Wolverines Maul Golden Grizzlies With Offensive Explosion

Thursday, September 11

Ypsilanti, Mich.

5:00 PM

Michigan

3-3-1

Oakland

1-4-1

Oakland

Michigan

Wolverines Maul Golden Grizzlies With Offensive Explosion

9/11/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer

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By: Ryan Sosin, Joe Arancio

Site: Ypsilanti, Mich. (Scicluna Field)
Score: Michigan 6, Oakland 2
Records: U-M (3-3-1), OAK (1-4-1)
Next U-M Game: Friday, Sept. 19 -- at Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.), 7 p.m. MST

YPSILANTI, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's soccer team scored four first-half goals on its way to a decisive 6-2 win over Oakland Thursday evening (Sept. 11) at Eastern Michigan's Scicluna Field.

Clare Stachel

Sophomore Amanda Bowery (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester) and freshman Natalie Horner (Upper Arlington, Ohio/Upper Arlington) each scored two goals in the effort with Horner's first tally marking the first goal of her career. Freshman Clare Stachel (Grand Rapids, Mich./Forest Hills Central) chipped in for a goal and two assists and freshman Kristen Goncalves (Ann Arbor, Mich./Gabriel Richard Catholic) tallied the first goal of her career.

The Maize and Blue got on the board quickly on Bowery's first goal of the contest to give U-M a 1-0 lead in the fifth minute. Freshman Kim Siebert (Troy, Mich./Avondale) took control of a loose ball at midfield and beat two Oakland players down the right side before sending a cross to the far post. The Golden Grizzlies' goalie managed to get her hands on the ball but it slipped through and fell to Bowery who put it in the back of the net.

Michigan struck again ten minutes later to expand the lead to a 2-0 margin. Stachel stripped the ball from a defender on the left side of the box, turned and fired a hard shot into the far side past the diving goalie.

Michigan continued its barrage in the 32nd minute when senior Kristin Thomas (Centennial, Colo./Cherry Creek) and Horner connected to put U-M up 3-0. Thomas lofted a long ball over the Oakland backline to Horner, who found the pass on a run. Horner dribbled down the right side past a defender and toward the goal before beating the goalie one-on-one with a shot into the left-side netting.

Goncalves got into the action in the 39th minute, delivering her first career goal and upping the U-M lead to 4-0. Freshman Kelsey Rogind (Emerald Hills, Calif./St. Francis) started the play, sending the ball into the offensive third. Stachel outran the defense to the ball and dribbled into the left side of the box and sent a crossing pass to a streaking Goncalves, who directed the ball into the open net for the score.

Both teams scored early in the second stanza with Oakland breaking through at 49:36 and Michigan responding at 54:34 to keep the margin at four, 5-1. Deanna Colarossi scored for the Golden Grizzlies, but Horner earned the goal back when she got behind the defense to receive a through ball from Bowery. Horner then dribbled to the right side and beat the goalie with a shot to the far post.

Bowery finished the scoring for the Maize and Blue in the 62nd minute when she headed home a goal off a corner kick. Stachel set up for the corner and sent a line drive into the box where Bowery out-jumped the defense crowded around the near post and connected on the header, giving the Wolverines a 6-1 advantage.

Down by five goals, Oakland turned up the offensive pressure and managed to push across a second goal on a long shot from Kristi Evans. Bowery had a chance at a hat trick a minute later, but the sophomore sent the ball off the right post on a breakaway opportunity.

Michigan will take the weekend off before traveling to Arizona for a two-game road trip. U-M will face Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday (Sept. 19) and Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz., on Sunday (Sept. 21).

GAME SUMMARY

By Periods	1	2	F
Oakland	0	2	2
Michigan	4	2	6

Scoring, Time (Assist)
1st -- U-M, Amanda Bowery, 4:23 (Kim Siebert)
1st -- U-M, Clare Stachel, 14:30 (unassisted)
1st -- U-M, Natalie Horner, 31:27 (Kristin Thomas)
1st -- U-M, Kristen Goncalves, 38:06 (Stachel, Kelsey Rogind)
2nd -- OAK, Deanna Colarossi, 49:36 (Kristi Evans)
2nd -- U-M, Horner, 54:34 (Bowery)
2nd -- U-M, Bowery, 61:15 (Stachel)
2nd -- OAK, Evans, 63:58 (unassisted)

Shots: U-M 13, OAK 13
Shots on Goal: U-M 7, OAK 7
Saves: U-M 5 (Madison Gates 5, Kristen Keane 0), OAK 1 (Shannon Coley 0, Kim Herbst 1)
Corner Kicks: U-M 5, OAK 4
Fouls: U-M 8, OAK 10
Cards: OAK, Nick O'Shea, 39:00 (Yellow)

NOTES

• Michigan amassed the highest goal total in a game since scoring seven times in a 7-1 win over Butler on October 29, 2000. It was also the 10th time in 168 all-time games that U-M dented the twine more than five times.

• Freshman Natalie Horner netted the first two goals of her collegiate career.

• Freshman Kristen Goncalves scored the first goal of her college career.

• Freshman Clare Stachel set a career high in points with four. She added two helpers to her second goal of the season.

• Sophomore Amanda Bowery tied a career best with five points. She also tallied five points against Miami (Ohio) last season (Sept. 21, 2007).

• Bowery extended her current scoring streak to three games. She has four goals and two assists during the span.

• The Wolverine rookies extended their class point streak to six games. The freshmen class was a part of all six goals today, giving them a hand in 12 of the 14 U-M scores this season.

• Michigan matched its win total of a year ago when it went 3-9-6.

• The Wolverines got their first win vs. Oakland since Sept. 25, 2005, to improve to 7-3-2 all-time against the Golden Grizzlies.

QUOTES

Michigan Head Coach Greg Ryan
On the win ... "Today, I just want them to enjoy the win -- it is great. They won as many games as they did last year. Next week, we will go back to work and put our focus on improving and not on win streaks."

U-M Senior Kristin Thomas
On getting a win vs. Oakland for the first time since 2005 ... "It is great. In the past, they've bunkered in and we've have trouble scoring and getting any sort of attack going. So to come in and score six goals is awesome. It felt really good."

On what helped spark the offense ... "We've been working hard in practice on finding the targets, working wide and getting the ball to the end line and crossing it in. So when we worked the ball wide and crossed it from down there, we were pretty much unstoppable."

U-M Sophomore Amanda Bowery
On her hot streak ... "We don't really have one person we are trying to get to score because a team win is a team win. We are trying to get anyone the ball (that can score) and if it happens to be me, like it has been the last couple games, then it is me. It doesn't really matter who scores, we don't really care. A goal is awesome either way."