Soccer loses Sunday game in Indiana, 1-0

The women’s soccer team lost for the first time this season Sunday in Indiana at Armstrong Stadium.

Indiana beat CMU 1-0 in a game that was the first of three road games at Big Ten schools this season.

Indiana scored in the game’s seventh minute when freshman Orianica Herrera found sophomore Carly Samp, who fired a shot to the right side of the goal.

Junior midfielder Valerie Prause said the team did not play up to its ability to start the game.

“In the first half, we came out a little intimidated,” she said. “Then we got settled in the second half and figured out who we were. (We) played a lot harder in the second half.”

Prause said the Chippewas allowed Indiana to control play in the start of the game.

“We need to know who we are when we start the game and impose our game on the other team instead of them imposing theirs on us,” she said.
Coach Tom Anagnost said Indiana had more players who wanted to win the game.

“I give credit to Indiana, because they wanted to win the game more than us,” he said. “With that being said, we were definitely in the game today.”
Central (2-1) got eight shots off, but only managed to get three of them on goal.

Two of the shots on goal were by senior forward Molly Gerst. She said the team did not play the way it has been practicing.

“As a team we really shied away from who we are and who we have been the last few days,” she said. “I think we lost sight of all the things we have been working on and made a lot of mistakes.”

Gerst said even with a loss today, the team knows it is good enough to play against bigger conferences.

Central’s next two games are against Big Ten teams.

“It just shows we can play with anybody, whether it is the Big Ten or any conference,” Gerst said. “That is a good mentality going into Michigan and Michigan State. We may have lost, but we know that we can hang with Big Ten teams.”

Win at home

Central earned its first home victory of the season Friday, beating St. Bonaventure 1-0 at the CMU Soccer Complex.

Freshman forward Laura Twidle said the team was not satisfied with the 1-0 victory. Instead, it believed it needed to play better if it wants to accomplish its goals.

“I think we can do a lot better,” she said. “It was kind of messy at points. We gave the ball up a lot.”

Junior goalkeeper Shay Mannino earned her 14th shutout of her career, but it was freshman Bailey Brandon who kept the game scoreless in the 33rd minute after Dakota Carroll got a shot past Mannino.

Twidle put the Chippewas on the scoreboard in the 71st minute when she collected a clearing attempt by St. Bonaventure and shot it past Nicole Markert to give Central its lone goal of the game.

CMU plays Thursday against Michigan in Ann Arbor in the second of three games against Big Ten opponents.