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(09/14/09 3:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU field hockey started its weekend with a 6-1 win against Davidson, but ended the with a 5-2 loss to Wake Forest.The Hoosiers got off to an early lead against Davidson with goals at the 12th and 14th minute marks from senior forward Alina Valenti. Both goals came from assists by freshman forward Morgan Fleetwood.Less than two minutes later, sophomore midfielder Jaclyn Milici also scored for the Hoosiers.“We improved on communication and trying to problem-solve during the game,” Milici said.Two more goals came from the Hoosiers before the half ended.“When we were in the corners, we executed well,” Fleetwood said.IU field hockey had a 5-0 lead going into the half.IU would only allow one goal in the second half, while adding one score to its total. “We took advantage of the opportunities we had to get a victory,” IU coach Amy Robertson said. The Hoosier offense did not perform as well later in the weekend in North Carolina. They lost 5-2 to No. 3 Wake Forest. The Hoosiers couldn’t keep up with the Demon Deacons. “All the Wake Forest goals were off their penalty corners,” freshman midfielder Julia Raymakers said.Less than eight minutes later, the Demon Deacons increased their lead to 2-0 on a goal from sophomore back Kaitlin Piosa. At the 18:17 mark, the Hoosiers got on the board when sophomore forward Corey Brautigam scored. IU scored once more shortly after, tying the game at 2-2. “We are going to work on being strong at the start when the whistle blows,” Grote said. Wake Forest responded with three more goals and ended the match with a 5-2 lead. The Demon Deacons’ roster had five goals from five different players. “Wake Forest has outstanding talent that attacked with intelligence on the field,” Robertson said.
(09/11/09 4:34am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU field hockey team faces two very different opponents this weekend in unranked Davidson and No. 3 Wake Forest.The team will play the Davidson Wildcats at 3 p.m. Saturday and the Demon Deacons at 2 p.m. Sunday.The Hoosiers will use this game to improve on their strengths and fix their flaws.“Regardless of the outcome, we just want to improve on the weaknesses we’ve seen in the previous matches,” said IU field hockey assistant coach Kelly Doton. Currently, the team is 3-1 with wins against American University, Richmond and Louisville, and a loss to Ohio University.Last Tuesday, the Hoosiers earned a No. 18 ranking for their two upsets against then-No. 14 American on Aug. 28, and then-No. 13 Louisville on Sept. 6.The past two weeks, IU field hockey had won Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week by junior goalkeeper Alex Mann and junior defender Mutsa Mutembwa.The Hoosiers will try to learn more about the Wildcats.“We don’t know too much about the Wildcats, but we are looking to learn more by playing them,” senior forward Alina Valenti said.Davidson has an all-time record of 16-23 in the NorPac Conference.Last year the Wildcats ended the season 6-12 and a conference record of 1-5.Davidson has some young talent that leads its roster.Last week, freshman midfielder Annie Evans won the NorPac East Division Rookie of the Week.In the Wildcats’ first week of play, freshman midfielder Finley Amato won the same award as Evans.IU will have to stop these freshmen standouts in order to come away with a victory in North Carolina.
