Indiana University Athletics
Men's Soccer Plays Host to Evansville Wednesday Night
9/28/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Sept. 28, 2010
Indiana vs. Evansville - Match Notes 
INDIANA (4-3-0) vs. EVANSVILLE (4-3-1)
September 29 • 7:30 p.m.
Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium
Bloomington, Ind.
All-Time Series: Indiana leads, 22-4-3
Last Meeting: 2-0 win on Oct. 28, 2009 in Bloomington
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SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana brings a two-match winning streak into Wednesday's nonconference matchup with Evansville.
• The Hoosiers are coming of a thrilling 3-2 victory over No. 20 Penn State in State College.
• Will Bruin scored the game-winning goal with 11 seconds remaining in regulation. It was his team-leading sixth goal of the season and his first game winner of the year.
• Freshman Nikita Kotlov had a goal and an assist, while fellow freshman Harrison Petts recorded his first career goal.
• Indiana is playing at home for the first time since Sept. 5. The Hoosiers are 1-1 this year at Armstrong Stadium.
NEWS AND NOTES
• The Hoosiers are 1-0 in Big Ten play after a thrilling 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State on Sept. 24.
• Will Bruin scored the game-winner with 11 seconds remaining, while freshman Nikita Kotlov had a goal and two assists.
• Freshman Harrison Petts had his first career goal in the win. He also picked up an assist.
• The Hoosiers improved their all-time record against the Nittany Lions to 27-10-3.
• It was Indiana's first win in State College since the 2004 season.
• Indiana is now 10-0 when opening Big Ten Conference play on the road (7-0 vs. Michigan State; 1-0 vs. Michigan; 1-0 vs. Wisconsin; 1-0 vs. Penn State).
• The Hoosiers are 17-0-3 in Big Ten openers since the league began recognizing the sport in 1991.
• The Hoosiers went 1-1 in their first true road matches of the season, falling 2-1 at Brown and picking up a 2-1 win at UMass.
• Andy Adlard had a pair of goals on the weekend, including the game-winner at UMass.
• Will Bruin had the other goal against the Minutemen.
• Adlard has all three game-winning goals this season.
• Freshman Jacob Bushue and redshirt sophomore Tim Wylie had the assists on Bruin's goal. It was the first career points for both players.
• Indiana went 1-1 at the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament in South Bend, Ind., falling 1-0 to Cal Poly before recording a 2-0 win over No. 22 Drake.
• Adlard and Kotlov were the goal scorers for IU in the win over Drake. Adlard scored on a penalty kick, awarded after Bruin was pulled down in the penalty area.
• Kotlov's first career goal came on an assist from Bruin.
• Goalkeeper Luis Soffner recorded his first shutout of the 2010 season and was named to the all-tournament team. He was also named the goalkeeping MVP.
• Bruin also earned all-tournament team honors.
• Freshmen Matt McKain and Bushue earned their first career starts vs. Drake.
• Indiana posted a second-place finish at its adidas/IU Credit Union Classic with a 1-1 record.
• The Hoosiers dropped a 2-1 double overtime heartbreaker to California before bouncing back with a 5-1 win over No. 5 UCLA.
• Bruin was the talk of the weekend, recording four goals in the two matches, including three against UCLA.
• Junior Alec Purdie and Adlard each had a goal and two assists in the UCLA win.
• Bruin, Purdie and sophomore Caleb Konstanski were named to the Classic All-Tournament team. Bruin also went home with offensive MVP honors.
• Petts and Kotlov each picked up their first career points with an assist for Petts vs. California and an assist for Kotlov vs. UCLA.
SCOUTING THE PURPLE ACES
• Evansville is 4-3-1 on the season and is coming off a 2-1 double overtime loss vs. Kentucky at home. The Purple Aces started the year 4-1 and have gone 0-2-1 in their last three matches.
• Mike Luttrull is the team's leading scorer with five goals and two assists (12 points). Tad Kreamalmeyer has three goals, while Robby Lynch and Gavin Chura have two each. Both Lynch and Chura also have a pair of assists.
• Evansville has scored 20 goals this year, including a 9-0 win over Alabama A&M, while giving up nine scores.
• Goalkeeper Phil Boerger has appeared in all eight matches, allowing nine goals in 712:14 minutes for a 1.14 GAA. He also has two shutouts.
• Head coach Mike Jacobs is in his fifth season as head coach at UE. He is assisted by Marshall Ray and Chris Loftus.
SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the series with Evansville, 22-4-3.
• The Hoosiers have won eight straight in the series dating back to the 1996 season. They are 11-0-1 in the last 12 meetings going back to 1992.
• Evansville's last win in the series came in 1990, a 1-0 win in Evansville in the NCAA Tournament.
• Indiana's only home loss in the series came in 1985, by a 3-0 score.
