The WTAMU men’s soccer team loaded onto the bus for their first away weekend on Sept. 29 and returned to Canyon with mixed results after their second game on Oct. 2.

“We want to win as many games as we can. We don’t want to drop our heads, we want to get better as a team and see how many games we can win,” Wayne Bruton said.

On Friday, the Buffs had their first shutout of the season, beating the St. Edwards Hilltoppers 3-0 in Austin. It was a tight first half with no goals scored until five seconds before intermission when Conrad Grouldbourne scored off a header from a free kick for the first goal of the night with Aidan Hamman assisting.

Lukas Garcia helped WT’s score 15 minutes into the second half when he took a shot off a deflection to add another tally on the board. Soon after Garcia’s goal, Rodrigo Morino earned his fourth goal of the season with Garcia assisting to take the score to 3-0.

After a break on Saturday, the Buffs returned to the field in San Antonio against No. 5-ranked Incarnate Word for a Lone Star Conference match. Lukas Garcia got the ball rolling 7:48 into the game when he scored to take the Buffs up 1-0 over UIW.

However, UIW shot back, tying the game 37:09 into the first half and 38 seconds later put themselves on top of the scoreboard with another goal. The Cardinals’ final goal came with less than a minute remaining in the game, securing their win.

“We played well. We played better than we have the last couple games, we just got unlucky a little bit this afternoon,” Garcia said.

With two wins in the last two weekends, the team is looking to continue the momentum through the rest of the season.

“Even if we can’t make the playoffs, we need to keep playing hard the whole time and end the season on a high note so we can build on it for next year,” Grouldbourne said.

The two weekend games took WT’s season record to 2-6 with a 0-3 LSC record. They return to The Pitch to play against Texas-Permian Basin on Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.