Liberty was able to find the only goal of the afternoon as the Flames ended Eastern Illinois men's soccer season on Sunday afternoon with a 1-0 win over the Panthers in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

EIU ends its season at 4-9-4 under first-year head coach Ruy Vaz.  During the season EIU posted a streak of five straight unbeaten matches, the most for the Panthers since 2017.  EIU also had a consecutive match streak of scoring at least one goal of six straight matches (the longest since 2013) end in Sunday's loss.

Liberty improved to 9-4-6 and will face No. 2 seed Houston Christian on Wednesday.

Liberty found the lone goal of the match in the 18th minute with Sam Farner scoring his fifth goal of the season.  

EIU had one shot on goal for the match by Casey Welage.  The Panthers continued to apply pressure in the second half with six second half shots.  Shion Hayashi had a good opportunity in the 63rd minute for EIU but sent his shot just high over the cross bar.

Goalkeeper Lucas Ortiz made six saves in the match including turning away a penalty kick by the Flames in the 84th minute.

Welage and Gui Gragnano each had three total shots for EIU.