(09/11/09 4:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three Hoosiers are among the nation’s best field hockey athletes.Assistant coach Kelly Doton is a midfielder for the USA field hockey team, assistant coach Jill Dedman is goalkeeper for the national team and Brenna Moeljadi is a defender for the women’s under-21 national team.Kelly DotonDoton started her field hockey career at Wake Forest where she scored 13 goals in her first year. She won awards including the 2003 Honda Award for the National Field Hockey Player of the Year and first team All-American in 2002 and 2003.“I had great coaches at Wake Forest that helped me improve as an athlete,” Doton said. Doton helped the Demon Deacons win two national championships in 2002 and 2003. But she had other aspirations.“I tried out for the U.S. team in 2005 and everything went from there,” Doton said. In 2005, she joined the USA national team, where she played in the New Zealand tour, Australia test series and in many other tours.She traveled to Chile, the Netherlands and other countries to play against their field hockey national teams.The U.S. field hockey team has prepared Doton for coaching.“I think I derive 95 percent of my coaching skills from what I learned at the U.S. field hockey program,” Doton said.In 2008, she traveled with the team to Beijing to play in the Olympics, where USA placed No. 8.Jill DedmanDedman also has USA national team connections.Her collegiate career took place at Boston College from 1996 to 2001.At Boston College, Dedman was a two-time Big East Conference Goalkeeper of the Year in 1998 and 2000 and was a 1999 All-American.After five years at Boston College, Dedman has been the goalkeeper for the national team since 2001.“My coach encouraged me to go to the open trials, and then I made the team,” Dedman said.If she wanted to stay on the team, she would have to make a major change in her life.“After I made the team, I was told that I had a week to pack my bags and move to Virginia Beach,” Dedman said. Like Doton, Dedman has played in many national team tours including the Japan, Netherlands and other tours.She has learned many aspects of goalkeeping that can be applied to coaching after playing on the national team.“I have also learned from Justine Sowry, one of the best goalkeeper coaches in world, which has helped me with coaching,” Dedman said.Her skills from the national team should play an important role while she serves as assistant coach for the Hoosiers.Brenna MoeljadiSophomore back Moeljadi started her field hockey career playing at Harvard-Westlake School in Culver City, Calif.At Harvard-Westlake she won three letters as captain and was elected to the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section All-Tournament Team from 2004 to 2006. In 2007, Moeljadi started in seven games as a freshman.Moeljadi got her first assist against the California Bears, which was the first collegiate game of her career. She scored her first goal against Saint Louis in an 8-0 victory.“Playing with the U.S. team has helped me in my early years with the Hoosiers,” Moeljadi said. Moeljadi was named to the USA Field Hockey Junior Series Squad in July 2008.She believes that the Hoosiers have a similar style to the U.S. national team.“The style that we play is very similar to the way the U.S. national team plays,” Moeljadi said.After starting the first three games in her sophomore year, Moeljadi ended her season with a hip injury which resulted in a medical redshirt.In 2009, she made the U-21 national team, where she plays defender.Moeljadi explained how playing with the best athletes in the country will help in the future.“Playing with them at a really high level in competition is going to help with teams that are aggressive,” Moeljadi said.
(09/07/09 3:32am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU field hockey’s weekend was full of ups and downs, ranging from a loss to unranked Ohio to a win over No. 13 Louisville.The Hoosiers came into Athens, Ohio, with two wins, one from a ranked American University team.The game started off slow but picked up when Ohio junior forward Katherine Ballard scored the lone goal of the game at the 31:17 mark.The shot came from five yards out on the right side of the field.“We didn’t execute our attack corners well enough to give us a victory,” IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson said.The Hoosiers had 21 shots against the Bobcats, compared to only eight shots from Ohio.Ohio’s 6-foot, 1-inch junior goalkeeper Courtney Seiders had 13 saves.The players said they could improve from this loss because it happened so early in the season.“It was a good game for us to learn and grow from, since it was our first loss,” junior defender Mutsa Mutembwa said.The next game was against the No. 13 Louisville Cardinals, whom the Hoosiers beat 4-1 in a pre-season game.“If we work as a team, we can beat any opponent,” senior back Lucy Ireland said.In the first half, neither team made a goal despite four shots from the Hoosiers and six from the Cardinals.Five minutes into the second half, IU senior forward Alina Valenti scored off the goalkeeper’s rebound.At the 46:47 mark, the Cardinals came back with a goal off a tipped penalty corner shot from junior midfielder Karah Nall.Some of the players took the negatives from the Ohio loss and turned them into positives when playing the Cardinals.“I didn’t work harder in this game, I was just smarter with how I played,” freshman forward Morgan Fleetwood said.Less than two minutes later, the Hoosiers scored their second goal from Valenti off an assist from Fleetwood.During the next 22 minutes, the Hoosiers held off the Cardinals to earn their third win of the season and second win against a ranked opponent. The win against Louisville will give the Hoosiers momentum for games against ranked opponents.“This win was important for us because it gave us our confidence back,” Valenti said.The Hoosiers travel to North Carolina Saturday and Sunday for matches against Davidson College and No. 2 Wake Forest.
