Northwestern
Iowa
Northwestern Falls to Iowa, 3-2
10/29/2004 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Oct. 29, 2004
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Senior Candice Cooper (Winnetka, Ill./New Trier) scored a pair of first-half goals for Northwestern, but a late Iowa rally pushed the Hawkeyes past NU, 3-2.
The match was the second of the season between the two schools. On September 24 in Evanston, the Wildcats shut out Iowa in a double-overtime, 1-0 victory. It was the second match, however, which counted in the Big Ten standings.
Cooper put NU (7-11, 1-5 Big Ten) on the board in the 22nd minute, breaking away from the defense and juking Hawkeye goalkeeper Barb Weinberg to the ground before placing the ball in the cage.
NU's leading scorer then put the Wildcats up 2-0 with a penalty corner goal in the 31st minute. Megan Sieberg (Toledo, Ohio/Maumee Valley Country Day) and Christine Nannicelli (Walpole, Mass./Walpole) assisted on the goal.
The goals give Cooper 19 for the year, the fourth-best single-season total in school history. She now has 42 points on the year, tied for the fifth-best season total of all time at Northwestern.
Cooper's four points in the match propel her into the top 10 on the Wildcats' career scoring list.
Iowa (10-6, 5-1 Big Ten) would sneak a goal in just 22 seconds before the half, cutting NU's lead at the break to 2-1, despite Iowa outshooting the Wildcats 14-5 in the half.
NU held on to its one-goal advantage through most of the second half, but Iowa goals in the 60th and 63rd minutes gave the Hawkeyes the 3-2 victory.
"We just did not generate as many attacking opportunities in the second half as we did in the first and that hurt us," NU head coach Kelly McCollum said.
Northwestern closes out its regular season at 1 p.m. Saturday against Southwest Missouri State in Iowa City. The Wildcats will then host the Big Ten Tournament November 5-7.
