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Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions -- 2006, 2007, 2015, 2016 This Week in Ball State Soccer Game 11: Ball State vs. Ohio Friday, Sept. 29 (5 p.m.) Muncie, Ind.

1 Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions , 2007, 2015, 2016 This Week in Ball State Soccer Game 11: Ball State vs. Ohio Friday, Sept. 29 (5 p.m.) Muncie, Ind. (Briner Sports Complex) Series History: Ohio leads, Last Meeting: OU 3, BSU 1 (Oct. 20, 2016 in Athens, Ohio) Schedule & Results Date Opponent Time/Result 8/18 FORT WAYNE W, 2-0 8/20 at Notre Dame L, 0-4 8/25 at Xavier L, 0-1 8/27 APPALACHIAN ST. T, 1-1 (2OT) 9/1 at TCU L, 1-2 9/3 at Baylor L, 0-1 9/8 at IUPUI L, 0-1 9/15 WESTERN ILLINOIS W, 3-0 9/22 at Bowling Green* W, 2-1 9/24 at Toledo* T, 1-1 (2OT) 9/29 OHIO* 5p 10/1 KENT STATE* 2p 10/5 at Western Michigan* 4p 10/8 NORTHERN ILLINOIS* 2p 10/13 EASTERN MICHIGAN* 4p 10/15 CENTRAL MICHIGAN* 2p 10/19 at Buffalo* 7p 10/22 at Akron* 1p 10/26 at Miami* 3p 10/29 MAC Quarterfinals^ TBA 11/3 MAC Semifinals^ TBA 11/5 MAC Finals^ TBA Home games in BOLD CAPS * Mid-American Conference game ^ MAC Tournament (played at campus sites) All times listed as Eastern MAC Standings entering Friday s games East MAC Overall Kent State Ohio Bowling Green Buffalo Akron Miami West MAC Overall Northern Illinois Ball State Toledo Western Michigan Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Game 12: Ball State vs. Kent State Sunday, Oct. 1 (2 p.m.) Muncie, Ind. (Briner Sports Complex) Series History: Ball State leads, Last Meeting: BSU 2, KSU 1 in OT (Oct. 23, 2016 in Kent, Ohio) The Teams Ball State is (1-0-1 MAC). The Cardinals opened conference play on the road last weekend, defeating Bowling Green, 2-1, and playing Toledo to a 1-1 draw. Starting this weekend, BSU will play five of its next six games at home (all in a span of 17 days). Ohio is (2-0-0 MAC) after opening league play with a pair of home victories. The Bobcats defeated Eastern Michigan, 2-1 in overtime, and shut out Central Michigan, 3-0. Ohio has scored 10 goals this season, with five of them coming in the past two games. Kent State is (2-0-0 MAC) and also opened league play last weekend with home wins over Central Michigan, 2-1, and Eastern Michigan, 1-0. The Golden Flashes ride a six-game winning streak into this weekend and travel Friday to Miami before visiting Muncie. Friday s game with Ohio marks a chance for Ball State to avenge its only conference loss from a season ago, while Sunday s matchup with Kent State pits last year s MAC regular season champion (Cardinals) and tournament champion (Golden Flashes)... Ball State won at Kent State last season on an overtime goal from Sam Kambol in a battle for first place. About the Cardinals After registering four goals in its first seven games, Ball State has tallied six goals in the past three contests. The Cardinals have scored five of those six goals in the second half. Ball State s 10 goals this season have come from seven players. All three goals in the team s opening weekend of MAC play came from first-time scorers this season -- junior M Alessandra Fistrovich, sophomore M Julia Elvbo and junior M Lauren Roll. Fistrovich s goal was the first of her collegiate career. Ball State has had 19 different players start at least one game this season. Eight of the Cardinals 10 goals have been scored by players coming off the bench. Ball State is (.875) in conference play dating back to the 2015 season. The Cardinals 19 combined conference victories in 2015 and 2016 tied for the most over a two-year period by any team in MAC history, matching the Central Michigan teams and the Toledo squads. Goalkeeper Alyssa Heintschel was selected last week as one of 30 candidates nationwide for the Senior CLASS Award for women s soccer. The award recognizes student-athletes for achievement in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition. In addition to being an All-MAC First Team goalkeeper, Heintschel is a 4.0 student as a chemistry, pre-med major. The three-year captain is also active in the community. Sophomore F Sam Kambol leads the Cardinals with three goals, including two in the nonconference finale against Western Illinois. Kambol became the first BSU player to score two goals in a game since she did it in the second game last season against IUPUI.

