Indiana University Athletics
Indiana Faces Ohio State in Key Big Ten Matchup
10/30/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 30, 2009
Indiana vs. Ohio State- Match Notes 
INDIANA (8-7-1, 2-2) vs. OHIO STATE (8-4-4, 2-2)
November 1, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. ET
Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium
Bloomington, Ind.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 35-1-3
Last Meeting: Indiana won, 1-0 in OT on Nov. 13, 2008 in Madison, Wis.
Last Meeting in Bloomington: 0-0 2 OT tie on Oct. 21, 2007.
SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana closes out the regular season with a pair of Big Ten matches, beginning with Ohio State on Sunday.
• The Hoosiers are coming off a 2-0 win over Evansville, snapping a three game losing streak.
• Indiana has lost to the Buckeyes just once in 39 meetings, a 1-0 defeat at the Big Ten Tournament in 2000.
• The Hoosiers topped the Buckeyes twice last season, 3-2 in OT during the regular season and 1-0 in OT in the Big Ten Tournament.
NEWS AND NOTES
• The Hoosiers snapped a 300+-minute scoreless streak with Lee Hagedorn's goal in the 68th minute for a 2-0 win over Evansville on Oct. 28.
• It was Hagedorn's first game-winning goal of the season and his second score overall.
• Nick Blevins added an insurance goal in the 81st minute, his second of the season.
• Blevins has appeared in just four matches and taken just three shots, two of which have resulted in goals.
• Freshman Matt Wiet's long throw-in set up Blevins' goal as he simply had to tap the ball in.
• Senior transfer Nemanja Kostic earned his first start in goal and picked up the shutout, making just one save in 90 minutes of action.
• Kostic made his first career appearance for Indiana in the match at Louisville on Oct. 21, playing the final 45 minutes between the pipes.
• The win over Evansville improved IU's home record to 2-3-1.
• Indiana has now outscored Evansville 17-3 in the last five meetings.
• Will Bruin had a season high nine shots, , three of which were on goal, in the 1-0 double overtime loss to Michigan State on Oct. 18.
• Indiana had a season-high 22 shots in the match, eight of which were on frame.
• Indiana stretched its win streak over Notre Dame to three with a 3-0 win on Oct. 14. Darren Yeagle and Will Bruin scored for the Hoosiers, but the game winner came in the 66th minute courtesy of an own goal by the Fighting Irish.
• Bruin's goal gives him a team-best six this season.
• Bruin leads the team in scoring with 15 points (6g, 3a).
• Freshman goalkeeper Luis Soffner recorded his sixth shutout of the season in the win at ND.
• Andy Adlard scored the game-winning goal at Michigan on Oct. 10 in the 54th minute, his fourth goal of the season and the second game winner.
• Three of Adlard's four goals this year have come when he plays off the bench.
• Soffner recorded his fifth shutout of the year in the win over the Wolverines.
• Yeagle's goal against Butler on Oct. 7 was his first since his freshman season in 2006. He had seven goals that year and was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
• Bruin has scored at least one point in seven of 15 matches played.
• Indiana is 2-5-1 against top-25 teams this season.
• The Hoosiers are 1-2-1 in overtime games this year.
• IU is 3-0 when scoring three or more goals with wins over New Mexico (3-2), Kentucky (3-0) and Notre Dame (3-0).
• Conversely, the Hoosiers are 0-2 when giving up three or more goals.
• Earning the start in the second half against UK, redshirt freshman Nick Blevins saw his first career shot result in a goal.
• The Hoosiers improved to 16-0-3 in Big Ten openers with a 1-0 win at Wisconsin on Sept. 25.
• Sophomore Tommy Meyer recorded his first career point with an assist on Bruin's goal against the Badgers.
• Soffner recorded a shutout in his first career Big Ten match with the 1-0 blanking of Wisconsin.
• Indiana is averaging 13.8 shots per game, 1.19 goals per game and 5.6 shots on-goal per game.
• In tournament play this year, Indiana won the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament (2-0), finished second at the University of Akron Tournament (1-1) and third at the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic (0-1-1).
• A total of 3,920 fans were on hand for the season opener against St. John's on Sept. 4, a game which ended in a 0-0 double overtime tie.
SCOUTING THE BUCKEYES
• Ohio State enters the match at 8-4-4 overall and 2-2 in Big Ten play. The Buckeyes have defeated Michigan State (1-0) and Penn State (2-1), while falling to Northwestern (1-0) and Wisconsin (2-0).
• Austin McAnena and Doug Verhoff lead the way with four goals each. McAnena leads the team in scoring with 11 points, added three assists to his goal total.
• Matt Lampson has seen a majority of minutes in goal, allowing 10 goals and picked up 50 saves in 1140 minutes for a 0.79 GAA. Ryan Dalton has played 380 minutes in four games with three goals allowed for a 0.71 GAA and a 2-1-1 record.
• The Buckeyes have scored 16 goals while allowing 13 and are out-shooting their opponents, 234-207.
