HOUGHTON — With a spot in the GLIAC Tournament on the line for both teams, the Michigan Tech Huskies soccer team made a key mistake early that cost them just 65 seconds into the game. From there, the Huskies could not answer, falling to the visiting Purdue Northwest Pride, 2-0, Saturday at Kearly Stadium.

The loss was the Huskies’ seventh straight to close out the season.

“Not our best showing today, which kind of is tough, since it mattered,” said Huskies coach Melissa Kuhar. “It was probably the biggest game of the year. We just started flat, started slow, made some mistakes that we couldn’t recover from in the first half.

“Luck was not on our side today. We couldn’t even make ‘PK’ (penalty kick). So, it’s a tough one to swallow.”

The Pride (6-9-2 overall, 4-9 GLIAC) struck just 1:05

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