LA JOLLA, Calif. — The nonconference slate ended for Triton men's soccer on Saturday night with a 3-0 defeat to San Jose State. The match was played at Triton Soccer Stadium.
 
The win moved San Jose State to 7-1-2 on the season, including 6-0-0 on the road. The Tritons are now 0-6-2. Five of the Tritons' eight nonconference opponents have spent time in the Top 25 this season.
 
San Jose State opening the scoring in the eighth minute. The match changed in the 59th when the Tritons' Woody Brown was shown a red card. The visiting Spartans took advantage of the man advantage with goals in the 66th and 80th minutes.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The opening goal came on a long-range effort. Neither team was overly threatening in the first half after that point, with San Jose State holding a 3-1 advantage in shots on goal at the break. Both sides registered a first-half corner kick.
 
The Tritons took the game to San Jose State to start the second half, holding a good amount of possession and stringing together several promising chances. The home side's best look of the night came in the 55th minute when Nate Morgan's shot from outside of the box struck the left post and bounced out.
 
Brown's red card came on contact that was initially not called, but the referee ultimately decided to give the card after video review. That decision left the Tritons with 10 men for the remaining 30 minutes.
 
San Jose State found renewed energy and possession at that point. The visitors added two more goals on shots from outside the box to bring the match to its 3-0 conclusion.
 
TRITON TIDBITS

• The Tritons have been shown two red cards in a season for the first time since joining Division I in 2020.
• Freshman Masa Fujita made his first collegiate start on Saturday. 

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"San Jose State is a fantastic team," head coach Jon Pascale said. "We have watched them play a lot on film, and I had not seen them up against it like we had them in the start of the second half. I am proud of the way the guys did, especially with a lot of young guys. That team is hard enough to play against when it is 11v11, and I thought we really came at them in the second half up until the red card."
 
UP NEXT
Big West play opens on the road at UC Irvine on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Kickoff is set for 6:00 p.m.
 
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After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.