Women’s Soccer Hosts Michigan State, Michigan – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/18/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Oct. 18, 2006
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women’s soccer team returns to Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Friday and Sunday where it will face Michigan State and Michigan.
The Buckeyes (8-6-1; 3-4-0 Big Ten) will host the Spartans (6-8-1; 2-5-0 Big Ten) at 7:30 p.m. Friday and the Wolverines (7-5-4; 3-2-2 Big Ten) at 1 p.m. Sunday.
IN THE BIG TEN
Ohio State is ranked in the Top 5 in seven statistical categories in the Big Ten Conference. The Buckeyes are fourth in shots with 244. Of those attempts, 22 goals have been scored, which is good for a tie for fifth place. OSU also is tied for fifth in goals per game, averaging 1.47 goals and is tied for first in assists per game (1.67). The Buckeyes are tied for first in assists with 25 and have 69 points to their credit, which ranks them fifth. Taking 6.13 corner kicks per match, the Buckeyes are third in corners with 92 on the season.
Individually, Lara Dickenmann and Lisa Collison continue to remain at the top of the Big Ten offensive standings. Dickenmann is tied for second and third in shots per game (4.00) and shots (60). Dickenmann also is second and tied for second in points per game and points with an average of 1.20 and 18, respectively. Dickenmann has recorded seven goals for an average of 0.47 goals per game, which is good for a tie for fourth in both categories. Dickenmann also is one of six players in the league who have three gamewinning goals, which ranks her second. Collison is first in the conference in points per game (1.31) and fifth in the league in points with 17. With eight goals to her credit, Collison is tied for first in goals and is tied for first in goals per game, averaging 0.62 goals. Lisa Grubb is tied for first in assists (6) and assists per game (0.40). OSU keeper Lauren Robertson is tied for fourth in shutouts with five. BIG TEN RECORD
In 13 seasons, Ohio State has compiled a 48-61-11 conference record.
THE FUN STUFF
The game against Michigan State Friday is Ohio State Alumni Association Night. OSU alumni receive $2 tickets with an advanced purchase. The contest also is Ohio State women’s soccer Alumni Night. Past women’s soccer student-athletes will receive free admission.
The Buckeyes’ match up against the Wolverines will feature the Ohio State Pep Band. As well, the game is Girl Scout and MOSSL Appreciation Day. All Girl Scouts will receive $2 tickets with an advanced purchase. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase a family four pack of four tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and four popcorns for $26. Fans in the eighth grade and under are invited to participate in a postmatch soccer kick.
NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Lara Dickenmann was named to the SoccerBuzz.com Elite Team of the Week for the week of Oct. 9. This is Dickenmann’s third elite team of the week honor.
CONFERENCE HONORS
Midfielder Lara Dickenmann was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 9 following a three-goal weekend against Iowa and No. 10 Illinois Oct. 6 and Oct. 8.
Dickenmann collected the first two of her six points against the Hawkeyes, scoring one of two goals in the Buckeyes’ 2-0 win. Dickenmann returned to action against the Fighting Illini and scored both OSU goals in the team’s 2-0 victory.
Dickenmann leads the team in points with 18 on seven goals and four assists.
The Buckeyes have won every match in which Dickenmann has tallied at least one point, except the Indiana game.
MAKE IT 32 AND 33
Lisa Grubb, who already has six assists to her credit this season, tallied her first and second goal of the season against Wright State Oct. 11. The OSU all-time goals leader, Grubb’s career goals total is 33.
Grubb, who missed the entire 2005 season because of injury, last scored two goals in a game Oct. 8, 2004 against Northwestern. The Buckeyes won that match, 2-1.
POINTS SYSTEM
Eleven Buckeyes have tallied at least a point this season, including Carla Arbulu and Keiana Mitchell, who recorded their first points of 2006 against Wright State.
Arbulu scored an assist and Mitchell notched two helpers.
