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INDIANAPOLIS - In a game of near misses, the IUPUI men's soccer team came up shy in a 2-0 loss to Cleveland State on Saturday (Oct. 19) after the Jaguars celebrated Senior Day before the contest. Head coach Brian Barnett's team built a number of scoring chances, but came up empty as the visiting Vikings ultimately leapfrogged the Jaguars in the Horizon League standings. 

Cleveland State's (6-4-1, 3-2-0 HL) Gabe Pewu tallied the game-winner on a loose ball in the 65th minute and Tommy Bielanski added insurance in the 85th minute on a gorgeous restart goal. Despite being outshot 22-11 overall and 5-2 on target, IUPUI (3-7-2, 2-2-1 HL) had chances to get on the board first before ultimately yielding the game's only two goals. 

CSU dominated the early run on play, including getting an early Pablo Kawecki header to hit squarely off the crossbar after a short cross from the right side. Pewu and Lawrence Karpeh teamed on the right side to give the Jaguars' defense fits, but IUPUI goalkeeper Quinn McCallion was able to keep things clean in net. 

Senior Yan Souza tested the CSU defensive with a wild bicycle kick in the first half, but was unable to get it through traffic and on frame. Early in the second half, Souza made a brilliant run through the teeth of the CSU defense and blazed a shot from distance, only to have it ring off the right post in a bid for his fifth score of the year. Things remained tied until the 65th minute when Pewu took advantage of the Jags' inability to clear a ball out of danger. Ryan Kolonick rolled a cross from the left side into the middle and then saw it pop free to Pewu at the top of the 18. The CSU attacker put a solid strike on the loose ball, blasting the shot past McCallion, just on the heels of having been issued a yellow card for dissent. 

IUPUI continued to chase an equalizer and nearly got even in the 79th minute when Tommy Patacca got on the receiving end of service, but hit a header right at CSU goalkeeper Omeed Naeemy. The Vikings got the insurance they needed in the 85th minute on a free kick from 25 yards out as Bielanski bent a shot over the Jags' wall and just inside the near post for his first score of the season. His goal also came on the heels of his own and teammate Andrew Nicholas' yellow cards after being awarded the restart. 

Playing down a pair of goals, the Jaguars offense was unable to muster much in the attack over the waning minutes of the match as the Vikings put all 11 players on their defending half of the field. 

The loss dumped the Jags to fourth in the Horizon League standings with seven points, trailing Oakland (13), UIC (12) and Cleveland State (9). The Jags will continue the current four-game homestand on Tuesday (Oct. 22) when they host Cincinnati in non-conference action at Carroll Stadium at 7:00 p.m.. That match will be aired on ESPN+.