STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern men's soccer team dropped a tight 1-0 contest to the Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at Eagle Field. With the loss, the Eagles finish the season at the ninth-seeded team in the Sun Belt, missing the conference tournament.

The Wildcats (6-6-4, 3-3-3 SBC) came out as the aggressors in the match, taking six shots to the Eagles' (2-9-6, 1-5-3 SBC) two in the first half of play. Both sides had two saves each, but Kentucky had four corner kicks to Georgia Southern's two.

In the second half, Kentucky's Logan Dorsey four the back of the net in the 51st minute when a ball was shot past the Eagles' defender, finding the bottom left corner and setting the Wildcats up with a 1-0 lead. Both sides battled and found each other deep in the other's territory several times, but neither side broke through after the 51st minute, finishing the night with a 1-0 victory for the Wildcats.

Marshall (#1 Seed) and UCF (#2 Seed) will host the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the Sun Belt Conference Championships, with the highest remaining seed in the field hosting the championship match. Marshall will take on eighth-seeded Old Dominion and UCF will host seventh-seeded South Carolina. Kentucky finishes the season as the five seed in the conference and will face off against fourth-seeded James Madison hosted at MU, while third-seeded West Virginia will face sixth-seeded Georgia State at UCF. Georgia Southern and Coastal Carolina will both miss the postseason.