Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU To Play Three Times In Five Days
September 03, 2002 | Women's Soccer
Sept. 3, 2002
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team begins a busy early-season stretch this week, playing three matches in a five-day span. The Falcons (0-1-0) of head coach Andy Richards will host the University of Detroit Mercy in a Wednesday (Sept. 4) contest. That match is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. at BGSU's Cochrane Field.
Following the UDM match, the Brown and Orange will take to the road for the first time this season. BGSU will begin the Mid-American Conference portion of the slate with a Friday (Sept. 6) match at the University of Toledo. That contest will begin at 5:00 p.m. at UT's Scott Park Field. Then, the Falcons will take on Eastern Illinois University in a Sunday (Sept. 8) contest, starting at 1:00 p.m. locally (2:00 p.m. BG time) at Lakeside Field in Charleston, Ill.
HEAD COACH ANDY RICHARDS
Andy Richards is in his third year as a head coach, all at BGSU, and has an overall record of 17-21-3 heading into the Detroit match. Richards, who came to BGSU after five years as an assistant coach at Oregon State University, was hired in April of 2000.
Ashlee Orr is in her third season with the Falcon program as well. Orr was named the BGSU assistant coach in late August of 2000.
LAST WEEK
The Falcons opened the season with a 4-0 loss to visiting Michigan State Sunday (Sept. 1) ... senior goalie Erika Flanders made 10 saves in the loss.
THE OPPONENTS
Detroit will enter the confines of Cochrane Field with a record of 0-1-1 after opening the season at Arizona's Wildcat Invitational ... the Titans lost a 1-0 decision to Cal Poly before playing Drake to a 1-1 draw ... sophomore Judith Atwood scored the team's lone goal in the tourney, while classmate Alisson Dube played both matches in the net ... Dube had eight total saves and a goals-against average of 0.90 ... last year, the Titans finished 8-11-0 overall and went 3-3 in Horizon League play ... head coach Mike Lupenec has an overall record of 90-80-5 in his 10th season, all with UDM ... the team's web address is www.DetroitTitans.com.
Toledo is idle until Friday's BGSU match after opening the season with a 5-1 win at Valparaiso Sunday (Sept. 1) ... junior Melissa Lesage and senior Corrie Hasenjager, the team's top-two scorers a year ago, had two goals apiece in the win at VU, while senior Elise Donovan made six saves ... in 2001, the Rockets finished 6-10-1 overall and placed ninth in the MAC with a 5-6-1 league ledger ... head coach Brad Evans is 7-10-1 in his second year with UT ... he has an overall record of 74-36-3 in his seventh season ... the school's athletic web site is www.utrockets.com.
Eastern Illinois, like Toledo, is off until hosting BGSU ... the Panthers are 1-1 on the young season ... EIU lost an overtime match to Illinois State, 2-1, but rebounded with a 1-0 home win over Middle Tennessee State ... freshman Sharyne Connell and junior Rebecca Traen each have one goal, while redshirt freshman Tiffany Groene played all of the ISU match and half of the MTSU contest in goal, and has a total of 12 saves ... EIU, picked to win the Ohio Valley Conference this year, went 14-6-0 overall and 4-1 in OVC action a year ago ... the Panthers won the league tourney and advanced to the NCAA Tournament last fall ... head coach Steve Ballard is 89-49-4 in his eighth year with the Panthers, and has an overall mark of 127-91-5 in his 13th season ... the school's athletic web site is www.eiu.edu/~sprtinfo.
THE SERIES
The Falcons trail the all-time series with Detroit by a 3-0 count, although BG did down the Titans in an exhibition contest last year. UDM has scored six goals in each of the first three meetings. The host Titans downed BG, 6-4, in 1998, despite a Tracy Gleixner hat trick (Oct. 27, 1998). Then, UDM blanked BG, 6-0, the next season in the lone regular-season meeting at Cochrane (Oct. 20, 1999). In 2000, Detroit posted a 6-3 home win (Sept. 6, 2000). Gleixner and Jill Conover each had goals for the Falcons.
BGSU and Toledo are deadlocked, 2-2-1, in their series, and both of the Falcons' wins have come at Scott Park Field. The Rockets won the teams' initial meeting, 3-2, at the Glass Bowl (Sept. 20, 1997). The following year, the visiting Falcons posted a 2-1 win (Sept. 17, 1998), before UT came to Cochrane Field and returned the favor the next fall (Oct. 30, 1999 -- OT). In the third consecutive 2-1 match in the series, the Brown and Orange captured a road victory two years ago (Sept. 22, 2000). Last year, the rivals battled to a 2-2 draw at Cochrane, with Kristy Coppes scoring one of the Falcons' goals.
The Falcons have never met Eastern Illinois in women's soccer.
FIRST OPENING LOSS
The Falcons lost the season-opening match for the first time in school history ... BGSU, a sixth-year program, had been 5-0-0 in openers heading into this season ... the Falcons are now 3-3-0 in home openers in program history.
GETTING THEIR FEET WET
A total of nine players, all freshmen, made their collegiate debuts in the Michigan State match ... Britt Anderson, Leslie Dawley, Keeley Dayton, Leah Eggleton, Samantha Meister, Megan Rapp, Natalie Sampiller, Julie Trundle and Ashley Wentzel all saw their first match action Sunday.
FIRST STARTS
Three of those freshmen -- Meister, Rapp and Trundle -- along with junior Carrie Richards all made their first collegiate starts in the MSU match.
FLANDERS HAS DOUBLE-DIGIT SAVE TOTAL
Senior goalie Erika Flanders made 10 saves in the MSU contest ... the match marked the ninth double-digit save contest of her career ... Flanders now has a total of 346 career saves, extending her own school record.
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Senior goalkeeper Erika Flanders has been named BGSU's team captain for the 2002 season.
NOTING THE FALCONS
Head coach Andy Richards' starting lineup for the second half of the Michigan State match included eight freshmen, one sophomore, one junior and one senior ... the Falcons were kept off the scoreboard for the fifth consecutive match, dating to the end of last season ... Michigan State is the lone non-conference opponent that has appeared on BGSU's schedule in all six seasons.
