No. 22 Indiana Hosts Rutgers on Sunday - IU suffers 4-1 loss - story added

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 22 Indiana Hoosiers will host Big Ten rival Rutgers on Sunday afternoon at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium at 3 p.m. The match will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network and online on BTN2GO.

Sunday, Sept. 20
Rutgers (2-2-1, 0-1-1) vs. No. 22 Indiana (3-2-1, 0-1-0)
3:30 p.m. ET • Armstrong Stadium
Coverage: Big Ten Network • BTN2GO • Live Stats

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Hoosiers will look to even the team's Big Ten conference record at 1-1-0 with a victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday afternoon.
• This past Wednesday, the Hoosiers tied at in-state foe Butler, 2-2. IU took a 2-0 lead in to halftime, but the Bulldogs answered with a pair of second-half goals in front of a crowd of 4,411 at the Butler Bowl.
• Last week, the Hoosiers opened up Big Ten play on the road at Penn State, falling to the Nittany Lions, 1-0, in a hard-fought match. The loss was just the second in Big Ten openers in program history for the Hoosiers.
• The Hoosiers added two wins to their record at the Mike Bertecelli Memorial Tournament. Indiana rallied from an early deficit for a 2-1 win over UAB, then followed that with a 2-0 shutout against No. 24 South Florida.

NEWS AND NOTES
• Femi Hollinger-Janzen was named one of 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award. From the list of 30 candidates, a national media committee will select ten finalists for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award in October.
• Indiana sports one of the nation's youngest rosters in 2015 with 20 underclassmen on the team. The Hoosiers are tied for the ninth-youngest team in the country and rank as the youngest squad in the Big Ten.
• Despite the youth, Indiana returns 21 players from last year's roster, including 19 letterwinners from a year ago.

SCOUTING THE SCARLET KNIGHTS
• Rutgers enters Sunday's match with the Hoosiers with an overall record of 2-2-1 on the season and a 0-1-0 mark in conference play.
• The Scarlet Knights opened the year with wins over Siena and Colgate, before falling to Syracuse on the road and Wisconsin at home in the team's league opener.
• This past Wednesday, Rutgers traveled to Monmouth and came away with a 2-2 tie.
• Prior to the season, the Scarlet Knights were picked to finish eighth in the Big Ten in a poll conducted of the conference's head coaches.

SERIES HISTORY
• Indiana enters Sunday's match with Rutgers leading the all-time series, 6-1-1, that dates back to 1993.
• After dropping the first match between the two schools, IU hasn't lost to the Scarlet Knights in the last seven matches.
• Last season, Indiana beat Rutgers on the road, 2-1, with Femi Hollinger-Janzen and Tanner Thompsoneach netting a goal for the Hoosiers in the win.

BUCKMASTER VS. BUTLER
• Freshman Rece Buckmaster made the most of his first collegiate start at Butler on Sept. 16, scoring his first career goal.
• Scoring goals is not new to Buckmaster, who helped lead Canterbury to a pair of state titles. The Auburn, Ind., native had a goal and an assist in the 2012 IHSAA state title game.

BIG TEN DOMINATION
• The Hoosiers are 94-24-13 in regular season matches, 26 more victories than the next closest team (Penn State)
• IU has won 12 Big Ten tournament titles, sharing the 1995 crown with Wisconsin.
• Indiana has also been crowned regular season champion 14 times, including nine-straight seasons from 1996-2004. IU won back-to-back regular season titles in 2006 and 2007 and re-claimed the regular season crown in 2010.

UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers will host in-state foe Evansville at Jerry Yeagley Field at Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
• Live stats for the match can be found at IUHoosiers.com

Go Hoosiers!

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Hollinger-Janzen scores at 75m and IU avoids the shutout. That makes the score 3-1 and it ends 4-1.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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No. 22 Hoosiers Fall to Rutgers, 4-1

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 22 Indiana Hoosiers fell to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 4-1, at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

With the loss, Indiana falls to 3-3-1 on the season overall and to 0-2-0 in Big Ten conference play. Rutgers improves to 3-2-1 on the year and to 1-1-0 in league play.

For the Hoosiers, Femi Hollinger-Janzen scored the team's goal off assists from Tanner Thompson and Kyle Sparks. Hollinger-Janzen and Sparks led the Hoosiers with three shots each, with both getting one shot on goal.

After nearly 15 minutes of play, the Hoosiers had the match's first good look at goal. Off a corner kick from Thompson, Grant Lillard's header from five yards out missed just wide of the post, keeping the match scoreless.

