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(10/16/19 6:36pm)
The Hoosiers continue to roll, and Roman Celentano continues to impress in goal for Indiana. Austin, Connor, and Jared recap Indiana's draw with Kentucky, and a 1-0 victory over Michigan this past Sunday.
The guys are then joined by Maryland Soccer guru Brendan Hartlove to help preview this Friday's huge matchup in College Park (oh hey, The Hoosier Network will be there too!) under the lights at Ludwig Field.
The Hoosier Network is on the scene this weekend in College Park, as Indiana Soccer faces the Terps Friday night at Ludwig Field, followed by Saturday's game at Capital One Field. Follow along @TheHoosierNet on Twitter and online at TheHoosierNetwork.com.
(10/09/19 6:11pm)
The Indiana Soccer Podcast welcomes back recurring guest Dean Linke of the Big Ten Network to catch up and talk Big Ten soccer. Before he calls Indiana/Kentucky on FS1, Dean joins Austin and Connor in studio to talk about this year's group, what's different about the Big Ten, and his favorite memories from being around "the Godfather."
(10/04/19 7:29pm)
After a week away, The Flagship returns. It finally feels like fall in Bloomington, and we're stoked about it. This week's Five Banner Friday has us feeling cozy with our favorite things about the season, plus the usual best/worst from the last week. Austin is out (sad!), so Connor, Kurt, and Sam hold down the fort.
(10/03/19 9:24pm)
Indiana is off to a 2-0 start in conference play, and the guys are back to discuss. As the youth continues to shine, Tuesday's 3-1 win over Northwestern saw goals from three different newcomers, as well as Roman Celentano's first career start in between the sticks.
How much do we still have to learn about this team? Is the Big Ten Indiana's for the taking? Austin, Connor, and Jared have answers.
(09/30/19 11:17pm)
There was a familiar face back in Bloomington over the weekend. Indiana's matchup with Sacramento State gave Trevor Swartz, now a volunteer assistant coach, the opportunity to come back to town with his new team. Known as 'Mr. Assist' during his time at IU, Swartz helped IU to two separate College Cup's, leading the nation in assists with 16 as a senior. Connor Hines had the chance to chat with Trevor about his time at Indiana, his new role, and what's still ahead.
(09/25/19 6:39am)
After starting the year with a 4-0-2 record, while the first five matches of 2019 went to overtime, Indiana Soccer was handed its first loss of the fall Tuesday night in Indianapolis. Connor Hines and Sam Neidermann have you covered with the latest edition of the Quest For Nine Report.
(09/03/19 11:07pm)
Your 2019 Indiana Soccer coverage team is here. Todd Yeagley's team is new, but after one weekend of play, it's clear they're ready for the challenge. Connor Hines, Austin Render, and Jared Rigdon kick off this year's podcast coverage, breaking down IU's 2-0 start, with overtime wins against Pittsburgh and UCLA. Indiana heads to South Bend this weekend to face Denver and Seattle, teams both receiving votes in this week's polls. Get caught up with the first Indiana Soccer Podcast of the fall.
(08/31/19 4:15pm)
On the latest Quest For Nine Report, Indiana gets a thrilling double overtime victory over Pittsburgh to open the 2019 season. Connor Hines and Austin Render have you covered from Bill Armstrong Stadium.
(08/27/19 8:40pm)
Before the season opener against Pittsburgh on August 30th, check out the rest of The Hoosier Network's Indiana Soccer position previews:
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Trey Muse, along with everything he brought to the Indiana Men’s Soccer program, has come and gone. After two of the most remarkable seasons ever for an IU goalkeeper, Muse signed a homegrown contract with the Seattle Sounders franchise, joining former Hoosier Will Bruin in the Pacific Northwest.
A season ago, the Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year posted the sixth-best goals-against average in the country, and was obviously a major component of Indiana’s nation-leading 15 combined shutouts. After what Muse did in net during Indiana’s back-to-back trips to the College Cup, it’s hard to imagine an Indiana team without him -- then again, you could say the same for any other position group on the 2019 roster.
Indiana carries four goalkeepers on its active roster to begin the fall, all of whom have seen time on the pitch during this year’s preseason. Despite limited minutes and experience in years past, the skill and ability is certainly there, as is the leadership, in the form of projected starter Sean Caulfield.
Sean Caulfield
It’s difficult to even consider a way Sean Caulfield doesn’t start in goal for Indiana come Friday night, when the 2019 campaign gets underway against Pittsburgh.
Caulfield appeared in three matches last year, logging just over 50 minutes. Though the numbers are modest, he’s also been called on historically in penalty sessions because of his veteran ability to read a ball and lay out for it without hesitation. In that sense, it comes as no surprise that his first career appearance came in the 2017 Big Ten Championship against Wisconsin, during the PK shootout.
