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U-M to Open B1G Play, Host Rival MSU and JMU This Weekend
9/16/2025 3:35:00 PM | Field Hockey
Promotions
Sept. 19
• Wolverine Kid's Club Day Schedule Cup Giveaway -- All Wolverine Kids Club Members are invited to attend Friday's game against Michigan State and will earn bonus points.
• Schedule Cup Giveaway -- Michigan Field Hockey schedule cup will be handed out to the first 250 fans.
Sept. 21
• Team IMPACT Game -- Michigan Field Hockey will recognize its Team Impact teammate Charlotte before Sunday's game vs. James Madison.
• Light Up Cowboy Hats -- The first 150 fans will receive light-up cowboy hats.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 8-ranked University of Michigan field hockey team (4-1, 0-0 Big Ten) hosts a pair of games at Phyllis Ocker Field this weekend, including its Big Ten Conference opener against in-state rival Michigan State (3-2, 0-0 Big Ten) at 6 p.m. on Friday (Sept. 19). The Wolverines will wrap the weekend with a 1 p.m. slate against James Madison (4-3) on Sunday (Sept. 21). Both games will be streamed live on B1G+.
Notes
• Michigan has claimed three Big Ten regular-season and four tournament titles over the last eight seasons and posted a 44-18 conference record over the stretch. Last year, the Wolverines went 5-3 in conference play then defeated all three teams that handed them a regular-season loss -- No. 19 Indiana (1-0 OT, Nov. 7), No. 5 Maryland (4-3 SO, Nov. 8) and No. 1 Northwestern (1-0, Nov. 10) -- en route to the 2024 Big Ten Tournament title, the program's third in five seasons. U-M's last regular-season title came during the spring 2021 season.
• The Wolverines have won each of their last four games after dropping their season opener to No. 2 North Carolina 3-0 on Aug. 29. Over the winning stretch, U-M has outscored its opposition 20-3 with a pair of shutouts.
• Michigan ranks fifth nationally with a 2.80 scoring margin and seventh with a 4.0 goals-per-game average.
• Michigan overcame a two-goal deficit at Stanford, scoring three unanswered in the second half with two in the final 62 seconds. Junior Esmée de Willigen tied the game on a corner tip at 58:58, while graduate student Abby Tamer netted the game-winner on a tip of her own at 59:52, with eight seconds remaining in regulation. Michigan defeated Wake Forest 2-1 on Aug. 31 in a similar fashion, with Tamer redirecting a long pass from outside the circle with just 27 seconds left in the fourth.
• U-M boasted two comeback wins last season, most notably overcoming a two-goal deficit against Maryland in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals with the equalizer off a penalty corner at the 58:56 mark before eventually winning 4-3 in a shootout.
• Michigan has outscored opponents 14-2 in the second half this season and 9-0 in the fourth quarter. Last season, U-M outscored its opposition 15-4 in the fourth quarter.
• Eleven different Wolverines have scored at least one goal through five games this season, already quickly approaching the 14-player total that scored last season. Graduate student Tamer, last year's scoring leader with 12 goals and 38 points, also leads U-M so far this season with four goals and 10 points.
• Junior Juliette Manzur ranks second in scoring with three goals and three assists for nine points. She is just two shy of her career highs in all three categories. Manzur posted the Wolverines' first goal of the season with the game-tying score early in the fourth quarter, at 47:14, against Wake Forest. It is the third consecutive year that Manzur has recorded U-M's first goal of the season, adding to her markers against North Carolina as both a freshman (2023) and a sophomore (2024).
• Junior/sophomore goalkeeper Hala Silverstein and graduate student Caylie McMahon have combined for two shutout wins -- 13-0 against Bellarmine (Sept. 7) and 2-0 at UC Davis (Sept. 12). Michigan carries a 1.20 goals-against average, while its defensive corps has allowed just 8.2 shots and 3.6 corners per game so far this season.
• Michigan posted its greatest goal output in 45 years with its 13-0 win against Bellarmine in its home opener on Sept. 7. The effort is tied for the second-most goals in a game in Michigan's 53-year program history. The Wolverines' single-game record is 14 goals, recorded in a 14-0 win against Olivet in 1980, while U-M has one other 13-goal game, a 13-0 win against Adrian in 1977.
• Seven Wolverines officially made their collegiate debuts: Rogge, who has started all five games in the midfield, as well as fellow freshmen Grace Hunter, Beatrice Ottsen, Lexi Patterson and Manouk Saal and sophomore/freshmen Sofia Abraham and Aurora Gery. Hunter, Patterson and Saal have also appeared in all five games, while Patterson posted two assists against Bellarmine. Freshmen Brooke Anderson, Sofia Ghanbari and Adair Patterson intend to redshirt their first season at Michigan.
• Michigan State comes into Ann Arbor with a 3-2 record on the season after going 1-1 last weekend. The Spartans fell to Vermont 3-2 last Friday (Sept. 12) before capturing a 7-1 win over Merrimack in its last outing on Saturday (Sept. 13). Caro Schafer leads MSU in points with two goals and two assists over the Spartans' first five matchups, while goalkeeper Lyra Gavino holds a 2.58 goals-against average and .462 save percentage. Michigan is 49-25-6 all-time against Michigan State, winning the last 13 times the two squads have met, including two meetings in the Big Ten Tournament (2016, '21).
•James Madison is 4-3 coming into the weekend with two of their three losses coming against ranked opponents -- 4-1 setbacks against No. 17 Liberty (Sept. 3) and No. 3 Virginia in its most recent contest on Sept. 14. Alice Roeper leads the Dukes with five goals and two assists through their first seven games, while goalkeeper Molly Schreiner carries a 2.00 goals-against average and a .696 save percentage. Michigan leads 4-1 in the all-time series against James Madison, including a 4-3 overtime victory in 2010, the last time the two teams met.
