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Indiana Ties Purdue, 1-1, Earns Big Ten Tournament Berth
10/27/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Oct. 27, 2005
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana women's soccer team showed its best against the No. 24 Purdue Boilermakers on Senior Night on Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium. In front of the fourth-largest crowd in IU women's soccer history (1,736) and the largest crowd to watch an IU contest this season, the Hoosiers tied the Black and Gold, 1-1, in the annual Golden Boot rivalry. The stalemate earned Iu its seventh trip to the Big Ten tournament.
"I am just thrilled with the amount of support we got from the students and student-athletes tonight for the game," head coach Mick Lyon said. "I am just glad that we were able to put on a great game of soccer. We were tremendous on both sides of the field. Overall, we put on a soccer clinic against Purdue, defending, attacking and battling for everything in the air. Other than the score, we dominated the game."
It has been exactly three years since the Hoosiers took the contest between the intra-state rivals to overtime. Indiana won the first meeting between the two in overtime, 1-0, in 1999. After three years, the two found themselves again in extra periods, Purdue taking the outcome, 1-0, in 2002. In 2005, after another three-year hiatus, the two Indiana squads again went the distance and ended the battle knotted at one.
The tie moves the Hoosiers to 7-9-2 on the season, 3-6-1 Big Ten. The Boilermakers also improve to 11-6-1 overall and 7-2-1 in conference action.
The Hoosiers stayed composed throughout the first half as they held an active Purdue offense to one goal off four shots. The Boilermakers notched the game's first score off their first corner kick of the affair. Sophomore Kira Bilecky headed in the score into the left side of the net after Kim Comisar bent in the corner kick from the near side of the field for the assist.
The Hoosiers kept the offense on the move in the second period with an 8-5 shot advantage. On senior night, senior Kristen Zmijewski equaled the match for the Hoosiers in the 73rd minute. Junior Carrie DeFreece drew the free kick of a Purdue foul 35-yards out to set up the goal. Junior Ali Brown stepped in to serve the ball into senior Robin Barker, who tapped it to Zmijewski to finish the play. Zmijewski headed it in the left side of the net for her sixth goal of the season, 14th of her career.
The Hoosiers used a balanced attack to out-shoot Purdue 19-9 for the match, as sophomores forward Lindsay McCarthy and midfielder Beverly Markwort accounted for the Hoosiers' best scoring chances in the first stanza. McCarthy and Markwort both collected and fired just outside 20 yards, but Purdue goalie Lauren Mason was equal to the task.
Overall, Mason collected eight saves in the contest, while IU's senior goalie Lauren Fabbro denied six in the performance.
Mason's most important save came with just 11 seconds left in the affair. Indiana drew a penalty kick, its first of the season, off a handball from Jordyn Shaffer. Shaffer committed the foul on the goal line to prevent a Hoosier goal off a corner attempt from IU's Brown. Freshman Molly Kruger took the penalty kick for the Hoosiers, yet failed to pass the Purdue goalie for the score. The save came as the first by any Purdue goalie off a penalty kick in the regular season and prevented IU's first goal off a penalty in 2005.
Indiana's tie against the Boilermakers secured a berth in the Big Ten tournament Nov. 3-6 for the Hoosiers. The Hoosiers now travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., where their postseason journey begins.
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