Bowling Green State University Athletics
Final Softball Release And Notes
May 21, 2001 | Softball
May 21, 2001
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FALCONS FINISH SEASON AT 35-19: The Bowling Green State University softball team has seen the 2001 season come to an end. The Falcons (35-19 overall, 19-5 MAC) posted a 1-2 record in the Mid-American Conference Tournament (May 10-12) in Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
BGSU, the second seed for the six-team, double-elimination tournament, opened with a 2-1 loss to Northern Illinois, before rebounding with a 6-1, 10-inning victory over Ohio. Then, Ball State used a sixth-inning rally for a 3-2 win that ended the Falcons' tourney run.
BGSU's 35 wins in 2001 tied the squad for the second-most victories in school history.
MAC TOURNAMENT RESULTS
All games played at CMU Softball ComplexThursday, May 10: G1 - #6 Northern Illinois 10, #3 Ball State 5 G2 - #4 Kent State 5, #5 Ohio 4 G3 - Northern Illinois 2, #2 Bowling Green 1 G4 - #1 Central Mich. 4, Kent State 3 (8 inn.)
Friday, May 11: G5 - Bowling Green 6, Ohio 1 (10 inn.) * G6 - Ball State 2, Kent State 0 (9 inn.) * G7 - Central Michigan 2, Northern Illinois 0 G8 - Ball State 3, Bowling Green 2 *
Saturday, May 12: G9 - Ball State 2, Northern Illinois 1 * G10 - Central Michigan 8, Ball State 3 * * losing team eliminated
ANGIE DOMSCHOT ON MAC'S ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM: Senior Angie Domschot was named to the MAC All-Tournament Team. The team was announced at the conclusion of the tourney in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Domschot was BGSU's lone representative on the team.
Domschot led the Falcons with a .556 batting average in the three tournament games. She had five hits, including three doubles, in nine at-bats, and scored three of BG's nine runs in the tourney.
HEAD COACH LEIGH ROSS-SHAW: Leigh Ross-Shaw has completed her third season as a collegiate head coach, all with the Falcons, and has an overall record of 89-64 (.582). Ross-Shaw has a Mid-American Conference mark of 47-23 (.671) after leading the Brown and Orange to a MAC East Division co-championship last year and the outright division title this season. On May 9, Ross-Shaw was named the MAC Coach of the Year (more information below).
Ross-Shaw assumed the top job after two years as BG's assistant coach. The Ottawa Lake, Mich., native came to the Falcon program in 1996 after serving as a high-school head coach, at Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, for four seasons.
Ross-Shaw, a 1992 graduate of the University of Toledo, still holds numerous UT and MAC records, and remains the all-time conference leader in batting average (.398), at-bats and hits. She hit a MAC-record .447 as a senior en route to All-America Second-Team honors. On February 2, she was inducted into the UT Athletics Hall of Fame.
Amy Kyler has completed her third season as Ross-Shaw's assistant. Kyler, quite possibly the top pitcher in Cleveland State history, graduated from CSU in 1997. She played for the Carolina Diamonds of the Women's Pro Softball League for two years, and pitched for the Akron Racers in each of the last two seasons.
ROSS-SHAW NAMED MAC COACH OF THE YEAR: BGSU head coach Leigh Ross-Shaw has been named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, it was announced May 9. The award is determined by a vote of the MAC's 13 head softball coaches.
Ross-Shaw guided the Falcons to a record of 35-19 in 2001, and she led BGSU to a 19-5 MAC mark (with a school-record .792 winning pct. in league games) and the East Division title. Ross-Shaw is the third BGSU coach to be named league coach of the year, joining Gail Davenport (1988) and Jacquie Joseph (1993).
NIKKI ROUHANA NAMED MAC PLAYER OF YEAR: Senior Nikki Rouhana is the MAC's Player of the Year for 2001. The announcement was made May 9. The MAC Player-of-the-Year award is determined by a vote of the league's 13 head coaches.
Rouhana, a native of Westerville, Ohio, also earned First-Team All-MAC honors for the second consecutive year. This season, the senior first baseman led the league in batting average (.415), hits (34, 1.42 per game), runs scored (27, 1.12 per game) and total bases (49, 2.04 per game) in MAC contests. She ranked second in both doubles and on-base percentage, and fifth in slugging pct. in league games.
Overall, Rouhana hit a team-high .352 on the year. She had a fielding percentage of .986, including a .990 mark in conference games. Rouhana, also an All-MAC First-Team pick last year, has been a team captain in each of the last three years.
Rouhana becomes just the second Falcon ever to be named MAC P-O-Y, joining Amy Lienhardt, who was so honored in 1988.
FIVE FALCONS NAMED TO ALL-MAC TEAM: A total of five BGSU players have been named to the All-MAC Team, it was announced May 9. The team was determined by a vote of the league's 13 head coaches.
