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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Open MAC Season This Week
January 04, 2000 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 13, 1999
TOP STORIES:
* - BGSU head coach Tom Piccirillo earned his 100th career victory in Sunday's (Sept. 12) 2-0 win over Niagara ... Piccirillo, in his third year with the Falcons, is 100-84-9 overall in his 11th year as a collegiate head coach.
* - The Falcons set a school record with 46 shot attempts in the Niagara win ... BGSU's total of 17 shots on goal was just two shy of that school record.
* - This week's two opponents, like BG, advanced to the semifinals of last year's Mid-American Conference Tournament ... Kent, like the Falcons, lost in that round ... Northern Illinois, after topping BG in overtime, beat Ohio to win the tourney.
THIS WEEK: The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team begins Mid-American Conference action with a pair of matches this week. The Falcons (3-2-0) will host Kent State University (4-0-0) in a Wednesday (Sept. 15) contest. Kickoff is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at BGSU's Cochrane Field.
Three days later (Sept. 18), the Falcons head to DeKalb to take on two-time MAC Tournament champion Northern Illinois University (0-6-0). The Falcons and Huskies will meet at NIU's Huskie Soccer Field in a 4:00 p.m. (Central Time) match.
The Falcons' next 10 matches will be played against MAC foes.
TOM PICCIRILLO: BGSU head coach Tom Piccirillo is in his third season at the helm of the Falcons, and has a 17-25-1 record. His overall record, which includes five years at Tiffin and three seasons at Keuka (N.Y.), is 100-84-9. Sunday's (Sept. 12) win over Niagara was Piccirillo's 100th victory as a collegiate head coach.
Julie Reule is in her third season as Piccirillo's assistant.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: Bowling Green is 3-2-0 on the season. After opening the season with a pair of home wins, the Brown and Orange dropped two matches in Athens, Ga. BG rebounded with Sunday's 2-0 win.
BG defeated Michigan State, 3-2 in overtime, to open the season (Aug. 27). Two days later, the host Falcons downed Valparaiso by a 5-1 score.
The following weekend, the Brown and Orange fell to Georgia, 1-0 (Sept. 3), before losing a 4-2 contest to East Carolina (Sept. 5).
Through five matches, freshman Jill Conover paces the Falcons with nine points, followed by junior Michelle Lisy, with seven. Sophomore Desiree Erb, has scored six points this season, while freshman Susan Wallace has five. Freshman goalkeeper Erika Flanders has recorded all five of BG's decisions and has a goals-against average of 1.62.
BGSU finished the 1998 season with an overall record of 8-11-1. The Falcons went 4-5-1 in MAC play to finish sixth. In the MAC Tournament, BG posted a 1-0 win at third-seeded Eastern Michigan in the quarterfinals before losing to the number-two seed and eventual tourney champ, Northern Illinois, in the semifinals by a 2-1 count.
ABOUT THE OPPONENTS: Kent is off to the best start in the history of the program, at 4-0. The Golden Flashes have defeated Robert Morris (3-2 in overtime), Youngstown State (6-0), Loyola (Ill.) (2-0) and Northern Arizona (2-1 in OT), all at home. Last season, KSU went 13-7-1 overall and finished fourth in the MAC with a 5-4-1 league ledger. Colleen Marcum, 20-21-3 in her third year at Kent, is 29-75-3 in her seventh year overall.
Northern Illinois is 0-6 on the season. The Huskies have suffered losses to Northwestern, Wisconsin, Florida International, Central Florida, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Illinois State, with each of the last four losses coming by a single goal. Last year, NIU went 14-7 overall. The Huskies tied Ohio for the MAC regular-season title at 9-1, then beat the Bobcats in the championship match of the league tourney. Frank Horvat is 60-61-3 in his seventh season, all at NIU.
THE SERIES: The Falcons hold a 2-0-1 advantage in the series with Kent, and two of the three matches have required overtime. In the first match in program history for both schools (Aug. 29, 1997), BG recorded a 1-0 OT victory at Kent. Later that season (Oct. 17), the Falcons beat visiting KSU, 2-0. Last year (Sept. 27), the teams battled to a 1-1 draw at Cochrane Field.
Northern Illinois leads BGSU, 3-0, but the margin of victory has gotten closer each time the teams have met. NIU posted a 6-0 win at Cochrane Field two years ago (Sept. 14, 1997), then returned to gain a 4-2 victory last Oct. 9. The following month (Nov. 6), the Huskies ended BG's 1998 season with a 2-1 overtime win in the MAC Tournament Semifinals.
