Hoosiers win physical game

The women's soccer team toyed around with Butler for most of the first half Thursday night in Bill Armstrong Stadium. With one minute left in the first half, they got down to business.\nIU broke through after 44 minutes of scoreless domination when sophomore back Dana Philp scored to give the Hoosiers the lead. The Hoosiers added a late second half goal in a 2-0 non-conference win.\n"It was very crucial to score in the first half," coach Joe Kelley said. "We dominated. They really didn't create."\nIU controlled the first half, amassing 12 shots to Butler's two, but were unable to get on the scoreboard until the final moments of the first half. Sophomore forward Jenny Mann drove a corner kick, IU's seventh of the first half, to the far post where Philp was left unmarked. She drove a header into the short-side of the net past Butler goalie Tricia Czerniack for her first goal and points of the season. The goal was the first of her career.\n"It was exciting," Philp said of her goal. "Jenny just hit an awesome ball and (Emily) Markwell and I just lost it in the lights a little. But luckily, it fell right on my head.\n"We needed that goal. It should have been a lot more than 1-0 in the first half."\nIU out shot Butler 16-5 for the game and senior keeper Chrissy Heubi record a team-best third individual shutout. She also shared a shutout with freshman keeper Shaunna Daugherty earlier in the season.\nHeubi's workload got heavier in the second half, where she saved a total of three shots and kept away some dangerous Butler crosses, including one in the final minutes of the game.\n"It was so slippery out," Heubi said. "I had trouble handling a couple of them. I got a lot of support from Dana and (Erin Hesslebach). They both played really well in the air."\nThe second half was physical at a time when Kelley already has a long list of injured Hoosiers. Junior back Whitney Butler, who played forward Thursday, had to leave the game 15 minutes into the second half with a heavy limp.\n"Well, I have a re-occurring ankle injury and sometimes when I get a lot of pressure on that side, it just kind of pops out," Butler said. "It happens about once every day, so I knew it wasn't serious.\n"It just takes about five minutes to come back."\nStarters sophomore Kate Kastl and seniors Kendal Willis and Jena Kluska missed the game with injuries as well.\n"We need to be more physical," Kelley said. "(The Bulldogs) dragged freshman Carly (Everett) down, they dragged (Hesselbach) down. What they were doing wasn't physical, it was more cheap.\n"We need to be the aggressors when we're out there. I don't want my team to be cheap, but they can be hard and clean and get the same things accomplished."\nButler amassed 16 fouls for the game, 13 of which came in the second half.\nShe returned ten minutes later to score her first career goal at IU from 25 yards into an empty net. Mann drew the keeper out to the edge of the penalty box where she drilled a shot into Czerniak's chest.\nButler picked up the rebound and smacked a ball past Czerniak, who was hustling back to the goal.\n"I just trapped it saw where the goalie was and just hit it," Butler said. "Nothing exciting."\nButler said she was excited to play forward. She tallied her first two shots of her IU career Thursday night.\n"I was excited to go up there," Butler said. "I like getting more touches on the ball."\nAnd Kelley said he enjoyed her up front as well. With Kastl unlikely for Sunday's game with Michigan State, it is likely that Whitney Butler will get another chance to score.\nThursday was Whitney Butler's first goal at IU. She transferred to IU last spring from the University of Connecticut.\n"Last couple days of practice, we've been in smaller groups, so she's been out in front of goal a lot hitting balls like she scored on tonight," Kelley said. "I think Dana and (Hesselbach) have been doing really well in the back and I thought we could afford to move her out tonight.\n"(Whitney) is great up there. She strikes the ball well. She combines well with Shelly (Gruszka) and Kelly (Kram). Right now, the change is permanent, but it could change tomorrow"