The Eastern men’s soccer team fell to 0-2 in this weekend’s Dayton Flyer Classic in Dayton, Ohio.

The Panthers dropped their season opener once more, making it six years since Eastern won its first match of the regular season.

The Panthers slipped to sixth in the Summit League ahead of only Oral Roberts, which has lost its first four matches of the season.

Eastern lost Friday to Lipscomb 3-1 in the first matchup of the tournament.

Junior midfielder Omar Djabi scored his third goal of the season to open the scoring in 47th minute of the second half — it was the first of Djabi’s two goals in the game. Djabi finished with five shots on goal.

He added his second in the 55 minutes, and just one minute later, teammate Luke Gearin scored from 18 yards out to put Lipscomb up 3-0.

After the Bison’s two goals in one minute, junior winger Will Butler pulled one back for the Panthers from 18 yards out from a pass by Jake Brillhart.

The goal was Eastern’s first of the season, but it was not enough to undo Lipscomb, who improved to 2-0 on the year.

However, Eastern was not dominated on the stat sheet, creating 12 shots to the Bison’s 14 and winning four more corner kicks than Lipscomb, as the Bison had none.

Freshman goalkeeper Austin Miller got his first start over sophomore Garrett Creasor.

Miller had three saves in his collegiate debut.

But Creasor was in goal in the Panther’s Sunday morning matchup with Northern Kentucky.

Eastern lost in overtime when freshman Setho Moshoeshoe managed to put the ball past Creasor before he could close down the Norse midfielder just 1:33 into the overtime period.

That was Moshoeshoe’s second goal of the match, with the first being an equalizer for Northern Kentucky in the 90th minute, just 50 seconds before the end of regulation.

Junior forward Tayron Martin struck first in the match with a goal coming just four minutes into the second half.

But Eastern could not manage to close out the match, giving away the potential victory in the dying moments of the game.

Creasor had two saves on four shots on goal against Northern Kentucky; Eastern had seven total shot and two on goal.

Northern Kentucky, who improved to 1-1-1, will be in Charleston Friday for the 50-Year Anniversary Soccer Tournament, along with Loyola and Western Michigan.

Eastern will be in action against Loyola at 4:30 p.m. on Friday in the second match of the tournament, followed by a game with Western Michigan 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812 or tmspencer2@eiu.edu.