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Michigan Defeats Marist and Wagner, Loses at Indiana
3/25/2006 12:00:00 AM | Water Polo
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The No. 16-ranked University of Michigan women's water polo team went 2-1 in the Fluid Five Challenge on Saturday (March 25) at Indiana's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. U-M rolled past Marist in the morning contest, 7-1, and then snuck past Wagner 12-11 before Indiana's late 6-on-5 goal doomed Michigan, 6-5, in the nightcap.
Michigan killed off all nine of Marist's 6-on-5 chances in the first game of the morning. Megan Hausmann (San Diego, Calif./Bishop's) and Carrie Frost (Saline, Mich.) each tallied one goal and two assists, and Lindsey Hitchcock (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) forced a team-high three steals.
U-M killed off two early Marist power plays and capitalized with the first goal of the contest at the 2:30 mark of the first. Hausmann carried the ball out of the defensive zone and launched a breakaway pass to Mary Chatigny (Palm Springs, Calif./Palm Spring), who buried her chance for her first goal of the game. Michigan went up 2-0 late in the first on a 6-on-5 shot by Frost.
Kristen Davis (Villa Park, Calif./Villa Park) fed Chatigny for a counterattack goal to start the second period to give Michigan a 3-0 advantage. Michelle Keeley (Rockford, Mich./Rockford) then increased the lead out of the hole set, allowing U-M to take a 4-0 lead into the half.
After a couple more Wolverine shots rang off the post, Marist got on the board with three minutes remaining in the third. Hausmann responded to gain another four-goal lead after burying a four-meter penalty shot that was earned by Kristin Hoogenboom (Portland, Ore./Sunset).
Davis maintained the large lead to begin the fourth period with a huge block on a Marist shot from in close. Julie Hyrne (Sunnyvale, Calif./Archbishop Mitty) then dumped a shot into the floating canvas to make it 6-1 and Sharayah Hernandez (Pico Rivera, Calif./El Rancho) finished the scoring with 30 seconds left in the game off a pass from Frost as the Wolverines left with a 7-1 win.
In the second game of the day, Michigan faced Wagner in a see-saw battle that went all the way down to the wire. The Seahawks took an early lead on a four-meter penalty shot, but Wesley Ellison (Portola Valley, Calif./Palo Alto) started a three-goal Wolverine run on a shot out of two meters, tying the score at 1-1. Welch gave Michigan the lead on a lob shot and Hyrne followed with a steal that created a breakaway marker. Hausmann then helped the Wolverines rebound from a Wagner 6-on-5 tally as she rocketed in one from long range to beat the shot-clock buzzer and move the score to 4-2. Another Seahawk score made it 4-3 to end the first.
Wagner took the lead early in the second with two quick goals from the outside. Welch redeemed Hausmann's four-meter penalty shot miss when she connected on a no-look backhand out of the hole set to tie it at 5-5. After the Seahawks took another one-goal lead, Hoogenboom fired one in with just nine seconds remaining and the two teams entered halftime tied 6-6.
Hyrne got Michigan's lead back on a 6-on-5 shot to begin the second half, and Frost extended the lead to 8-6 on a breakaway that was set up by Davis. Wagner battled back, scoring two more power-play goals to even the score at 8-8 with a minute left in the period.
Hoogenboom scored the go-ahead goal from long range to move it to 9-8 and Davis maintained that lead with a stop on a lob shot with just 18 ticks remaining in the third.
Welch upped the lead to 10-8 on the power play for the hat trick, but Wagner cut the lead to 10-9 21 seconds later. Welch answered again with her second no-look backhand of the night to make it 11-9. However, Wagner capitalized on a power play seconds later. Keeley then increased the lead to 12-10 on Davis' second breakaway pass of the night.
Michigan survived a scare late when Wagner connected on another long-range shot to pull within one goal 23 seconds after Keeley's marker. Hernandez saved the day on a lob shot that sailed over Davis' head and threatened to tie the game, but Hernandez punched the shot out just before it entered the cage to secure Michigan's 12-11 victory.
In the final game of the day, Michigan played another epic match against the Indiana Hoosiers in which each team tallied four 6-on-5 markers. The Wolverines struck first 2:20 into the game as Welch fed Hyrne for 6-on-5 goal. Indiana answered back to tie the game at 1-1 with 55 seconds remaining. Hausmann then gave Michigan the lead out of the hole set on the next offensive possession and U-M ended the period up 2-1.
IU tied the game on the man advantage to begin the second quarter. Davis kept the score tied with a brilliant save on an Indiana lob shot. Near the end of the half, Hausmann gave Michigan a 3-2 lead on a 6-on-5 give-and-go tally that was assisted by Hoogenboom.