Seniors Jen Domschot and Nikki Rouhana, junior Renee Rosemeier and sophomore McKenna Houle all were named to the All-MAC First Team, while senior Angie Domschot earned All-MAC Second-Team honors.
Jen Domschot, a Toledo native, batted .347 this year, and led BG with 45 runs scored, a school-record 32 walks, a .468 on-base percentage and a .573 slugging pct. She leads the entire MAC in the first three categories. In league games, the centerfielder hit .394 with a MAC-best .500 OBP. Domschot makes the All-MAC squad for the third time, having been named to the second team in each of her first two years in uniform.
Rouhana, as mentioned earlier, led the league in batting average (.415), hits (34, 1.42 per game), runs scored (27, 1.12 per game) and total bases (49, 2.04 per game) in MAC contests. Rouhana is a repeat selection to the all-league first team.
Rosemeier hit .289 this season, with five homeruns and 39 RBI. The RBI total is the second highest in school history. In MAC play, the Hilliard, Ohio, native batted .325. A rightfielder, she had four homers (tied for second in the league) and 25 RBI (tied for first in the league) in conference games.
Houle, a native of Grass Lake, Mich., had an 11-8 record and a 1.47 earned-run average this season. In MAC action, she went 7-3 with an 0.83 ERA, ranking fourth in the league in that category. Houle, like Rosemeier, earns all-league honors for the first time in her BGSU career.
Angie Domschot, a Toledo native, hit .304 this season, and batted .308 in conference games. The second baseman is ranked on every BGSU career hitting list. Domschot earns all-league honors for the second time, having been named to the first team as a sophomore in 1999.
The Falcons were the only MAC school to have four first-team selections. The last time the Brown and Orange placed four players on the first team was in 1988.
BEST-EVER MAC PERCENTAGE: The Falcons concluded MAC play with a 19-5 record, good for a winning percentage of .792 ... that percentage is the best in school history ... the previous best was a .743 pct. by the 1993 team (26-9).
GREAT RECORD: The Falcons ended the 2001 season with 35 overall wins, tied for the second-most in school history ... the 1992 squad recorded a school-record 37 wins, while the 1988 team also had 35 victories ... BGSU's winning percentage of .648 this year ranks third in school annals, trailing only that 1992 team (.698, 37-16) and the 1993 squad (34-18, .654).
BGSU IN THE MAC TOURNEY: The Falcons have made seven MAC Tournament appearances in school history ... BGSU has qualified for the league tourney in each of the last four years, the only East Division squad to have done so ... the 2001 campaign marked the 11th league tournament, which was held from 1982-86 before a hiatus of nearly a decade ... Bowling Green has compiled an all-time MAC Tournament mark of 8-14, having gone 1-2 in the first four trips, 0-2 two seasons ago, and 3-2 last year ... BGSU posted a 1-2 mark at the 2001 tourney ... last year's runner-up finish was the Falcons' best placing ever in the MAC Tournament ... the Falcons participated in the league tourney in 1982 (the inaugural tourney), 1985 and 1986, prior to the current four-year run ... in three of the team's first four trips, BG won the first game before losing the next two.
RECAPPING THE FINAL WEEK: The Falcons went 1-2 at the MAC Tournament in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. (May 10-12) ... BGSU lost to Northern Illinois, 2-1, on Thursday, May 11, but rebounded to defeat Ohio by a 6-1 score the following morning ... BGSU scored five runs in the 10th inning for the win ... then, Ball State used a three-run sixth inning to post a 3-2 win that eliminated the Falcons from the tourney ... BSU advanced to the championship round before losing to top-seeded Central Michigan.
LYNSEY EBEL SETS HR RECORD: Senior Lynsey Ebel ends her career as the most prolific home-run hitter in BGSU history ... Ebel hit a school-record 14 homers in her Falcon career, including six in 2001 (tying the BG single-season record) ... classmate Jen Domschot ranks second in school history, having hit 13 round-trippers in her three years in the Brown and Orange ... the two players waged quite a back-and-forth battle for the lead this season ... the record was matched or broken in each of five consecutive weeks, culminating in the regular season's final week ... that week, Jen Domschot hit a long homer in a game at Cleveland State (April 30) ... that homer was the 13th of Domschot's career, tying her with Ebel ... Ebel, who had taken the lead with homers in each end of a DH sweep of Miami (April 28), reclaimed the lead with a smash to left-center in a win over Kent State (May 4).
GETTING OFFENSIVE: BGSU averaged 4.20 runs per game this year, good for third place on the school list ... the only teams in school history to average more runs were the 1981 and 2000 squads ... in 1981, BG averaged a whopping 5.25 runs per game, scoring 147 times in 28 outings ... last year's edition of the Falcons averaged 4.24 runs per game.
