The season ends for the team, including the eight seniors and graduate and transfer students, who played their final game in a Stony Brook jersey Saturday night.
The 4-1-1 start to the season is the best start the men’s soccer team has had through the first six games since 2004, when the team began the season with the same record.
Down 1-1 with just under 10 minutes to play in its game against Central Connecticut State, the Stony Brook men’s soccer team was looking to find the one quick opportunity it needed to get the win.
Senior defender Danny Espinoza’s first collegiate goal in his final year with the Seawolves was the deciding factor in the game, as they went on to take down the Pirates 1-0 at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium Friday night.
After losing its first conference match of the season against Vermont last Saturday, the Stony Brook men’s soccer team came out and shut out No. 25 New Hampshire, 2-0.