Indiana University Athletics
Pair Of Home Games For Women's Soccer
9/25/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
THIS WEEK
Friday, Sept. 26 -- vs. #13 Wisconsin (8-1, 2-1 Big Ten), 7:00 p.m. ET
Video: BTN Plus | Live Stats: Gametracker
Game Notes: Indiana
Promotions: Hoosier Pride Day | Show Your Stripes | Alumni Weekend
One Crimson Club member will win free textbooks for a semester
Sunday, Sept. 28 -- vs. Minnesota (4-5, 1-2 Big Ten), 12:00 p.m. ET
Video: BTN Plus | Live Stats: Gametracker
Game Notes: Indiana
Promotions: Girl Scouts Day | Whitey Capsalis Book Signing | Alumni Weekend
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LAST WEEK
Indiana traveled to Illinois last week and suffered a 2-0 loss to the Fighting Illini. Both Illinois goals came on free kicks by Jannelle Flaws from 20 yards out on top of the box. The Hoosiers had a couple chances hit the post but were unable to find the back of the net.
On Sunday, the Hoosiers traveled to Northwestern for an afternoon meeting along Lake Michigan. After the teams battled to a 0-0 score through regulation, it was Abby Smith's header in the 105th minute off a free kick by Tori Keller that gave the Hoosiers a 1-0 win.
AGAINST THE COMPETITION
Indiana is 9-12-2 all-time against Wisconsin, but claimed a 1-0 victory last year in Bloomington to snap a 5-game losing skid to the Badgers. The last time the Hoosiers won back-to-back games against UW was 2005-07.
In the all-time series against Minnesota, the Hoosiers have won the last two meetings but trail 9-13-2. Indiana has never won three in a row against the Golden Gophers and five of the last six meetings has seen one of the teams get shutout.
STRIVE FOR FIVE
Junior midfielder Jessie Bujouves leads the Hoosiers with five goals this season. And while the Hoosiers have scored 13 goals as a team so far this year, Bujouves and Abby Smith are the only ones that has recorded more than one marker. Entering play this weekend, she is tied for eighth in the Big Ten with her five goals.
Additionally, Bujouves had three goals and 11 points for her career prior to this season.
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.
"STONE"-WALLED
Redshirt junior Sarah Stone logged her second shutout of the season last weekend 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.
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.
"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.
