DAYTON, Ohio- The Northern Kentucky University men's soccer team (3-3-0) fell to Dayton (4-3-0) 4-0 on Friday night at Baujan Field.
 
"Dayton is a good team that played well tonight," NKU head coach John Basalyga said. "I was disappointed in our effort. We're a young team but that is no excuse. Six games in we should be getting better. At the end of the night, Dayton was just the better team."
 
The Flyers struck first in the 41^st minute with what proved to be the game-winning goal, when James Haupt found the net with an assist by Amass Amankona. Amankona broke away passed to Haupt put the ball by NKU goalkeeper A.J. Fleak to right giving Dayton the 1-0 advantage.
 
In the second Frame, the Norse came under fire early with the Flyers forcing five corners and taking three shots in the first five minutes of the half. Fleak stayed poised in the net for NKU in the 49^th minute when Dayton's Carlos Sendin fired a shot with Fleak making a circus save to keep the score, 1-0.
 
Dayton tacked on a three more goals in the second half, with two coming from Amankona (56^th minute and 86^th minute) and one coming from Lalas Abubakar. NKU finished the match firing nine shots with two on goal, six corner kicks as Fleak hauled in four saves. Dayton recorded 23 shots with nine on goal, 12 corner kicks and Flyer goalkeeper Justin Saliba notched two saves.  
 
The Norse return to action on Tuesday when they travel to Wright State for their first-ever Horizon League match with kickoff set for 7 p.m. For more information on the NKU men's soccer program and all Norse athletics please visit NKUNorse.com. You can also get updates on the team throughout the season by following @NKUNorseMSOC on Facebook and Twitter.
 
Norse Notes
The Norse are now 0-2-0 all-time against Dayton and 0-4 against teams from the Atlantic 10 conference.

Alwin Komolong returned to the pitch for the first time this season. Over the summer he captained the Papua New Guinea U-23 National Team at the Pacific Games and in Olympic qualifying.