Indiana University Athletics
Men's Soccer Hosts West Virginia Sunday Night
9/7/2013 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Sep 7, 2013
Join the Hoosier Army | No. 8 IU vs. West Virginia 
| No. 8/13 Indiana (1-2) vs. West Virginia (1-1-1) | |
| Date | Sunday, Sept. 8 |
| Time | 8:00 p.m. ET |
| Location | Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium (Bloomington, Ind.) |
| Live Stream | Big Ten Digital Network |
| Match Notes | No. 8 IU vs. West Virginia |
| Social Media | Twitter: @IUMensSoccer Instagram: IUMensSoccer |
SETTING THE SCENE • Indiana is looking to snap a two-game losing streak when it plays host to West Virginia Sunday night at Armstrong Stadium.
• The Hoosiers are coming off a disappointing 2-1 overtime loss at No. 18 UAB Friday night. • After taking a 1-0 lead, UAB tied the match with 46 seconds remaining on a penalty kick, then scored the game winner with 17 seconds left in the first overtime.
• It is the first back-to-back losses for the Hoosiers since the 2011 season, when they lost three-straight at Wisconsin, to No. 11 Louisville and No. 5 Creighton. • Tonight's game kicks off a slate of four-straight home matches for the Hoosiers.
NEWS AND NOTES • Senior A.J. Corrado scored his first goal of the season but the Hoosiers could not hang on in a 2-1 overtime loss at No. 18 UAB on Sept. 6.
• Corrado scored Indiana's lone goal in the 52nd minute with Nikita Kotlov assisting on the play. • The Hoosiers were 46 seconds away from victory when UAB was awarded a penalty kick, which Diego Navarrete converted.
• Indiana had several chances in the first overtime, including a shot from Nikita Kotlov that was cleared off the line by a UAB defender when the goalkeeper was caught out. • With 17 seconds left in the first OT, Alex Clay hit a shot that was parried by IU goalkeeper Michael Soderlund. Rami Dajani got his head on the rebound and knocked it in for the game-winning score.
• The Hoosiers out-shot UAB 23-13 for the match, with nine of UAB's 13 shots coming in the last 25 minutes of play. • The Hoosiers are 0-2 in OT matches this season, 0-1 on penalty kick attempts.
• The Hoosiers placed third in the 2013 adidas/IU Credit Union Classic with a 2-1 win over SMU and a 1-0 OT loss to No. 9 UCLA. • In the SMU match, the Mustangs jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a goal from Alfred Koroma in the 10th minute.
• The Hoosiers answered back in the 42nd minute as sub Femi Hollinger-Janzen headed home a rebound off a shot from Matt McKain that bounced off the cross bar and back into the field of play. • The teams were even in shot attempts at the half at 5-5.
• The game-winning goal came in the 72nd minute as defender Patrick Doody tallied his first career goal. • Thompson, Billy McConnell, Dylan Mares and Tanner Thompson all made their IU debuts in the match.
• Against UCLA, the Hoosiers could not find the back of the net in a 1-0 OT loss. • After a second-half that was dominated by the Hoosiers, out-shooting the Bruins by a 9-3 margin, UCLA took advantage of a miscue in the back just 49 seconds into the first overtime period. Indiana goalkeeper Michael Soderlund came off his line to try and push the ball off the foot of a charging Victor Chavez but the ball did not move out of reach and Chavez danced around Soderlund for an open net goal at 90:49.
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS • West Virginia is coming off a 3-0 loss at Georgetown on Friday afternoon.
• It has been a balanced offensive attack for WVU with all five goals coming from five different players. Andy Bevin leads the scoring tally with one goal and three assists. • Bevin and Jamie Merriam had three shots each in the loss at Georgetown.
• Starting defender Francio Henry will not be available for the match after picking up a red card vs. the Hoyas. • Lee Johnston has started all three matches in goal, playing all 290 minutes and allowing five goals. He has eight saves on the season.
• Head coach Marlon LeBlanc is in his eighth season at West Virginia and is no stranger to the Big Ten having served as an assistant at Penn State from 2001-06. • He is assisted by Chad Brown and Dan Stratford.
SERIES HISTORY • This is the first meeting between the two schools.
INDIANA vs. MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE • The Hoosiers are 50-9-4 against teams currently in the Mid-American Conference.
• They are 24-6-2 vs. Akron, 15-3-1 vs. Bowling Green, 5-0 vs. Hartwick, 5-0-1 vs. Northern Illinois and 1-0 vs. Western Michiga
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RIGHT WHERE HE LEFT OFF
• Sophomore forward Femi Hollinger-Janzen picked up right where he left off, scoring the first goal of the season for the Hoosiers in a 2-1 win over SMU on Aug. 30. • Hollinger-Janzen's header into the back of the net came off a shot from Matt McKain that bounced off the cross bar.