• The Hoosiers have outscored the Purple Aces 17-3 in the last five meetings.
INDIANA vs. MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE
• Indiana is 42-11-6 all-time against teams currently in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Hoosiers are 2-3 vs. Creighton, 0-0-1 vs. Bradley, 2-0 vs. Drake, 22-4-3 vs. Evansville, 12-2 vs. SIU-Edwardsville, and 4-2-2 vs. Eastern Illinois.
EVANSVILLE TIES
• Senior Andy Adlard has several ties to Evansville.
• His mother, Shelly Brand Adlard scored 1,713 points in her basketball career at UE and is still the school's all-time leading scorer.
• His father, Steve, is a former assistant soccer coach at Evansville.
PENN STATE RECAP
• It came down to one last shot. With 11 seconds left in regulation and the game tied at 2-all, junior forward Will Bruin powered home his team-leading sixth goal of the season to give the Hoosiers a 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State Friday night in State College, Pa.
• With the win, Indiana (4-3, 1-0 Big Ten) is now 17-0-3 in Big Ten openers, and 10-0 in conference openers on the road. No. 20 Penn State fell to 5-2 overall and 0-1 in conference action.
• "It was a great result tonight, and in exciting fashion," said head coach Todd Yeagley. "We went down 2-1 and we had a lot of good opportunities, but for the guys not to lose that fight and that spirit, you could feel it coming. When the second (goal) came, it was just a matter of time.
• "It is a great win for the team. I love the spirit they played with tonight. Penn State is a very good team and this will go a long way to help up keep building."
• Freshman Nikita Kotlov gave Indiana a 1-0 lead at 8:07, putting home his second goal of the season. Kotlov took a powerful shot from the left, but it looked as if Penn State goalkeeper Warren Gross would punch it out of harms way. However his punch carried the ball up and over the line for the score.
• Matheus Braga tied the match up at 1-1 at 39:57 when a poor clearance by Indiana left him all alone 12 yards out on the left. He shot to the lower right past the outstretched arms of Soffner.
• Penn State put home the go-ahead goal at 69:46 when Corey Hertzog headed home a serve from Matt Smallwood. It was Indiana's turn to answer back with a goal from Harrison Petts at 77:37. Kotlov had the ball in the box and got it to Petts on the right side. The freshman calmly placed it around the keeper and into the lower left for his first career goal.
• It was then up to Bruin, who finished the night with four shots. It was a wild final minute of play when Penn State had what it thought was the go-ahead goal nullified as the linesman's flag was up for the offsides call before the shot was taken. Indiana countered when Andy Adlard played the ball to Bruin on the right. After a couple of dribbles, the junior unleashed a rocket that went into the lower left, giving Bruin his first game-winning goal of the season.
• The high-scoring affair was on from the start when just over five minutes into the match goalkeeper Luis Soffner was forced to come up big, making a save of Hertzog's 1-on-1 attempt. Soffner was called upon again to make a diving save to his left on a hard shot from Justin Lee in the 29th minute. With 23 to play in the first half, Rich Balchan took the ball 50 yards on his own but was denied on his 1-on-1 shot by Gross.
• The Hoosiers held a slim 6-5 lead in shots at the half, with both teams taking a pair of corner kicks in the first 45 minutes.
• With seven minutes elapsed in the second half, Bruin broke free and had a 1-on-1 look at the net but sent a slow roller wide.
• Petts had a pair of shots in the box with under 23 to play in regulation, both of which nearly made it into the back of the net. His first shot was saved by Gross, and his second shot was cleared off the line by a Nittany Lion defender.
• Indiana finished with 13 shots on the night and a total of five corner kicks, three of which came in the second half. Soffner recorded a season-high six saves in the victory.
DID YOU KNOW?
• The Hoosiers are now 1-3 in Friday night matches after taking a 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State on Sept. 24.
• Indiana also improved to 2-3 in one-goal affairs with the victory.
• In seven games this season, Indiana has scored six first-half goals. The Hoosiers tallied just four first-half goals in all of 2009.
• Indiana is outscoring its opponents 6-3 in the first 45 minutes.
• Eight different Hoosiers have put points on the board this year with Will Bruin, Andy Adlard, Alec Purdie, Nikita Kotlov, Tommy Meyer, Jacob Bushue, Tim Wylie and Harrison Petts each putting up at least a point.
• Head Coach Todd Yeagley's first victory at the helm of the Hoosier program was a big one as the Hoosiers posted a 5-1 victory over No. 5 UCLA on Sept. 5.
• Sixteen of the 30 players on the roster hail from the state of Indiana, including two from right here in Bloomington.
• Adlard's goal vs. UMass on Sept. 19 was the game winner, making 10 of Adlard's 15 career goals game winners.
