Box Score The Dominican University men's soccer team saw their four-match unbeaten streak come to an end Saturday night, suffering a 2-0 loss to the North Park University Vikings in Chicago.
 
A scoreless tie quickly turned into a two-goal lead for the Vikings with back-to-back scores just 71 seconds apart in the 75^th and 76^th minutes.  Michal Walaszek tallied the game-winner when he was played a through-ball and then outran his defender, creating a 1v1 with Dominican's goalkeeper Gabriel Gongora (Naperville, Ill.).  With Gongora off his line and trying to take away any angles, Walaszek slid a shot past Gongora and inside the near post.
 
Moments later it was Pedram Tahmi-Masoleh that added an insurance marker before the Stars could reorganize.
 
Tahmi-Masoleh had a chance to give the Vikings a lead in the first half after the Vikings were awarded a penalty kick but Gongora made a spectacular save, diving to his right and covering the post.
 
Iven Hernandez (Antioch, Ill.), Dominican's leading goal scorer on the season with five, nearly pulled Dominican back within one goal late in the match when he drove a shot from 25-yards out in the 87^th minute but his strike was punched over the crossbar by North Park's Christopher Tomuta who picked up the shutout, logging four saves.
 
"I wish we could have ended this six-match non-conference stretch with a better result," commented Erick Baumann, Dominican University's head men's soccer coach.  "Now it is time to focus on our conference schedule and the opener on Wednesday night."
 
The loss drops the Stars to 3-2-1 overall with Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) play opening up on Wednesday when the Stars travel to Milwaukee to take on the Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors.  Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Warrior Soccer Field at the Krauss-Miller-Lutz Outdoor Athletic Complex.