GOOD HIT...: BGSU hit .264 as a team in 2001, the fourth-highest average in school history ... the 1988 team hit a school-record .278, while last year's squad hit .277 and the 1985 team hit .270.
...GOOD FIELD: BGSU set a school record with a .959 fielding percentage in 2001 ... the previous best had been .958 in 1983 ... the Falcons committed 72 errors in 54 games this season, an average of 1.33 per game ... that is the lowest average in school history ... the old mark of 1.39 was set by the 1988 team ... prior to this spring, the Falcons had committed at least 1.93 errors per game in each of the last seven seasons.
FALCONS BY THE NUMBERS: The Falcons hit .264 as a team this year, while the opponents batted .250 ... BGSU had a team ERA of 1.78, while the foes had a 3.40 ERA ... when the Falcons' 29-0 loss to nationally-ranked Arizona is taken out of the equation, BGSU hit .267 to the opponents' .243, and the team ERA drops to 1.36 ... the team's top four hitters all were seniors, as Nikki Rouhana, Jen Domschot, Angie Domschot and Lynsey Ebel led the way ... Rouhana led the Falcons and ranked fifth in the MAC with a .352 batting average ... Jen Domschot finished with a .347 average, good for sixth in the league ... Angie Domschot hit .304, while Ebel hit .293 ... Jen Domschot led the Falcons with 45 runs scored, a school-record 32 walks, 86 total bases, a .468 on-base percentage and a .573 slugging pct. ... she led the entire league in runs, walks and OBP ... Rouhana paced the Brown and Orange with 56 hits ... Ebel set a school record with 40 runs batted in, ranking second in the MAC ... junior Renee Rosemeier was right behind with 39 RBI, the third-highest total in the league ... Ebel hit a school record-tying six homers, while Rosemeier and Jen Domschot had five each on the year ... sophomore McKenna Houle paced the pitchers with 11 wins, 10 complete games and three shutouts ... Houle (11-8) had a 1.47 ERA to rank fifth in the MAC, while junior Jessie Milosek was sixth with a 1.49 ERA ... Milosek went 8-7 in 2001 ... freshman Jody Johnson had a 10-2 record and a 1.68 ERA, while junior Andrea Genter was 6-2 with an ERA of 2.02 ... Milosek and Houle had 63 and 60 strikeouts, respectively, on the year, while Johnson had 52 and Genter 46.
FALCONS IN MAC PLAY: BGSU hit a MAC-best .294 in conference games, while the opponents hit .234 ... the Falcons' team ERA of 0.92 was second-lowest in the league ... individually, the Falcons were all over the leaderboards in numerous categories ... senior Nikki Rouhana led the MAC with a .415 batting average in league games, while classmate Jen Domschot was fifth with a .394 average ... Rouhana also led the league in hits (34), runs scored (27) and total bases (49), while Jen Domschot was the league leader in walks (14) and on-base percentage (.500) ... senior Lynsey Ebel and junior Renee Rosemeier tied for the RBI lead, with 25 apiece ... Jen Domschot was third with 23 ... Domschot and Rosemeier were second and third, respectively, in total bases, while Ebel was seventh ... Domschot was second in runs (22), triples (three) and slugging percentage (.634), while Rosemeier and Ebel were tied for second in homers (four each) ... in the circle, all four BGSU pitchers who threw in MAC games were ranked among the top 10 in earned-run average ... freshman Jody Johnson finished with an ERA of 0.58 against the league, second-lowest in the MAC ... sophomore McKenna Houle was fourth with an 0.83 ERA, while juniors Jessie Milosek and Andrea Genter were sixth and ninth, respectively ... Milosek had a 1.04 ERA against the league, while Genter's ERA was 1.43 ... Genter allowed opponents to bat just .190 against her in league play, fourth-lowest in the MAC ... Milosek ranked 10th in that category (.228) ... Johnson tied for second in the league with two saves in MAC action ... she was 5-0 in league games, while Houle was 7-3, Milosek 4-1 and Genter 3-1.
HOME COOKIN': The Falcons have experienced a great deal of success in home games over the past few years ... BGSU finished with a 13-3 record in home contests this season ... the Falcons 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 the BGSU Softball Field, including a 30-8 (.789) mark against the MAC.
HOMER HAPPY: The school record for homeruns in a season has fallen yet again ... entering the Leigh Ross-Shaw (head-coaching) Era, the BGSU single-season record for homers was eight ... Ross-Shaw's first team obliterated that mark by hitting 19 round-trippers in 1999 ... not to be outdone, the 2000 squad matched that record ... this year, BGSU broke the mark by hitting 21 homers.