• Head coach Todd Yeagley and assistant coaches Brian Maisonneuve, Ernie Yarborough and Chris Munroe all played collegiately at Indiana.
• Yeagley, Maisonneuve and Yarborough were in fact all teammates from 1992-94.
• Indiana is 2-3 in one-goal matches this year.
• Junior 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, 2009 a 1-0 win at Wisconsin. The Hoosiers have won 83 percent (84-13-9) of their Big Ten regular season matches.
SUNDAY IS FUNDAY
• Perhaps head coach Todd Yeagley should look into rearranging the schedule to make all games Sunday affairs as Indiana is 3-0 when playing on Sunday this season.
• IU put a 5-1 victory up against No. 5 UCLA on Sunday, Sept. 5, and came back the next week with a 2-0 victory over No. 22 Drake on Sunday, Sept. 12. The Hoosiers also recorded a 2-1 win at UMass on Sunday, Sept. 19.
• The Hoosiers finally broke through with a Friday night win at Penn State on Sept. 24, taking a 3-2 victory over the No. 20 Nittany Lions.
BIG TEN DOMINATION
• Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, the Hoosier have dominated the league.
• The Hoosiers are 84-12-9 in regular season matches, tallying nearly 30 more victories than second-place team Penn State (55).
• Indiana has never lost in its Big Ten opener, going 17-0-3 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.
KOTLOV NAMED TO COLLEGE SOCCER NEWS TEAM OF THE WEEK; TOP DRAWER SOCCER TEAM OF THE WEEK
• After putting up a goal and two assists in a 3-2 win at Penn State on Sept. 24, freshman Nikita Kotlov was named to the College Soccer News Team of the Week on Sept. 27.
• He was also named to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week.
• Kotlov gave Indiana an early 1-0 lead with his goal at 8:04 in the first half. It was his second goal of the season.
• The freshman than had an assist on Harrison Petts' score, which tied things up at 2-2 in the 78th minute.
• His final assist came on Will Bruin's game-winning goal with 11 seconds left in regulation.
BRUIN vs. BRUINS
• In the battle of the Bruins, IU junior forward Will Bruin was the clear winner as he tallied three goals in the Hoosiers' 5-1 win over No. 5 UCLA on Sept. 5.
• Bruin recorded his first career hat trick with goals in the 9th, 58th and 68th minutes.
• It was the first three-goal game by a Hoosier since Jacob Peterson had three vs. Boston University on Sept. 11, 2005.
• Overall the junior finished with four goals on the weekend after scoring the lone goal vs. California.
• Bruin is nearly half way to his 2009 goal total with four in four games. He finished with nine scores in 2009.
• For his efforts he was named the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic Offensive MVP and earned a spot on the all-tournament team.
• Bruin was also named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, the Top Drawer Soccer Player of the Week and earned a spot on the College Soccer News Team of the Week.
BRUIN NAMED BIG TEN OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• For the second time this season, junior forward Will Bruin is the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, announced on Sept. 27.
• Bruin was honored for his game-winning goal with 11 seconds left in the Hoosiers' 3-2 win at No. 20 Penn State on Sept. 24.
• On the heels of a four-goal weekend, including three scores against No. 5 UCLA, Bruin was also named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 6.
• Bruin recorded his first career hat trick with three goals as Indiana posted its first win of the season on Sunday with a 5-1 victory over UCLA in a match that was broadcast live on the Big Ten Network. Bruin had seven shots in the match, six of which were on frame. His first goal of 2010 came in the season opener with the lone score in a 2-1 double overtime loss to California.
• He was also named the Top Drawer Soccer Player of the Week and earned a spot on the College Soccer News Team of the Week.
HOOSIERS IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
• The Hoosiers are receiving 24 votes in the NSCAA/HendricksCars.com National Coaches Poll, three spots out of the top 25. Three Big Ten teams are ranked in the top 25 with No. 11 Michigan State, No. 19 Ohio State and No. 24 Penn State.
• Indiana is back in the College Soccer News top-30 at No. 29 after dropping out last week.
• Indiana is back in the Soccer Times poll at No. 24.
• Top Drawer Soccer's 48-team NCAA Tournament outlook has Indiana at No. 36.
NCAA STATISTICS
• Junior forward Will Bruin and senior midfielder Andy Adlard are ranked among the top-50 in several NCAA Division I categories.
• Bruin is tied for 12th in points per game (1.86), tied for 10th in total goals (6), tied for 14th in total points (13) and tied for eighth in goals per game (0.86).
• Adlard is tied for 29th in points per game (1.57) and tied for 29th in total points (11).
UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers will play host to Wisconsin on Sunday at 5 p.m. ET on Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium.
• The match will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network
• The first 1,000 fans will receive an IU Soccer scarf.
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