Box Score

Nampa, Ida. – The Montana State University Billings Men's Soccer team closed out the season with a loss to Northwest Nazarene University 5-1 Saturday afternoon.

The Jackets finish the season 3-10-5 overall and 3-6-5 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play while the Crusaders ended their season 5-7-5, 5-6-3 in GNAC play.

Northwest Nazarene's Freddy Razo, netted four goals to tie a school record.

The Crusaders would open the scoring in the 12th minute drawing a foul just inside the Yellowjackets' goal box in the 12th minute of play.
Awarded a penalty shot Razo, the GNAC's scoring leader, notched his first of the day. Razo then netted his second of the day in the 19th minute, putting home a rebound of a Juan Perez shot after Yellowjacket goalie Eoin Hurley made the initial save.

MSU Billings made it a closer game when Thorge Jess headed home a corner kick from Cameron Lee in the 29th minute to make it 2-1.

The Crusaders took control in the second half when Razo netted his third goal in the 60th minute beating Hurley.

Razo then capped his record-tying day in the 69th minute, scoring his second penalty-kick goal of the match.

The Crusaders went on to score one more with a free kick into the net from 25 yards out, capping the game's in the 88 minute, bringing the score to 5-1.

"Another very disappointing performance to finish this already very disappointing season," said Head Coach Alex Balog". "We lacked the mental toughness and the fighting spirit to overcome the hurdles we found on the field today. This league is a tough league and we as a team need to understand that we need to ready from the start of every game. That didn't happen today."

NNU outshot MSUB 25-14 and held the advantage in corner kick opportunities 9-5. Jess lead the Jackets with four shot followed by Sam Butterworth attempting three and Cameron Lee had two. Hurley had six saves on the game.

"Although this performance and the result that goes with it are very disappointing, our 2014 season starts on Monday," Balog said. "We have to get better at everything, the coaches and the players together. We're going to work very hard this spring to work on our weaknesses so we'll never have a repeat of this 2013 season again."