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8A — Friday, September 15, 2017
Sports
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ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily

Freshman midfielder Sarah Stratigakis was among the freshman class that was a silver lining in Michigan’s draw.

Michigan draws again, 
difficulties continue

If a game was one half instead 

of two, the Michigan women’s 
soccer team (0-1 Big Ten, 3-1-4 
overall) would have finished 
feeling like it had just won. 

The score might have been 0-0, 

but the Wolverines dominated 
the shot and possession battles. 
Unfortunately 
for 
Michigan, 

though, the game lasted until 
the 83rd minute, and that’s when 
Purdue (1-0, 6-2) scored the 
game-winning goal.

During its impressive first half, 

Michigan managed seven shots — 
but its most impressive work came 
in the buildup to those shots. The 
Wolverines had good movement 
around the box and put plenty of 
balls into play, but they weren’t 
able to get many shots off.

“There 
are 
games 
when 

things just click,” said junior 
forward Taylor Timko. “From the 
backline up, I think the effort was 
there. We just didn’t execute, and 
I think the biggest thing is to just 

use this as a learning experience.”

The best chance for Michigan 

came just 10 minutes into the 
game. Fifth-year senior forward 
Ani Sarkisian had a breakaway, 
where the goalkeeper was all that 
stood in the way of a potential 
Wolverine lead.

A Boilermaker defender was 

right on her heels, and Sarkisian 
couldn’t get the shot off before 
she 
became 
entangled 
with 

the goalkeeper and defender. 
Sarkisian was quick on her 
feet, though, and poked the ball 
backwards for junior forward 
Reilly Martin to run onto. But the 
chance was lost and Purdue put 
a toe on the ball to clear it out of 
harm’s way.

The second half saw a whole 

new side of the Boilermakers. 
They instantly put pressure on 
Michigan’s backline and rattled 
off 11 shots in the second half 
alone — one of those being the 
late goal.

Taking 
advantage 
of 
the 

Wolverines’ 
young 
defense, 

Purdue midfielder Kylie Hase 

found herself unmarked in the 
box, and the long pass landed 
right at her feet. There was 
nothing senior goalkeeper Sarah 
Jackson could do. She could only 
watch as Hase pounded it into the 
back of the goal.

While the Wolverines had 

chances in the second half — 
including a shot from Timko that 
hit the crossbar — as soon as the 
Boilermakers went up a goal, 
Michigan clearly looked deflated.

The loss marks the second 

straight 
game 
where 
the 

Wolverines have been shut out 
at home — something that hasn’t 
happened since 2013.

“To win Big Ten games, your 

seniors and your juniors, they 
gotta step up,” said Michigan 
coach Greg Ryan. “They gotta 
find ways to win games for you, so 
the challenge is on to score some 
goals. We scored two goals in four 
games. The problem with staying 
0-0 is anything can happen in 
a game like soccer and it finally 
did. So, we’re going to have to 
start putting some points on the 
board.”

Currently, Michigan has four 

injured starters — most notably, 
junior midfielder Abby Kastroll 
— which may be contributing to 
its goal shortage. Kastroll scored 
five goals for the Wolverines last 
season and had already scored 
two this season prior to her injury 
in the sixth game of the year.

But that shouldn’t be an excuse. 

Michigan has plenty of talent on 
its roster and, though it may have 
young players, there are many 
veterans that are capable of taking 
over a game. The Wolverines 
didn’t start conference play the 
way they hoped, but Ryan will 
now look to the upperclassman to 
pick up the rest of the team and 
prepare for Indiana on Sunday.

“If you want to score goals, 

you need to get your chances 
right in front of the keeper, right 
where they got theirs, and we just 
never created that tonight,” Ryan 
said. “This was a team we really 
thought we could get after and 
get at, and it just didn’t happen 
for us tonight.”
ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily

Redshirt junior Taylor Timko struggled to convert for the Wolverines.

PAIGE VOEFFRAY

Daily Sports Writer

