IU Women’s Soccer Earns First Win of van Bennekom Era

Sunday, August 25

Bloomington, Ind.

1:00 PM

Indiana University

1-1-0

UIC

0-1-1

UIC

Indiana

IU Women’s Soccer Earns First Win of van Bennekom Era

8/25/2019 4:14:00 PM | Women's Soccer

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana Women's Soccer earned a 1-0 victory against UIC on Sunday afternoon at Bill Armstrong Stadium, collecting its first win of the season, as well as the first victory under head coach Erwin van Bennekom.

KEY MOMENTS
• The Hoosiers held a 7-2 shot advantage in the first half, including three on-target. One of the closest sequences came in the 25^th minute as freshman Bria Telemaque knocked a chance off the crossbar and freshman Allie Schlom followed it up with a wide look.
• Senior Chandra Davidson, who had a pair of on-target shots in the opening half, broke through in the 60^th minute to score the first Indiana goal of the season. First, junior Hanna Németh flipped the field, sending the ball into the left side of the 18-yard box to junior Melanie Forbes. Forbes then took two steps and crossed it into Davidson, who made her run and connected from six yards out to send the ball inside the near post.
• Junior Bethany Kopel earned her first shutout of the year, collecting a pair of saves.

NOTABLES
• Indiana improves to 1-1-0 on the year, while UIC falls to 0-1-1.
• The win marks the second-straight year the Hoosiers have won their home opener.
• Indiana out-shot the Flames, 12-3, and earned four corners to UIC's one. In the second half, the Hoosiers held UIC to just one shot attempt.
• Davidson led the team in shots with four while freshman Alaina Kalin added two.
• Kopel now has 10.0 shutouts in her career, good for seventh all-time in program history. Her 15 career wins is also seventh in the record books while her 195 saves is fifth.

QUOTABLE
"We raised the energy and it was infectious across the field. We really brought the intensity in the second half a lot more than in the first half."
-- Senior Chandra Davidson

"Happy about the win and happy to start our home schedule on the right foot. But, we have a lot to work on in terms of our performance overall and we can definitely do some things better moving forward."
-- Head coach Erwin van Bennekom

UP NEXT
Indiana returns to the road on Friday as the Hoosiers head to Murray State for a 4 p.m. ET match with the Racers.