QUEENS, N.Y. – After more than a month without a loss, the St. John’s University men saw their seven-game unbeaten streak come to an end at Belson Stadium, falling to No. 25 Providence College, 1-0, in extratime Wednesday night.

The two sides went scoreless for more than 100 minutes in the Big East encounter before Paulo Lima headed home his third goal of the year off a cross from Simon Triantafilou at 101:36.

The Friars (7-1-2, 3-0-1) and the Red Storm (7-3-1, 2-1-1) entered the night unbeaten in conference play.

Red Storm goalkeeper Luka Gavran made four saves. Despite picking up his third loss of the campaign, Gavran’s season-long goals-against average rose to just 0.62 while his save percentage fell to .837.

The Red Storm will return to action Saturday, traveling to Villanova University for a 1 p.m. showdown with the Wildcats on the Big East Digital Network. Villanova, which was predicted to finish last in the Big East preseason coaches poll, is 4-0-0 in league play after a Wednesday win over Connecticut in Storrs. All four of the Wildcats’ conference wins have been by 1-0 scores.

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.