The UT Permian Basin men's soccer team opened Heartland Conference play last week with a pair of losses to Eastern New Mexico and West Texas A&M.

On Thursday, UTPB grabbed the early lead against Eastern New Mexico on a perfect strike from Santi Morales about 30 yards out.  A pair of Eastern New Mexico goals put them up 2-1 at the half.  They would add another in the second half for a 3-1 final.

West Texas A&M came to Odessa on Saturday and the game went scoreless into halftime.  UTPB had chances in the first half including a Jordan Brown header being saved and an Oscar Canela floater staying just wide of the net.  West Texas A&M came out in the second half and scored three times for a 3-0 final.  Jordan Brown made 13 saves in the net for UTPB.

UTPB Team Leaders
Goals: Santi Morales (3), Four tied with (1)
Assists: Santi Morales (2), Jorge Murillo and Greg Echols (1)
Saves: Jordan Brown (27) and Lucas Gomes (13)

This upcoming week UTPB heads east for a pair of games.  They start the week on Thursday in Austin against St. Edward's before heading to Dallas to face Dallas Baptist on Saturday.
St. Edward's opened their week with a win over Texas A&M International 2-1.  Izaac Zausch and Dylan Armstrong scored just minutes apart in the second half to go up 2-0.  Less than five minutes later International would add a goal to cut the lead in half, but St. Edward's would hang on for the 2-1 victory to improve to 2-2 on the season.  Their game Saturday at #13 St. Mary's was postponed to Monday.  After giving up a pair of goals in the first 20 minutes, St. Edward's answered back to cut the lead just before the half.  It wasn't enough as they fell 2-1.

St. Edwards is led offensively by Dylan Armstrong who has scored twice on the season.

Dallas Baptist started conference play last week dropping both games on the road.  On Thursday they were shut out at St. Mary's 5-0.  Dallas Baptist was only able to register one shot on goal in the loss to St. Mary's 12.  They followed it up with a 6-1 loss to Texas A&M International on Saturday.  International fired off 12 shots on goal.  They fell to 2-3-1 on the season.  The team is led on offense by Riley Unger with three goals and David Velasquez with two goals.