great fight. Carroll got on the board first with a goal by Michael Myer just 41 seconds into the game on an assist to Steven Arendsen. Southwood came back with 2 goals of their own to take a 2-1 lead at the half.

The Cougars came out with 2 goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half, both scored by freshman Blake Seward. Seward's first goal of his career came 1 minute into the half off of an assist from Myer. His second goal came 8 minutes into the half to put the Cougars up 3-2.

Myer finished off a solid performance with his second goal of the game with just over 5 minutes left, giving the Cougars a 4-2 win and a shot at Caston for the championship. Cody Abdon had 9 saves for the Cougars.

The championship game pitted the Cougars against Caston on their field for the second time in nine days. The start of the game for the Cougars could not have been scripted any better. Just over a minute into the game Myer placed a corner kick on goal and it snuck through the hands of the Caston goalie. The Cougars had a 1-0 lead. Thirty seconds later the Cougars kept the pressure on and Chase Meade put a long throw-in on goal that made it through the hands of the Caston goalie for a quick 2-0 lead. Less than 2 minutes later the Cougars added a third goal on a penalty kick off the foot of Kiel Lester. That completed the scoring for the half and gave the Cougars a solid 3-0 lead.

Meade got on the board again with a direct kick that sailed over the goalie. After Caston got on the board with a goal of their own, Carroll's Trey Overholser scored his first goal of the year. The Cougars took the game 5-1.

Senior keeper Abdon had 6 saves. Myer was named tournament MVP, finishing the day with 3 goals and 1 assist for the Cougars.

The Cougars lost 2-0 to Faith Baptist at home last week in a hard fought battle.

The Cougars are now 10-2 and are at home for the last time this year Thursday against Delphi.