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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