Bobcats Suffer First Defeat

Senior Jamie Flewellyn

Saturday afternoon was a true test of how far this team has come as we took on the #25 nationally ranked Seagulls of Salisbury on the road.

The game would not start out the way we wanted. Two early free kicks would give Salisbury a 2-0 lead just 16 minutes into the contest. This is where the team could have folded and packed it in, but instead they responded to their first true test of adversity and would answer back with two goals just four minutes a part to tie the match at 2-2.

Senior captain Jamie Flewellyn would get us on the board first as he would slide in the box to knock home the rebound off a deflected free kick. Minutes later Damian Ramos would send a ball into the box that was not cleared away enough and Ryan Russell would one time a shot into the back of the net for his team leading 5th goal of the season and his fourth in four games.

I was really impressed the way the team responded to being down two goals on the road and fought to get us back in the game before the half. The second half started out promising as we won the ball and got right on the attack and earned a corner. Unfortunately on the ensuing corner a FSU player would lose his cool and would be red carded for a retaliation foul while getting up from the ground.

The boys would respond again and they gave it all they had fighting to stay in the game despite being down a man for 44 minutes of play. We would absorb a good deal of the Salisbury attack and look for our chances to counter, but Salisbury would get the game winning goal 12 minutes into the half. We did our best to attack when the opportunities were there and we had some chances to pull the game back, but Salisbury is a very good team and they were able to keep us off the board in the second half.

Salisbury Goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQiWwROC4c

We will back at home this week for a non-conference game against Lycoming on Wednesday and pretty big CAC match-up against Mary Washington on Saturday. Right now Mary Washington is the only 2-0 team in the conference.