Ohio State Travels to Louisville – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/2/1998 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
September 2, 1998
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Buckeyes (1-0-0) will continue a three-game road trip as they head to Kentucky for a Sunday morning match at Louisville (0-1-0) at 11 a.m. With a first match win at Evansville, OSU keeps its streak of unbeaten first games alive. The Buckeyes are 4-0-2 in season opening contests since the inaugural 1993 season.
OSU vs. LOUISVILLE HISTORY
OSU is 3-0-0 against the Cardinals all-time. The Buckeyes won the first match in 1994, 5-2 in Columbus and took the second 3-2 on the road in overtime in 1995. The last meeting between the two squads took place in 1996 at Columbus with OSU blanking Louisville 3-0 in the season opener.
LOUISVILLE DOWNED BY MIAMI
Louisville suffered a 4-0 loss to Miami (O.) at home Tuesday in its season opener. The Cardinals managed 10 shots, but offensive production was very limited. The RedHawks peppered the Cardinal net with 26 shots and scored most of the goals on deflections or loose balls.
SCOUTING THE CARDINALS
The Cardinals went 1-1 in the preseason, losing to Evansville 2-0 and defeating Morehead State 2-0. The squad was 7-13-0 in 1997 and 3-6 in Conference USA. Gone is Stephanie Contole who finished second for all-time goals with 36.
SLIM PICKING
Both Louisville and Ohio State have only one goalkeeper on their rosters, a rarity in Division I soccer.
OSU’S PROBABLE STARTERS Keeper 1 Amber Barnes Sweeper 10 Maria Jimenez Left Back 3 Amanda Orr Center Back 10 Katie Martorella Right Back 24 Elisa Hamilton Left Flank 12 Jennifer Plante Center Mid 18 Emily Thorpe Center Mid 11 Becky Borchers Right Flank 19 Katy Traeger Striker 6 Melanie Vierling Striker 9 Mia Katzel
BIG TEN 3-2 ON OPENING DAY
The Big Ten Conference posted a 3-2 mark as the 1998 season got underway on Tuesday. Indiana, Ohio State and Penn State all came away with first match victories while Michigan State and Minnesota dropped their debut contests.
FIVE FRESHMEN SEE ACTION
Five young Bucks were thrown in to the mix in the season opener as true freshmen Elisa Hamilton, Emily Thorpe and Melanie Vierling started for the Scarlet and Gray and Brynn Catino and Courtney Nein entered in reserve roles.
NEXT MATCH AT DAYTON
The Buckeyes will conclude their three-game road stand against Dayton on Wednesday Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Flyers’ Baujan Field.
HEAD COACH LORI WALKER
The North Carolina graduate is 10-9-1 in her second season as head coach of the Buckeyes and 23-32-2 for her four-year career. She is one of the youngest Division I coaches at 27 years of age and just the second women’s soccer mentor in OSU history. She led her 1997 Buckeye squad to the second highest winning percentage (.500) in school history and advanced to the conference tournament. Walker first coached at Kansas for two years before accepting the position at OSU.
HERMANN FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Four Fighting Irish and four Tarheel standouts head the list of 1998 women’s Hermann Trophy finalists which is awarded to the best player in college soccer. The finalists are: Lakyesia Beene (Notre Dame), Sara Burkett (Clemson), Mandy Clemons (Santa Clara), Lorrie Fair (North Carolina), Danielle Fotopoulos (Florida), Michelle French (Portland), Jen Grubb (Notre Dame), Angela Hucles (Virginia), Anne Makinen (Notre Dame), Cindy Parlow (North Carolina), Tiffany Roberts (North Carolina), Laurie Schwoy (North Carolina), Emily Stauffer (Harvard), Jenny Streiffer (Notre Dame), Missy Wycinsky (William & Mary).
PLANTE FINISHES LOOSE BALL FOR WIN
Senior defender Jennifer Plante came off the bench to score the game winning goal in OSU’s 1-0 win at Evansville Tuesday night. In the 24th minute, Plante netted a stray ball that was rolling in front of the goal mouth after a corner kick, her only shot of the day. Melissa Fox recorded three shots for the Buckeyes and Becky Borchers and Courtney Nein tallied the other two. Evansville out-shot OSU 11-6 and also had seven corner kicks, but the Bucks capitalized on one of their few scoring opportunities to shutout the host Purple Aces. Krissy Meek led the Evansville attack with three shots and Shelean Roylance and Holly Wimberg each recorded two shots apiece. Sophomore goalkeeper Amber Barnes moved her career shutout mark to 4.5 while recording six saves on the day.