2 Senior goalkeepers Alyssa Heintschel and Tristin Stuteville have split time evenly this season. Heintschel, a two-time All-MAC keeper, is in her fourth year at Ball State and owns a 0.77 career goals against average. Stuteville transferred to Ball State from Saint Louis and has logged a 1.05 GAA in 11 career appearances with the Cardinals. Both are team captains, along with junior D Taylor Pooley. Ball State challenged itself in the non-conference schedule with three games against teams rated among the top 75 in the NCAA RPI -- Notre Dame (14), Baylor (48) and TCU (74). Notre Dame and TCU were NCAA tournament teams a year ago. Senior D Sam Mattlin is back on the field for the Cardinals this season. Knee injuries forced her to miss the final 13 games of the 2015 season and all 20 contests in 2016, but she has returned this year to start every game on the back line. Senior M/D Lucy Walton is the most experienced member of the team in terms of games played. She has appeared in 64 contests over her four years. Dating back to the start of 2015, Ball State has surrendered one goal or fewer in 44 of its past 50 contests. The Cardinals ranked among the top 25 nationally in goals against average in each of the past two seasons and led the MAC in that category three times in the past four years. Since the start of the 2015 season, Ball State is (.909) on its home turf at the Briner Sports Complex. Go back one year further to the start of the 2014 season, and the Cardinals are (.859) at home. Ball State has won the past two MAC regular season championships outright, marking only the second time that has been accomplished in league history. The first time was also by Ball State with its 2006 and 2007 outright titles. The Cardinals four total regular season championships are the most in league history. Coming off consecutive MAC regular season championships, BSU was picked as the favorite in the league s West Division again in The Cardinals received seven of 12 possible first-place votes from the league s coaches. BSU was also tabbed the favorite to win the MAC Tournament. BSU reached an all-time high of No. 40 in the NCAA RPI last season and finished the season with its best ever year-end rating at No The Cardinals.775 winning percentage over the 2015 and 2016 seasons was the 10th-best of any team in the country during that stretch. BSU finished each of the past two years with 14 overall victories, tying for the second-most in a season in program history. Best Winning Pct. in NCAA (2015 and 2016 combined) 1. Stanford,.875 (37-4-3) 2. West Virginia,.870 (42-5-3) 3. Penn State,.841 (34-8-6) 4. UConn,.837 (38-7-1) 5. BYU,.826 (34-6-3) 6. Virginia,.811 (34-6-5) 7. South Carolina,.796 (33-7-4) 8. Florida,.787 (36-9-2) 9. North Texas,.778 (34-9-2) 10. Ball State,.775 (28-6-6) BSU welcomed back its top three scorers from last year in sophomore F Sam Kambol (six goals), junior M Emily Scott (five) and junior M Lauren Roll (four). The Cardinals returned nearly 65 percent of their goal production from Kambol was one of three MAC All-Freshman Team selections for BSU last season, along with M Julia Elvbo and D Yela Ziswiler. Record Watch CAREER SAVE PERCENTAGE Alison BECKER (39 GA, 218 saves) Megan SWAFFORD (65 GA, 274 saves) Alyssa HEINTSCHEL (39 GA, 156 saves) Present Rachael MURPHY (51 GA, 193 saves) CAREER GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE Alyssa HEINTSCHEL (39 GA, 4568 min) Present Alison BECKER (39 GA, 4411 min) Rachael MURPHY (51 GA, 5414 min) CAREER WINS (GOALKEEPER) Rachael MURPHY ( ) Megan SWAFFORD ( ) Alyssa HEINTSCHEL ( ) Pres Alison BECKER ( ) MAC Preseason Poll East Division 1. Kent State (10) 2. Buffalo (2) 3. Miami 4. Ohio 5. Akron 6. Bowling Green (first place votes) West Division 1. Ball State (7) 2. Central Michigan (3) 3. Western Michigan (1) 4. Eastern Michigan 5. Northern Illinois (1) 6. Toledo (first place votes) Tournament Champion: Ball State (4) Central Michigan (3), Kent State (2), Eastern Michigan (1), Northern Illinois (1), Buffalo (1) (first place votes) Ball State head coach Craig Roberts, now in his eighth season, broke the school record for wins last season. He now owns 77 wins with the Cardinals, surpassing Ron Rainey for the top spot. Rainey, the program s first coach from , had 70 wins. Roberts, who started his head coaching career at UT Martin, also recorded the 100th win of his career last season and now has 111 career victories. BSU added an accomplished figure to the coaching staff this year in volunteer assistant Eamon Zayed. Now in his second season with Indy Eleven of the NASL, Zayed set the club s scoring record with 15 goals in He has tallied more than 150 goals in his 16-year professional career spanning time in Ireland, Iran, Malaysia and now the U.S.

