Second-Half Defensive Stand Pushes Michigan Past No. 10 Iowa

Friday, October 5

Iowa City, Iowa

3:00 PM CT

Michigan

(9-4)

Iowa

(10-3)

Michigan

IOWA

Anna Spieker

Second-Half Defensive Stand Pushes Michigan Past No. 10 Iowa

10/5/2018 6:26:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

By: Leah Howard

» No. 6 Michigan scored early and late in the first half and used a defensive stand in the second to defeat No. 10 Iowa, 2-1, on the road.
» Kathryn Peterson and Meg Dowthwaite scored for Michigan. Dowthwaite netted the game-winner at 22:00 for her sixth goal in six games.
» Goalkeeper Anna Spieker earned nine saves, including seven in the second half.

Site: Iowa City, Iowa (Grant Field)
Score: #6 Michigan 2, #10 Iowa 1
Records: U-M (9-4, 5-1 Big Ten), Iowa (10-3, 3-2 Big Ten)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Oct. 6 -- vs. Stanford (Iowa City, Iowa), 2:30 p.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The No. 6-ranked University of Michigan field hockey team took a first-half lead and used a defensive stand in the second period to make it stick in a 2-1 win over No. 10 Iowa on Friday afternoon (Oct. 5) at the Hawkeyes' Grant Field. It was the Wolverines' fourth win over a ranked Big Ten Conference opponent in as many weekends and dealt Iowa its first home loss of the season.

Michigan scored early and late in the first half and led for all but 11 minutes in the contest. Junior Meg Dowthwaite netted the game-winning goal at the 22:00 mark -- less than six minutes after the Hawkeyes' equalizer -- for her sixth goal in six games and seventh total this season.

Junior Guadalupe Fernandez Lacort started the scoring play at the Iowa 25, feeding the ball to freshman Katie Anderson in the middle of the circle. Hawkeye goalkeeper Leslie Speight charged her, but Anderson got the ball off quickly to Dowthwaite, who knocked it into the open cage from the right side.

Despite an early Iowa onslaught in the first half, freshman Kathryn Peterson opened the scoring at 5:05, caroming the ball off an Iowa defender's shin guard, then stepping into a rocketed shot to the lower left corner of the cage. It was her third goal of the season.

Iowa sandwiched its lone goal between the two Wolverine markers, capitalizing on a turnover inside the Michigan circle to even the score at 16:36. Hawkeye Mya Christopher corralled in her rebound after U-M failed to clear the ball cleanly in front.

Iowa outshot the Wolverines, 13-7, including a 10-5 differential in the second half. Freshman goalkeeper Anna Spieker was outstanding in the Michigan cage, earning nine saves -- her second greatest total of the season. Iowa's Speight earned one save on three U-M shots on goal.

The Wolverines (9-4, 5-1 Big Ten) will remain in Iowa City for another day to take on No. 21 Stanford at 1 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 6) in a neutral-site matchup at Grant Field.