Hoosiers score 3 times in win

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- The women's soccer team needed to score.\nAnd they needed to win in the worst way.\nAfter three consecutive shutout losses, they got both Sunday.\nThe Hoosiers scored twice in the game's final seven minutes in rallying to beat Ohio State 3-2, on Sunday. An 87th-minute goal by junior midfielder Kelly Kram gave the Hoosiers their first conference win in four chances.\n"I was so happy for them," coach Joe Kelley said. "We didn't deserve to be 0-3. I couldn't look at the girl's faces when we lost.\n"Things haven't gone are way at times, but we never quit."\nKram took a cross from senior midfielder Wendy Graves in her first start of the season and pushed the ball past Ohio State goalie Amber Barnes. Kram's fourth goal of the season improved IU's record to 1-3 in the Big Ten, while the Buckeyes dropped to 0-3.\n"We didn't play well today, but we were pumped up at the end," Graves said. "That really helped us. This was a big win. It's really good to finally win a Big Ten game.\n"We knew how important it was to win. The coaches didn't really stress to the team that much, but (the upperclassmen) made sure everyone knew that we needed to win."\nThe Hoosiers lost three more starters during the weekend as sophomore forward Kate Kastl, freshman goalie Shaunna Daugherty and senior back Kendal Willis were all sidelined with injuries.\n Kastl and Willis were out with ankle problems and Daugherty pulled her quadriceps muscle.\n All three were injured in Friday's 4-0 loss to Penn State.\n "We don't use injuries as an excuse, but my God, we are just beat up," Kelley said.\n Sophomore midfielder Emily Markwell, who returned this weekend after a viral illness, was not at full strength and had to be taken out 10 minutes into the game with cramps. Markwell did return in the second half.\nThe Buckeyes fired out early, scoring about two minutes into the game. Midfielder Kiley Enmark flicked a Buckeye free kick past senior goalkeeper Chrissy Heubi to take a 1-0 lead.\nThe Hoosiers came back to tie the game with a 22nd minute goal by freshman Shelly Gruszka. Gruszka weaved through the Buckeye defense and placed a ball over the left shoulder of Barnes for her first goal of the season.\nThe goal was IU's first in four Big Ten games, halting a 333-minute scoring drought that encompassed IU\'s three conference losses. \n"I just heard people saying, 'Go! Go!,'" Gruszka said. "The ball just tipped off the defender, right to me. I had to get the defender to turn. I faked her one way and crossed the other. I knew the keeper was tall so I just tried to get the ball as high as I could.\n"It all worked out."\nThe Hoosiers carried the momentum for the rest of the half, pressuring Barnes on numerous occasions, but they were unable to make a second goal.\nThe second half started like the first as the Buckeyes quickly grabbed back the lead. Ohio State defender Sarah Lanham took a short goal kick from Heubi and caught the IU defense off guard. Lanham drove past the backfield and blasted a shot to the right of Heubi.\nThe Hoosiers continued to pressure the Buckeye backfield, and finally broke through, tying the game in the 83rd minute when freshman Emily Hotz drilled her third goal of the season off the cross bar. Kram had an assist off a play that started on a free kick, off an Ohio State foul.\nThree minutes later Kram gave IU the lead, their first in more than two weeks.\n"This was our chance to start a new," Gruszka said. "This is a fresh start for us. We're still in this thing"