Indiana University Athletics
Golden Boot Up For Grabs At Purdue
10/24/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
THIS WEEK
Saturday, Oct. 25 -- at Purdue (6-10-1, 2-9 Big Ten), 7:00 p.m. ET
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Game Notes: Indiana | Purdue
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LAST WEEK
Indiana traveled to Iowa and Nebraska last week, as Big Ten play continues to wind down. The Hoosiers suffered a 1-0 loss to the Hawkeyes on Friday, followed by a 3-0 loss to the Huskers on Sunday.
The pair of losses eliminted the Hoosiers from advancing to the Big Ten Conference Tournament.
AGAINST THE COMPETITION
Indiana won the first-ever meeting with Purdue, 1-0 in overtime, back in 1999. After that meeting, Purdue went on to post a 12-0-1 record against the Hoosiers through the 2011 season. But Indiana has had the better end of the results the last two seasons, defeating the Boilermakers in Bloomington (3-0) in 2012 and again last year in West Lafayette (2-1). The victories have given IU possession of the Golden Boot, the traveling trophy that is awarded to the winner of the regular season meeting each year.
GOALS ALLOWED
Through the first 17 games of the season, Indiana has allowed just 25 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 GWG 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.