Head Coach Craig Roberts Entering the 2017 season... Craig Roberts, who completed his seventh season as the Ball State soccer head coach in 2016, has built Ball State back into a championship program.

3 Head Coach Craig Roberts Entering the 2017 season... Craig Roberts, who completed his seventh season as the Ball State soccer head coach in 2016, has built Ball State back into a championship program. He has returned the Cardinals to prominence in the Mid-American Conference, highlighted by backto-back league regular season championships the past two seasons. Along the way, the native of Kidderminster, England, has become the winningest coach in program history. The 2016 championship campaign featured a pair of milestone victories for Roberts. He recorded the 100th win of his head coaching career Sept. 23 against Buffalo and broke the BSU wins record Oct. 14 against Bowling Green. He enters the 2017 season with 108 career victories, including 74 at Ball State. Roberts also serves as an assistant coach with the Puerto Rico Women s National Team, having previously filled the same role with Haiti. Through that experience, he has coached against national teams from countries such as the United States, Mexico and Canada. He has also coached against some of the world s best players, including Abby Wambach, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and Hope Solo. At Ball State, Roberts teams in each of the past two seasons have been some of the best in school history. The Cardinals have won 28 games during that stretch, going each season and finishing one shy of the school record for wins each time. BSU has started to make its mark on the national scene, cracking the top 70 in the RPI in both of those seasons, including an all-time high of No. 40 during the 2016 campaign. Even more impressively than its overall record the past two years, Ball State owns a conference mark during that stretch. The Cardinals finished both seasons atop the league standings, becoming only the second program in MAC history to win back-to-back regular season championships (the first was BSU in 2006 and 2007). Ball State went in MAC play in 2015, setting a program record for conference victories, and followed it up by going in The 19 combined wins are tied for the most by any team in a two-year period in league history. The 2016 season featured a school-record 10-game unbeaten streak, which began with an overtime road victory over ACC opponent Louisville. It was the program s first win over a Power 5 opponent since 2006, although Roberts has coached the Cardinals to positive results in their past three games against such schools with draws against LSU and Indiana during the 2015 campaign. The 2015 championship marked Ball State s return to prominence following a steady rise under Roberts guidance. After inheriting a program that won just four games the year prior to his arrival, Roberts improved the Cardinals winning percentage each season, reaching double-figure victories in both 2013 and 2014 before the major breakthrough. Both of those teams gave glimpses of the program s potential by reaching the semifinals of the MAC Tournament. The 2013 squad became the first Ball State team to reach the championship game, falling just short against a Western Michigan squad that went on to defeat Marquette in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The 2014 squad led the MAC in scoring with 32 goals and placed second in the league s West Division, marking Ball State s best finish since the league implemented divisions for soccer in That stood only briefly before the Cardinals finished atop the division in 2015 and Under Roberts, Ball State has been especially dominant on its home field. The Cardinals moved into their new home at the Briner Complex in his second season. Since then, BSU has posted a (.759) home mark, including (.921) over the past two seasons. Strong defense has been a hallmark of the Ball State program under Roberts. The Cardinals have recorded 52 shutouts during his tenure and tied the school record with 10 of them in His 2015 and 2016 teams both ranked among the top 25 nationally in goals against average. BSU has led the MAC in that category three times in the past four years. Roberts has coached a total of 14 All-MAC selections at Ball State, and he has tutored the league s defensive player of the year twice (Lorina White) and the freshman of the year once. The Cardinals tied a league record with five All-MAC First Team selections in Roberts has coached nine players at Ball State who have competed at various national team levels and several who have gone on to play professionally. The Cardinals have also excelled in the classroom under Roberts. He has coached two CoSIDA Academic All-Americans and eight Academic All-District selections. Skylar Chew became the first Ball State soccer player to be named a first-team Academic All-American when she accomplished the feat in Alyssa Heintschel was a secondteam selection in The Cardinals have also had 41 Academic All-MAC selections and eight NSCAA Scholar All-Region honorees during his time at Ball State. Roberts owns an overall record of in his seven years at Ball State. For his nine-year head coaching career, including the first four at UT Martin, Roberts is ROBERTS CAREER YEAR-BY-YEAR Year School Overall Record Conf. Record 2006 UT Martin (OVC) 2007 UT Martin (OVC) 2008 UT Martin (OVC) 2009 UT Martin (OVC) 2010 Ball State (MAC) 2011 Ball State (MAC) 2012 Ball State (MAC) 2013 Ball State (MAC) 2014 Ball State (MAC) 2015 Ball State (MAC) 2016 Ball State (MAC) 2017 Ball State (MAC) TOTAL AT BSU (MAC)

