Wolverines Set for Sunday Rivalry Matchup at No. 15 Ohio State

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 11-ranked University of Michigan field hockey team (8-3, 3-1 Big Ten) will travel to Columbus, Ohio, to take on No. 15 rival Ohio State (6-5, 2-1 Big Ten) at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Oct. 12) at Buckeye Varsity Field. The game will be streamed live on B1G+.

Notes

• The Wolverines surged back to second place in the Big Ten Conference standings with a 3-1 league record, tied with Maryland, which lost 2-1 at Ohio State in overtime last Friday (Oct 3). Northwestern leads the conference standings with a 2-0 mark.

• Michigan earned its third late comeback win of the season with its 2-1 win against Rutgers last Sunday (Oct. 5), tying the game with time expired in the third quarter before posting the game-winner with just 2:07 remaining in the fourth. U-M scored twice in the fourth quarter in its comeback wins against Wake Forest (2-1, Aug. 31) and at Stanford (3-2, Sept. 14). Michigan tallied the game-winning goal with :27 left against the Demon Deacons and with :08 left against Stanford. Graduate student Abby Tamer scored all three late game-winners.

• Michigan has outscored opponents 23-7 in the second half this season and 13-2 in the fourth quarter. Last season, U-M outscored its opposition 15-4 in the fourth quarter.

• Tamer leads the Wolverines with seven goals, including Michigan's second tally against both Penn State (Oct. 3) and Rutgers last weekend, and 16 points through 11 games. Tamer, a 2024 first team All-American, led U-M in scoring last season with 12 goals, 14 assists and 38 points. Tamer has nine game-winning goals over her Michigan career; in addition to the three this season, she also tallied the game-winner in the Wolverines' comeback win against Wake Forest last season.

• Junior Juliette Manzur has already tied her career highs in goals (five) and assists (five) and ranks second on the team with a career-best 15 points. She scored the Wolverines' game-tying goal with time expired in the third quarter against Rutgers. She also scored U-M's game-tying marker in the fourth quarter against Wake Forest this season and contributed the Wolverines' first goal in their 3-2 comeback win at Stanford.

• Michigan ranks 11th nationally with a 1.91 scoring margin and eighth with a 7.65 corners-per-game average. Twelve different Wolverines have scored at least one goal through 11 games this season, just two shy of the 14-player total that scored last season. Fifth-year senior Emmy Tran is the latest to join the scoring ranks this season with two markers -- in the second and fourth quarters -- in U-M's Big Ten opener against Michigan State (Sept. 19).

• The Wolverines scored all four of their weekend goals off their attack penalty corner with a 28.5 percent conversion rate against PSU and Rutgers. Michigan owns 16 corner goals this season, nearly half (47 percent) of its overall goal total. Michigan's corner conversion on the season is 18.6 percent (16-for-86).

• On the other end, Michigan has held opponents to just two goals off penalty corners this season -- one apiece against North Carolina and Stanford -- and a scant conversion rate of 4.3 percent (2-for-46).

• Junior/sophomore goalkeeper Hala Silverstein posted five saves apiece in the first half against Penn State and Rutgers and has not allowed a goal in her last four appearances and a stretch of 129 minutes. Silverstein ranks eighth nationally and second in the Big Ten with a 0.91 goals-against average and eighth nationally and third in the Big Ten with her .808 save percentage.

• Silverstein and graduate student Caylie McMahon have combined for three shutout wins -- 13-0 vs. Bellarmine (Sept. 7), 2-0 at UC Davis (Sept. 12) and 5-0 vs. Michigan State. Overall, Michigan carries a 1.19 goals-against average, while its defensive corps has allowed just 8.8 shots and 4.2 corners per game so far this season.

• Ohio State is 6-5 on the season and 2-1 in Big Ten play and enter the weekend with on a three-game win streak, including conference wins against Maryland (2-1 OT, Oct. 3) and Penn State (2-0, Oct. 5). Makenna Webster leads the Buckeyes and ranks third nationally with 16 goals -- more than the rest of her team combined -- while goalkeeper Maddie Stevens owns a 1.21 goals-against average and .720 save percentage.

• Michigan carries a 44-27-2 advantage in the all-time series against OSU and has won 14 of the last 15 meetings. The Wolverines avenged their 2023 loss with a 1-0 decision at home last season, with Cami Wiseman scoring the game's lone goal early in the third quarter.