(09/04/09 3:39am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>On Friday, IU field hockey takes on the Ohio University Bobcats for the teams’ fifth all-time meeting.“We are trying to play some regional match-ups that test our skills,” IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson said. The teams have split two wins a piece against each other.The Bobcats won by a score of 2-1 in last year’s game, and they also won the 2007 game, with a total of three goals for and one goal against.IU won its first two matchups against Ohio in 2005 and 2006 with a total score of five goals for and one goal against.“These early games will help us as a team as the season moves on,” co-captain and senior midfielder Meg O’Connell said. The defense will be one of the key factors if the team wants to come out of Ohio with a win. IU junior goalkeeper Alex Mann was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.In the wins against then-No. 14 American University and the University of Richmond, Mann recorded 14 saves with a save percentage of 82.4 percent.The offense was also on-point in the second game against when they came back from a 0-2 deficit.In the second half, O’Connell scored two goals and freshman forward Brooke Borneman had her first goal as a Hoosier. The Hoosiers want to fix the negatives from the last two games so they can be prepared for the Bobcats. “We don’t know too much about Ohio, but we will mainly focus on what we need to do to get better for the game on Friday,” senior forward Haley Funk said.Last year, Ohio had an overall record of 11-12, with a 6-4 record in the Mid-American Conference.They have started out the season 0-2, with losses to the University of Maryland and Northwestern University.The Bobcats return 10 letter-winners and six starters from last year’s roster.After the Ohio match on Friday, the Hoosiers head to Louisville to face the Cardinals, who they defeated 4-1 in the pre-season.
(09/03/09 3:30am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In 2000, the field hockey team began its varsity program with a new coach, a team of inexperienced athletes and a practice football field serving as its home turf.Now, in 2009, the team has a 2-0 record, an upset against then top-15 ranked American University, a state-of-the-art field and a new facility that houses its locker room and more.The facility is brand new. The paint smells fresh and the team’s TV to watch previous game footage hasn’t even been set up yet.“The best part about the new facility are the locker rooms because its just for field hockey,” junior forward Haley Funk said.From 2000-06, the field hockey team played at the John Mellencamp Pavilion – the football team’s indoor practice field – and shared a locker room with the track and field squad.The indoor turf at the pavilion was actually too fast for IU’s opponents, who were not used to the speed, so the Hoosiers had a real home-field advantage.“The indoor turf was much faster than most fields the opponents had ever seen,” senior back Lucy Ireland said. In summer 2007, IU constructed a wet turf surface that allows water cannons to soak the field, so the ball can move faster than on dry turf, which most teams use.IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson said sources from outside IU athletics contributed to the new building.“The school is using its money from outside investors to make state-of-the-art facilities designed for us,” Robertson said. In less than 30 minutes, the entire field can be watered and ready to play on.During July and August, IU built the new field hockey structure.In addition to locker room space, it also has a meeting room for the staff and storage for equipment.The field hockey structure also boosts team camaraderie.“It helps us bond better because we have locker room to say we are proud of,” Funk said.The weight room in the North End Zone of Memorial Stadium has also been beneficial to the field hockey team. Field hockey athletes are using the 25,0000-square-foot weight room to their advantage during the offseason and regular season. Building brand new facilities in many of IU sports will help with recruiting and other key factors to its programs.Bringing in the best athletes is usually a key factor to help a team succeed in any college sport.“I think we will be a lot more competitive for recruiting because of the facilities,” Ireland said.IU field hockey is growing in many areas from the construction of a wet turf field to a building dedicated to the Hoosiers.The Hoosiers will break in the new field Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. against Ball State.