• Head coach John Bluem is in his 13th season with a record of 135-94-35 at OSU. He is assisted by Frank Speth and Taly Goode.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the series, 35-1-3.
• The Hoosiers are 3-0-2 over the last five meetings, including a pair of victories in the regular season (3-2 OT) and Big Ten Tournament (1-0 OT) in 2008.
• The Buckeyes have scored just six goals in the last 12 meetings (two goals in 4-2 loss in 2002; two goals in a 3-2 loss in 2008).
A THORN IN THE BUCKEYES SIDE
• You can't blame Ohio State if they aren't thrilled to see IU junior Andy Adlard across the field on Sunday.
• It was Adlard who scored the game-winning goal in the 92nd minute off a free kick that gave the Hoosiers a 3-2 win over the Buckeyes in Columbus last year.
• Fast forward to the Big Ten Tournament and it was again Adlard who scored the game-winning goal, this time in the 94th minute to advance Indiana to the semifinals round.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Six of Indiana's seven losses have come to teams currently ranked in Soccer America's top 13 (No. 1 Akron, No. 2 Wake Forest, No. 7 UC Santa Barbara, No. 9 Louisville, No. 10 Northwestern and No. 13 Butler).
• Andy Adlard's two goals against No. 13 Kentucky marked his first career multiple-goal game.
• It was the first multiple-goal game by a Hoosier since Will Bruin had a pair of goals in a 3-2 OT win at Evansville on Sept. 30, 2008.
• Three of Adlard's four goals this season have come when he plays off the bench. And two of the four have been game winners.
• Seven of Adlard's 11 career goals have been game winners.
• Eight of Indiana's 16 matches have been one-goal affairs. IU is 4-4 in those games.
• Seventeen of Indiana's 19 goals this season have come after the halftime break
• Three of Indiana's 19 goals have come off set pieces, and one has come off a throw-in.
• Both of Indiana's goals in Big Ten play have come between the 53rd minute and 57th minute.
• Sophomore Tommy Meyer and his father, Keith Meyer, are the first father-son combination to play soccer at Indiana. Meyer played for the Hoosiers in 1980 and 1982-84, winning NCAA titles in 1982 and 1983.
• Indiana played its 100th Big Ten regular season match on Sept. 25, a 1-0 win at Wisconsin. The Hoosiers have won 85 percent (82-10-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
SARKODIE NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
• Indiana senior defender Ofori Sarkodie was one of 11 student-athletes named to teh ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District team on Oct. 29.
• Sarkodie's name will now be placed on the national ballot, with the All-America team schedule to be announced on Nov. 17.
• Sarkodie has started all 15 games played this year for IU and has helped lead the Hoosiers to six shutouts.
• Sarkodie is an Exercise Science major with a 3.5+-GPA and has plans to attend medical school in the future.
GAME TIME CHANGE
• Indiana's season finale match against Penn State on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium has had a time change.
• The match will now be played at 3 p.m., moving up four hours from the originally scheduled time of 7 p.m.
• The move was made so the match would not interfere with the IU Hall of Fame induction ceremony that night featuring former Hoosier coach Jerry Yeagley.
HOME SWEET HOME?
• Indiana has played 10 of its 16 games away from home this season, and maybe that is a good thing since the Hoosiers' record at Armstrong Stadium currently stands at 1-3-1.
• The Hoosiers' two victories in front of its home crowd came on Sept. 29 in a 3-0 win over then-No. 13 Kentucky, and on Oct. 28 against Evansville (2-0).
• IU has dropped home matches to No. 3 Wake Forest, Butler and Michigan State.
• Indiana opened the year with a 0-0 tie against No. 5 St. John's.
• Meanwhile, the Hoosiers are 3-4 on opponents' fields and 3-0 in neutral site matchups.
• Both of Indiana's Big Ten victories have come on the road.
WAKE UP!
• The Hoosiers have admittedly gotten off to slow starts in matches this season and a look at the statistics backs up that claim.
• Indiana has scored just two goals in the first period, with both of those scores coming at home against Butler (Oct. 7) and Kentucky (Sept. 29).
• IU had perked up in the second half where 16 of its 19 goals have been scored. The Hoosiers have also had one game-winning score in the second overtime period.
EVANSVILLE RECAP
• The Indiana men's soccer team snapped a three-game losing streak in style on Wednesday night, taking a 2-0 victory over in-state for Evansville on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium. The win puts the Hoosiers at 8-7-1 on the season, while the Purple Aces fall to 10-6-1.
• "We fought hard and stuck with a game plan," said head coach Mike Freitag. "Maybe in other games we over extended ourselves and made mistakes. Tonight I thought we played within ourselves and did everything we needed to be successful.
• "(Evansville) is a hard team to play against. They do some things very well that give other teams trouble and we talked about them and the guys executed well today and we fought. That was a big part of it. You have to fight, and I was happy with everyone on the team today."
