After a great three game homestand the Waynesburg University men’s soccer team dropped another road game last night at Washington & Jefferson losing 4-3. 

The Yellow Jackets are now 0-4 on the road this season being outscored by their opponent 15-5. 

“Attention to detail and consistency over 90 minutes those are two things that if you give the opposition the right moments in the game there are just individuals in this league and there are teams in this league that will take it,” head coach Treg Lunger said. “We are still in a good spot in the table but we got to continue to look for ways to take points on the road.  

W&J got the scoring going early, finding the back of the net only four minutes into the contest forcing the Jackets to chase the game early. 

“It was just a slow start from us they clearly were on the attack early and we struggled to build out of our own end,” Mohrbacher said. “It was a moment of switching off defensively and we left our keeper in a vulnerable position.”

Just 10 minutes later the Jackets would have a response through senior midfielder/forward Tyler Mohrbacher who netted his fourth goal of the season. 

“It was serviced into the box where my teammate Connor Jacobs was able to scrap something out there was a deflection and the ball fortunately fell to my feet,” Mohrbacher said. “Something I’ve worked on all of my life are those two touch finishes and that’s all I did just touch and shoot to level the game back up.”

One minute later Waynesburg would score again to get its first lead of the game thanks to a Seth Massotti goal. Despite that though the Presidents would respond five minutes later ending all the scoring for the first half. 

“For us I think the game seemed to us visually that we were in a really good spot but errors continued to mount on us particularly in individual positions which led to moments they were able to capitalize on,” Lunger said.

In the second half the Jackets came out and got the lead back three minutes in through Vincent Palmeri, scoring his first collegiate goal. 

W&J would respond not just once but twice over the course of the next 12 minutes giving the presidents the lead back. The Jackets just had no response for the last half hour of play. 

“It’s just a matter of the details the biggest detail was that they had one more goal than us in the final 30 minutes of play,” Mohrbacher said. “We lacked creative ideas going forward and they did a good job wasting clock and making us more and more desperate for that equalizing goal which unfortunately for us never came.” 

Waynesburg (6-4, 3-2) will be back in action this Saturday Oct. 7th at 1 p.m. as they go north to take on Allegheny (3-7, 2-2).