Staff photo by Ari Selvey Martin Luther College's Eli Stern passes the ball forward during an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference men's soccer game against Bethany Lutheran College Wednesday at BLC.

Information courtesy of Adam Hussman/MLC SID

MANKATO — The Martin Luther College men’s soccer squad lost its conference game on Wednesday evening to Bethany 7-0.

The Knights had hoped to even up the season series with their rival, but had difficulty keeping the Vikings off of the attack.

Bethany outshot MLC 39-3 in the contest including 24-0 in shots on net. The Vikings began their damage from the opening moments of the game, executing off of a penalty kick goal in the sixth minute and never looked back from there.

The Vikings would put up four more goals in the first period of action and then found the back of the net twice within the first 10 minutes of the second period.

Bethany also created a large portion of their high quality shots off of 14 corner kicks and controlled possession of the ball for the majority of the 90 minutes played.

The Knights trotted out three different goalkeepers throughout the game, with Zachary Pausma recording 12 saves to lead the team. Adam Rosenbaum and Joshua Kallies had three saves apiece.

MLC is back on the field next in a road game at Crown on Saturday.