Box Score EVANSVILLE - After falling behind early, the University of Evansville men's soccer team mounted a vigorous comeback that fell just short in a 4-3 loss on the road at SIUE on Friday night.

"Credit to SIUE they're a good group, good going forward and they took advantage of our mistakes early and put us in a hole," said Aces' head men's soccer coach Marshall Ray. "If we want to be the team we know we can be we're going to have to figure out ways to start games a little bit better collectively as a group. Proud of the guys about the way they responded. They could have gone into the halftime down 4-1 and closed up shop and just tried to hold on, but our guys went after the game and created chances and opportunities and got us back to 4-3 and made it a game for the last eight minutes."

The Aces found themselves in a hole inside the first 10 minutes of the match after the Cougars pounced early. SIUE opened the scoring in the second minutes as the leading goal-scorer for the Cougars a season ago scored his first of 2018 in the beginning moments of the match. Three minutes later, the Cougars added a second goal off the foot of Jorge Gonzalez, followed by another goal two minutes later. Before the half, SIUE scored its fourth of the opening 45 minutes as Vncent Jackson II found the back of the net. With nine minutes left in the opening period, Evansville pulled back within three goals as sophomore Ryan Harris scorched one past the keeper in the 36th minute off an assist from redshirt freshman Jakub Hall.
 

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In the 66th minute, Evansville trimmed its deficit to two as freshman Nkosi Graham scored his first goal of his college career. As the match moved into the final 10 minutes, junior Filip Johansson gave the Aces a boost with his first goal of the season, assisted by sophomore Logan Muck, bringing Evansville back within a goal. Despite pushing forward and substituting in attacking players, Evansville could not find the match-tying goal as the Aces fell to SIUE, 4-3.

Evansville owned a significant advantage on shots on-goal, out-shooting the Cougars, 12-6.

The Aces are next in action on Tuesday, closing a road trip at Lipscomb at 6 PM in Nashville, Tenn.

 

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