UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – No. 12 Penn State women’s soccer dismantled the Michigan Wolverines by a 6-0 tally Thursday night on Jeffrey Field, with the Nittany Lions calling on six different goal scorers to close the book on the team’s most complete performance of the 2024 season while simultaneously booking the largest win over Michigan in school history.
The Nittany Lions booked one of their most complete team efforts in recent memory, with six different student-athletes finding the back of the net in addition to six different Penn Staters combining for seven total assists. PSU’s scoring total amounted to 19 points, marking the highest team scoring output in Happy Valley since the Blue & White dropped 22 points on Central Connecticut State in a 7-0 victory in the first round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Penn State matched the program’s record for goals scored against Michigan, tying a 6-2 victory over the Wolverines from October 7, 2001. The Nittany Lions clocked the largest margin of victory for PSU over Michigan all-time while simultaneously scoring the most goals against a Big Ten Conference opponent since a 6-0 Nittany Lion win over Maryland on April 3, 2021.
With Thursday night’s dominant victory, the Nittany Lions improve to 6-1-1 overall and 1-0-0 in the Big Ten Conference, marking the first instance of consecutive B1G-opening victories at PSU since the 2017 and 2018 teams opened league play with a win. Penn State currently maintains a six-match unbeaten streak and returned to the win column following a scoreless draw against then-No. 23 Georgetown last weekend. In defeat, Michigan falls to 1-6-1 overall and moves to 0-1-0 in the B1G.
In the all-time series between the Nittany Lions and Wolverines, PSU improved to 27-7-8 overall and extended its unbeaten streak against Michigan to three consecutive matches following a 3-0 win in 2022 and a 1-1 draw in Ann Arbor a season ago. Additionally, Penn State saw continued success in B1G-opening matchups, rising to 23-5-3 through the program’s first 31 Big Ten regular season opening tests. In Big Ten home openers, the Blue & White climb to rise to an astronomical 28-2-1 mark when playing its first conference opponent on Jeffrey Field.
Penn State was dominant in every statistical category in Thursday night’s league opener, with the Blue & White outpacing Michigan in total shot attempts by a 27-18 margin in addition to a striking 16-4 differential in shots on goal. PSU committed seven fouls…
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