 Stevenson and Johns Hopkins finish in a 2-2 draw Glen Clark with head coach Graham Miller. Coach how do you measure a good result against a good opponent versus maybe the disappointment that you had the extra man and you weren't able to convert and get the win? Yeah I mean I think you know when you don't lose it's always a good thing so you know we're fortunate with soccer that you know there's not always a winner so you know we'll take it you know we're still learning we're still growing you know four years ago actually sorry five years ago when I took over this program we went to Hopkins and we're bash for nothing and never get our own half so that's what I want to see so regardless of the win or loss I want to see development for our players to get ready for conference play and you saw that today I mean the fact that we grinded with with Johns Hopkins regardless of their their 10 men because of that good that they still looks like they've got 11 on the field and the fact that we took them 110 minutes scored two goals against them two very good goals and worked hard defensively as a sign of our growth and I'm just really happy happy for the team that that we were able to get something out of this game reminder they were actually able to score a goal with 10 men against Mary Washington on Saturday so you know it could have been worse and that's what I said to them at halftime I said hey look they played for 50 minutes with 10 men scored and beat Mary Washington who was naturally ranked so so we knew going in that that wouldn't phase them and I'm just glad that we we played a really good 90 minutes against them I wasn't really pleased with the overtime I thought we gave them maybe too much respect and it was more you know let's not lose this game after our last two overtime losses and rather than go and win it and that's okay that's part of the growth of the team the high ball pressure in the early going it seemed like that was sort of determined and it led to an opening goal from from Edson that you know you can only get if you're applying that type of pressure yeah and I thought we struggled after that we did well like a star and then we kind of like all right we scored what do we do now and I think we sat back gave them a little bit too much respect which is due but I think we we let them have their center backs have too much time in the ball and you saw we made a little change in the second half which led to another couple of chances that we could have we could have put in as well and all in all a pretty good result the day against a pretty good team now you head back out of the road for four games and before you know it we're gonna be talking about conference play at that point do you feel like your team for consecutive results is moving in the direction that you wanted to as we get towards conference play yeah of course and actually we had about having a development game last night against Eastern's reserves and and those guys actually got some minutes today because they worked really hard so yeah this is what it is non-conference in you know any game we play right now is all building for conference play so I'm really happy because we're gonna see teams as as quality as this caliber in our conference and and over the next four games on the road it's gonna be very tough but this was a good test of our character and I think we came through it with some pass marks and we'll be ready to go on Saturday all right coach thank you very much we'll see in a few weeks great thanks he's Graham Miller I'm Glenn Clark go Mustang sports.com