The Fresno City College men’s soccer team came from behind to win 5-2 against West Hills College in a home game on Oct. 26.

The Rams had an early scare when they fell behind to the team from Lemoore, but Adrian Plascencia equalized from the penalty spot after the referee spotted a handball by the away team.

Manuel Garcia-Resendez, center-back and captain, wasn’t fazed by falling behind early on and had confidence that his team would get back into the game.

“We know we have a pretty good team,” he said. “We knew no matter what, if they got ahead of us, we could always score. We’re a good passing team and we are fast, we knew were going to have the opportunities to score.”

The beginning of the second half saw both teams create chances in a fast-paced counter attacking period of play. Eli Gallegos scored his second goal of the season to make the score 2-1 and swing the game in favor of the Rams.

Gallegos’ goal allowed the Rams to take control of the game. They attacked and looked to score more goals to put the game out of the Golden Eagles reach. The away team became physical, conceding free kicks in dangerous areas. From a free kick, Plascencia delivered to Juan Madrigal who found the net for the third time this season.

Garcia-Resendez was pleased with how the goal was scored.

“That was exactly what we wanted,” he said. “A driven ball and pushed in.” He believes that free kicks are an area that the team could benefit from greatly if they work on them some more.

“We need to work on them a lot more, just getting the ball driven in,” he said. “We have almost all our players that can get up and win that ball in the air.”

The Golden Eagles pushed players forward to look for a second goal and find a way back into the game, but Alex Culwell scored for the Rams on the counter attack to make the game 4-1.

West Hills continued to push and forced the Rams goalkeeper, Cesar Hernandez, into making a save to keep the score at 4-1. Moments later, forward Myric Mcghee put the game out of reach by scoring the Rams’ fifth goal.

West Hills managed to grab another goal near the end of the game after a defensive mistake, but it was nothing more than a consolation.

Duce Bell, forward for the Rams was happy with the way his team dealt with the early setback.

“I think we responded really well.” He said.

Bell gave praise to the way the Rams took the game to West Hills after half time.

“We wore them down,” he said. “We knocked the ball and we made them chase and we wore them out.”

The Rams are now 11-4-1 and have just a handful of games before the playoffs begin on Nov. 19.