No. 3 Indiana Downed 4-0 by Dartmouth at Mike Berticelli Tournament

Hoosiers rop to 1-1-2 on the season.


Sophomore Andy Adlard joined Brad Ring on the all-tournament team at the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament.

Sept. 7, 2008

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - No. 3 Indiana (1-1-2) could not find an answer for the Dartmouth (1-1) attack as the Big Green scored early and added three second-half goals for a 4-0 win over the Hoosiers on the final day of the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament at Notre Dame.

The four goals is the most give up by the Hoosiers since a 5-4 loss to Notre Dame on Sept. 3, 2006.

Dartmouth took a 1-0 lead at 15:55 on a fluke miscue by the Hoosiers. Goalkeeper Chay Cain came off his line to pick up what looked like a harmless ball, but Lucky Mkosana was right there with him and when Cain mishandled the ball Mkosana rolled the ball into a wide open net for the score.

Craig Henderson gave Dartmouth a 2-0 lead at 63:31, going one-on-one with Cain and slotting the ball home to the far post. Just over a minute later at 64:33 it was 3-0 Big Green with another score for Henderson off a throw in.

Dartmouth's Maarten van Ess headed home the final score of the afternoon at 78:46 to give the Big Green the 4-0 victory.

Freitag went with the same lineup from Friday's double overtime tie with No. 5 South Florida, pairing Daniel Kelly up top with Will Bruin and moving Rich Balchan to the back. In the second half, redshirt freshman Tyler McCarroll made his first-ever appearance for IU.

Andy Adlard had the first shot of the day, a high attempt that came off a set piece from 30 yards out after Brad Ring was fouled.

 

 

In the 10th minute Henderson took a shot at a wide-open net after Cain was drawn out to his right to stop the first Big Green attempt. Lucky for the Hoosiers the attempt sailed high after ticking off an IU defender.

At 13:15 Daniel Kelly had a shot that bounced off the hands of Dartmouth goalkeeper Sean Milligan but Milligan scrambled over to cover the rebound, not allowing a second attempt by the Hoosiers.

John Mellencamp had a shot from five yards out that Milligan got a foot on, but the Indiana attack was met with a swarm of green shirts any time it approached the penalty box.

Balchan nearly had the equalizer at 30:48 when he got the ball in a scramble in front of the net and took at shot that Milligan had to go to the ground to save. Ring also had a shot in the sequence, with attempt bouncing off a Big Green player and landing at the foot of Balchan.

Indiana held an 8-7 advantage in shots after the first half, with four of those shots on goal. Adlard led everyone with three attempts.

Ring had a pair of on-goal attempts for the Hoosiers in the second half as Indiana still managed a 16-13 advantage in shot attempts for the match.

The Hoosiers finish their four-game road swing next weekend as they travel to the West Coast to face UCLA and San Diego. Indiana matches up with the Bruins on Friday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET before taking on San Diego on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. ET. Both matches will be played at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

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