San Antonio - The 15th-ranked Tiger men's soccer team shut out Texas Lutheran University 2-0 Friday night in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference game.

Trinity upped its overall record to 8-2-0, and improved to 4-2-0 in SCAC competition. The Tigers also won their third straight clean-sheet game.

"It was a battle," admitted Head Coach Paul McGinlay. "It was nice we turned in a strong second-half performance.  They did a good job of defending our attack in the first half.  We made some adjustments at halftime, and we responded well.  It's nice to pick up three points in conference play."

The only scoring play of the first half occurred at 20 minutes as Derrick Horvath posted his team-leading fifth goal of the campaign, along with his third consecutive game-winner. Chris Madden supplied the assist. Christian Sakshaug made it 2-0 Trinity in the 57th minute, on an assist by Todd Edwards.

Goalkeeper Chad Margotta was especially busy defending the Tigers net. Margotta recorded eight saves as the Bulldogs kept firing at the goal. TLU had 15 total shots, and Trinity made 11, including  seven on the mark.

The Tigers wrap up their SCAC weekend Sunday by hosting Southwestern University at 3:00 p.m.