The final day of the MSU men’s soccer team’s (0-1-1) season-opening weekend kicked off with an MSU women’s soccer (3-1-0) game versus Cal State Fullerton. The women kept the game scoreless until halfway through the second half, when Cal State Fullerton netted one, finishing the game 1-0.

Shortly after, the men took the field against the New Hampshire Wildcats (1-1-0), or UNH, meeting a similar fate as their female counterparts.

The game remained 0-0 for 103 minutes; making it over two full games without the Spartans being scored on or scored against — the team tied Valparaiso 0-0 Friday.

About three minutes into the second 10-minute overtime, UNH received an indirect free kick just seven yards from MSU redshirt junior keeper Bryce Dobbins’ goal line.

UNH’s Josh Bronner rolled the ball to Jordan Thomas, who chipped the ball over Dobbins and ended the game, giving MSU its first loss. Dobbins said despite the disappointment, the team can’t let a loss like this get them down.

“Part of the position (of keeper) is forgetting about the past and learning from my mistakes and moving forward,” Dobbins said. “If I make a mistake during the game, I’m not getting my head down. And it’s the same way throughout the season. We’re just going to get back to practice and work tomorrow.”

Although the outcome isn’t what they wanted, it’s difficult for the team to ignore the positive points in the game. MSU outshot UNH, 19-7, and kept the Wildcats to three shots on net, and racked up nine corner kicks against UNH’s two.

The Spartan’s statistics stand above the Wildcats, but it was their failure to capitalize on those 19 chances that handed them the loss.

“I thought the tone the guys came out with was really good,” head coach Damon Rensing said. “We created a lot of offensive chances and didn’t really give up many. We just got to finally put the ball in the net. We haven’t scored in a few games … I think that’s one of the most difficult things in soccer to do, to score. If it was easy, more teams would be doing it.”

Up until the first and final goal, the game mostly was a series of shots just a few inches in the wrong direction for MSU. Corner kicks sailed into the box, being deflected a bit too much one way. Shots were taken from 30-yards out, practically scraping the crossbar.

“We had a lot of positives and negatives today,” senior forward Domenic Barone, who had more shots than anybody else on the field, said. “Obviously we didn’t score but we had a number of shots and a number of opportunities, including myself. ‘Too close’ doesn’t count on the board. We should have never been in that situation where its 0-0 heading into overtime — we need to start scoring some goals.”

Some might call Sunday’s game unlucky, just a bad draw — take out the final score and MSU dominated. But Rensing said he doesn’t believe in luck.

“It’s a disappointment,” he said. “I think you have to make your luck. I’m head coach and I take responsibility for this program and we just didn’t get it done today. That’s the bottom line.”

MSU hopes to turn things around in Bowling Green on Wednesday before returning home to host the No. 1-ranked Connecticut next Monday.