Bowling Green State University Athletics
2002 Softball Prospectus
December 18, 2001 | Softball
Dec. 18, 2001
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NOTE: The 2002 BGSU prospectus (.pdf link above) contains a preseason roster, schedule, quick facts and a personnel breakdown for the 2002 Falcon squad, as well as last year's statistics and game-by-game results. The prospectus also contains some preseason notes, which also appear in text form below:
PRESEASON NOTES
- Bowling Green posted a 35-19 (.648) overall record in 2001, in the process tying for the second-most wins in a season in school history ... the Falcons' winning percentage of .648 was the third-highest in BGSU annals ... the Brown and Orange will welcome back a total of 16 letterwinners, including six starters, from that squad.
- The Falcons ended the 2001 season with a second consecutive Mid-American Conference East Division championship ... BGSU went 19-5 in MAC play to capture the division by three games ... the Falcons had tied for the division crown in 2000 after finishing in second place, a game out of first, in 1999.
- BGSU's MAC winning percentage of .792 in 2001 is the best in school history.
- The 2001 MAC Coach of the Year, Leigh Ross-Shaw, returns for her fourth season as BGSU's head coach ... Ross-Shaw has turned the Falcons into a perennial MAC contender during her first three seasons ... she has led the Falcons to back-to-back 30-win seasons for only the second time in school history, and has the top winning percentage - both overall and in conference play - in school annals ... Ross-Shaw has an overall record of 89-62 (.582) and a stellar MAC mark of 47-23 (.671).
- Ross-Shaw and new assistant coach Lena Richards will be looking to replace the four departed players from 2001 ... that senior class included three All-MAC Team members and the school's career home-run leader ... one of those seniors, first baseman Nikki Rouhana, was the league's player of the year, while centerfielder Jen Domschot joined her on the all-league first team ... second baseman Angie Domschot earned all-conference second-team honors as well as being named to the MAC's All-Tournament Team ... third baseman Lynsey Ebel ended her career with a school-record 14 homers, one ahead of Jen Domschot's total ... the four players, the Falcons' top-four hitters last spring, combined for 313 runs, 567 hits, 280 RBI and 167 extra-base hits during their BGSU tenure.
- BGSU had a total of five All-MAC selections last year, including four first-team picks ... as mentioned, the Falcons also had the MAC Player of the Year and the MAC Coach of the Year ... two of the all-league first-team selections return for the 2002 campaign in senior outfielder Renee Rosemeier and junior pitcher McKenna Houle ... Rosemeier had five homers and 39 RBI last year ... she would have set the school record in the latter category, had Ebel not surpassed her total by one ... Houle has won 11 games and posted an ERA of under 1.50 in each of her first two seasons.
- The entire BGSU pitching staff returns, as Houle is joined by three seniors - Jessie Milosek, Andrea Genter and Rebekah Tipton - and sophomore Jody Johnson ... Johnson, pitching mostly in relief, wound up with a 10-2 record and won her last nine decisions of the season ... she had an ERA of 0.58 in MAC play, second-lowest in the league ... Milosek, Genter and Houle all joined her in the top-10 in that category ... Milosek had eight wins and eight complete games ... Genter was 6-2 on the year, and allowed opponents to hit just .190 against her in league play.
- Among positional players, a number of regulars return, including senior catcher Holly Frantz, junior shortstop Libby Voshell, sophomore outfielder Jenifer Kernahan, junior outfielder Kandice Machain and Rosemeier ... each of those five players started at least 29 games in 2001 ... Frantz had a team-best fielding percentage of .992, while Voshell enters her third year as the starter at short ... Kernahan displayed versatility in her initial campaign, starting 15 games in left field, six behind the plate and eight as the designated player ... Machain hit .323 in MAC games while holding down the number-two spot in the batting order.
- BGSU will be looking to continue several impressive streaks at home in 2002 ... the Falcons finished with a 13-3 record in home contests last season ... BGSU went 11-2 vs. MAC opponents at the BGSU Softball Field, and have won 18 of the last 20 home games vs. league foes ... in Leigh Ross-Shaw's head-coaching tenure, the Falcons have a record of 36-10 (.783) at home, including a 30-8 (.789) mark against the MAC.
- The Falcons scored a total of 227 runs in 2001, the most in school history ... the Falcons' 4.20 runs per game was the third-highest average ever ... the Brown and Orange had a team batting average of .264, the fourth highest in BG annals ... defensively, BGSU set a school record with a .959 fielding percentage ... BGSU committed 72 errors in 54 games, a school record-low average of 1.33 per game.
- In the first 20 years of the Falcon softball program (1979-98), BGSU hit a total of 80 homers, an average of exactly 4.0 per year ... in the last three seasons, the Falcons have hit 59, an average of 19.9 per year.
- BGSU went 16-1 against MAC East Division foes last year, and the Falcons are 29-6 vs. divisional opponents since the beginning of the 2000 season.
- BGSU is 10-0 in extra-inning games during the Leigh Ross-Shaw head-coaching Era, and the Falcons have won 12 consecutive extra-inning contests, dating to the final weekend of the 1996 season.
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