RECAPPING LAST WEEK: The Falcons' relentless shooting finally paid dividends in Sunday's (Sept. 12) 2-0 win over Niagara at Cochrane Field ... the match was BG's only contest of the week ... BGSU set a school record with 46 total shot attempts, but could not score for over 82 minutes ... the Falcons' 42nd shot attempt of the match, off the boot of junior Michelle Lisy, finally broke the scoreless tie with 7:58 remaining ... Lisy took a pass from classmate Stephanie Heller in the box, made a move to shake her defender and fired the ball past NU goalkeeper Rayanne Roman ... Roman made 15 saves on the afternoon ... Heller drew the lone assist on the goal ... with just 31 seconds remaining, Heller again drew the lone assist on a Falcon marker ... junior Autumn Harris was the goalscorer, converting Heller's corner kick ... BGSU's 46-4 advantage in the shots department included a 17-4 lead in shots on goal ... freshman Erika Flanders made four saves to earn her first collegiate shutout in goal ... the Falcons had 10 corner kicks to the Purple Eagles' one.
FALCON NOTES: Bowling Green's total of 46 shots against Niagara broke the old school record of 42 ... that mark had been set in the first match in program history, at Kent (Aug. 27, 1997) ... BG's 17 shots on goal in the Niagara match is tied for the second-most in school history ... the Falcons, who had 19 SOG against Robert Morris (Sept. 6, 1998), also had 17 in that first KSU match ... individually, Janice Mentrup set a school record with 11 total shot attempts in the win over Niagara ... Emily Graham held the old record with 10 in the aforementioned Kent match ... Autumn Harris had nine shots vs. Niagara to tie for third on that list ... Niagara's four total shot attempts on the day tied the record for the fewest by a BG opponent ... both Western Illinois (Sept. 5, 1998) and Miami (Oct. 30, 1998) had only four total shots in matches last year ... the Falcons need just one more win at home to tie the school's single-season record ... BG, 3-0 at Cochrane Field this year, won four matches at home in each of the program's first two years ... the current streak of three consecutive home wins is a school record ... sophomores Erin Incorvaia and Annmarie Aparo drew their first career starts in the Niagara match ... for the second time in three years, BGSU is believed to have scored the first "Golden Goal" (OT match-ending goal) of the season ... two years ago, Kerry McKee scored the NCAA's first-ever "Golden Goal" at Kent ... this year, Michelle Lisy won the Michigan State match (Aug. 27) with an OT marker.
FALCON QUICK FACTS
THIS WEEK
BGSU at Northern Illinois
LAST WEEK
1999 RECORDS
HEAD COACH - Tom Piccirillo (third year)
ASSISTANT COACH - Julie Reule (third year)
BOWLING GREEN RECORDS
1999 MAC STANDINGS
Kent at BGSU
Wed., September 15 - 4:00 p.m.
Cochrane Field - Bowling Green
Sat., September 18 - 4:00 p.m. CT
DeKalb, Illinois
at BGSU 2, Niagara 0
Sun., September 12 - Cochrane Field
Overall: 3-2-0 (.600)
Mid-American Conference: 0-0-0
Alma Mater: Upsala, 1986
Record at BGSU: 17-25-1
Career Record: 100-84-9 (11th yr.)
Alma Mater: James Madison, 1995
All-Time: 17-25-1 (.407) (1997-present / third year)
MAC: 5-11-1 (.324) (1997-present / third year)
Team (Overall)_____________MAC__Pts. Ball State (1-4-0)_______0-0-0__0 Bowling Green (3-2-0)____0-0-0__0 Buffalo (4-0-0)__________0-0-0__0 Central Mich. (4-1-1)____0-0-0__0 Eastern Mich. (5-0-0)____0-0-0__0 Kent (4-0-0)_____________0-0-0__0 Marshall (3-1-1)_________0-0-0__0 Miami (4-0-0)____________0-0-0__0 Northern Ill. (0-6-0)____0-0-0__0 Ohio (1-3-0)_____________0-0-0__0 Toledo (2-2-0)___________0-0-0__0 Western Mich. (2-1-0)____0-0-0__0 (three points for a win, one for a tie)
BGSU RESULTS LINE
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(same-day scores and brief summaries from all Falcon athletic teams)
