Bowling Green State University Athletics
Tuesday, April 3
Oxford, OH
3:00 PM ET
Bowling Green State University
at
Miami
Sarah Gonzalez (13) & the Falcons play 5 games on the road this week
Trips to Oxford, Toledo on Tap for this Week
April 02, 2018 | Softball
Falcons face Miami in Tuesday DH, meet UT in weekend series
• The Bowling Green State University softball team, after playing seven-straight games at home, hits the road for five games this week. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons travel to Oxford for a midweek Mid-American Conference matchup with Miami. BGSU will face the RedHawks in a Tuesday (April 3) doubleheader, beginning at 3:00 p.m. at the Miami Softball Stadium.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will head to the Glass City for a three-game weekend series against Toledo. The Falcons and Rockets will meet in a Friday (April 6) single game, beginning at 3:00 p.m., and a Saturday (April 7) twinbill that starts at 1:00 p.m. All three games will take place at UT's Scott Park.
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FOUR THINGS TO KNOW
• This week's action begins a stretch which will see the Falcons play 12 of 13 contests on the road. A single game vs. Miami next week (April 11) is BG's only scheduled April home action prior to April 27.
• Despite dropping three out of four games last week, the Falcons have an overall record of 18-15 on the season. BGSU has hit .299 as a team in the first 33 games, while allowing the opponents to bat just .241.
• Last year's edition of the Falcons had 16 home runs in 56 games, but this year's club has homered 27 times in 33 contests.
• BG batters combined to go just 1-for-31– an average of just .032 – in pinch-hit appearances last season. Falcon pinch-hitters reached base a total of five times all spring, with three walks and one hit-by-pitch in 2017. But, this season, BG pinch-hitters have reached base nine times, via six hits and three walks.
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• BGSU enters the week with an overall record of 18-15. The Falcons got off to a 9-1 start to the season, winning five games at the Cleveland State Dome Tournament, then going 4-1 at the Elon Classic.
• The Brown and Orange also participated in Texas Tech's Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic and the UofM Tournament in Memphis, with a twinbill at Abilene Christian in between those two weekend tourneys. The Falcons went 3-1 during a weekend trip to Nashville just prior to beginning conference play.
• BGSU is off to a 1-5 start in league action, after winning the middle game of a three-game series vs. Ball State and dropping three contests to Western Michigan last weekend (March 30-31). The Falcons are 2-5 in home games, 3-7 in true road contests and 13-3 in neutral-site games this season to date.
• The Falcons have four starters hitting at least .300, with a fifth batting .290. Four of those five players are slugging .440 or better and have at least nine extra-base hits this year.
• Senior Aspen Searle is batting .373 and has scored a team-high 24 runs. Searle has a BG-best 17 extra-base hits, including team-leading totals of 10 doubles and two triples, and she is rapidly moving up the BGSU career lists in multiple offensive categories.
• Junior Alex Sorgi is batting .368 on the year, and has scored 19 runs to rank third on the club. She leads the Brown and Orange in stolen bases (12) and is second in walks (14).
• Junior Kali Holcomb is hitting .344 and tops the team with six homers and 30 RBI. She has 14 extra-base hits and ranks second on the team in that category as well as slugging pct. Holcomb is slugging .634 (behind Searle's .636 pct.) on the year. Holcomb paces the Falcons with 10 multiple-RBI games, and she and Sorgi each have 11 multi-hit contests to tie for the BG lead.
• Freshmen Sarah Gonzalez and Sammy Dees and are hitting .300 and .290, respectively. Gonzalez is tied with Searle for second on the team with five homers. Dees has six doubles to rank third on the club, and she is deadlocked for third with nine multi-hit games.
• Junior Hannah Giammarino and sophomore Logan Everett are batting .333 and .313, respectively, in limited action this season to date.
• Senior Laine Simmons is hitting .268 and juniors Kaylee Parker and Kellie Natham are batting .253 and .246, respectively. Parker has 19 RBI to rank second on the team, and hit a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning vs. Western Michigan Friday. Simmons, like Parker, has three homers, and the catcher has a .446 slugging pct. Natham has started 25 of the last 28 games after missing the season's first five contests.