In the 19th minute, Rutgers opened the scoring with a goal from Sheldon McCoy. Five minutes later, the Scarlet Knights doubled their lead on a breakaway goal from Jason Wright.

Just two minutes later, Indiana had a chance to cut the lead in half on a great buildup. On the attack, Thompson found Cory Thomas in space, who cracked a shot that forced a diving save from the Rutgers goalkeeper. Indiana's Phil Fives looked to be in position for the rebound, but the ball went just out of reach.

After Miles Hackett notched Rutgers' third goal of the game in the 40th minute, the Scarlet Knights took a 3-0 advantage in to halftime.

Coming out of the break, the Hoosiers looked to cut in to the Rutgers advantage. In the 69th minute, Sparks made a great move to find space on the left side of the box, but his curling, right-footed shot missed just high of the crossbar.

Seven minutes later, Indiana cut in to the Rutgers' lead on a great team goal. With possession in the middle of the pitch, Sparks found Thompson on the left side, who sent a beautiful cross to the back post, finding Hollinger-Janzen. The senior rose above the defense to beat the Rutgers keeper with a header to the far post. Hollinger-Janzen's team-leading third goal of the season trimmed the Scarlet Knights' lead to 3-1.

The comeback ended there, however, as Rutgers tacked on a score in the 87th minute off the foot of Erik Sa to give the Scarlet Knights their winning margin of 4-1.

For the match, the Hoosiers had a 17-11 shot advantage over Rutgers and also had more corner kicks than the Scarlet Knights, 7-4.

Indiana returns to action on Wednesday at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium when the team plays host to Evansville at 7:30 p.m.

Go Hoosiers!

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No. 22 Hoosiers Fall to Rutgers, 4-1

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The No. 22 Indiana Hoosiers fell to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 4-1, at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

With the loss, Indiana falls to 3-3-1 on the season overall and to 0-2-0 in Big Ten conference play. Rutgers improves to 3-2-1 on the year and to 1-1-0 in league play.

For the Hoosiers, Femi Hollinger-Janzen scored the team's goal off assists from Tanner Thompson and Kyle Sparks. Hollinger-Janzen and Sparks led the Hoosiers with three shots each, with both getting one shot on goal.

After nearly 15 minutes of play, the Hoosiers had the match's first good look at goal. Off a corner kick from Thompson, Grant Lillard's header from five yards out missed just wide of the post, keeping the match scoreless.

In the 19th minute, Rutgers opened the scoring with a goal from Sheldon McCoy. Five minutes later, the Scarlet Knights doubled their lead on a breakaway goal from Jason Wright.

Just two minutes later, Indiana had a chance to cut the lead in half on a great buildup. On the attack, Thompson found Cory Thomas in space, who cracked a shot that forced a diving save from the Rutgers goalkeeper. Indiana's Phil Fives looked to be in position for the rebound, but the ball went just out of reach.

After Miles Hackett notched Rutgers' third goal of the game in the 40th minute, the Scarlet Knights took a 3-0 advantage in to halftime.

Coming out of the break, the Hoosiers looked to cut in to the Rutgers advantage. In the 69th minute, Sparks made a great move to find space on the left side of the box, but his curling, right-footed shot missed just high of the crossbar.

Seven minutes later, Indiana cut in to the Rutgers' lead on a great team goal. With possession in the middle of the pitch, Sparks found Thompson on the left side, who sent a beautiful cross to the back post, finding Hollinger-Janzen. The senior rose above the defense to beat the Rutgers keeper with a header to the far post. Hollinger-Janzen's team-leading third goal of the season trimmed the Scarlet Knights' lead to 3-1.

The comeback ended there, however, as Rutgers tacked on a score in the 87th minute off the foot of Erik Sa to give the Scarlet Knights their winning margin of 4-1.

For the match, the Hoosiers had a 17-11 shot advantage over Rutgers and also had more corner kicks than the Scarlet Knights, 7-4.

Indiana returns to action on Wednesday at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium when the team plays host to Evansville at 7:30 p.m.

Go Hoosiers!

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I'm sorry but the performance of this team and last year's leaves a great deal to be desired. Way too much talent for these results!

 

[GeddyHoosier]

I'm sorry but the performance of this team and last year's leaves a great deal to be desired. Way too much talent for these results!

It is time to seriously question this coaching staff. Maybe I am still spoiled from Jerry's great run in his last 7 or 8 years, but this is simply unacceptable for an elite program like IU. Aside from that great run in 2012, this has been the most disappointing few years in IU soccer. Those that have seen the team play or know more about soccer than me, what are your thoughts?