IUWS vs. Western Michigan

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Edit: Indiana lost 2-0 to Western Michigan

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/indiana-suffers-frustrating-2-0-loss-to-western-michigan


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The Indiana women are set to play Western Michigan here at 1 p.m. at Bill Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington. The Hoosiers tied Louisville 1-1 to open up the 2016 season on Friday. I'm here hanging out for the game before a busy week of football ahead.

 

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Same lineup for Indiana today except for a keeper change. True freshman Sarah L'Hommedieu is out and redshirt freshman Bristal Hadley-Mautino is in. Interesting.

 

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Indiana should NOT lose this game, by the way. That would be brutal. This is the most winnable game in the non-con.

 

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Western Michigan's back line has made a pair of mistakes early on today. The last one in the third minute just now gave Abby Allen a shot on goal but it was a weak effort right at the keeper.

Western Michigan responds with a shot that flies JUST over the net. Bristal Hadley-Mautino, who I am now going to call BHM, didn't have to move but definitely had a little scare.

 

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12' - Abby Allen put a nice service in along the goal line but nobody was home. I liked her a lot last year before suffering an ACL tear. She's maybe the most electric player up top right now.

 

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15' - Big scare for Indiana. Western Michigan played a ball along the line that should have been finished by one, maybe two forwards. Somehow nobody got to it.

 

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20' Cassidy Blacha put a shot on goal but it made for an easy save. At least the Hoosiers are making the Broncos work. That's a good sign. But there's just no sort of planned attack working for IU right now. Everything is a jumbled mess in transition, it seems. Which is fine. That works sometimes. But they need to piece together a plan

 

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HALFTIME: Indiana 0, Western Michigan 0.

That wasn't the prettiest half of soccer. IU had five shots, Western Michigan six. Indiana made three saves, Western Michigan two. None were that dramatic.

The good news for Indiana is that the defense looked about as strong as ever. The back line had a few too many mistakes against Louisville.

The bad news for Indiana is that the offense didn't look too spectacular.

 

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Western Michigan picks up a corner immediately as the second half begins.

 

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Meghan Scott almost headed one in for Western Michigan. She was trying to stop a shot attempt, headed it straight into the cross bar. Really lucky break. Still scoreless with 36 minutes left.

 

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GOAAAAL Western Michigan. Indiana came out sluggish in the second half and got burned. Make it 1-0 with about 35 left. Kendall Juhneke with the goal

 

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Might have just gotten a dagger out of Western Michigan. Juhnke scores a second from long range with about 16 minutes left to make it 2-0.

 

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FINAL: Western Michigan beats Indiana 2-0, dropping IU to 0-1-1 on the opening weekend.