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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Soccer Hits Road For Two Matches This Weekend
September 20, 2000 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 20, 2000
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, looking to build upon last weekend's success, will complete a lengthy season-opening road sojourn with a pair of Mid-American Conference matches this weekend. The Falcons (3-3-0 overall, 1-0 MAC) will make the short trip north to take on the arch-rival University of Toledo (2-4-0, 1-1) in a Friday (Sept. 22) contest. That match is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. at UT's Scott Park Field.
Following the UT contest, the Falcons of first-year head coach Andy Richards will play a Sunday afternoon (Sept. 24) contest vs. Eastern Michigan University. The Falcons and Eagles (3-2-2, 1-0) will do battle in a noontime start at Scicluna Field in Ypsilanti, Mich.
The EMU contest will mark the end of a stretch which sees the Falcons play eight matches away from home to open the 2000 schedule. BGSU's home opener will be Sept. 29 against Northern Illinois.
HEAD COACH ANDY RICHARDS Andy Richards is in his first year as a head coach, and has a 3-3-0 record heading into the UT match. Richards, who came to BGSU after five years as an assistant coach at Oregon State University, was hired in April.
Ashlee Orr was named the BGSU assistant coach in late August.
THE OPPONENTS Toledo will enter the BGSU contest with a 2-4-0 overall record, and the Rockets are 1-1 in MAC play after Tuesday's 2-1 win at Marshall. That win ended a two-match losing streak for UT, including a 3-2 loss to Oakland in the Rockets' home opener (Sept. 13). Corrie Hasenjager leads the team in scoring, having scored five of UT's nine goals this year. Head coach Rj. Anderson is 46-48-1 in his sixth year with the Rockets, who went 9-8-0 overall and 5-6 in MAC action a year ago. More information on the team can be found at www.utrockets.com.
Eastern Michigan is 3-2-2 overall, and the Eagles will take a 1-0 MAC record into a Friday (Sept. 22) home match vs. Central Michigan. Last weekend, EMU split a pair of road matches, losing to Arizona State, 7-0, before downing Northern Arizona by a 2-1 count. The team is 1-0-1 at home, including a MAC-opening win over UT, 2-0 (Sept. 8). Junior Amanda Kulikowski leads the team with three goals and eight points, while classmate Kate Lewis has seven points on the year. Scott Hall is in his second season as a head coach, and has a record of 20-6-5. Last year, the Eagles went 17-4-3 overall and won the MAC with a 10-1-3 record. EMU went on to win the MAC Tournament. More information on the team can be found at www.emich.edu/goeagles.
THE SERIES The Falcons trail Toledo, 2-1-0, in the all-time series, and the teams have split two matches in the Glass City. Last year, the Rockets captured a 2-1 overtime decision at BGSU's Cochrane Field (Oct. 30). BGSU dropped the first-ever match between the teams, 3-2, before a crowd of 2,385 at the Glass Bowl in 1997, but posted a 2-1 win at Scott Park Field in '98. Current Falcons Stephanie Heller, Ashley Enser and Beth Wechsler each have scored a goal vs. UT.
Eastern Michigan leads the Falcons by a 3-1 count, including a 2-1 edge in Ypsilanti. Last year, in the teams' only meeting in BGSU, the Eagles recorded a 4-2 win (Oct. 15). The Falcons' lone series victory was a 1-0 upset in the quarterfinal round of the 1998 MAC Tournament. Senior Michelle Lisy has scored two goals against EMU in her Falcon career, while Ashley Enser also has scored vs. the Eagles.
LAST TIME OUT The Falcons opened MAC play with a 3-1 road win against Central Michigan Friday (Sept. 15). The Brown and Orange, picked to finish eighth in the league in the preseason coaches poll, got a goal and two assists from sophomore Jill Conover. Conover opened the scoring with 2:13 left in the first half, and senior Janice Mentrup doubled the Falcon lead with a goal five minutes into the second half. CMU, pegged to finish second in the MAC by the league's coaches, scored at the 54:32 mark, but sophomore Tracy Gleixner gave BG a two-goal lead once again with a goal five minutes later. Sophomore Erika Flanders made eight saves, including six in the second half.
CONOVER NAMED PLAYER OF THE WEEK On Monday (Sept. 18), sophomore Jill Conover was named the MAC Player of the Week by the conference office. Conover earned the honor for the second time in her BGSU career. She had a hand in all three goals in the win at Central Michigan, and now leads the Falcons in scoring with nine points on the season.
NOTING THE FALCONS Redshirt sophomore Tracy Gleixner has displayed uncanny markswomanship this season ... Gleixner, who missed all of last season due to injury, has taken three shot attempts this season, and all three have resulted in goals ... Gleixner now has 15 career goals in just 22 matches as a Falcon ... that goal total ties her with senior Michelle Lisy for the BGSU career record ... senior Stephanie Heller, who was slowed by injury early in the season, made her first start of the year at Central Michigan ... freshman Sara Leary made her first career start in that match ... six players - seniors Ashley Enser and Janice Mentrup, juniors Leslie Hepfinger and Mandy Smith, and sophomores Jill Conover and Erika Flanders - have started every match this season ... Ashley Enser and Mentrup have started all 63 contests in the history of the program.
MAC STANDINGS
Bowling Green (3-3-0) 1-0 Buffalo (5-3-0) 1-0 Eastern Michigan (3-2-2) 1-0 Miami (3-3-0) 1-0 Ohio (3-4-0) 1-0 Western Michigan (4-3-0) 1-0 Toledo (2-4-0) 1-1 Ball State (4-3-1) 0-1 Central Michigan (2-6-0) 0-1 Kent State (4-2-1) 0-1 Northern Illinois (2-5-0) 0-1 Marshall (4-3-0) 0-2 (standings as of Wednesday morning, Sept. 20)