• Through 33 games, BGSU has 261 hits to the opponents' 197. BG has 74 extra-base hits, compared to 55 for Falcon foes.
• Six Falcons – Dees, Gonzalez, Holcomb, Kaylee Parker, Searle and Alex Sorgi – have started all 33 games this season. Natham has made 25 starts and Simmons 23.
• In the circle, junior Meredith Miller is 9-8 with an ERA of 2.72 and 112 strikeouts in 100 1/3 innings of work. She has allowed opponents to hit just .225 against her.
• Junior Brooke Parker is 8-5 with a 3.44 ERA in 83 1/3 innings, and has topped her win total for all of last season. Classmate Kiley Sosby has pitched 25 innings and is 1-2 with a 4.76 ERA. Parker has two saves and Sosby one, and Sosby has allowed opponents to hit just .198.
• Freshman Madison French has pitched in seven games in relief, including four of the six MAC contests. She has a team-leading 3.50 ERA in conference action.
ASPEN SEARLE RECORD WATCH
• Senior Aspen Searle has added her name to the BGSU record book on nearly every career batting list kept by the school. Searle has moved into third place in school history in three categories – at-bats (658), hits (217) and total bases (345) – and she is fourth in doubles (44), fifth in runs scored (116) and sixth on no fewer than five lists: games started (203), batting avg. (.330), home runs (24), RBI (108) and slugging pct. (.524). Searle is also ranked on the BGSU career lists for sacrifice flies (T-eighth), games played (10th) and walks (T-15th).
• Additionally, Searle is ranked among the NCAA's active career leaders in five categories. Among current Division-I players, Searle is 35th or higher in career games played, at-bats, hits, doubles and total bases.
ALEX ADDS HER NAME TO SEVERAL LISTS, TOO
• Junior Alex Sorgi has etched her name on several BGSU lists as well. Sorgi is tied for eighth in school history with 35 career stolen bases, and is just five steals away from third place (Kim Still, 40 SB from 1988-90). Sorgi is currently ranked seventh in school annals in hitting, with a career batting average of .324 entering the week.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE OPPONENTS
• Miami has an overall record of 13-15, and the RedHawks will bring a 2-4 MAC mark into the BGSU doubleheader. Miami opened conference action by winning two of three games at Northern Illinois, but the RedHawks dropped all three games at Central Michigan over the weekend. Megan Wurts is the lone MU player batting over .300. She is hitting .357, while four of her fellow starters are batting .253 or higher. Courtney Vierstra has thrown 101 of MU's 178 innings in the circle, and she leads the team with nine wins and a 2.29 ERA. Head coach Clarisa Crowell welcomed back 10 letterwinners from last year's team that went 29-24 overall and 14-9 in the MAC.
• Toledo is 21-13 on the year, and the Rockets are tied for first place in the MAC's West Division. UT has a 5-1 league mark entering a Tuesday DH vs. Eastern Michigan. The Rockets are averaging a whopping 9.5 runs per game in the MAC after sweeping a three-game series at Akron and taking two out of three games at Kent State. Bailey Curry leads the club with a .360 batting average, nine homers and 32 RBI. In the circle, Heather Webb is 10-6 with a 2.32 ERA, while Kailey Minarchick is 11-4 with an ERA of 2.69. Head coach Kristen Butler's Rockets went 24-34 overall and 11-13 in the MAC a year ago.
THE SERIES
•  The Falcons lead Miami, 54-51, in the all-time series between the teams. The squads split a doubleheader at Meserve Field just under a year ago (April 4, 2017), before the 'Hawks captured a 5-4 decision in Oxford eight days later. The Falcons are 36-16 at home, 13-30 on the road and 5-5 in neutral-site meetings with the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
• The Falcons lead Toledo, 67-38, in that series, but the Rockets captured a pair of non-league meetings in the Glass City two years ago (April 27, 2016). The first win snapped a four-game series winning streak for the Falcons. BG has won eight of the last 12 meetings with the Midnight Blue and Gold. All time, the Falcons are 37-13 at home, 24-23 on the road and 6-2 in neutral-site matchups with UT.
COMING UP...
• Following this week's action, BGSU hosts Miami for a single game on Wednesday, April 11, with first pitch set for 3:00 p.m. at Meserve Field.