The 2017 Cardinals No. Name Pos. Ht. Class Exp. Hometown (High School/Previous School) 0 Alyssa Heintschel GK 5-7 Sr. 3L Oregon, Ohio (Clay) 00 Tristin Stuteville GK 5-6 Sr. 1L Kansas City, Mo.

4 The 2017 Cardinals No. Name Pos. Ht. Class Exp. Hometown (High School/Previous School) 0 Alyssa Heintschel GK 5-7 Sr. 3L Oregon, Ohio (Clay) 00 Tristin Stuteville GK 5-6 Sr. 1L Kansas City, Mo. (Platte County/Saint Louis) 1 Josie Denton M/F 5-6 Fr. HS Lawrenceburg, Ind. (Lawrenceburg) 2 Lauren Roll M 5-4 Jr. 2L Cincinnati, Ohio (McAuley) 3 Amanda Shaw M/F 5-7 Jr. TR Carmel, Ind. (Carmel/Missouri) 4 Shelby Kean D/M 5-7 Fr. HS Weston, Fla. (Saint Thomas Aquinas) 5 Greer Glover F 5-4 Fr. HS Carmel, Ind. (Carmel) 6 Lucy Walton M/D 5-4 Sr. 3L Perrysburg, Ohio (Perrysburg) 7 Aly Kohanowski F 5-8 Sr. 2L Muskego, Wis. (Muskego) 8 Paula Guerrero M 5-3 Jr. 1L Valencia, Spain (Universidad de Valencia) 9 Allison Abbe F/M 5-2 Sr. 1L Plainfield, Ind. (Plainfield/Cincinnati) 10 Taylor Pooley D 5-9 Jr. 1L Granger, Ind. (Mishawaka Marian) 11 Shannon Greeley M 5-4 Sr. 2L Mequon, Wis. (Homestead) 12 Peighton Cook M 5-8 So. 1L Greendale, Ind. (Lawrenceburg) 13 Evie Stepaniak F/M 5-8 Jr. TR Liberty Township, Ohio (Lakota West/Cincinnati State) 14 Ana Vera D 5-4 Fr. HS Madrid, Spain (IES Alto Jarama) 15 Ali Martin D 5-7 Fr. HS Medina, Ohio (Medina) 16 Sam Mattlin D 5-8 Sr. 2L Guilford, Ind. (Mother of Mercy [Ohio]) 17 Julia Elvbo M/F 5-6 So. 1L Lit, Sweden (StorsjoGymnasiet) 18 Emily Scott M/F 5-3 Jr. 2L Rockford, Ill. (Harlem) 19 Lauren Lerew M 5-5 Jr. 2L Aurora, Colo. (Regis Jesuit) 20 Alessandra Fistrovich M 5-3 Jr. 2L Indianapolis, Ind. (Warren Central) 22 Jordan Edouard D 5-4 Jr. 1L Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (St. Thomas Aquinas/Coastal Carolina) 23 Sam Kambol F 5-4 So. 1L South Bend, Ind. (Saint Joseph) 24 Kyrie Seying D 5-8 Jr. TR Indianapolis, Ind. (Lutheran/Purdue) 25 Yela Ziswiler D 5-9 So. 1L Spiez, Switzerland (Wirtschafts- und Fachmittelschule Thun) 27 Molly Van Horn F 5-9 Fr. HS Reynoldsburg, Ohio (Bishop Hartley) 29 Nicky Potts M 5-6 Fr. HS Nuneaton, England (Higham Lane) 30 Melissa Diceman M/F 5-5 Fr. HS King City, Ontario (King City Secondary) 40 Madison Lockard GK 5-6 Fr. HS Oswego, Ill. (Oswego) Head Coach: Craig Roberts (Eighth season; Park, 1997) Assistant Coaches: Steve Shelton (Second season; Western Michigan, 2008); Lauren Arnold (Second season; South Alabama, 2014) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Eamon Zayed (First season; Dublin Institute of Technology) Student Managers: Filasha Finley, Caitlin Jones, Erin Orttel, Katie Roberts, Matt Wannemuehler Pronunciation Guide Allison Abbe...AB-ee Jordan Edouard...ed-WARD Julia Elvbo... JOOL-yuh ELV-bow Alessandra Fistrovich...al-es-SAHN-druh FIST-ruh-vitch Paula Guerrero...POW-luh Alyssa Heintschel... HIGHNT-shul Sam Kambol...(Like Campbell) Aly Kohanowski...ko-han-OW-ski Evie Stepaniak...EE-vee STEP-uh-nack Tristin Stuteville...STOO-tuh-vill Eamon Zayed...A-mun ZIE-yed Yela Ziswiler...YAY-luh ZIS-wyl-er