Indiana took a 4-3 lead with the only two third-period markers, which both came on the power play. Indiana increased its lead to 5-3 to start the fourth, but another 6-on-5 tally cut Michigan's deficit to 5-4 as Welch took a pass from Hausmann and floated one into the cage with 4:35 remaining in the game. Welch nearly tied the game on the next offensive possession, but her shot hit the post.
Hausmann capitalized on a 6-on-5 chance with two minutes remaining on a rebound shot to tie the score. However, Michigan's misfortune continued as Indiana scored the decisive goal on a man advantage 30 seconds later with 1:37 to play. Hausmann had two chances to tie the game again late. Her first chance scraped the outside of the net, and her second rang off the top of the crossbar as Michigan fell to the Hoosiers for the second straight weekend, 6-5.
The Wolverines take next weekend off before returning to the pool as they travel to Providence, R.I. for the Brown Mini. U-M will play two games on Saturday, April 8, and one on Sunday, April 9.
GAME SUMMARIES
| Game 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
| Michigan | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Marist | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Scoring
U-M Goals: Mary Chatigny 2, Carrie Frost, Carly Strub, Michelle Keeley, Megan Hausmann, Sharayah Hernandez. MC Goals: Kristen Powers. Ejections: U-M 9, IU 5.
| Game 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
| Michigan | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Wagner | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
Scoring
U-M Goals: Shana Welch 4, Julie Hyrne 2, Kristin Hoogenboom 2, Wesley Ellison, Carrie Frost, Michelle Keeley, Megan Hausmann. WC Goals: Sara Kramer 3, Stacey Travous 3, Billy Hoelck 2, Courtney Crase 2, Nicole Maichrowicz. Ejections: U-M 6, WC 7.
| Game 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
| Michigan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Indiana | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Scoring
U-M Goals: Megan Hausmann 3, Julie Hyrne, Shana Welch. IU Goals: Brooke Zimmerman 3, Melissa Soria 2, Janis Pardy. Ejections: U-M 8, IU 6.
N O T E S
Michigan's eight field blocks against Marist set a school record.
Megan Hausmann's eight points (5 g, 3 a) at the Fluid Five Challenge allowed her to pass Julie Nisbet (2001-04) for third place in all-time points with 197. Nisbet had 190 points in her career.
Shana Welch finished the Wagner contest with six points on four goals and two assists.
Against Wagner, Kristin Hoogenboom recorded a career- and team-high four steals and added three points (2 g, 1 a).
Kristen Davis blocked 11 shots against Indiana.
Michigan improved to 2-0 all-time against both Marist and Wagner. U-M falls to 17-5-1 against IU and has lost five out of the last seven contests against Indiana. The two games, however, were wins in the Western Division Championship final and the Eastern Championship final.
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Matt Anderson
On the game against Marist ... "In the first game, we came out with a nice defensive intensity. I thought we did a good job holding them to one goal against a team that was looking forward to playing us and is in contention for their conferences' NCAA bid. We did a good job shuffling people in and out, got some good reads and played some good defense."
On the game against Wagner ... "We were at the point playing a team that wanted to run and gun. When your kids have an opportunity to bare down and play tough defense or playing to try to outscore the other team, they would rather try to outscore the opponent than play a slow-down game. Their minds are on the Indiana game so they are just focused on working and getting out and shooting the ball. We shot 50 percent in that game and I have no complaints about our offense in that game. You are always going to have complaints regardless of how many goals you give up because you always can find things to improve upon defensively. Offensively, shooting 50 percent and scoring 12 goals; that is something you like to see."
On freshman Sharayah Hernandez' field block to save the lead against Wagner ... "Shay realized that our goalie got out of position and they had a good look at the cage. She released from her player and came back and became a second goalie in there. That is something we had talked about during the week doing and she remembered to recognize a situation where you can cover weak when your goalie is out of position. Her save was the reason why that game did not go to overtime."
On the contest with Indiana ... "It was a classic Indiana and Michigan game. A minimum of half of the games we have ever played with them have been one-goal games. There are very correctable things that we did wrong and hopefully we will correct them. It was a good non-league game and our third game of the day. Physically we are doing fine and mentally we were a little tired, but that is going to be expected. I have been involved in enough of these games; enough battles against Indiana that you are going to win some and you are going to lose some. Had we won this game tonight, the focus would be the same. We will play them again in the CWPA Western Division final and there is a chance we will play them a second time at the Eastern Championships. These are building blocks for what we want to do in the final games of the season."
Contact: Matt Baumer (734) 763-4423
