DAYTON – The University of Dayton men's soccer team earned its first win of the season Friday night with a 4-1 win over Western Illinois on a rainy night at Baujan Field.

The Flyers (1-1-1) scored three goals in the second half alone as they sent the Leathernecks (0-3-0) to their third loss of the season.

KEY STATS

• Dayton outshot Western Illinois 19-7 in the game and put nine on target.
• Senior Alvaro Navarro recorded three assists in the game and leads the team in that category.
• Senior Dillon Nino scored his first career goal just 44 seconds into the game.
• Freshman Thor Helgason scored his second goal of the season, which leads the team.
• In the first half, Dayton recorded nine shots, four on goal, while Western Illinois had four shots, none on goal.
• There were three yellow cards in the first half alone.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Federico Barrios had two saves.

COACH'S COMMENTS

• "It's good to get in the win column," said head coach Dennis Currier. "The guys had moments where we played really well. The first 20 minutes, we came out buzzing and really got on top of them. We fell a little short on capitalizing those and let them back in the game. In the second half, we found some rhythm after the first 15 minutes and started to get back on top of them. You started to see what this team is capable of doing. We had four different goal scorers. Our offense has a lot of weapons and it's just a matter of them getting used to each other. Hopefully we can continue to get better."

UP NEXT

• The Flyers will head on the road to Nashville to take on Belmont at 2 p.m. ET Sunday.