Caulfield is lean and athletic, but also built to goaltend, standing tall at 6’2”. He has a proven athletic ability to lean and dive, always going out of his way to protect the game.
For a short time during the 2017 preseason, it looked like the starting spot in goal was Caulfield’s to lose; that is, of course, until Muse came into the picture, and from there, the rest was history. If Indiana’s presumed starter performs as he is expected to this year, we’ll again remember how he set the tone early on, specifically this past spring in Mexico. Caulfield, along with redshirt freshman Bryant Pratt, came up big and recorded two clean sheets across two matches against Mexican youth teams UNAM University, and the Cruz Azul U-20 group. It was Caulfield’s first real opportunity in four seasons to call the team his own.
“Those two games in Mexico were the first time we saw the new 11 guys playing on the field together,” he said in the spring. “Learning tendencies of the guys around you is really important.”
Perhaps most significant of all, Caulfield, now a captain, is viewed as a senior leader for a youthful Indiana team. His time on the pitch in the spring, as well as into the fall preseason, has been imperative to further developing that role.
“Even when he wasn’t starting,” sophomore Jack Maher said, “he was preparing as if he was the starter, and that’s something that, at Indiana, you do. His play will speak for itself shortly, but I’m so confident with him. He’s very vocal, he’s a natural leader.”
Bryant Pratt
The Columbus, Ohio native comes back for his second year on the Indiana roster after redshirting in 2018. He joined the program in the spring of 2018, so this fall actually marks his fourth full semester in Bloomington.
Pratt has shown glimpses of a promising future, again helping to back up Caulfield in Mexico and contribute to the superb play in goal. For Pratt, soccer is most certainly a contact sport. The way he comes off the line, initiates involvement, and aggressively gets after the ball sums up the exact kind of player Todd Yeagley has recruited to Indiana for years. His innate reflexes are solid, and he has an incredibly powerful right leg.
He entered in the second half against UNAM, when Caulfield went down with a presumed quad injury -- the substitution seemed precautionary. Pratt capitalized on the moment, recording multiple big saves to help preserve the shutout.
“Pratt’s huge,” Maher said. “We knew he was able to step in at any moment because he’s always ready. He’s been waiting for his turn, and he got it and played extremely well.”
Pratt’s ability to perform when he was needed most is exactly the type of play Indiana will call on in order to consistently compete in 2019. It represents the bend-not-break mentality which multiple players have alluded to through this year’s preseason. After the departure of nearly every IU starter from a season ago, it could very well turn into a sort of mantra for this year’s group.
Jacob Gruber
Gruber is another in-state kid who played his high school soccer at Cathedral in Fishers. He chose to redshirt in 2017, and has seen time in Indiana’s preseason matches this fall.
In the springtime, he helped combine with Pratt for a 3-0 shutout over Lipscomb. Of course, his sophomore season will depend heavily on what happens to Caulfield and Pratt. He should be the next man up if one or both of them are unavailable, or if he separates himself enough in the preseason.
Roman Celentano
The freshman from Naperville, Illinois rounds out Indiana’s 2019 crew. Before coming to Bloomington, he was the starter for the Sockers FC Academy U-18/19 roster, with 68 caps and a 65.13 save percentage.
His ability to dive despite his height is what sticks out most and he’ll only improve with time. He’s another prime example of a tall and athletic defender -- the exact type of player that new goalkeepers coach Christian Lomeli will look to further develop this fall.
(08/09/19 2:37pm)
Andrew Gutman came out of nowhere to score one of the most significant goals he’d ever record in a Hoosier uniform. In that sense, it was an uncharacteristic effort from the senior, because Andrew Gutman shaped a career out of making himself noticed on the field.
Not unlike most matches in the Big Ten, Indiana’s October 12th tilt against Maryland was tightly contested from opening kick. Little did any of us know at the time that it would be the first of three matches between the two sides in 2018, quickly developing one of the strongest rivalries with two of the strongest programs in the country.
In the 32nd minute, Gutman locked up his seventh goal of the season, a header off Austin Panchot’s set piece to give IU the fast start. The 1-0 lead held into the second half until the Terps’ Paul Bin, who returns as a senior this fall and figures to be one of Maryland’s top scoring threats on the wing, knotted it up at one apiece. From there, it felt like Bin and the Terrapins might be able to escape Bloomington with at least a point, as Maryland continued to press deep into the second half.
They couldn’t sustain that press quite long enough.
With 18 seconds remaining in regulation, Gutman yet again demonstrated why he’d be plenty deserving of being named the nation’s best college soccer player when the year finally came to its close. Senior Frankie Moore sent forward a ball to Rece Buckmaster, who with tremendous poise crossed it right into the feet of Gutman, quietly positioned on the near wing, tapping it in near the left post, and sealing Indiana a thrilling 2-1 win. Maryland goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair barely even had time to react.