5 2017 Stats/Results RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Date Opponent Score Att. Aug 18 FORT WAYNE W Aug 20 at #18 Notre Dame L Aug 25 at Xavier L Aug 27 APPALACHIAN STATE To Sep 01 at TCU L Sep 03 at Baylor L Sep 08 at IUPUI L Sep 15 WESTERN ILLINOIS W * Sep 22 at Bowling Green W * Sep 24 at Toledo To TEAM STATISTICS BSU OPP SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct Shots on goal-attempts SOG pct Shots/Game CORNER KICKS PENALTY KICKS PENALTIES Yellow cards 7 6 Red cards 0 0 ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date 3/364 7/521 Neutral Site #/Avg 0/0 ## Player gp g a pts sh sh% sog sog% gw pk-att 23 KAMBOL, Sam SHAW, Amanda FISTROVICH, A ROLL, Lauren SCOTT, Emily ELVBO, Julia STEPANIAK, Evie WALTON, Lucy ABBE, Allison GUERRERO, Paula COOK, Peighton POTTS, Nicky DICEMAN, Melissa LEREW, Lauren ZISWILER, Yela MATTLIN, Sam GREELEY, Shannon POOLEY, Taylor LOCKARD, Madison VAN HORN, Molly MARTIN, Ali GLOVER, Greer KEAN, Shelby DENTON, Josie HEINTSCHEL, Alyssa Total Opponents ## Goalie GP Min. GA GAAvg Saves Pct W-L-T Sho 40 LOCKARD, Madison 1 7: /1 0 HEINTSCHEL, Alyssa 6 442: /2 00 STUTEVILLE, Tristin 6 490: /1 Total : Opponents : Goals by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Ball State Opponents Shots by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Ball State Opponents Saves by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Ball State Opponents Corners by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Ball State Opponents Fouls by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Ball State Opponents

6 2017/Career Stats SEASON CAREER ## Player gp-gs g a pts sh sh% gw pk-att gp-gs g a pts sh sh% gw pk-att 23 KAMBOL, Sam SHAW, Amanda FISTROVICH, A ROLL, Lauren SCOTT, Emily ELVBO, Julia STEPANIAK, Evie WALTON, Lucy ABBE, Allison GUERRERO, Paula COOK, Peighton POTTS, Nicky DICEMAN, Melissa LEREW, Lauren ZISWILER, Yela MATTLIN, Sam GREELEY, Shannon POOLEY, Taylor LOCKARD, Madison VAN HORN, Molly MARTIN, Ali GLOVER, Greer KEAN, Shelby DENTON, Josie HEINTSCHEL, Alyssa Total Opponents ## Goalie gp-gs minutes ga gaavg saves pct w l t sho 40 LOCKARD, Madison 1-0 7: Career totals 1-0 7: HEINTSCHEL, Alyssa : Career totals : STUTEVILLE, Tristin : Career totals : Total : Opponents :

Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions , 2007, 2015, This Week in. Ball State Soccer

Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions -- 2006, 2007, 2015, 2016 This Week in Ball State Soccer Game 17: Ball State at Buffalo Thursday, Oct. 19 (7 p.m.) Buffalo, N.Y. (UB Stadium) Series History: