Indiana University Athletics
East Coast Swing Next For Hoosiers
10/1/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
THIS WEEK
Thursday, Oct. 2 -- at #25 Rutgers (7-1-1, 3-1-1 Big Ten), 7:00 p.m. ET
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Game Notes: Indiana | Rutgers
Sunday, Oct. 5 -- at Maryland (4-4-2, 2-2-1 Big Ten), 1:00 p.m. ET
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Game Notes: Indiana
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LAST WEEK
The Hoosiers suffered a pair of tough losses at home last week, falling to No. 13 Wisconsin by a 1-0 score and then 2-1 in overtime to Minnesota.
In the game against Wisconsin, the Badgers scored first in the 11th minute to take the early lead. From there, Indiana controlled the pace of play but were a bit unlucky, as they were not able to find the equalizer.
Then on Sunday against the Golden Gophers, freshman Kayla Smith scored her second goal of the season in the first half, but Minnesota tied the game in the 75th minute. In the second extra period, Minnesota scored the game-winning goal on a loose ball in the box.
AGAINST THE COMPETITION
Rutgers and Maryland are in their first year as members of the Big Ten Conference and they have very little history with Indiana on the women's soccer side of things.
The only previous meeting for Indiana with either of the schools came in 1994, when Maryland defeated IU, 2-0, on the campus of George Mason University. Indiana and Rutgers have never played each other in women's soccer.
STRIVE FOR FIVE
Junior midfielder Jessie Bujouves leads the Hoosiers with five goals this season. And while the Hoosiers have scored 14 goals as a team so far this year, Bujouves, Abby Smith and Kayla Smith are the only ones that have recorded more than one marker. Entering play this weekend, she is tied for ninth in the Big Ten with her five goals. In the first three years of her career at IU, Bujouves had three goals and 11 points.
ABBY'S AMAZING
Senior Abby Smith was on the receiving end of Tori Keller's free kick into the box in the second overtime period at Northwestern. She got her head on the ball and put it in the back of the net for the game-winner. It was her first game-winner of the season, but the seventh of her career.
The seven game-winning goals put her in a tie for fifth place on the all-time list at Indiana with Carly Samp and Kristin Arnold.
SMITH'S SERVICE
Freshman Kayla Smith saw her streak of three straight games with a point end against Ohio State. She scored a goal against UC Irvine and followed that up by assisting on both game-winning goals in Columbus the weekend of Sept. 5-7. The Green Lane, Pa., native scored her second goal of the year against Minnesota, putting home a loose ball inside the box.
"STONE"-WALLED
Redshirt junior Sarah Stone logged her second shutout of the season in a 1-0 overtime win at Northwestern. It marked the fifth shutout of her career, but the first since 2012 season. Against the Wildcats, Stone made nine saves, a season-high, but still shy of her career high of 12 saves.
GETTING "FRESH"
Through the first half of the 2014 season, there have been a couple of freshmen that have made a splash for the Hoosiers. In looking at the stats, Kayla Smith, Mykayla Brown and Annelie Leitner have all scored goals this season while Taylor Coley has started every game as a defender.
Looking deeper, Smith has three assists to tie for the team lead while Brown also has an assist.
Another new face - Molly Pittman - has registered two assists on the year, equalling her total from last year while playing at Samford.
Defensively, freshman Taylor Coley has started every game as a defender. She has been inserted as a central defender and played well alongside redshirt sophomore Marissa Borschke in the middle.
"V" FOR VICTORY
Sophomore midfielder Veronica Ellis (Naperville, Ill.) has showed a penchant for coming up big in the clutch. She scored three game-winning goals last year as a freshman and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team at the end of the year. But her biggest goal of the season came in the postseason, where she put home the winning marker against DePaul late in the second half of the NCAA Tournament. This season, she has added another winning goal, doing so in overtime against UC Irvine.
WOOLY BULLY
Senior Jordan Woolums played the role of hero against Dayton, scoring the game-winning goal in the 87th minute after the Flyers had tied the game in the 81st minute.
In her career, Woolums has six goals scored and three of them have been game-winning goals.
VELASQUEZ IN WORLD CUP `15
IU women's soccer alum Orianica Velasquez helped her home country of Colombia qualify for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup over the weekend. The World Cup will be held in various cities in Canada during the summer of 2015.
Velasquez, a 2013 graduate of Indiana, appeared in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany for Colombia as well as the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She is the only IU women's soccer player to ever appear in either of those events.
