TARBORO —
It was a matter of who wanted it most Wednesday night at Indian Lake Sports Complex when the Tarboro Vikings hosted the Greene Central Rams. Both teams played back and forth most of the match which came down to who wanted it more.
With a late goal Tarboro was able to send the game into overtime. Neither team was able to score in overtime and the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Tarboro moves to 4-1-1 overall this season. They are 1-1-1 in the Eastern Plains Conference.
"We played pretty tough and fought back to tie the game up but I thought we could have did a few things a little bit better," Tarboro head coach Leshaun Jenkins said. "We didn't do those small things but they are a good team though."
During the first half, Jenkins continued to tell his plays to play with desire. He also had to tell his defenders to stay back and told his offensive players to stay high with the back line of the Rams defense.
As Jenkins paced the sideline in the first half, he would see his team have several chances to to score on numerous break away chances. None of his offensive players were able to control the ball long enough to make a good enough pass through the Greene Central defense to get off a good shot. Greene Central took 15 shots on goal in the first half and Tarboro took only nine.
"I think the first half was played with lack of confidence and inexperience in some places," Jenkins said. "We do things good at times but then there are those times we don't."
Before the second half began, Jenkins told his team to remember who they were and told his team to pick it up and compete a little bit harder then what they had in the first half.
In the second half, the Rams struck about 10 minutes into the half. Greene Central played the ball to the left side of the Tarboro defense and Rams midfielder Eustachio Rubio crossed the ball to the middle of the penalty box and found Alexis Infante-Selvan who took a shot on goal, which got pass the hands of Vikings goalie Travis Martin to give the Rams a 1-0 lead. Martin finished the match with 19 saves.
Jenkins continued to pace the sideline the remainder of regulation hoping his team would get a good look at the goal and possibly score to tie the match up and send it into overtime.
It would be with a little over a minute left in the match when Ram defender Bobby Evans pushed off on a loose ball opportunity and was whistled for a foul. Jenkins told Will Dupree to put the ball on the back post of the goal. Dupree served the ball up and David Guevara got a head on the ball, which got by the hands of Rams goalie Leonardo Martinez. That goal sent the match into overtime.
"I thought we played with more intensity in the second half," Jenkins said. "We stepped it up towards the end of regulation."
Jenkins told his team before the first overtime period began to make sure they wanted it more then Greene Central.
The Rams controlled the ball at the beginning of the overtime, but Tarboro began to get aggressive and turned the momentum in their favor. The Vikings just couldn't find the open shot which sent the match into the second overtime.
In the second overtime, Tarboro controlled the ball the majority of the period.
With four minutes left in overtime, the Vikings had several chances to score but just couldn't get off the shot.
Greene Central outshot the Vikings 30-23 in the match.
"In the conference a tie is better then a lose," Jenkins said. "This will keep us near the top."
Jenkins is going to make sure his team is ready Monday when they travel to play the Beddingfield Bruins.
"We have to practice hard the rest of the week," Jenkins said. "We are going to take those things we need to do better and keep working on them."
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Tarboro Viking David Guevara tries to control the ball and go around Greene Central Ram defender Miguel Rubio late in the second half Wednesday at Indian Lake Sports Complex. For The Daily Southerner
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