"We told the kids to go in and watch the tape from a year ago," head coach Andy Coen said in this week's preview of the James Madison game from The Morning Call. "We probably should have won the game. We missed three field goals. That was the difference. We had a great opportunity to beat them."
There was a lot of frustration in last years' 3-8 season for the Mountain Hawks, but the 27-24 opening weekend loss was probably the second most frustrating.
Let's be blunt; Lehigh had James Madison on the ropes.
Whether the Dukes were in the middle of a letdown after their 52-7 loss to Maryland the weekend before, whether their talented team wasn't ready for Lehigh's best shot, whether the Mountain Hawks played the games of their lives, it didn't really matter. With just about 12 minutes left, Lehigh had the ball at midfield, up by 4 on James Madison and the opportunity of opportunities to put the game away.
Two penalties, a punt and 98 James Madison yards later, the Dukes would take the lead and never give it back.
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