NEW FIELD FOR PRACTICE AND GAMES
Due to construction of the Jerome Schottenstein Center, North Field is no longer available for use by the soccer teams. Practices will be held at the Jesse Owens Recreation Center on West campus until the new practice fields at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center become available. Games will be held at the OSU Sports Field which is located south of Ohio Stadium near Larkins Hall. Dimensions of the natural grass field will be 75 x 115 yards with a capacity of 800.
OSU media guides are here: 1998 soccer media guides are available at the St. John Arena shop at a cost of $5. The guide contains information on the 1998 season, player bios and statistial and historical information. Both men’s and women’s guides are for sale as well as all other sports when available. The phone number is 1 800-678-6022 or 292-2073.
Promotional dates: There will be a post-game clinic (free of charge) after the Michigan game on Sept. 27. Parent’s Day will fall on the Northwestern game (Oct. 18) and Senior Day is set for the home finale against Arkansas on Oct. 31.
Admission is free: There will be no charge for admission to home games this year.
1998 NSCAA/UMBRO RANKINGS Rk Team 1997 Record Points 1 North Carolina 27-0-1 225 2 Notre Dame 23-1-1 213 3 Santa Clara 20-3-1 210 4 Connecticut 23-4-0 188 5 Florida 20-3-1 181 6 Virginia 14-5-2 160 7 Portland 14-5-0 159 8 Nebraska 18-4-0 156 9 Hartford 19-2-1 150 10 Duke 15-6-0 146 11 Texas A & M 18-3-0 144 12 Harvard 13-4-2 119 13 William & Mary 20-5-0 114 14 Clemson 15-7-0 113 15 Minnesota 18-3-2 84 UCLA 19-3-0 84 17 Michigan 18-4-1 81 18 Maryland 12-9-3 76 19 BYU 19-4-0 50 20 Southern Methodist 17-5-1 46 21 George Mason 14-6-4 45 22 Massachusetts 17-5-0 42 23 Vanderbilt 14-8-0 41 24 Stanford 11-7-1 22 25 Penn State 15-7-1 20
1998 STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL Illinois 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Indiana 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Iowa 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Michigan 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Michigan State 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 Northwestern 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Ohio State 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Penn State 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000 Purdue 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Wisconsin 0 0 .000 0 0 .000
Matches This Week
Tuesday, September 1
Xavier – 1 at Indiana – 4
Notre Dame – 4 at Michigan State – 0
Minnesota – 0 at Cincinnati – 1
Ohio State – 1 at Evansville – 0
Pittsburgh – 1 at Penn State – 5
Friday, September 4
Illinois at Illinois State
Tulane at Iowa
Michigan at Dayton
Michigan State at Valparaiso
Marquette at Northwestern
Maryland at Penn State
Saturday, September 5
Wisconsin vs. Rutgers
Sunday, September 6
Quincy at Illinois
IUPUI at Indiana
Iowa at DePaul
Michigan at Butler
Michigan State at Eastern Michigan
Tulane at Northwestern
Ohio State at Louisville
Wisconsin at Connecticut
Conference Notes
On two recently released national soccer polls the Big Ten women’s soccer programs ranked among the top 20 elite schools on both. Headlining the two polls were the Michigan Wolverines who ranked No. 16 in Soccer America’s Preseason Collegiate Top 20 poll and No. 17 on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Women’s NCAA Division I Preseason poll (NSCAA/Umbro).
MICHIGAN IN 1997
Michigan ranked second in the Big Ten in 1997 with a Conference record of 7-1-1 (.833) and finished 18-4-1 (.804) overall. The Wolverines won the Big Ten Tournament automatically qualifying them for the NCAA Tournament. The team fell to then ranked No. 7 (NSCAA/Umbro) Nebraska in the first round 5-1.
MORE BIG TEN GOOD STUFF
Three Big Ten women soccer programs were also ranked in the NSCAA Preseason Top 25 poll which was released in July. Minnesota, which clinched the 1997 Big Ten title, led all league schools with a tied 15 ranking, while U-M rated 17 and Penn State rounded out the poll at No. 25. The Wolverines claimed the 15th spot on last year’s NSCAA/Umbro final regular season ranking, just four places behind the league champion Golden Gophers (11th), while the Nittany Lions claimed the No. 21 slot.
