The St. Bonaventure men's soccer team dropped their season opener, 3-0 against Cleveland State on its home turf on Monday.

"We lost to a good opponent. Unfortunately, we were not able to match Cleveland State's aggressiveness and determination for the whole 90 minutes," said head coach Mel Mahler "We played well in spurts and had chances to get back in the game."

Cleveland State dominated on the offense outshooting the Bonnies 25-9 with 13 of the Vikings' shots coming in the first half.

The Vikings opened the scoring in the 11th minute when Josh Williams took advantage of a free kick from Slavisa Ubiparipovic. Williams took a breakaway shot to get the best of keeper David Flynn to give put the Vikings on the board.

Cleveland State was not done as it scored two more goals in the second half. The first coming from Mitch Boyer off a penalty kick in the 63rd minute to put the Vikings up 2-0.

The home team struck again with four minutes left in the game as Admir Suljevic slid the ball up the right side to Ubiparipovic passing to Aaron Adkins who secured the goal past Flynn.

For the Bonnies, Sam Maheu led on the attack with four shots; Brett Allen tallied another two and Joe Miller, Fabrizio Savarino and Tyler Bellamy each tallying one. Despite the three goals, Flynn made 11 saves.

"We'll bounce back we have the experience to regroup and raise our level of intensity," said Mahler. "We'll be anxious to get back on the field on Thursday and put on a better showing."

St. Bonaventure welcomes Wright State at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3 at McGraw-Jennings Field.