• Then, the Falcons return to the road for seven-straight games, including a pair of three-game series vs. Buffalo (April 13-14) and Akron (April 20-21) and a non-league matchup at Notre Dame on Tuesday, April 24.
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• Then, the Brown and Orange will head to the Glass City for a three-game weekend series against Toledo. The Falcons and Rockets will meet in a Friday (April 6) single game, beginning at 3:00 p.m., and a Saturday (April 7) twinbill that starts at 1:00 p.m. All three games will take place at UT's Scott Park.
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BGSU SOFTBALL LINKS
BGSUÂ Weekly Release/Notes/Stats: PDF
THE OPPONENTS: Miami Softball | Toledo Softball
2018 Schedule | 2018 Record Book | Join the Falcon Club Today!
FOUR THINGS TO KNOW
• This week's action begins a stretch which will see the Falcons play 12 of 13 contests on the road. A single game vs. Miami next week (April 11) is BG's only scheduled April home action prior to April 27.
• Despite dropping three out of four games last week, the Falcons have an overall record of 18-15 on the season. BGSU has hit .299 as a team in the first 33 games, while allowing the opponents to bat just .241.
• Last year's edition of the Falcons had 16 home runs in 56 games, but this year's club has homered 27 times in 33 contests.
• BG batters combined to go just 1-for-31– an average of just .032 – in pinch-hit appearances last season. Falcon pinch-hitters reached base a total of five times all spring, with three walks and one hit-by-pitch in 2017. But, this season, BG pinch-hitters have reached base nine times, via six hits and three walks.
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• BGSU enters the week with an overall record of 18-15. The Falcons got off to a 9-1 start to the season, winning five games at the Cleveland State Dome Tournament, then going 4-1 at the Elon Classic.
• The Brown and Orange also participated in Texas Tech's Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic and the UofM Tournament in Memphis, with a twinbill at Abilene Christian in between those two weekend tourneys. The Falcons went 3-1 during a weekend trip to Nashville just prior to beginning conference play.
• BGSU is off to a 1-5 start in league action, after winning the middle game of a three-game series vs. Ball State and dropping three contests to Western Michigan last weekend (March 30-31). The Falcons are 2-5 in home games, 3-7 in true road contests and 13-3 in neutral-site games this season to date.
• The Falcons have four starters hitting at least .300, with a fifth batting .290. Four of those five players are slugging .440 or better and have at least nine extra-base hits this year.
• Senior Aspen Searle is batting .373 and has scored a team-high 24 runs. Searle has a BG-best 17 extra-base hits, including team-leading totals of 10 doubles and two triples, and she is rapidly moving up the BGSU career lists in multiple offensive categories.
• Junior Alex Sorgi is batting .368 on the year, and has scored 19 runs to rank third on the club. She leads the Brown and Orange in stolen bases (12) and is second in walks (14).
• Junior Kali Holcomb is hitting .344 and tops the team with six homers and 30 RBI. She has 14 extra-base hits and ranks second on the team in that category as well as slugging pct. Holcomb is slugging .634 (behind Searle's .636 pct.) on the year. Holcomb paces the Falcons with 10 multiple-RBI games, and she and Sorgi each have 11 multi-hit contests to tie for the BG lead.
• Freshmen Sarah Gonzalez and Sammy Dees and are hitting .300 and .290, respectively. Gonzalez is tied with Searle for second on the team with five homers. Dees has six doubles to rank third on the club, and she is deadlocked for third with nine multi-hit games.
• Junior Hannah Giammarino and sophomore Logan Everett are batting .333 and .313, respectively, in limited action this season to date.
• Senior Laine Simmons is hitting .268 and juniors Kaylee Parker and Kellie Natham are batting .253 and .246, respectively. Parker has 19 RBI to rank second on the team, and hit a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning vs. Western Michigan Friday. Simmons, like Parker, has three homers, and the catcher has a .446 slugging pct. Natham has started 25 of the last 28 games after missing the season's first five contests.
• Through 33 games, BGSU has 261 hits to the opponents' 197. BG has 74 extra-base hits, compared to 55 for Falcon foes.
• Six Falcons – Dees, Gonzalez, Holcomb, Kaylee Parker, Searle and Alex Sorgi – have started all 33 games this season. Natham has made 25 starts and Simmons 23.