• It was the fifth career goal for Hollinger-Janzen. His biggest career goal to date was the game winner in a 1-0 victory over Creighton in the College Cup semifinal.
ARE YOU NEW?
• Four new faces took the field for the Indiana soccer program this weekend, with three of the four earning a spot in the starting lineup. • Freshmen forward Tommy Thompson and defender Billy McConnell made their IU debut in the starting lineup vs. SMU on Aug. 30.
• Also in the starting lineup making his official IU debut was junior transfer midfielder Dylan Mares. • Freshman Tanner Thompson, older brother of Tommy, also made his first appearance as a Hoosier, coming in off the bench vs. SMU and UCLA.
THE BILL WAS FILLED • The Hoosiers set a new Armstrong Stadium attendance record on Sept. 1 when 7,720 fans passed through the gates to see the team take on UCLA.
• That topped the old record of 7,423 set in 2007 also against UCLA as part of the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic. • More than 3,200 IU students were part of that 7,720 attendance total, filling the Hoosier Army section to beyond capacity.
• Indiana is averaging 5,431 fans per game in two matches so far this season.
INDIANA IN THE POLLS
• Week one saw the Hoosiers drop from No. 1 to No. 8 in the NSCAA poll and No. 2 to No. 13 in the Soccer America poll. The slide was less dramatic in the Top Drawer Soccer top 25, going from No. 1 to No. 5. • College Soccer News slid IU down three spots from No. 1 to No. 4.
• In the 2013 preseason polls, Indiana came in at No. 1 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), College Soccer News and Top Drawer Soccer rankings. • The Hoosiers were ranked second in the Soccer America preseason poll.
LEADING THE SHIP • Senior midfielders Jacob Bushue and Harrison Petts have been named team captains for the 2013 season.
• Between the pair they have 133 appearances in the Cream and Crimson, with 114 starts.
IU FAVORITE IN B1G PRESEASON POLL
• The Big Ten Conference released is 2013 men's soccer preseason coaches' poll with Indiana as favorite to win the conference title. • Following the Hoosiers were Michigan State, Northwestern, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin and Ohio State.
• Northwestern and Penn State are the defending Big Ten regular season champions and Michigan State is the defending Big Ten Tournament champion. • The Hoosiers have won 14 regular-season titles and 11 tournament titles.
• Indiana was 3-2-1 in conference play last season and owns a Big Ten best all-time record of 93-17-13. • The Big Ten announcement also included a preseason players to watch list, with senior midfielder A.J. Corrado, senior midfielder Nikita Kotlov and junior midfielder Dylan Mares among those selected.
DID YOU KNOW? • Fifteen of the 28 players on the roster hail from the state of Indiana.
• Six of Indiana's regular-season opponents are ranked in the NSCAA preseason top 25 (No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 9 UCLA, No. 10 Louisville, No. 18 Brown, No. 19 Northwestern, No. 24 VCU). • Junior transfer Dylan Mares led Louisville in scoring in 2012 and was the BIG EAST Rookie of the Year in 2010. He was a high school teammate of A.J. Corrado and Harrison Petts at Zionsville Community.
• Freshman Michael Galullo was named 2012-13 Gatorade Indiana Boys Soccer Player of the Year. That makes five-straight Indiana players of the year that have donned the Cream and Crimson (2012-Femi Hollinger-Janzen; 2011-Eriq Zavaleta; 2010-A.J. Corrado; 2009-Harrison Petts). • Freshman forward Sean Cowdrey hails from the same high school as former Indiana men's basketball All-American and No. 2 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft Victor Oladipo (DeMatha).
• Both freshmen Billy McConnell (Philadelphia Union) and Tommy Thompson (San Jose Earthquakes) have seen time with reserve squads in Major League Soccer. • Head coach Todd Yeagley, associate head coach Brian Maisonneuve, assistant coach Ernie Yarborough and volunteer assistant Kevin Robson all played collegiately at Indiana.
• Yeagley, Maisonneuve and Yarborough were in fact all teammates from 1992-94.
THOMPSON TWINS? NOT QUITE...
• The Hoosiers have a set of brothers on the squad this year in freshman Tanner and Tommy Thompson. But while they are the same age athletically and academically, these brothers are not twins. • Tanner is the oldest of the two, born Aug. 12, 1994. He graduated from high school a semester early and joining the Hoosiers in January 2013 in time for the spring season.
• Tommy is his younger brother, born Aug. 15, 1995. He finished high school in just three years to join the Hoosiers in the fall of 2013. • They are Indiana legacies as their father Gregg played for Jerry Yeagley from 1978-82.
• Thompson scored both goals in the Hoosiers' eight-overtime, 2-1 win over Duke in the 1982 NCAA title game. He was inducted into the Indiana Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.
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