Men's soccer team wins Big Ten game

The men's soccer team opened their Big Ten regular season Sunday, beating the Michigan State Spartans 3-0. The shutout was IU's fourth of the season.\nIn the past 27 meetings with the Spartans, the Hoosiers have gone undefeated, outscoring them 95-6 overall.\nBoth teams played an aggressive match. The Hoosiers racked up 26 fouls and MSU was charged with 18. Each team was handed eight yellow cards throughout the course game. \nThe Hoosiers and the Spartans both showed signs of frustration with the amount of contact as the game progressed. The referees were somewhat quiet, however, letting much of the physical contact to go unpenalized. \nHead coach Jerry Yeagley said he was disappointed with IU's level of intensity in the first half.\n"We could have easily been down 2-0 (at the end of the first half)," Yeagley said. "(MSU) had more shots. They led 6-1 on (corner kicks). They were 10-1 on heart and fight."\nDespite a lack of intensity in Yeagley's opinion, the Hoosiers managed to head into halftime with a 2-0 lead. \nIndiana's first goal was scored in the midst of some confusion. Junior forward Pat Noonan took a shot which ricocheted off the crossbar. Junior midfielder Phil Presser then sent a header towards the goal. The ball was a little high and again bounced off the crossbar. Finally, the ball was retrieved by senior midfielder Tyler Hawley who put the it in the net for an unassisted goal.\nDespite scoring the goal, Hawley said he shared Yeagley's view that the intensity was low in the first half.\n"We should have had some more goals today, we came out soft," Hawley said.\nWith only 24 seconds to go in the first half, Noonan scored IU's second goal. Junior midfielder Micheal Bock pushed the ball across midfield and passed it off to Noonan, who faked out MSU's sophomore goalie, Mike Robinson, and put the ball past him for the score. Noonan has four goals on the season. \nThe Hoosiers, after scoring a combined seven goals in their last two games, have shaken off any offensive rust they might have exhibited earlier in the season, Noonan said.\n"We know what we're capable of now, we're capable of scoring goals," Noonan said. "Even today we could have had seven goals, legitimately. So hopefully these one goal games are behind us and we can keep this scoring up."\nThe second half opened after what Yeagley referred to as a "gutcheck" at halftime. \n"We came out strong and controlled the second half," Yeagley said. "We didn't give (MSU) a shot in second half, which I was pleased about."\nThe Hoosiers had a bit of an offensive awakening in the second half, tallying eight shots. Just two minutes and fifty seconds into the half, sophomore midfielder Vijay Dias took an assist from Noonan and sent the ball past the Michigan State keeper into the center of the net. It was Dias' first career collegiate goal.\n"It was a long time coming," Dias said. "Last year, as a freshman playing in every game, I didn't score. It was a little bit of a relief. Pat (Noonan) put a good ball across, all i had to do was finish it."\nAlthough The Hoosiers didn't score again, their three goals were enough for the win. They weren't necessarily enough for Yeagley, however.\n"We had some nice individual and collective offensive plays," Yeagley said." (But) we certainly should have have had more than three goals today"