SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – The #4 ranked Indiana Tech men's soccer team suffered their first conference loss on Saturday afternoon on the road at Lawrence Tech University.
Lawrence Tech opened the scoring in the 10
th minute of the game as the Warriors fell behind for the first time in conference play. The Blue Devils led 1-0 at halftime but would score again in less than three minutes to start the second half and make it 2-0. Six minutes later, they added a third. The Warriors would trail for most of the game but would attempt to mount another miraculous comeback as they have done multiple times this season already. In the 63
rd minute,
Arnau Lopez headed home a ball from
Javier Lopez Medinaceli to get the Orange & Black on the board. The Warriors would keep fighting and score a second in the 80
th minute when
Filip Maksimovic found the back of the net. Tech would get one more shot in the final minute of the game, but it would go just wide as the Blue Devils hung on to a 3-2 victory and ended the Warriors nine game unbeaten run.
Alan Fleischer made two saves in goal for the Warriors.
The Warriors move to 9-2-1 overall on the season and 2-1-0 in WHAC play. They will face off with the University of Northwestern Ohio in a big conference match on Wednesday, October 7
th at 3pm in Lima, Ohio.
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