Indiana University Athletics
Hoosiers At Iowa, Nebraska This Weekend
10/16/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
THIS WEEK
Friday, Oct. 17 -- at Iowa (9-4-1, 4-3-1 Big Ten), 7:00 p.m. ET
Video: BTN Plus | Live Stats: Gametracker
Game Notes: Indiana | Iowa
Sunday, Oct. 19 -- at Nebraska (5-7-2, 1-5-2 Big Ten), 1:00 p.m. ET
Video: BTN Plus | Live Stats: Gameviewer
Game Notes: Indiana
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LAST WEEK
Last week, Indiana played host to the Michigan Wolverines, and suffered a 3-0 loss. The Hoosiers allowed a couple of goals over the course of one minute in the first half and then another goal two minutes after halftime against UM.
AGAINST THE COMPETITION
The Hoosiers are 8-9 all-time against Iowa, with their last win in Iowa City coming during the 2010 season (3-2, OT). Overall, Iowa has won each of the last three meetings.
Indiana is 1-4 all-time against Nebraska, with the one win coming on Sept. 25, 2011. The two teams squared off twice last year, once in Lincoln during the regular season and then again in Champaign, Ill., for the Big Ten Tournament, with Nebraska coming out on top both times.
GOALS ALLOWED
Through the first 15 games of the season, Indiana has allowed just 21 goals to the opposition. That total is on pace to be one of the best over the last eight seasons. The last time IU gave up fewer than 30 goals in a season was 2009.
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. 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 has registered three shutouts this season, matching her total from the 2012 season. She opened the year with a clean sheet against Indiana State and has added shutouts in conference play against Northwestern and Maryland. For her career, she has six shutouts, one shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time at Indiana.
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.
All totaled, seven different players - five freshmen, one sophomore and one transfer - have seen their first action in the Cream and Crimson this season. Last year, a total of four players made their Indiana debut.
"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.
