Anderson 4 EC 1

Fresh from the win over Transy, we travel to Anderson to play a tough conference game made tougher by the absence of Tamru Taye and Frank Mbaya. Tamru, a geology major, has been invited to a conference in Colorado and Frank has to return to Lexington on family business. Enough that we miss these starters but crucially both play important roles in our defending at corners and set pieces. Corey Campbell and Zander Ansara are in the first eleven with Aaron Falsetto in goal.

The first half is tightly contested, with our best chance coming on a ball played across goal by David Jones that Feli Muyumba just misses. Their statistical edge in shots doesn't reflect the evenness of the game.

Just after half time (47th), Jacob Ebbs plays a classic one-two with Ameer Yusuf and finishes with his left from about 18 yards for a 1-0 lead for us. We get another couple of half chances in the next few minutes that result in nothing. As often as not, when we score our opponent tends to become more direct and we often have problems with that---which are multiplied today by our missing players. Anderson equalizes in the 62nd minute through leading scorer Todd Canal and proceeds to score 3 more at 8 minute intervals, 2 coming from far post headers from corners in the area often defending by Frank or Tamru.

No excuses: Anderson have a 4-1 win on their homecoming and despite their slow start to the year, they have a clear path into the HCAC tournament if they keep winning especially since they now have the tiebreaker against us. At this point, the possibilities are almost endless with 6 teams alive for the 4 tournament places.