6B - October 13, 2008
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
6B - October13, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
'M' inaugurates new
field, beats Buckeyes
Wolverines end
month-long slump
with 2-0 victory at
home complex
By CHANTEL JENNINGS
For the Daily
It had been more than a month
since the Wolverines celebrated a
victory heading into yesterday's
contest against Ohio State. They
were riding a seven-game winless
streak.
After the disappointing play of
the first 20 minutes of their game
against the Buckeyes, it looked at
though they were going to make it
eight.
That's when Michigan coach
Greg Ryan looked to his freshman
for help.
"I kind of got on them, and I
said 'I'm not going to look at you
as freshmen anymore,' " Ryan
said. "And they really stepped up.
I think I ticked them off."
The freshmen answered with
two assists in the Wolverines'
2-0 win over Ohio State yesterday
showing that they were the type
of impact players Ryan wanted.
Less than 10 minutes into the
second half, freshman Kristin
Goncalves crossed the ball to
senior co-captain Katie Miler on
the far side of the net where she
tallied her first goal of the season
by putting the ball into the back
of the net, underneath the diving
Buckeye goalie.
"I saw K.G. coming on the side-
line and we made that slot," Miler
said. "We've been practicing that
play since preseason and it just
finally came together for us."
Five minutes later, sophomore
Amanda Bowery, who leads the
team in scoring, netted the team's
second goal after finding the hole
in the Buckeye defense, assisted
by freshman Clare Stachel.
In amatter of 15 minutes Ryan's
team had managed to turn an
evenly played game into one con-
trolled by the Wolverines.
"I think overall we just settled
down and we started to play our
game,"said Goncalves. "As awhole
I think we just relaxed more."
And that calm started with a
Michigan defense-led by senior
Skylar Andrews and sophomore
Jackie Carron-that stood strong
despite the Buckeyes' attempts to
answer.
The Wolverines' offense looked
totally different compared to Fri-
day night's 4-0 loss to No. 23 Penn
State.
Ryan was upset with his
offense's failure to attack the net
against the Nittany Lions, but
yesterday his team used its supe-
rior speed to penetrate the Ohio
State defense and create opportu-
nities for teammates.
"We had Clare Stachel just
running by girls, Natalie Horner
turning on people in the box and
shooting, and Kristen Goncalves
and Amanda Bowery making
those good runs behind defens-
es," Ryan said. "That was the dif-
ference in the game today."
With its victory over Ohio
State, Michigan garnered its first
Big Ten victory of the season and
surpassed last season's win total.
And on a dayto honor the seniors,
it was the freshman who sent the
veterans off with a win in their
last home game.
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SAID ALSALAH/Daily
Junior Peri Marosevic scored three goals yesterday at the Wolverines' new home soccer complex.
Hat tricks
Michigan's 5-1 win
Way's goal not enough as
Wolverines lose early lead
Hoosiers comeback
hands Michigan
first Big Ten
loss of season
By AMY SCARANO
For theDaily
The No. 19 Michigan field
hockey team learned this week-
end that the Big Ten is tougher
than it originally thought.
The Wolverines, last year's
conference champions, coasted
through their first two Big Ten
games heading into Sunday's
matchup against Indiana (1-3
Big Ten, 7-6 overall). Michigan's
conference record last season has
many opponents anticipating a
rematch this year. A disappoint-
ing 2-1 loss derailed Michigan's
effort to get through the Big Ten
schedule undefeated.
"I don't think we played Michi-
gan hockey, to be truthful," senior
captain Sarah Wilhite said "We
were sluggish and really tired out
there, and they really took advan-
tage of us."
The Wolverines (2-1 Big Ten,
6-7 overall) rode their confidence
from their 2-0 start in conference
through the first half of yester-
day's game, but ran out of steam
and lost rhythm.
"What we really need to
work on right off the bat is play-
ing together and picking up the
tempo," Wilhite said. "We should
have gone out there and been able
to keep the tempo of the game
and we should have kept posses-
sion but instead it was back and
forth the whole time. That really
killed us."
Sophomore Meredith Way
scored Michigan's first and only
goal, a straight shot off the right
corner, with 8:55 left in the first
half. The early goal gave the Wol-
verines a false sense of security.
"(Indiana) wasn't having a
strong season," Wilhite said. "We
just thought (a win) was going
to happen. We got that first goal
really early and we thought we
could just sit on that."
They were wrong.
The Hoosiers took advantage
of Michigan's tired legs in the
second half, and they had thor-
oughly studied the Wolverines
playing style before the game.
Indiana took advantage of that
knowledge to block Michigan's
back line, its usual method for
transferring the ball, forcing
the Wolverines to move forward
with the ball.
Although the Wolverines
changed how they put pressure
on the Hoosiers in the second
half and again in the last quarter,
they weren't able to consistently
score. Eight shots yielded just
one goal.
"We really need to work on
getting the ball to the back of the
net," Wilhite said. "We are get-
ting shots. They are just not such
good quality. We either shot wide
or their goalie came up with a
good save. We had chances, and
they should have been finished."
The Wolverines have the
opportunity to finish strong
starting next week when they
play their next conference game
against Michigan State.
By DYLAN TIMMER
For theDaily
Junior forward Peri Marosevic
couldn't have predicted his dream
would come true so soon.
In its inaugural game at the
U-M Soccer Complex yesterday
afternoon, the No. 24 Michigan
men's soccer team pounded West-
ern Michigan, 5-1. Marosevic tal-
lied three goals on the hot October
afternoon, giving him the seventh
hat trick in Michigan program his-
tory.
"It was unbelievable," Marosevic
said. "It's just an amazing feeling.
... I actually had a dream, before
the game, that I would score a hat
trick."
