Altamont soccer finished their regular season off with a drubbing of Pana at home, 8-0, on Wednesday night. Prior to the match, seniors Calvin Bannister, Hayden Bridges, Ashton Buchanan, Aiden Rosales and Mason Suey were honored. In the match, things were slow going to start the first half before Altamont opened the scoring 13 minutes in when Calvin Bannister was able to direct an Ashton Buchanan header into the goal to put Altamont up 1-0. That would be the only goal of the game until seconds before the end of the first half when Bannister scored his second goal to send the Indians into halftime with a 2-0 lead. Altamont made adjustments at halftime and just inside the start of the second half, Buchanan was able to score his first goal of the game with the assist from Bannister and then a couple minutes later, Hudson Short was able to score off a pass from Bannister to put the Indians up 4-0. Altamont kept pouring it on and at the 52nd minute mark, Buchanan scored his second goal of the goal and in the 59th minute, Preston Kroening joined in with his first goal as the Indians were out to a 6-0 lead. That wasn’t it for the scoring though as Mason Suey connected in a header in the 76th minute off an assist from Kaleb Overton with extend the lead further to 7-0 and then he scored his second goal of the game with just a handful of seconds left in the game to close out the scoring and lock away the 8-0 win. Altamont moves to 11-6-3 on the season and will be off until Tuesday at 4:30pm when they begin postseason action in the semifinals of the Effingham Regional. They will play the winner of the quarterfinal matchup between Teutopolis and Mt. Carmel.
