The struggles of the Sacramento State men’s soccer team continued this past weekend.

The Hornets fell to 13th-ranked Santa Clara University 2-0 on Sunday and began the weekend with a 6-0 loss to the Dons of the University of San Francisco.

The Hornets’ (2-8-1) winless streak has now reached eight games, including a current six-game losing streak.

“We’ve been unlucky a little bit,” head coach Michael Linenberger said.

“We haven’t been creating an enormous amount of chances, but we have created three or four excellent chances to score. We just have to create the other five to 10 halfway decent chances to score.”

In Sunday’s match versus the Broncos (8-2-3), the Hornets spent much of the first half defending against a very determined squad. The Hornets held their ground by playing good defense and receiving another strong performance from sophomore goalkeeper Matt McDougall, who finished with a game-high nine saves.

The defense and McDougall were not able to go the entire first half without being scored upon. The Broncos scored in the 32nd minute when Will Weatherly was served a cross from Tannen Wells and put it past McDougall.

The Broncos added another goal in the 65th minute when Santa Clara’s Jason Pan received a header pass and put the ball and the Hornets away for the final 2-0 result.

In Friday’s match versus the University of San Francisco the Hornets played well defensively throughout the first half with the only blemish being a goal from USF’s Aaron Chandler in the 18th minute.

But in a season that has seen its share of low times, the second half at USF may have been the absolute lowest.

The Dons (5-6-0) turned a 1-0 lead into a 3-0 advantage less then 10 minutes into the second half and went on to add three more goals for a 6-0 final.

“I was disappointed that once they went up 3-0 we quit,” Linenberger said. “In San Jose we never quit. (Versus) Santa Barbara we never quit. This game I thought we quit.”

As for the offense, sophomore midfielder Miguel Ramirez knows it’s just a matter of time before the goals come.

“We’re just not finishing right now,” Ramirez said. “But it’s going to come. Every team goes through it.”