Indianapolis, Ind. - The Marian men's soccer team bounced back from Saturday's loss with a 4-1 win over IU-Columbus Wednesday evening. The Knights are now 5-1-1 overall on the season. 

Marian's offense started off strong tallying two shots within a minute of each other before Kyohei Kuroda claimed success at the 10 minute mark to put the Knights in the lead 1-0. After a lot middle of the field action for both sides Josh Wesseling claimed the second goal of the night at the 19' mark. Cameron O'Brien was quick to fire back two minutes later scoring another goal for the Knights. Marian shot four more times with two on target but were unsuccessful and finished off the half 3-0.

The second half was very foul heavy tallying seven yellow cards combined over both sides of the field. Marian was the first to get on the board in the shot colum with Yoshiaki Takeishi claiming a shot on goal but was unsuccessful due to the Crimson Pride's goal keeper. O'Brien recorded his second yellow card, forcing Marian to play the final 32 minutes man-down. Shortly after, IU-Columbus fired their soul point of the match with a goal by Adegbeminiyi at the 58' mark. Within the next 20 minutes of play IU-Columbus claimed five shots with three being on goal but were unsuccessful due to Henry Yoder's efforts in goal and the defensive line stepping up to limit shots. Due to a yellow card drawn out for the Crimson Pride the Knights capitalized with Romaric Beneron scoring the fourth point for the Knights off of a Penalty Kick to finish off the game 4-1 and claim the victory for the Knights.

Marian dominated in shots going 15-7 with 10-5 being on goal. Foslyn Grant led the team in shots with 4 and two being on target. Kyle Alb, Wesseling, Kuroda, and Keiji Nakamae all went 1-1 on the day. In goal Yoder had four saves in the full 90 minutes played.