(08/06/19 2:00pm)
The Hoosier Network's Matt Cohen and Griffin Gonzalez continue their countdown to Indiana's kickoff with Ball State on August 31st. This time around, they take a closer look at the IU running back room, led by sophomore Stevie Scott.
(06/10/19 5:34pm)
The past year in Indiana athletics gave us a little bit of everything. This summer, the HN staff is recounting the best from the year. Each week, we’re revealing a new game, moment, or memory which stood out to us as worthy of a spot in our #HNTop10. It all culminates in August with our best moment from the year.
Up first: Stevie Scott’s breakout performance in Indiana’s super-soaked home opener against Virginia.
(05/15/19 8:46pm)
Sam and Connor sit down for the final time this year to review 2019 as a whole for Indiana Softball, with reaction to the Hoosiers just barely missing out on the NCAA tournament. Plus, it's bracket season! For the last time this season, it's Take 60.
(05/13/19 3:11am)
Indiana softball was left out of the 2019 NCAA tournament field and was the second team named in the 'First Four Out,' along with Oregon State, San Jose State, and UNLV.
As of earlier today, the Hoosiers found themselves in the field of 64, according to two of three final bracket projections. Both Fastpitch News and College Sports Madness forecasted Indiana in the tournament field, while Softball America had IU as one of the First Four Out. Had IU been selected, it would have been the program's first appearance in the tournament since 2011, and just the eighth appearance all-time.
We’ll have more reflection on Indiana's season in the coming days, but for now, let’s get the essentials out of the way.
(05/09/19 8:06am)
2019 has been a road full of twists and turns for Indiana softball. You might know the story by now. After getting off to its hottest start in program history (14-0), expectations were promptly tempered for the Hoosiers. They were swept three times in conference play, all of which came on the road. Despite wins over powerhouses Georgia and LSU, Indiana’s additional non-conference losses include the likes of Furman, Illinois State, and Florida Gulf Coast.
Following a 2-1 weekend record to conclude the regular season in State College, Indiana received the seven seed in this year’s Big Ten Tournament, drawing Penn State in the first round. It’s a quick turnaround for Shonda Stanton’s club, but the luxury of game planning for one less opponent -- plus competing in front of a home crowd -- both certainly help Indiana’s cause.
With the groundwork now laid and a roller-coaster regular season put to bed, what’s still to be had this spring in Bloomington?
(04/17/19 11:29pm)
Sam and Connor are joined by The Hoosier Network's Spencer Aber to recap the latest happenings with the team. After taking two of three from the Terps, the Hoosiers direct their focus to Wisconsin this weekend in Madison. Plus, the Aussie Peppers select Tara Trainer 21st overall in this year's NPF Draft! All that and more on the latest edition of the Take 60 podcast.
(04/03/19 11:08pm)
After countering back with a clean sweep of Michigan State last weekend, Indiana Softball (28-10; 3-3) heads to Ann Arbor to take on the Wolverines (24-10; 6-0). Sam and Connor take a look at Michigan, and then sit down with right fielder Gabbi Jenkins, to talk this season, her path to Bloomington, and everything in between.
(04/01/19 9:53pm)
In more ways than one, it didn’t take long for Shonda Stanton’s group to turn things around. Whether it be the effort on the field itself -- or adjusting to weather and preparing to get all three games played this past weekend at Andy Mohr Field -- Indiana again found new ways to get the job done.
Following a four-game slide and a rough 0-3 start to conference play, the Hoosiers bounced back in the strongest way possible, sweeping Michigan State with potent offense in a three-game set.
Indiana swiftly took advantage of a struggling MSU pitching staff in Friday’s opener putting up 12 runs in the fourth inning. It would be plenty for the Hoosiers to go on and win the weekend opener, 13-8. Using it as the tone setter for the weekend, the icy conditions which postponed Saturday’s contest, setting up a Sunday doubleheader, proved to be no issue for Indiana’s production.
IU cruised to a 6-3 victory in game two, thanks to the strong pitching efforts of Emily Goodin. The barrage at the plate continued, as the weekend was capped off with a 15-2 win in five innings, moving Indiana to 28-10 on the year and an even .500 in the Big Ten standings.
(03/28/19 3:34pm)
Sam and Connor catch up to talk about Indiana's four-game slide, and how the Hoosiers can get back on track this weekend with Michigan State in town.
(03/23/19 3:46am)
Teri Moren and her group arrived in Oregon Tuesday night happy, but nowhere near satisfied.
“We were ready to not only get to the tournament but move on and advance in the tournament,” Brenna Wise said on Thursday. “One of our goals wasn’t only to make it but to move on and advance.”
Regardless of who was on the other end of the floor, it wasn’t ever going to be easy -- not unlike this season as a whole for Indiana. Whether it be battling sluggish starts, ball security issues, or playing without their starting point guard for during a crucial three-game stretch, it’s been a season of peaks and valleys for the Hoosiers.