Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Open Dual-Match Play This Weekend
January 18, 2002 | Women's Tennis
Jan. 18, 2002
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's tennis team begins the dual-match portion of the 2001-02 schedule with a pair of road matches over the holiday weekend. The Falcons open with a Sunday (Jan. 20) morning match against the University of Indiana. Starting time is 9:30 a.m. local time at the Indiana Tennis Center in Bloomington, Ind.
IU is ranked 39th in the nation in the latest ITA rankings, released Jan. 8. The Hoosier doubles team of Karie Schlukebir and Linda Tran is ranked second in the region and 30th in the nation. One IU singles competitor, Amanda Field (25th), and an additional doubles team (Field and Inga Radel - 13th) are regionnally ranked as well.
The next day (Jan. 21), the Brown and Orange of head coach Penny Dean will be in Cincinnati, Ohio, to take on Xavier University. That match is scheduled to begin at noon.
Dean's youthful nine-member squad features just one senior, one junior, three sophomores and four freshmen. The senior, Devon Bissinger, is ranked on BGSU's career victories lists, while the lone junior, Alyson Gabel, is in her first year at BG after transferring from Mid-American Conference member Miami University.
Bissinger and Gabel are joined by sophomores Gaby Coello, Jessica Johnson and Lisa Maloney and freshmen Cameron Benjamin, Laura Kokinda, Lindsey Mix and Susan Schoenberger.
Gabel was the Falcons' top singles player in the fall, in terms of victories. She posted an 8-4 record. Maloney went 5-8 for the Brown and Orange, while Benjamin had a 4-7 singles mark in the fall.
Following the IU and XU matches, the Falcons will prepare for the first "home" match of the 2002 calendar year. BGSU will face Wright State University on Sat., Feb. 2, at Shadow Valley Tennis Club in Toledo.
The Falcons posted a dual-match record of 8-14 last season, and had a MAC record of 4-5. BGSU lost four seniors, all of whom rank in the top 10 in combined career wins at the school, from that squad.