HOMER HAPPY II: To say BGSU has picked up the home-run pace over the past few years would be a vast understatement ... over 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 Brown and Orange has hit 59, an average of 19.9 per season.
RBI CAME IN BUNCHES FOR THESE THREE: Prior to this spring, a BGSU player had driven in 30 runs in a season just three times ... three players reached that plateau this season alone ... senior Lynsey Ebel and junior Renee Rosemeier had 40 and 39 RBI this year, respectively ... Ebel's total set a new school record ... senior Jen Domschot had 33 RBI to rank fourth on that single-season list.
JOHNSON JUST WINS: Freshman pitcher Jody Johnson got a win in each of nine consecutive appearances in the circle, raising her record to 10-2 on the season ... she had a no-decision in her final appearance of the year, vs. Ball State in the MAC Tournament, but will take a personal nine-game winning streak into the 2002 season.
I'M WALKIN'...: Senior Jen Domschot set a school record by drawing 32 bases on balls this season ... the old record of 24 was set by Dena Romstadt in 1992 ... Domschot's 2001 total ties her for the fourth-most walks in a season in MAC history.
JEN DOMSCHOT ON ANOTHER MAC LIST: Senior Jen Domschot scored a team-high 45 runs this year, tying her fir the fifth-most in a season in conference history ... BGSU's Amy Lienhardt set the league record, scoring 57 runs in 1988.
ANGIE DOMSCHOT MOVES UP: Senior Angie Domschot certainly made her presence felt on the BGSU career records lists ... in fact, she finishes her career ranked on every school batting list ... Domschot is the BGSU career leader with 19 triples, and ranks second in doubles (41), runs (106), hits (193) and at-bats (640) ... her triples total ties her for fourth on the MAC career list, while her doubles total deadlocks her for 10th on that conference list ... she was just two at-bats shy of tying Amy Lienhardt's BGSU career record ... additionally, Domschot is on the BG career lists for walks (51, fifth), RBI (77, fifth), batting avg. (.302, seventh) and homers (three, tied for 15th).
CAREER RECORDS WATCH: In addition to Angie Domschot, a number of other Falcons are moving up the school's career lists ... seniors Lynsey Ebel and Jen Domschot, as mentioned, finished first and second, respectively, with 14 and 13 homeruns ... Jen Domschot is second in batting average, with a career percentage of .337 ... senior Nikki Rouhana is 12th on that list at .289 ... Ebel has 82 RBI to tie for third on that list, while Jen Domschot is eighth with 73 ... Jen Domschot and Rouhana have 62 and 57 walks, respectively, to rank second and fourth in BG history ... Jen Domschot's 22 career doubles place her ninth on that list, while junior Renee Rosemeier is tied for 12th with 20 doubles ... Rosemeier and sophomore Libby Voshell each have five career homers to tie for eighth on that list, while Rouhana has four to deadlock for 12th ... Rouhana scored 79 career runs, to rank 10th, while Jen Domschot is right behind with 77 ... the two players are tied for 12th in triples, with seven apiece ... sophomore McKenna Houle has a career ERA of 1.33, the second lowest in school history, while junior Jessie Milosek's ERA of 1.86 places her eighth ... Houle is fifth with nine shutouts, while Milosek is tied for sixth with eight ... Houle's 22 wins tie her for ninth on that list, while Milosek is 11th with 20 ... Milosek is tied for fourth with four career saves, and ranks seventh with 128 strikeouts ... Houle and freshman Jody Johnson each have two saves to tie for eighth on that career list ... Houle is ninth with 118 strikeouts, while junior Andrea Genter is 11th with 87.
FALCON PLAYER NOTES: Individual player notes for each member of the 21-player roster can be found on the .pdf version of this release (scroll back up to the top of this page), or by accessing individual bio pages on the BGSU athletics web site (access the 2001 roster and click on the desired player).
NOTING THE FALCONS: The Falcons' total of 227 runs scored this year was the most in school history ... BG pitchers struck out 223 opponents, the second-highest total in Falcon annals ... BGSU has won 30 games in back-to-back seasons for just the second time in school history ... the Falcons have put together four consecutive winning seasons in MAC play for the first time in school history ... the Brown and Orange went 16-1 against MAC East Division foes this year, losing only to second-place Kent State ... the Falcons went 3-6 this season against teams that qualified for the NCAA Championships ... BGSU beat Pacific and Coastal Carolina, went 1-1 vs. Penn State, and lost to Arizona and Michigan ... the Falcons went 0-3 vs. Central Michigan ... 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 ... BGSU had winning streaks of seven, nine and eight games this year ... the Falcons are 29-6 vs. MAC East Division opponents since the beginning of the 2000 conference season ... BGSU was 14-2 in games decided by five or more runs this year.
