The Hoosiers are embarking on the start of Big Ten conference play this weekend.
IU will travel to Northwestern (3-5-1) and Wisconsin (4-4-1) on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
The No. 22 Hoosiers stayed undefeated at home in facing the Green Bay Phoenix on Friday.
A late goal by freshman forward Orianica Velasquez-Herrera was all the No. 22 Hoosiers needed to ensure a 1-0 victory over Butler (3-5) on Wednesday night. The win pushed IU to 7-1 in non-conference play, the best start in the history of IU women’s soccer.
Coming off a loss that snapped its nine-game winning streak, IU will look to revisit its winning ways at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday against Butler (3-4) at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
IU got its first taste of being a nationally ranked team this weekend,
coming into Friday’s match against Hofstra as the No. 25 team in the
nation. It also experienced its first defeat in a 2-1 loss Sunday against St. John’s.
The IU women’s soccer team upset No. 6 Florida on Friday in a double-overtime thriller.
They then traveled to Macon, Ga., on Sunday, where they overcame a 1-0
deficit at halftime against Mercer to defeat the Bears 2-1. The team is
now 5-0 on the season.
The IU women's soccer team kept its winning streak alive Friday as they beat their toughest opponenet yet, the No. 6 Florida Gators, by a score of 2-1 in double overtime.
Riding a 3-0 record into the weekend, the Hoosiers will face No. 6 Florida Gators (3-0) at 1 p.m. Friday in Bill Armstrong Stadium.
The Hoosiers inched closer to breaking IU’s previous scoreless minutes streak this weekend.
Indiana extended its regular season shutout streak to five games and recorded its second win against Evansville (1-1-0) Friday night, winning by a score of 3-0.
After a 2-0 season opening win against Wright State, IU is set to play Evansville and Central Michigan at home.
The IU women's soccer will begin its home season against the University of Evansville at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The IU women's soccer team kicked of their 2009 season with a 1-1 tie with Valparaiso in an exhibition match on Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
IU coach Mick Lyon has never missed a Big Ten Conference tournament
since he began coaching the Hoosiers, but this year he and his team are
in danger of breaking the streak.
The IU women’s soccer team will return home this weekend, enjoying the
comforts of Bloomington for the first time since Sept. 28. The Hoosiers
(5-10-0, 0-6) have been on the road the last four games, narrowly
losing each game by a one-goal deficit.
“I think the kids are going to be excited to get back on their pitch,”
IU coach Mick Lyon said. “You know, with short, fast grass, instead of
this thick, mush stuff they have up north, that’s definitely going to
be to our benefit.”
The IU women’s soccer team comes off a weekend where it was unable to pick up its first Big Ten win, losing two at Bill Armstrong Stadium by a 1-0 count in each.
If the IU women’s soccer team is looking to take the next step as an elite program, the Hoosiers (5-4) will have to start this process against a team they have only defeated once in the last 17 tries.
Thursday night, Butler did something it has not done since 1997: beat an IU women’s soccer team.
The Hoosiers dropped back to .500 (4-4) after being upset 2-1.
Solutions by The State News