Hoosiers extend winning streak to 22 games in Memorial Tournament

South Bend -- Two storied college sports programs participated in their respective sports in South Bend this weekend as the IU men's soccer team took its No. 1 ranking and 2-0 record into the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament against the Cal-State Fullerton Titans (0-2) Friday and Evansville Sunday. The defending national champions knocked off the Titans with a 2-1 win before shutting out Evansville 4-0.\nThe last time IU lost was Sept. 18, 2003, when Notre Dame beat IU 1-0 at Alumni Field in South Bend. IU's win-streak now spans 22 straight games, and the two wins earned IU the tournament championship after Notre Dame and Cal-State Fullerton tied Sunday.\nAlthough the six-time NCAA national soccer champions were in town, the heavy traffic surrounding the Notre Dame campus Friday was in anticipation of seeing the other successful college sports program, a Notre Dame football team that is 5-10 in their last 15 games under coach Tyrone Willingham as they took on No. 8 Michigan.\nWith both programs currently at different ends of the success spectrum, both the IU men's soccer team and the Notre Dame football team came away with successful weekends as Notre Dame defeated Michigan 28-20 as well as IU's victories.\nDrama filled IU's victory against Cal-State Fullerton with a 2-1 win in two golden-goal extra periods as IU junior back Drew Moor put both balls in the back of the net. Moore's first goal came on a restart as IU junior midfielder Brian Plotkin kicked the ball from 30 yards out into the box, then IU sophomore back Julian Dieterle got a foot on it before a Moor header into the goal in the 33rd minute.\nIn the 52nd minute, referee William Delois handed Cal-State Fullerton junior forward Brent Barnes his second yellow card resulting in his ejection and the Titans played the remainder of the match one-man down.\nCal-State Fullerton junior back Jose Barragan tied the game in the 76th minute on a restart, as he was 40 yards out from the goal and scored on the free kick as the ball traveled through the scrum of players in front of the net, and took a bounce past IU senior goalkeeper Jay Nolly.\nNolly said Barragan's kick was low and he called away on the ball and everyone went for it. As Nolly went down, he said the ball popped up and into the goal.\nIU did not take care of business in the golden goal periods as quick as they did the weekend before against Boston University. It did not score again until the 112th minute off Moor's header from a Plotkin left side cross.\nEntering the 2004 season, Moor had two career goals.\n"Give the opponent credit," first year IU coach Mike Freitag said after the match with the Titans. "They came out a man down and continued to take the game to us. The first half I thought we did alright. We just didn't create enough chances, but we possessed the ball and had our way. The second half they came out and played hard."\nNotre Dame defeated Evansville 2-1 in the second game Friday night.\nIn the Evansville game, Plotkin continued his contributions for IU. He scored the first goal from eight yards out, his second on the season for the Hoosiers, in the 4th minute against Evansville. Sophomore midfielder John Michael Hayden and junior forward Mike Ambersley assisted Plotkin's goal.\nEven though Freitag said former IU men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley told senior midfielder Danny O'Rourke he would not score a goal in his career for the Hoosiers, O'Rourke scored right before the end of the first half. His goal came as he dribbled through the defense with a shot in front of the net in the 41st minute, giving O'Rourke his second goal of the season, and his career.\nO'Rourke and Moor are on the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy watch list and O'Rourke said he really does not pay attention to that type of notoriety.\n"I don't know how it's happened," O'Rourke said about his recent surge in goals. "I just find the ball, push the ball and score."\nIU junior Jordan Chirico entered the game for Hayden in the 62nd minute and quickly made an impact as he placed a corner in the 69th minute to the six-yard box and Evansville scored an own goal, giving the Hoosiers a three to nil lead.\nSenior forward Greg Badger scored the fourth and final goal for the Hoosiers in the 86th minute on a shot from 10 yards out.\n"I asked the boys today to play 90 minutes, concentrate, and just focus and they came out and gave a good performance today," Freitag said. "Evansville, I think, (was) a little tired from Friday night's game. They try to frustrate you, they just sit back in, but once we got a couple goals on them, things just opened right up. It's important to get that first goal on them."\nThe shutout against the Purple Aces marked the 20th time in his career Nolly shutout the opponent, and his first of the season.\n"To not allow any goals, that is our number one target in the back is to keep the other team out," Moor said. "We are coming together back there and playing real well."\nWith its 4-0 record, IU begins what Freitag said could be "hell week" as the team hosts No. 13 Notre Dame in Bill Armstrong Stadium Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and then travels to Albuquerque, N.M., for two games in the New Mexico Classic. IU faces UC-Santa Barbara Saturday and New Mexico Sunday. Both teams were ranked No. 12 and No. 22 respectively in College Soccer News' poll from two weeks ago.\n-- Contact staff writer Steve Slivka at smslivka@indiana.edu.