FSU Comes From Behind to Draw Eastern Mennonite

Saturday afternoon we traveled to Harrisonburg, VA to face Eastern Mennonite University.  We were barely off the bus before we found ourselves down 0-1 and needed a lightning delay to regroup and come back to earn the 1-1 draw.

EMU came out running and we looked very passive and after just 1:30 seconds into the game we were down 0-1 to the Royals.  At about the 12 minute mark we were called off the field for a lightning delay which lasted close to an hour.

That break gave us a much needed opportunity to regroup and go over some things tactically that the boys were struggling with.  When we came back from the break we came out with a lot more fight and passion and began to get ourselves back into the game.  I was very pleased with the end of the half performance, but we were still down by a goal and had some work to do.

Freshman Andrew Jenkins

We came out with great intensity again in the second half and used our pressing defense to our advantage.  After Bryan Whitmore dispossessed an EMU midfielder he found freshman Andrew Jenkins just outside the box.  Jenkins began to dribble and took a long shot from about 25-30 yards out when he noticed the keeper was cheating towards the wrong direction.  The ball beat the keeper near post and we were all tied at one a piece.

http://youtu.be/AXZyp4PSrFA - Jenkins Goal

I thought we did a good job of continuing to press and creating opportunities, but as the story went in the first few games we were unable to find that second goal to get the winner.  I was very pleased with how we responded after the break and if we continue to play with that emotion and fight on the field I think we'll start the see beginnings of a pretty good team taking shape.

We continue our road trip on Wednesday as we travel to Baltimore to Face Johns Hopkins at 7pm.