• In the circle, junior Meredith Miller is 9-8 with an ERA of 2.72 and 112 strikeouts in 100 1/3 innings of work. She has allowed opponents to hit just .225 against her.
• Junior Brooke Parker is 8-5 with a 3.44 ERA in 83 1/3 innings, and has topped her win total for all of last season. Classmate Kiley Sosby has pitched 25 innings and is 1-2 with a 4.76 ERA. Parker has two saves and Sosby one, and Sosby has allowed opponents to hit just .198.
• Freshman Madison French has pitched in seven games in relief, including four of the six MAC contests. She has a team-leading 3.50 ERA in conference action.
ASPEN SEARLE RECORD WATCH
• Senior Aspen Searle has added her name to the BGSU record book on nearly every career batting list kept by the school. Searle has moved into third place in school history in three categories – at-bats (658), hits (217) and total bases (345) – and she is fourth in doubles (44), fifth in runs scored (116) and sixth on no fewer than five lists: games started (203), batting avg. (.330), home runs (24), RBI (108) and slugging pct. (.524). Searle is also ranked on the BGSU career lists for sacrifice flies (T-eighth), games played (10th) and walks (T-15th).
• Additionally, Searle is ranked among the NCAA's active career leaders in five categories. Among current Division-I players, Searle is 35th or higher in career games played, at-bats, hits, doubles and total bases.
ALEX ADDS HER NAME TO SEVERAL LISTS, TOO
• Junior Alex Sorgi has etched her name on several BGSU lists as well. Sorgi is tied for eighth in school history with 35 career stolen bases, and is just five steals away from third place (Kim Still, 40 SB from 1988-90). Sorgi is currently ranked seventh in school annals in hitting, with a career batting average of .324 entering the week.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE OPPONENTS
• Miami has an overall record of 13-15, and the RedHawks will bring a 2-4 MAC mark into the BGSU doubleheader. Miami opened conference action by winning two of three games at Northern Illinois, but the RedHawks dropped all three games at Central Michigan over the weekend. Megan Wurts is the lone MU player batting over .300. She is hitting .357, while four of her fellow starters are batting .253 or higher. Courtney Vierstra has thrown 101 of MU's 178 innings in the circle, and she leads the team with nine wins and a 2.29 ERA. Head coach Clarisa Crowell welcomed back 10 letterwinners from last year's team that went 29-24 overall and 14-9 in the MAC.
• Toledo is 21-13 on the year, and the Rockets are tied for first place in the MAC's West Division. UT has a 5-1 league mark entering a Tuesday DH vs. Eastern Michigan. The Rockets are averaging a whopping 9.5 runs per game in the MAC after sweeping a three-game series at Akron and taking two out of three games at Kent State. Bailey Curry leads the club with a .360 batting average, nine homers and 32 RBI. In the circle, Heather Webb is 10-6 with a 2.32 ERA, while Kailey Minarchick is 11-4 with an ERA of 2.69. Head coach Kristen Butler's Rockets went 24-34 overall and 11-13 in the MAC a year ago.
THE SERIES
•  The Falcons lead Miami, 54-51, in the all-time series between the teams. The squads split a doubleheader at Meserve Field just under a year ago (April 4, 2017), before the 'Hawks captured a 5-4 decision in Oxford eight days later. The Falcons are 36-16 at home, 13-30 on the road and 5-5 in neutral-site meetings with the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
• The Falcons lead Toledo, 67-38, in that series, but the Rockets captured a pair of non-league meetings in the Glass City two years ago (April 27, 2016). The first win snapped a four-game series winning streak for the Falcons. BG has won eight of the last 12 meetings with the Midnight Blue and Gold. All time, the Falcons are 37-13 at home, 24-23 on the road and 6-2 in neutral-site matchups with UT.
COMING UP...
• Following this week's action, BGSU hosts Miami for a single game on Wednesday, April 11, with first pitch set for 3:00 p.m. at Meserve Field.
• Then, the Falcons return to the road for seven-straight games, including a pair of three-game series vs. Buffalo (April 13-14) and Akron (April 20-21) and a non-league matchup at Notre Dame on Tuesday, April 24.
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