Blue Jay Classic

 Day 1:
The Generals soccer team dropped both games over the weekend to two tough opponents. The weekend tournament was almost called off due to the severe flooding in the Harrisburg, PA area. After 15 inches of rain in two days the tourney was moved to a field-turf, off campus location. We faced Elizabethtown College in the opening game of the tournament and suffered a hard fought 0-1 decision. E-Town opened the scoring early in the game off of a corner kick. The ball was sent back post to an unmarked man who then sent the ball back across the box for an easy finish from 6 yards out from goal. The Generals pressed hard towards the end of the first half and gained a few half chances on goal. The second half again saw the Generals pushing to even the score. There was great service in the box in the box box but we just seemed to be a step behind unable to get on the end of it. The team battled hard and the coaching staff felt we deserved to even the match towards the end of the game.
Day 2:
With a quick 12 hour break from the first game, the Generals faced 2011 NCAA tournament team Desales University. Desales proved to be a tough physical opponent that played very direct. They had a Strong set of forwards that were very effective in the air. As a result we went down early again after they buried a great headed from a cross. Soon after we had a man red carded and we down and struggling with 1o men on the pitch. On the resulting free kick Desales scored again. down 2-0 and with 10 men the Generals pulled together and got one back after a great headed off the dome of sophomore center back Colin Hagenbarth. The second half looked more promising as we gathered more chances in the final third but we were unable to convert. The rest of the game was a struggle with 10 men and we dropped the game 4-1.

We are now 1-2 and head into conference play this week against Randolph-Macon and then play host to Roanoke College at 1pm on Saturday.