IU travels to E'ville on Wednesday (link)

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SETTING THE SCENE
• Indiana enters the final stretch of the regular season, playing two of its last three on the road beginning with Evansville Wednesday night.
• The Hoosiers are coming off a 3-1 win at Michigan with goals from Tanner Thompson.
• Indiana has won two straight and is 5-1 in its last six matches.
• Evansville is 5-8-1 on the season but is coming off a 4-1 win at Drake on October 25.
• IU has won 12 straight in the series with Evansville dating back to 1996. The Hoosiers were 4-2 winners last season.



NEWS AND NOTES
• Down 1-0 after five minutes of play the Indiana men's soccer team scored three unanswered goals in the second half for a 3-1 win at Michigan Sunday afternoon in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• It is the second time this season the Hoosiers have come back after going down a goal early. Indiana trailed Saint Louis 1-0 after 14 seconds before coming back with a 3-1 win.
• An Indiana miscue in the midfield gave Michigan a scoring opportunity in the sixth minute and the Wolverines took full advantage as Ahinga Selemani tapped a ball across the goal mouth after receiving the pass from Colin McAtee.
• After 10 minutes of play Indiana was trailing 5-0 in shots as well as 1-0 on the scoreboard. Indiana's first shot came in the 25th minute, a shot from Andrew Oliver that was blocked. Indiana's first good chance came in the 30th minute when Oliver broke free on the right side, angling his shot just over the crossbar.
• Kyle Sparks went wide.
• Michigan held a 9-3 shot advantage at the half, with three on goal compared to none for the Hoosiers.
• The Hoosiers needed just 30 seconds of second half play to equalize things at 1-all as Jamie Vollmer as Vollmer's long throw found Lillard at the near post. Lillard had just re-entered the match at the start of the second half after missing most of the first half when a cut above his eye forced him out.
• Oliver put the Hoosiers up 2-0 in the 54th minute, set up again by a long throw from Vollmer. Oliver hit a shot off Vollmer's throw that was blocked out by U-M goalkeeper Adam Grinwis. The ball fell right back to Oliver, who hit it home for his second goal of the season.
• Tanner Thompson made it a two-goal Indiana lead with his fourth of the season coming in the 72nd minute. The build-up began with Lillard in the back as he found Foldesy at midfield. Foldesy laid off to a streaking Thompson, who took a quick strike with the ball bouncing off the right post and into the back of the net.
• Indiana out-shot the Wolverines 13-2 in the second half to finish with a 16-11 advantage overall. Oliver led the way with six attempts. Indiana goalkeeper Colin Webb finished with two saves on the day.
• A tally of 3,159 fans were at the IU-Notre Dame match on Wednesday as the Hoosiers are averaging 2,622 fans per game at home.



SCOUTING THE PURPLE ACES
• Evansville is 5-8-1 on the season but broke a two-match losing streak with a 4-1 victory at Drake on October 25.
• In common opponents with IU, Evansville lost to Saint Louis 3-1, lost to Butler 2-1 (OT), lost to Kentucky 5-1, and lost to Louisville 3-0.
• Charlie Macias leads the team in scoring with six goals and two assists (14 points). Mark Gonzalez has five goals and three assists (13 points).
• The Purple Aces have scored 22 goals on the season but have given up 25. They are out-scoring opponents 14-13 in the second half.
• Eric Teppen has played a majority of minutes in goal, allowing 24 goals in 1255:28 minutes for a 1.72 GAA with 66 saves and one shutout.
• Head coach Mike Jacobs is in his ninth season as head coach. He is assisted by Marshall Ray and Jeremy Clark.



SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana leads the all-time series with Evansville 26-4-3.
• The Hoosiers have won 12 straight in the series dating back to 1996, including a 4-2 victory in Bloomington last season.
• IU's last trip to Evansville came in 2011, a 2-1 win for IU.
• The teams tied in 1995 with a 2-2 score. Evansville's last win came in 1990, a 1-0 victory in the NCAA Tournament.

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[GeddyHoosier]

Anyone remember when IU-UE was a great rivalry?


