By Sarah Hawbaker
Lindsborg News-Record

The Bethany College men's soccer team ended their season Saturday with a 1-3 post season tournament game loss to county rival McPherson College.

The Bulldogs put two on the board in the first half before the Swedes' Wesley Laney scored. McPherson went on to add one more in the first half. Both teams remained scoreless in the second half of the game.

With shots on goal for the Swedes were Laney, a freshman from Pleasanton, Texas; senior Gildardo Navarro, South Lake Tahoe, Texas; sophomore Johnny Nuthall, Reno, Nev.; senior Jorge Escobar, Emporia, Kan., and freshman Scott Jumeaux, Austriland, Australia. Bethany tallied 20 total shots to McPherson's 21.

Senior keeper Alonzo Cordova, Oklahoma City, Okla., played the majority of the game in the net with nine saves and three goals allowed.

The Swedes end their season 5-3-1 in conference play and 6-10-2 overall.

Bethany began their season with a double-overtime tie versus Oklahoma Wesleyan University Sept. 3. The Swedes would lose five straight before a Sept. 21 win over York College. Bethany would lose their first two conference matchups against Kansas Weslayan and Ottawa University in early October before capturing their first conference win over Southwestern College. The team suffered another conference loss to University of Saint Mary before four wins and a tie the last half of the season landed the Swedes the fourth-place seed in the KCAC post-season tournament.

The 5-3-1 KCAC record is the team's best since their 8-1 conference record in 2004. Following that season, Bethany would be winless in conference play three of the next six years, with only one KCAC win in 2005 and three last season.