Five days ago Indiana outshot No. 14 Rutgers 10-6 at the Bauer Complex and lost 2-1. On Wednesday in Columbus, Rutgers outshot No. 17 Indiana 6-5 and lost 2-1. The teams combined for three shots in the first half and three goals in 11 minutes and 45 seconds of the third quarter, and Indiana’s second arrived 104 seconds after Talia Schenck’s equalizer.
Indiana did not take another shot.
Rutgers took one more in the last 16 minutes, and it was blocked. The Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal loss ends the season
at 11-8, one game after Rutgers clinched the No. 4 seed against the same team, and it ends the Rutgers careers of seven seniors.
Thirty Substitutions and One Shot
Emily Nicholls started in goal for Rutgers and Sadie Canelli for Indiana, and both benches were moving before the third minute was out. Indiana made their first change at 2:23 and Rutgers at 2:40, Julia Vinas Nieto on for Martha Goodridge. By the end of the first quarter Indiana had made 18 substitutions and Rutgers 12.
The quarter produced one shot. Olivia Stazi, on for Olivia Fraticelli at 11:58, got it away at 14:32 and Canelli saved it.
The second quarter was not much busier. Laura Loycke inserted a penalty corner at 20:26 and Sophie Kuiper went wide 12 seconds later. Indiana’s first shot of the game came at 22:56, when Molly Stutte went wide, and it was Indiana’s only shot of the half.
Nobody scored because almost nobody shot.
The game went to halftime 0-0, Rutgers ahead 2-1 in shots and Canelli the only goalkeeper who had been asked to make a save. On Friday the same two teams had scored three times by the break. On Wednesday, they had combined for three attempts.
Tied for 104 Seconds
Indiana changed the game inside two minutes of the restart. Agustina Gamonal came on for Theresa Ricci at 30:59. Mijntje Hagen shot at 31:30 and Nicholls saved it, her only save of the afternoon. Sydney Meltzer inserted at 31:35 and again at 31:44, Celia Arroyo Cabezudo hit the post at 31:52, and 15 seconds later Gamonal scored to make it 1-0, 68 seconds after she had come on.
Indiana had taken one shot in the first 31 minutes. They took three in 37 seconds and scored on the last of them.
Rutgers answered with volume.
Kuiper’s shot at 36:43 was stopped on the line by Lily Freeman. Loycke inserted three corners in 18 seconds at 38:12, 38:19 and 38:30, and Kuiper put the shot off the third one high at 38:36. Rutgers changed four players at once at 39:36. At 42:02 Ella Gandy inserted, and six seconds later Schenck finished, assisted by Anna Cogdell. It was 1-1 with 2:52 left in the third quarter.
Indiana sent four players on together at 42:08, the second the goal went in, with Stutte, Arroyo Cabezudo, Georgia Rottinghaus and Gamonal back onto the field. On Friday three Rutgers substitutes changed the game in 161 seconds. On Wednesday Indiana needed 104. Stutte found Inés Garcia Prado at 43:52 and it was 2-1. Garcia Prado scored Indiana’s goal in both meetings, the opener at 6:38 on Friday and the winner on Wednesday.
Rutgers was level for 104 seconds.
That left 16:08 to find one goal, and Indiana did not take a shot in any of this time. Rutgers took one. Fraticelli’s attempt at 55:56 was blocked, and seven seconds later Rutgers pulled Nicholls and sent Emma Uprichard on as an extra field player at 56:03. Rutgers played the last 3:57 with an empty net, and Indiana never shot at it.
Celia Arroyo Cabezudo, green card, 59:03. Rutgers had the last 57 seconds with 11 field players against nine and a goalkeeper. Gandy inserted corners at 59:46 and 59:51, and neither produced a shot before the horn.
Rutgers finished ahead 6-5 in shots and level 3-3 on target, with seven corners to Indiana’s two. Indiana put both of its goals inside 11 minutes and 45 seconds of one quarter and spent the last 16 minutes defending them. Rutgers is now 13-5-1 all-time against Indiana and has won nine of the last 12 meetings, and Indiana, which arrived on a four-game losing streak, goes on to face No. 1 Northwestern in Friday’s 1 p.m. semifinal on BTN.
Wednesday was the last game for the seven seniors Rutgers honored on Senior Day against Michigan State on Oct. 18. Talia Schenck, the Princeton transfer, Second Team All-Big Ten and the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner, scored the last Rutgers goal of the season. Olivia Fraticelli, Second Team All-Big Ten, who opened the year with four goals and a hat trick in the first weekend, took the last Rutgers shot. Laura Loycke, the fifth-year whose hat trick off the bench beat UAlbany and who scored in two of the last three regular-season games, inserted four of the seven corners. Olivia Beattie played all 60 minutes. Emma Uprichard played 51 and finished the season on the field as the extra attacker. Maddie Olshemski played 12. Madelyn Kidd did not appear.
What stays is a junior goalkeeper in Nicholls, juniors Kuiper and Stazi up front, Cogdell, and a Big Ten All-Freshman pair in Eden Doucelin and Gandy.
Rutgers beat Indiana by a goal on Friday with six shots.
The Scarlet Knights lost to Indiana by a goal on Wednesday with six, and in November that is the whole season.
