Playing a ranked opponent proved to be too much for the Eastern men’s soccer team on more than one occasion during the weekend.

The Panthers (5-6-2, 0-3-1) found themselves at the negative end of a 7-0 game Friday against 12th-ranked Tulsa Friday and then fell 1-0 Sunday to No. 17 Southern Methodist.

Tulsa (9-3, 3-0) got on the board in the 12th minute and never looked back scoring three goals in the first half and adding four more in the second.

Golden Hurricane forward Ryan Pore nabbed a hat trick, getting his 12th, 13th and 14th goals of the season to lead the Missouri valley Conference.

Red-shirt freshman goalkeeper Casey DeCaluwe had to suffer throughout the entire game between the posts, being mauled with 24 Tulsa shots. Eastern managed 10 shots but could not get any past the combined efforts of Terry Boss and Justin Durst.

The seven goals against DeCaluwe was the most on an Eastern team since 2001 when the Panthers were beaten 7-2 at Illinois-Chicago.

On Sunday, Eastern was able to get a better looking result, but failed to score for the fourth consecutive game, which they eventually lost 1-0.

Southern Methodist (8-4-1, 1-3) was in desperate need of a win after dropping its first three games in MVC play. The preseason favorites got the only goal of the game in the 17th minute off the foot of Ryan Latham on a pass from Jake Jackson.

It was Latham’s seventh goal of the season and helped snap the Mustangs three-game losing streak.

Once again Eastern was highly outshot with SMU having a 24-7 shot advantage. The win gave Mustang head coach and former Panther coach Schellas Hyndman his 400th career victory.

Eastern next plays MVC opponent Southwest Missouri at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Lakeside Field.