Wolverines Use Richardson Hat Trick, Corner Conversion for Road Rout at Providence

Sunday, September 8

Providence, R.I.

Noon

Michigan

(3-1)

Providence

(2-2)

Michigan

Providence

(Michigan Photography)

Wolverines Use Richardson Hat Trick, Corner Conversion for Road Rout at Providence

9/8/2024 2:34:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

By: Leah Howard

» No. 12 Michigan earned multiple goals from two players and posted four on its attack penalty corner en route to an 8-1 win at Providence.
» Alana Richardson scored three goals for the second Wolverine hat trick of the weekend; Pilar Oliveros also posted two corner goals.
» U-M outshot the Friars, 19-8, and outcornered, 7-4. Hala Silverstein and Caylie McMahon combined for three saves, while Abby Burnett posted a defensive save.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senior Alana Richardson posted three goals as the No. 12-ranked University of Michigan field hockey team rolled to an 8-1 win over Providence on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 8) at the Friars' Lennon Family Field. It was U-M's greatest goal total of the season and extended its win streak to three games.

The hat trick was the first of Richardson's career and her third multi-goal game. Fifth-year senior Pilar Oliveros also posted two goals, while Michigan scored four goals on its attack penalty corner for the second straight game. Senior/junior Abby Tamer and graduate students Erin Reilly and Kate McLaughlin also scored for U-M. McLaughlin, who posted a hat trick Friday at Boston University leads the Wolverines with five goals already this season.

Michigan took advantage of quick strikes in all four quarters, including goals within the first two minutes in each of the last three. Richardson scored the first goal for the Wolverines, at the 3:47 mark, out of an extended U-M possession inside the Providence circle. Richardson tracked down the ball in the middle, turned and fired through traffic to the lower left corner of the cage.

The Friars responded immediately to even the score less than two minutes later. U-M then retook its lead three minutes later, at 8:05, converting its first corner of the game on a second-effort shot from Oliveros on a sweep from the right side of the arc to the nearside corner. The rest of the game was all Michigan.

The Wolverines added two more corner goals late in the first quarter and early in the second to pull away. Reilly scored her goal of the season at 10:41, carrying the ball on the arc to the left and firing a reverse shot to the opposite lower corner of the cage, while Oliveros netted her second of the game at 16:14, taking the ball to a similar spot as her first on the right side and hammering it cross cage to the lower left corner.

Richardson had a goal waved off after an inadvertent stoppage in the closing seconds of the second quarter but immediately got it back with two markers in the first three minutes of the third. She took advantage of chaos inside the Friar circle, with the ball bouncing around and bodies falling, to bang in a shot from the right side at 30:42. She then added another for the hat trick on a spectacular redirection at 32:59; with the ball lifted left-to-right across the goalmouth, Richardson jumped with her stick pointed up over her head and knocked it down and in from the right post.

Tamer scored on a penalty corner in the waning seconds of the third quarter, at 34:40, corralling the rebound of the left side and drilling a reverse shot to the nearside corner. McLauglin closed out the game's scoring at 46:49, early in the fourth. The ball entered the circle from the right side, and freshman Cami Wiseman fed the ball to the middle, where McLaughlin adjusted around a defender and dumped it into the right side of the cage. Wiseman earned her first collegiate point with an assist on the play; she is the first Wolverine newcomer to tally a point this season.

Michigan outshot the Friars, 19-8, and outcornered them, 7-4. Sophomore/freshman Hala Silverstein and senior/junior Caylie McMahon split time in the cage and combined for three saves, while sophomore Abby Burnett posted a defensive save in the second quarter, batting a ball out of the air and out of danger. Providence goalkeeper Asia Porter tallied five saves.

Michigan (3-1) will return to Ann Arbor for a pair of non-conference games next weekend at Phyllis Ocker Field and kick off a stretch of seven straight games in the Mitten State, including six at home. U-M will host Ohio at 6 p.m. on Friday (Sept. 13) before welcoming Central Michigan at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Sept. 15). Both games will be streamed live on B1G+.