• After an uneventful first half, which saw the Hoosiers take five shots to Evansville's four, senior midfielder Lee Hagedorn broke the stalemate with his second goal of the season to put IU up 1-0 at 67:51. After receiving a chip shot from teammate Andy Adlard, Hagedorn weaved his way through the UE defense before ripping off a shot from 18 yards out that found the upper right. Hagedorn has taken five shots this season, two of which have resulted in goals.
• "It has been tough the last three games and it felt really good to get a win here at home in front of our fans," Hagedorn said. "We haven't done as well as we would like to at home, and we have great fans that come out here and support us.
• "We have a good team. We know we have a talented group and I think we have found the right mix going forward. We have our confidence back and know we can take on anyone."
• The Hoosiers added an insurance score in the 81st minute thanks to a long throw-in from freshman Matt Wiet. Wiet's throw bounced around in the box before Nick Blevins got a toe on the ball and poked it past Evansville goalkeeper Phil Boerger. Out of the three shots Blevins has taken on the season, two have been for goals.
• Neither team put together much offensively in the first 45 minutes, with a free kick from Adlard in the 22nd minute the Hoosiers best chance. Adlard's service curled in and forced a save from Boerger, and the ball bounced back out to Rich Balchan who sent an attempt wide left.
• With six minutes gone in the second half, Adlard sent in a corner kick that Daniel Kelly got a head on but angled wide right. Indiana finished with 15 shots on the night, led by four from Will Bruin. Adlard had two attempts, with eight of the other 10 field starters taking one shot each.
• Senior Nemanja Kostic got his first career start and picked up the win and the shutout, tallying just one save in 90 minutes of action.
BIG TEN DOMINATION
• Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, the Hoosier have dominated the league.
• The Hoosiers are 82-12-9 in regular season matches, tallying nearly 30 more victories than second-place team Penn State (54).
• Indiana has never lost in its Big Ten opener, going 16-0-3 in those matches.
• IU has won 11 Big Ten tournament titles, sharing the 1995 crown with Wisconsin.
• Indiana has also been crowned regular season champion 13 times, including nine-straight seasons from 1996-2004. IU won back-to-back regular season titles in 2006 and 2007.
• Indiana has been the league's goals-against average leader in 15 of 18 seasons, including 2007 when the Hoosiers allowed just two goals in six matches for a 0.31 GAA.
• IU had a league-record 10 Big Ten Players of the Year, including two of the last four seasons.
• The Hoosiers have also boasted the Freshman of the Year three of the last four years, with Will Bruin taking the award in 2008.
NCAA RPI RANKINGS RELEASED
• The NCAA has released its second RPI rankings of the season for men's soccer and the Hoosiers are in the No. 7 spot.
• Indiana was No. 17 in the first rankings on Oct. 13.
• Out of the seven Big Ten teams, five are ranked in the top 25 with Indiana joined by No. 4 Northwestern, No. 16 Penn State, No. 23 Michigan State and No. 24 Ohio State.
• The Rating Percentage Index is a mathematical measurement of a team's strength.
• The NCAA tournament selection committee uses it to help determine which teams will receive at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. The formula consists of a team's winning percentage against Division I opponents (25 percent), the opponents' strength of schedule (50 percent) and the opponents' opponents' strength of schedule (25 percent).
• The rankings for Indiana's opponents to date are as follows: No. 1 Wake Forest, No. 3 Akron, No. 4 Northwestern, No. 13 Butler, No. 23 Michigan State, No. 27 St. John's, No. 28 New Mexico, No. 33 Wisconsin, No. 36 Notre Dame, No. 42 Michigan, No. 44 Louisville, No. 48 UC Santa Barbara, No. 67 Kentucky, No. 72 Evansville, No. 142 FIU, No. 154 Seattle.
IU PLAYS HOST TO 2009 BIG TEN TOURNAMENT
• Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium will be the site of the 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Nov. 12, 13 and 15.
• The tournament gets underway with three quarterfinal matches on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.
• The semifinals will play at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13. Both matches will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.
• The championship match is set for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15 and will also be broadcast live on the BTN.
• Single-session tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for college students and younger.
INDIANA IN THE BIG TEN
• Here is where the Hoosiers sit in the latest Big Ten rankings:
INDIVIDUAL
Shots:
2. Will Bruin - 60
8. Andy Adlard - 40
Points:
T-9. Will Bruin - 15
Goals
7. Will Bruin - 6
Game-Winning Goals
T-3. Will Bruin - 3
Goals-Against Average
5. Luis Soffner - 1.05
Shutouts
T-2. Luis Soffner - 6
TEAM
Shots
4. Indiana- 221
Goals
5. Indiana- 19
Assists
6. Indiana- 16
Goals Allowed
T-5. Indiana- 18
Saves
7. Indiana- 45
Goals-Against Average
5. Indiana- 1.08
Shutouts
T-1. Indiana- 7
Fouls
7. Indiana-131