The Purple Aces had some great teams in the 80s/early 90s when Schmaltz was coach. They were just as good as Yeagley's Hoosiers some years. Growing up in Evansville, I remember going to a lot of those matches on the UE
campus. Too bad they've fallen off the map in recent years.

 

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1-0, Indiana, Lillard with the goal at 6:58

Header by Lillard, Doody with the assist.
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Re: Anyone remember when IU-UE was a great rivalry?

I remember, although I was a pretty young kid at that time. E'ville was one of the top programs in the midwest and they were definitely the second best team in the state after IU and they always played us tough.

Looking back at the early days of the NCAA soccer title, there were a lot of smaller schools that had big success that have kind of disappeared. Hartwick, Howard, SIU-Edwardsville, Navy, San Francisco all won titles. Hell, Yeagley's West Chester University team won the 1961 title! E'ville never won it all but did get to some Final Fours. They were one of those smaller schools that got foreign talent and had a great coach. Fred Schmalz was a legendary coach who had a great run of nearly 30 years at E'ville.

Back then, not many schools even had men's soccer and it wasn't a popular sport. Obv as it became bigger, the larger schools took over more and you don't hear as much about the small schools. But you do still have mid majors with success far more than you see in b'ball/fball. Recently Akron, UCSB, Charlotte, etc.

 

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Hollinger-Jansen gives IU a 2-0 lead at 41:52

Header with assist Foldesy.

Halftime stats:
IU had 9 Shots, 8 On Goal.
UE had 2 Shots, 1 On Goal.

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Still 2-0, 15 minutes to play - E'ville still only 2 shots (nt)

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IU defense dominates in a 2-0 win over the Aces

Game stats:
IU had 22 Shots, 9 On Goal.
UE had 4 Shots, 3 On Goal; 2 of the shots came in the 87th minute.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- First half goals from Femi Hollinger-Janzen held up as the Hoosiers posted a 2-0 win at Evansville Wednesday night at McCutchan Stadium.

The Hoosiers improve to 11-2-3 on the season, while Evansville falls to 5-9-1.

Freshman defender Lillard used his head to put Indiana up 1-0 in the seventh minute as he crashed the box to head home a corner kick from left back Patrick Doody. That is Lillard's fourth goal of the season. The assist is number four on the year for Doody.

It is the ninth time this season Indiana has scored a goal within the first 26 minutes of play.

Indiana put its first six shots of the game on frame, forcing UE goalkeeper Eric Teppen into five saves early on. Included in that tally was an angled shot from Doody that gave Teppen trouble in the 30th minute.

The Hoosiers thought they had a second goal in the 40th minute when Michael Riedford headed home the rebound off a Hollinger-Janzen shot, but the referee's flag was up, signaling Riedford was in an offside position.

Indiana's chances paid off in the 42nd minute when Hollinger-Janzen netted his team-leading fifth of the season, hitting the upper 90 from the left side off the pass from Matt Foldesy.

Indiana went into the halftime break leading 2-0, including a 9-2 shot advantage with eight of its nine shots on frame.

Evansville has a spell near the IU net with three quick corner kicks, but the Hoosiers limited the Purple Aces to zero shots off those corners before putting the pressure back on the UE net. Kyle Sparks had a chance with a header off service from Doody in the 63rd minute, but his nod was just high.

In the 67th minute Hollinger-Janzen sent a ball toward goal off the side of his boot but angled it high for an Evansville goal kick. In the 72nd minute Foldesy had a shot off Tanner Thompson's corner kick that was cleared off the line by Evansville's Arlick Ntabana, preventing a third goal.

Three of Evansville's five shots came in the final five minutes of the game as IU goalkeeper Colin Webb was forced to make two late saves to preserve the shutout.

Indiana finished with a commanding 22-5 shot advantage, led by seven from Thompson. Hollinger-Janzen added four.

Indiana wraps up a three-match road swing on Saturday as it faces Big Ten foe Wisconsin. Match time in Madison, Wisconsin is 8 p.m. ET and the game will be shown live on BTN Plus.

Media Contact: Melanie Schneider (ms48@indiana.edu)

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