Men's soccer travels to South Bend for weekend games
Sep 9, 2010 10:22 pmThe men's soccer team travels to South Bend this weekend to face Cal-Poly and Drake.
The men's soccer team travels to South Bend this weekend to face Cal-Poly and Drake.
Bruin was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week Monday, a day after he compiled his first three-goal game as a Hoosier in IU’s 5-1 upset of No. 5 UCLA.
Junior forward Will Bruin was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts against California Friday and No. 5 UCLA Sunday.
No. 20 IU scored its most goals since its Oct. 19, 2005 victory against Butler in upsetting No. 5 UCLA 5-1. The victory was Todd Yeagley’s first win as head coach in Bloomington.
The No. 20 Hoosiers slipped up with four minutes remaining in the double OT, losing their season opener at home to California 2-1.
The men’s soccer team will face California on Friday and play UCLA Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium in the Adidas/IU Credit Union Classic.
The IU men's soccer team opens against Duke at 8:10 p.m. Friday. The team will remain in Ft. Wayne for the weekend to play Denver at noon Sunday to wrap up the preseason.
Senior midfielder Daniel Kelly netted the Hoosiers’ lone goal with less than six minutes to play as IU lost to Xavier 2-1 in the their first exhibition game of the season.
Senior midfielder Daniel Kelly netted the Hoosiers’ lone goal with less than six minutes to play and narrowly avoided being shut out Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. IU fell to Xavier, 2-1, in the their first exhibition game of the season.
But it was in the 116th minute, that Spain’s Andres Iniesta slammed home a bouncing ball into the far corner and gave Spain their first ever World Cup Championship with a 1-0 win over the Netherlands.
With the American sports conscience fixated on South Africa and the 2010
World Cup for the last month, much talk has focused on how the U.S.
team can improve upon its quarterfinal finish when the event moves to
Brazil in 2014.
And former IU standout and
current member of the New England Revolution Kevin Alston hopes he’ll
occupy a roster spot on the American team should it qualify for the 2014
World Cup.
After spending two years at Wake Forest, the former 2007 Indianapolis Player of the Year will transfer back to his home state to play for the Hoosiers.
And after years of always being the underdog in World Cup matches, the
U.S. team faces unfamiliar territory as it goes into this game as the
favorite.
The Hoosiers scored twice on four shots-on-goal and dominated physically on defense to shut out the U-20 Mexican Youth National Team 2-0.
The men’s soccer team will end its six-game spring season with some
international flavor as it welcomes the Under-20 Mexican Youth National
Team for a 7 p.m. scrimmage.
If the trends of the spring season continue, the men’s soccer game Saturday would need to go beyond penalty kicks to settle.
The IU men’s soccer team remained undefeated for the spring Wednesday, though not in the manner it would have liked.
Twenty-two shots converted to just one goal for the Hoosiers, who went
to 1-0-2 during the spring season with a 1-1 tie in two overtime
periods against IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.
The men’s soccer team has started slow in the first halves and ended strong in the second in each game this spring.
Just as they had done in a 2-1 victory against Louisville two weeks ago, the Hoosiers
played a slow first half and surrendered a goal before responding in the second, tying Cincinnati 1-1 on Friday.
New IU men’s soccer coach Todd Yeagley couldn’t be happier being back at his alma mater.
“Every day, I kind of step back from what I’m doing and say, ‘I have
the best job in college soccer,’” he said. “I’m very fortunate.”
And if the beginning of the spring season is any indicator, the new era of Hoosier soccer is progressing well.
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