(08/31/09 2:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The trip from Bloomington to Richmond, Va., was more than 500 miles, but it was worth it. IU field hockey won its first two games by 5 goals for and 3 goals against.Help from experienced upperclassmen and goals from freshmen proved to be the Hoosiers’ strengths in the first two wins.The trip to Virginia began with the Hoosiers playing No. 14 American University at Crenshaw Field. The team’s freshmen stepped up against their top-15 foe and brought the Hoosiers their first regular-season victory this year.Just five minutes into Friday’s game, redshirt freshman forward Morgan Fleetwood scored off of a pass by junior forward Katie Griswold. A little more than 20 minutes later, the Hoosiers scored on a breakaway by freshman forward Shareyna Chang.IU had a 2-0 lead by halftime against the experienced Eagles.Junior goalkeeper Alex Mann and the players on the defensive end held off the Eagles for the next 35 minutes. “The defense saved us today. Alex was very good,” Fleetwood said.Mann saved 5 shots, only letting one get away in the final five minutes.“This game was a confidence-builder. We hit the money spots in the circle,” IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson said.The win was the Hoosiers’ first victory against a ranked opponent since Nov. 6, 2006, against then-No. 7 Penn State.The Hoosiers faced another challenge Sunday. The Richmond Spiders had home-field advantage on their side.The game started off slowly until Richmond scored off a goal from senior back Sarah Blythe-Wood because of a loose ball. About four minutes later, the Spiders scored again off a penalty shot from Blythe-Wood.Before halftime began, the Hoosiers scored from a penalty corner by senior midfielder Meg O’Connell with an assist by senior forward Alina Valenti.By halftime, the Spiders had a 2-1 lead against the Hoosiers. With 35 minutes to go, the team had to make a comeback if they were going to pull off another victory in Richmond.At 47:36, O’Connell scored again unassisted to tie the game at two. Forty-four seconds later, the Hoosiers scored again by a goal from freshman forward Brooke Borneman with an assist from junior midfielder Kelsey Kiper.“This victory showed that we could come back from a deficit,” said Robertson.For the next 20 minutes, IU field hockey’s defense and Mann held off the Spiders to end the game at 3-2 and tack on another Hoosier victory. Players said they learned something from their success in Richmond.“We learned as long as we stick together, we can pull out a win,” said Griswold.
(08/28/09 11:16pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU Field Hockey started off the 2009 season with an upset against No. 14 American University in Richmond, Va., with the help of two freshmen who scored two key goals.The Hoosiers started the game against American with a score by redshirt freshman forward Morgan Fleetwood just five minutes into the game. Fleetwood’s score was her first of the season and the seventh of her career. A pass from junior forward Katie Griswold helped net the goal. The Hoosiers scored 20 minutes later on a breakaway by freshman forward Shareyna Chang. They had a 2-0 lead by halftime against the experienced Eagles. American didn’t score until the 65:58 mark on a goal from junior forward Christine Fingerhuth.The win was the Hoosiers’ first victory against a ranked opponent since Nov. 6 of 2006 against then-No. 7 Penn State. IU will follow up its Friday win with a game against the Richmond Spiders at 2 p.m. Sunday in Richmond, Va.
(08/28/09 3:47am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After an injury-filled 7-13 season last year, IU spent its summer working to ensure a better 2009 mark. “We made a huge commitment in the off season to get more fit, more disciplined and to gain more experience on the field,” IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson said. The Hoosiers return six seniors and a pool of talented underclassmen back from injury. IU will test out its revamped lineup Friday against No. 14 American at 11 a.m. at Crenshaw Field in Richmond, Va.Leading the Hoosiers are senior forward Alina Valenti and midfielder Meg O’Connell, who tied with six goals last season. IU has won its first two preseason scrimmages, with a total of seven goals to only one goal for the opposition. Young talent has led the Hoosiers this preseason. Redshirt sophomore back Brenna Moeljadi scored two goals in IU’s 3-0 Aug. 19 exhibition victory against Ball State. Another redshirt freshman, Morgan Fleetwood, scored two goals against No. 14 Louisville in an Aug. 22 win. American will test IU’s preseason success. The Eagles are picked to win the Patriot League for a seventh consecutive season. American was 13-8 last season and has posted a record of 133-62 in 10 years under American field hockey coach Steve Jennings. Leading the Eagles is junior forward Christine Fingerhuth, a 2008 NFHCA third team All-American and Savannah Graybill, two-time All-Patriot league selection. They also have last year’s Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in senior midfielder Anne-Meike De Wiljes. Despite American’s talent, junior forward Katie Griswold said her team is secure in its capabilities. “We are confident about our game,” she said. “We have a lot of momentum from last season.”
(08/26/09 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Hoosiers are gearing up for their 10th season as a varsity team. Last year, the IU Field Hockey team went 7-11 and 1-5 in the Big Ten. With a team full of underclassmen, IU scored 33 goals to its opponent’s 47 last season. Hoosiers only lost two players and are returning with 16 letter-winners. 2008 RECORD 7-11 (1-5)HEAD COACH Amy RobertsonFIRST HOME GAME Ball State, Sept. 19KEY GAMES Wake Forest, Iowa, Michigan State, Penn State, Louisville KEY RETURNERS Meg O’Connell, Alina Valenti, Katie Griswold, Mutsa MutembwaSLEEPER GAMES Wake Forest, DavidsonINTERESTING FACT Only six seniors return to a team of 22 Hoosiers.