SPRINGFIELD, Mo. --After falling 98 seconds short of ending their losing streak Tuesday, the Poplar Bluff soccer team finished the job with a 4-0 win at Parkview on Thursday.
Daniel Lozano scored twice while Nik Rowland and Ethan Tucker added goals for the Mules (4-12), who snapped a nine-game losing streak.
Justin Moses made 13 saves for his fourth shutout of the season.
"Played really well tonight. Great team effort all the way around," Mules coach Rusty Crafton said.
The Mules led 1-0 at halftime.
Parkview (5-13) was coming off a 2-0 win over West Plains two days earlier while Poplar Bluff gave up a three-goal lead over the final 25 1/2 minutes in a 4-3 loss to state-ranked Notre Dame.
The Mules have scored seven times in their last two games after netting just 11 in their first 14 games that included a scoreless streak of 431 minutes.
Following a hat trick Tuesday and two more goals Thursday, Lozano has a team-high seven goals.
Rowland scored for the first time since a hat trick against Murphysboro (Ill.) in the fourth game while Tucker scored his first career varsity goal.
The Mules travel Tuesday to Saxony Lutheran before hosting their final three games.
Poplar Bluff won the junior varsity game 2-1 as Austin Tinsley scored twice.
TENNIS
Poplar Bluff's season ended Thursday in hosting the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 singles and doubles tournament.
Sara Holland and senior Shelbey Johnson lost their opening match 6-2, 6-3 to Oakville's McKenna Books and Callie Balin to finish the fall 4-8 in doubles play together. Books and Balin went on to upset the second-seeded pair from Cape Central and won their semifinal in three sets over the No. 3 seed to reach the final.
Farmington's Erin Coleman and Abby Jent, the top-seeded pair, won the title 7-6(3), 6-4.
Poplar Bluff senior Kaitlyn Lloyd and junior Mya White came in with a 7-6 record in doubles play this season but were knocked out in the first round by Jackson's Sarah Fetterhoff and Chloe Pipkin, 6-2, 6-3.
In singles play, Poplar Bluff sophomore Caitlyn Dollins lost her opening match to Cape Central's Shelby Norder, 6-4, 6-1 while freshman Clarissa Varner lost 6-1, 6-0 to Farmington's Faith Nelson.
Top-seeded Alyson Piskuloc of Mehlville won the title with a 7-6(3), 6-4 over Oakville's Aleksandra Blagojevic.
Mehlville beat Oakville 5-3 for the team title earlier this week.