THE TRIFECTA
Buckeye tri-captains, Emily Francis, Lisa Grubb and Melissa Miller contributed an assist for the third consecutive game against Iowa. In all, the trio has combined for 18 points this season – Francis (4a), Grubb (2g, 6a), Miller (4a).
GOOSE EGG
The OSU defense has posted five shutouts on the season. Ohio State has notched consecutive shutouts twice this season, the first coming against Kent State (0-0) and Xavier (2-0) and the second vs. Iowa (2-0) and Illinois (2-0).
BUCKEYE SNAPSHOT
Ohio State is out scoring and out shooting its opponents, 22-16, and 244-163, respectively. The Buckeyes also have the corner kicks advantage, 92-54.
DEFENDING THE NITTANY LIONS
Ohio State held Penn State to a tie for its lowest shot output of the season. The Nittany Lions registered 10 shots against the Buckeye defense. PSU was averaging 17 shots per game prior to its match against OSU.
SCOUTING MICHIGAN STATE
Michigan State enters its match up with Ohio State with a 6-8-1 overall record and a 2-5-0 mark in the Big Ten.
Freshman forward Lauren Hill leads the Spartans in points with 16 on seven goals and two assists. Second on the team with 10 points is Lauren Sinacola. The freshman midfielder has four goals and two assists to her credit. In the net for MSU is Nicole Galas. Compiling 1372:53 minutes, Galas has a goals-against average of 1.38 after yielding 21 goals. Galas also has 62 saves for a save percentage of .747.
Head coach for Michigan State is Tom Saxton (Michigan State, `83). In 15 seasons, Saxton has tallied a 158-132-26 MSU and career record.
BUCKEYES VS. SPARTANS
The Buckeyes and Spartans are even at 6-6-0 in the all-time series.
A LOOK AT MICHIGAN
Michigan owns a 7-5-4 overall record, including a 3-2-2 ledger in the Big Ten.
A pair of forwards in Judy Coffman and Melissa Dobbyn lead the Wolverines in points. Coffman has 13 points on five goals and three assists, while Dobbyn has 11 points after notching three goals and five assists. Wolverine goalkeeper Megan Tuura has received most of the time in net for UM. Tuura has been in the net for 1207:50 minutes and has given up seven goals for a GAA of 0.52. Tuura has 39 saves to her credit for a save percentage of .848 and is credited with a 7-2-3 record.
Debbie Rademacher (Massachusetts, `88) is the head coach for Michigan. Rademacher has an overall record of 173-109-33 and a UM mark of 155-97-29.
BUCKEYES VS. WOLVERINES
Ohio State trails Michigan 5-10-2 in the all-times series. The Buckeyes and the Wolverines have met in the Big Ten tournament in three of the past four seasons and the Scarlet and Gray have won two of those three contests.
POINTS ON THE WOLVERINES
Current members of the OSU women’s soccer team have compiled 19 points against Michigan.
TEAM CONNECTIONS
Ohio State senior forward Lisa Grubb is from Portage, Mich., as are Michigan State sophomore goalkeeper Lindsey Wrege and MSU freshman midfielder Megan Brown.
CENTRAL OHIO CONNECTIONS
Michigan’s roster has three student-athletes who hail from the central Ohio area. Sophomore midfielder Christina Para is from Dublin, Ohio, and attended Columbus School for Girls. Katie Miler, a sophomore forward, attended Worthington Kilbourne in Columbus. Freshman forward Brittany Magee, also from Dublin, prepped at Dublin Coffman High School.
NO. 1
Lisa Grubb is the Ohio State all-time leader in goals (33), assists (25) and points (87). Grubb took over the top spot in career goals in the Buckeyes’ 2004 NCAA tournament match against Tennessee. After missing the 2005 season because of injury, Grubb has returned to the lineup this season and has tallied 10 points on two goals and six assists. Grubb started the season just two points and four assists behind Lisa Suttmiller (1994-97) for the all-time lead.
