Indiana Cruises To 6-0
Win at Butler
It is the largest margin of victory since 1998
for the Hoosiers
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INDIANAPOLIS – Devon Beach registered
her first career two-goal game and Orianica
Velasquez had a goal and an assist as
Indiana (2-1-0) had little trouble on its
way to a 6-0 win at the Butler Bowl against
the Butler Bulldogs (0-4-0) on Sunday
afternoon. The six goal margin of victory
was the biggest for IU since a 9-0 win
against IUPUI on Sept. 6, 1998.
“We scored some
nice goals today,” Indiana head coach Mick
Lyon said. “Our offense was obviously
locked in but our defense handled all the
counter attacks by Butler today, led by
central defender Kerri Krawczak. And Lauren
Hollandsworth made a tremendous save on a
shot from distance to keep the momentum on
our side in the first half.”
Indiana got on the board first thanks to a
nifty finish from sophomore forward Orianica
Velasquez. The Bogota, Colombia, native
received a tremendous pass over the top of
the defense from Chloe McKay and chipped a
clever shot over the BU keeper from 30 yards
out for the goal, her second of the season.
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The teams went to the
locker room with the Hoosiers up 1-0 and holding a 6-4
edge in shots. But that would all change early in the
second half.
“We told the team after Friday’s loss that if we are
going to outshoot teams,” Lyon said, “we need to get the
shots on the frame and not right at the keeper or over
the goal. Today we did that and you could see the
difference in the result.”
Just less than three minutes into the second stanza,
Beach made a perfect run through the middle and
Velasquez found her perfectly. Once she gathered the
pass, she showed some patience to let the BU keeper come
out and easily slid it by the diving Olivia Walton to
increase the IU lead to 2-0 on her first goal of the
season.
The Hoosiers continued the onslaught in the 59th minute
when another outstanding run by Beach resulted in her
being pulled down in the box by Walton. The BU keeper
was issued a red card and Indiana was awarded a penalty
shot. Junior Carly Samp stepped up and buried it in the
goal, her second of the season, and Indiana had a
commanding 3-0 lead.
The fourth goal started when Jocelyn Moses got behind
the defense and took the ball all the way to the endline
before she passed it back to freshman Kristin Leist, who
one-touched it on to the waiting foot of senior Darby
Hannon who put home just her second career goal.
With less than ten minutes remaining, Beach got the ball
roughly 30 yards out and was swarmed by a number of
Butler players. The junior from Sarnia, Ontario, took
all of them on and fired a shot from 20 yards out that
found the back of the net for her second goal of the day
and the season.
Just two minutes after Beach’s long shot found paydirt,
freshman Lara Ross powered one in over the keeper from
25 yards away for her first collegiate goal and capped
off a dominating 6-0 win.
The six goals is just the fourth time IU has scored six
or more goals in a game in program history:
Aug. 29, 1997: 9-0 vs. Temple
Sept. 12, 1997: 6-1 vs. Bowling Green
Sept. 6, 1998: 9-0 vs. IUPUI
After starting the season with three consecutive road
games, the Hoosiers will get very comfortable at
Armstrong Stadium over the next month. All eight games
on the schedule in the month of September are at home,
starting Wednesday against Western Michigan at 7:30 p.m.
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