WICHITA, Kan. — Finding their new hot streak a bit enjoyable, the Newman men's soccer team picked up a 2-0 victory over Oklahoma Christian Thursday evening in Heartland Conference play to push their unbeaten run to four games.

KEY SEQUENCE

The Jets (4-6-3, 2-5-2 Heartland) were comfortable with a 1-0 lead midway through the second half, but the Eagles (3-7-2, 1-6-2 Heartland) were starting to apply more pressure. Vitor Okamoto took care of that, controlling a ball at the top of the box, volleying it off his own head and putting a strike into the back of the net to make it 2-0 in the 62nd.

SCORING PLAYS

NU-23'-Jamie Barkway, assist Rich Wincer
NU-62'-Vitor Okamoto, assist Barkway

HOW IT HAPPENED

-A free-flowing game saw plenty of movement but limited opportunities early. Barkway got his head on a cross into the box in the second minute, but the shot slipped wide. In the 10th, Barkway got closer, as his shot was saved by OC keeper Gianluca Marchetti, but his cross-goal shot in the 23rd wasn't, nodding it in on a diving header.

-Adam Sawyer got off a shot that sailed wide in the 35th, and Vitor Okamoto's shot in the 43rd went high, but the Eagles' only real chance of the opening half was on a late corner, and Garrett Blume's header skipped high.

-Newman held on to its lead for the opening 10 minutes of the second half, including as Chase Bowman came up big with two saves in less than a minute as the Eagles put up two shots from distance. The guests added another shot in the 60th, but Okamoto's strike two minutes later completely changed the game.

NOTES

-After falling in their first five Heartland games of the season, the Jets have now earned points in four straight, going 2-0-2 during that stretch and outscoring its opponents 5-1.

-Freshman Chase Bowman, the defending Division II Player of the Week by the United Soccer Coaches, extended his shutout streak, now at three full games and 319 minutes.

WHAT'S NEXT

The Jets take on Rogers State in a key division matchup Saturday at noon at Wilkins Field.