ADD TO THE COLLECTION
Lisa Collison was named to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week for the week of Oct. 2 after her three-goal performance vs. Northwestern Oct. 1. Collison notched a hat trick against the Wildcats, becoming the first Buckeye to do so since 2004 when former midfielders Heather Miller and Danielle Dietrich recorded three goals against Xavier and Minnesota, respectively.
The award by Top Drawer Soccer is the second of Collison’s career. The sophomore earned the weekly honor this time last year (Oct. 3, 2005) after tallying a three-goal weekend vs. Illinois (Sept. 30) and Iowa (Oct. 2).
HATS OFF TO YOU
With her three-goal outing against Northwestern, Lisa Collison is tied for second all time for the most goals scored by a Buckeye in a game. Collison joins five former Buckeyes in the records list. Tiffany Tisdale (1994-97) owns the record with four goals against the Miami RedHawks in 1997.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT JESSE
Despite dropping its first match at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium this season against Northwestern, Ohio State owns an impressive record of 84-39-10 (.669) in Columbus.
The Buckeyes are 5-1-1 at JOMS in 2006 and have three more matches to play.
THE 12TH MAN
Ohio State is first in the Big Ten Conference in home attendance with 7,815 fans attending matches at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Buckeyes are third in the league in overall attendance, which includes away and neutral matches (11, 334).
OFFENSIVELY SPEAKING
Three of the four goals and points leaders from the past four seasons are on the 2006 roster. Lisa Collison (13g, 3a) was the 2005 goals and points leader. Lara Dickenmann owned the ranking in 2004 (13g, 12a) and Lisa Grubb was tops in 2001 (12g, 5a) and 2002 (7g, 3a).
MAKE IT 100
Head coach Lori Walker earned her 100th OSU win Aug. 27 when Ohio State shut out Xavier, 2-0, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
Walker’s Buckeye career record is 107-80-15 in 10-plus seasons at Ohio State.
BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE WEEK
True freshman Lauren Robertson was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Aug. 28 following her performances vs. Kent State and Xavier. Robertson is the first OSU goalkeeper since 1998 to record two shutouts in the first two games of the season. The last Buckeye keeper to accomplish the feat was Ohio State career shutouts leader Amber Barnes (1997-2000). Barnes recorded 22 shutouts in her four-year career and opened the `98 campaign with shutout victories against Evansville (1-0) and Louisville (5-0).
Prior to Barnes, only Stacey Smith (1993 and 1995) tallied consecutive shutouts in the first two games of a season.
LAST TIME OUT
VS. NO. 11 PENN STATE
Despite out shooting Penn State, 17-10, Ohio State fell, 1-0, to the 11th-ranked Nittany Lions Oct. 15 at Jeffrey Field in University Park, Pa.
Almost identical to the match up last season in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, the Scarlet and Gray gave up an early goal to the Nittany Lions, but held strong for the remainder of the game.
In 2005, Ohio State relinquished a goal in the sixth minute, but held then-No. 1 Penn State scoreless the rest of the way. This time around, Nittany Lion Katie Schoepfer scored on a clean breakaway and beat OSU keeper Lauren Robertson to put the ball in the net in the seventh minute. Ali Krieger was credited with the assist.
OSU recorded nine shots in the first period, including four on goal, but could not finish. Senior tri-captain Melissa Miller headed a couple of Buckeye chances in the 19th and 22nd minutes, as did fellow captain Lisa Grubb in the 41st minute, but neither was able to even the score to possibly send the match to overtime.
The Buckeye defense limited the Nittany Lions to four shots in the second half, including just one on goal to keep them in the game. Ohio State fired eight shots with three on net.
For the match, Robertson tallied six saves and PSU keeper Alyssa Naeher had seven stops. In corner kicks, Ohio State finished the game with a 4-3 advantage.
UP NEXT
Ohio State concludes its home schedule and the regular season when it hosts Minnesota at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
Prior to the match, the six OSU seniors – Emily Francis, Michelle Markus, Melissa Miller, Shannon Neely, Taylor Smith and Lisa Grubb – will be honored.
