EAST LANSING, Mich. – Junior midfielder Zivana Labovic scored her second goal of the season, and the No. 15 Michigan State women’s soccer team booked a gritty 1-0 win over the Indiana Hoosiers on Thursday night at DeMartin Stadium.
MSU continues its historic start to Big Ten Conference play, rising to 6-0-1 in league action with an 11-1-3 overall mark in 2022. The Spartans are in the midst of a nine-game unbeaten streak dating to a scoreless draw with Oakland on Sept. 8. In the interim, the Green & White have published two wins over nationally ranked opponents and have garnered their first national ranking since Sept. 29, 2009. In defeat, Indiana drops to 2-6-6 overall with an 0-6-1 ledger in the B1G.
In her first start since Aug. 21 against Cincinnati, Labovic faced off against the flagship institution from her home state and booked her second goal in the last three games. Senior forward Lauren DeBeau and freshman midfielder Emerson Sargeant each booked assists on the score. In the box score, Michigan State ran up a 15-4 differential in shots with a 6-3 edge in shots on goal. The most dominant defense in the Big Ten remained as such, logging its 10th shutout of the year and its third-straight.
Michigan State got out to a red-hot start through the opening five minutes, as the Spartans booked the first shot in the third minute and maintained possession well throughout the period. The Green & White got on the board first in the fifth minute of work, as Labovic’s header found the back-right corner of the net. An up-tempo scoring opportunity…
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