No. 14 Field Hockey Earns Road Win at Indiana

Friday, October 10

Bloomington, Ind.

12:00 PM

Rutgers University

(8-5, 3-1)

Indiana

(5-6, 0-3)

Rutgers

Indiana

Oct 10 | Field Hockey

Box Score Video Highlights

4-0 Victory Behind Two Goals from Olivia Fraticelli

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 14 Rutgers field hockey played its third straight Big Ten road game on Friday afternoon at Indiana. The Scarlet Knights came out firing offensively from the get-go and took down the Hoosiers by a final score of 4-0.

Olivia Fraticelli led the offensive with two goals. The Scarlet Knights also received goals from Puck Winter and Julia Vinas Nieto, who scored her first collegiate goal. Emily Nicholls made three saves for her fourth time starting a shutout this season, second time in Big Ten play and third time in the past four games.

With the win, the Scarlet Knights improved to 8-5 overall and are now 3-1 in league play. The loss dropped IU to 5-6 overall and 0-3 in conference play. Rutgers improved to 12-4 all-time against Indiana, with their first road win in Bloomington since 2018. RU has won four of the past five games, outscoring opponents 20-3 in that stretch.

Rutgers scored early, capitalizing on a penalty corner just five minutes into the game. Puck Winter inserted the corner towards the top to Paulina Niklaus. Then, Niklaus sent the ball towards the back post, where Winter ran over from her inserter position, and lunged in to redirect the ball into the net for the game's first goal.

The Scarlet Knights added two goals in the second quarter to pad their ledger. On the first, RU won possession in the corner. Vicky Jure sent a long pass into the circle, Dani Gindville touched a pass over to Julia Vinas Nieto, and the freshman finished off a shot for her first career goal.

Then, Olivia Fraticelli added the third goal of the day for the visitors. Freshman Martha Goodridge sent her a pass to the front from the back line, and Fraticelli finished off her team-leading seventh goal of the season for a 3-0 halftime lead for the visitors.

Puck Winter put up another defensive save off a corner attempt in the third quarter, keeping the home team scoreless.

In the fourth quarter, Olivia Fraticelli added another goal. She took a pass from Dani Gindville and sent home a shot for the fourth RU goal. Fraticelli's third multi-goal game of the year gave her five goals across the past four games and a team-leading eight tallies on the season.

The RU defense held strong down the stretch to secure the win. Indiana had 12 shots on the day and six corners, but couldn't capitalize.

Postgame Notes

With the Win…

First win in Bloomington since 2018
A 3-1 start to Big Ten play
12-4 all-time record against IU
10^th straight season winning at least eight games overall

Student-Athlete Notes

Puck Winter's defensive save was the 30^th of her career, which ties her for sixth in NCAA history. She is just one defensive save short of tying the all-time Big Ten record.
Olivia Fraticelli scored two goals, her third game this season with two goals. She has a team-high eight goals on the season and has scored five goals across the past four games and seven goals over the past seven games.
Julia Vinas Nieto scored the first goal of her career.
Dani Gindville had her first collegiate assist.

Up Next

Rutgers returns home next weekend and will play its next three games at home. The Scarlet Knights host No. 1 Northwestern on Friday (4 pm, Big Ten Network), then welcome No. 19 Iowa on Sunday (noon) for Senior Day and Letterwinners Day