And a day later, it came true at
the new complex's opening. The
combination of Michigan's speed,
centered on Marosevic, left the
Broncos defense carrying its hands
on its hips in a game that was essen-
tially over by halftime.
"Peri showed a real hunger today
and that's what it's going to take for
him to help us to be successful in
the future," Michigan coach Steve
Burns said. "Its great to see him
come out and put in aworkman-like
effort and get three goals."
And Marosevic's teammates
were there throughout the affair,
ensuring that his dream would be
granted.
"Everybody played with the
energy and work ethic we've been
asking ofthem and thathas equated
to putting wins up," Burns added.
"We're a team that is not built
around one player, and when we're
playing with good touches and
working hard defensively, we can
be quite good."
For the Broncos, this proved to
be the chemistry of a lethal injec-
tion.
Western Michigan's lone goal
came at 32:51, just 34 seconds after
Marosevic's second marker, and
stunned a Wolverine defense still
distracted by their own goal. But
that one crack was all this horse
needed to regain its focus and pull
away.
Four minutes later, Marosevic
connected on a perfect feed from
senior Jake Stacy to complete the
hat trick, and the roar that erupted
from the crowd dashed any hope
for a Bronco comeback.
By the closing minutes, Michi-
gan was furlongs ahead of the
Broncos. Repeated shots from sub-
stitute forwards redshirt sopho-
more Cam Cameron and redshirt
junior Tom McCurdy that hit the
posthadbecome humorous instead
of disheartening.
Players still on the Michigan
bench smiled as they dribbledballs
nearby, enjoying the final minutes
of a guaranteed victory.
It could have been easy to look
past this game. Michigan came
into this game after two huge wins
against ranked opponents Notre
Dame and Indiana and was set to
return to conference play against a
resilient Michigan State team Sat-
urday.
But this team does not rest,
as evidenced by the second half
efforts of Michigan substitutes
Cameron and McCurdy. Having to
leave the match earlyinthe second
half because of a laceration above
the right eye, Cameron was eager
to makea difference when he came
back later in the half.
His first touch after returning
to the game was Michigan's fifth
goal-a powerful shot off a pass
from McCurdy.
"We made a goal that whenever
we get a chance to go in the game,
whether we play 60 minutes or 10
minutes, that we're just going to
lift the game," Cameron said.
The team refuses to let'up. And
why would it?
If the horse can stay strong,
Michigan's eighth year of varsity
soccer could be the most success-
ful yet.
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In season opener, Blue sharper on the
diving boards than in the pool lanes
By TIM ROHAN ing seven years ago, Richardson
Daily Sports Writer has credited it for the team's late-
season success.
Two members of the Michigan "I'm the kind of coach (that
women's diving team bounced up believes) it's really important for
and down on a trampoline min- us to have real integrity in our
utes before they were set to com- training," Richardson said. "And
pete. They looked as if they were sometimes at the end of the week
preparing themselves to bounce you don't have a whole lot to race
off the board just right. with."
And the practice- paid off as Even in a loss, the swimmers
Michigan dominated the diving showed promise and finished out
events in its season-opening meet the meet in dramatic fashion by
against Minnesota. winning the 200-yard freestyle
While the diving team beat its relay.
competition, the swimming team Kelly and senior Hannah Smith
couldn't muster enough points to each won two events Friday. Kelly
fend off Minnesota's deep squad, won the 100-yard butterfly and
falling 169-130. the 400-yard individual medley,
"Ithoughtthey foughthard, but while Smith won both the 100-
we didn't look very crisp," Michi- yard and 200-yard backstroke.
gan coach Jim Richardson said. "I Senior Payton Johnson took sec-
wouldn't expect us to. We are ina ond in both the 100-yard and 200-
real (tough part of our training) yard butterfly.
right now, and for the freshmen This time last year in a meet
who have never done this, it's new, against Florida, Johnson swam
experience." significantly slower times in the
The team's training program 100-meter and 200-meter but-
has the underclassmen reeling, terfly. Johnson improved on that
but the results of prolonged work 100-metertime by more than eight
are clear. The veteran swimmers seconds and beat that 200-meter
are faster in the pool. time by more than 20 seconds.
"Our upperclassmen performed Richardson praised his swim-
better than they ever have in a mers' performance but said the
meet this early," Richardson said. divers were a little bit ahead of the
Richardson talked about the swimming team. The Wolverines
team's hardworking training pro- rolled over Minnesota, sweep-
gram duringthe week. He said the ing the three top spots in both
key is the work the team puts in the one-meter and three-meter
on their intense days on Mondays events.
and Wednesdays. Ever since the Freshman Amanda Lohman
team moved to this type of train- took first place in the one-meter
competition (283.88) and third
place in the three-meter competi-
tion (281.70). Michigan women's
diving coach Chris Bergere said he
sees alot of potential in Lohman.
"She's the real deal," Bergere
said. "She's fast. She's flexible.
She's athletic. She's going to be a
real good performer for us."
Junior Stephanie O'Callaghan
and sophomore Jillian Drow filled
out the top three spots in both
diving events.
Bergere thought the divers
showed that the skills they were
developing in practice were com-
ing out in the competition.
Those skills are good enough
for him to rank the diving team
behind just Ohio State and Indi-
ana in the Big Ten. He said the Big
Ten has the "toughest women's
diving in the United States", add-
ing that the divers must take care
of their own business before wor-
rying about the rest of the confer-
ence.
Smith, Kelly, Johnson,
O'Callaghan, Drow, and Lohman
hope to lead this team to success
at the Big Ten Championships
later in the year. Richardson sees
a squad full of character and hard-
working Wolverines.
"They're great in the class-
room," Richardson said. "They're
greatinterms of the kind of people
they are, their responsibility level,
their commitment, they are just
a great group of young women. If
they do it right, I'll take whatever
we get at the end."
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