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Hoosiers Outlast RedHawks In Sixth-Straight Win
9/27/2013 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Sept. 27, 2013
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana field hockey team captured its sixth-straight win this afternoon with a 3-2 victory over defending Mid-American Conference Champion, Miami (Ohio). The Hoosiers outscored the RedHawks 3-2 in front of a capacity crowd to improve their record to 6-2 on the year. The six-game win streak is the longest since the 2009 campaign when Indiana won seven consecutive contests that season.
Maggie Olson picked up the win to improve her record in goal to 6-2. Despite allowing a pair of goals, the redshirt-junior made five saves including one that denied the potential the game-tying goal late in the contest.
Indiana saw offensive production from three different faces in the game, with Caitlin Bearish, Audra Heilman and Mariella Grote netting one goal apiece on the attack. Emily Bowker and Heilman helped set up two of those scores as they each dished out assists for IU.
In the 10th minute, the Hoosiers put pressure on the RedHawks' backfield with bodies attacking in the circle. Heilman broke free of a defender and tapped a pass across the mouth of the cage to find Bearish who was able to send the ball through the posts for her first goal of the year.
Heilman later did some damage of her own with an unassisted goal in the 17th minute of play. After a shot deflected off an MU defender, Heilman received the rebound just right of the cage and found an open shot to strike for the Hoosiers' second goal of the game.
Just out of the break, Miami's Valentina Neira cut Indiana's lead early in the second half with an unassisted goal at 39:09.
IU wasted no time for a response, scoring its third goal just 47 seconds later. Bowker broke away down the right side of the circle and sent a perfectly executed pass to Grote waiting to the left of the net. Grote fired without hesitation, finding the back of the cage for her fourth goal of the 2013 campaign.
The RedHawks would claw back within one after a goal by Emily Gruesser in the 56th minute, but Indiana would maintain control of the remainder of the contest to claim its sixth-straight.
The Hoosiers will return to the IUFH Complex for their Big Ten opener with Penn State this Sunday, Sept. 29. Game time is set for Noon ET.
