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BGSU Heads to MAC's 'East Coast' This Weekend
October 11, 2004 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 11, 2004
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, having begun the second half of the Mid-American Conference schedule Sunday, hits the road for a pair of league matches this weekend ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (4-9-1, 2-4-1 MAC) venture to Northeast Ohio for a Friday (Oct. 15) match vs. Kent State University ... kickoff is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at the Kent State Soccer Field ... then, the Brown and Orange will continue eastward, heading to New York for a Sunday (Oct. 17) match against the University at Buffalo ... that contest begins at noon at RAC Field.
COPPES CONTINUES CLIMBING CAREER CHARTS
Senior Kristy Coppes continues to go where no Falcon has gone before ... already the BGSU career scoring leader entering the 2004 season, she is moving up the MAC lists ... the Findlay native scored the second goal of the match in Friday's (Oct. 8) 2-0 win over Miami ... that goal increased her BG career-best totals to 45 goals and 95 points ... she currently ranks sixth in MAC history in goals, and is only two goals shy of third place ... Coppes is seventh all-time among MAC players in points ... the lists follow ...
MAC CAREER RECORDS
GOALS 60 - Danielle Berkemeier, Miami (1999-2002) 58 - Andrea Cunningham, Miami (1999-2002) 47 - Jessica Hupe, Eastern Michigan (2000-SA) 46 - Paula Listrani, Buffalo (1997-2000) 46 - Christel Schiering, Ohio (2000-03) 45 - Kristy Coppes, Bowling Green (2001-SA)POINTS 148 - Danielle Berkemeier, Miami (1999-2002) 141 - Andrea Cunningham, Miami (1999-2002) 116 - Paula Listrani, Buffalo (1997-2000) 109 - Jessica Hupe, Eastern Michigan (2000-SA) 104 - Christel Schiering, Ohio (2000-03) 101 - Amanda Kulikowski, Eastern Michigan (1998-2001) 95 - Kristy Coppes, Bowling Green (2001-SA)
THAT'S A RECORD (AND SO IS THAT)
In Friday's win over Miami, the Falcons set school single-match records for fewest shots allowed (1) and fewest shots on goal against (0) in a match ... MU's only shot, early in the second half, sailed high over the crossbar ... the old BGSU records of two total shots and one SOG faced came in the Nov. 3, 2000 match vs. Western Michigan.
SNAPPING THE STREAK
Sunday's loss to Ball State snapped a three-match winning streak for the Falcons, the team's first such streak since late October of 2002 ... in the history of the BGSU program (now in its eighth season), the Falcons have never won four consecutive matches in the same season ... BGSU has won five-straight contests on one occasion, spanning the final two matches of the 1997 campaign and the first three of 1998 ... BGSU has won three consecutive matches in the same season seven times in school history.
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
Believe it or not, Sunday's match marked the first time all season that the Falcons had come back to tie a match after falling behind ... Ball State's first goal on Sunday marked the first time in two weeks (since the Sept. 26 match at Eastern Michigan) that the Falcons had trailed in a match ... BGSU tied the contest on junior Britt Anderson's well-placed free kick, but the Cardinals responded with another goal for the 2-1 win.
NARROWING THE SERIES MARGIN
The Falcons trail Miami by an 8-2 margin in the all-time series between the teams ... but, BGSU has now won the last two meetings ... Friday's victory marked the Falcons' first home win over the RedHawks in four tries.
SEPTEMBER'S SCORING SLUMP IS OLD NEWS IN OCTOBER
The Falcons had difficulty finding the back of the net during the month of September, but have gotten off to a good scoring start in October ... despite Sunday's (Oct. 10) 2-1 loss to Ball State, the Falcons still have a 3-1-0 record in the month of October, after going winless (0-7-1) in September ... after scoring a total of only four goals in September's eight matches, the Falcons have scored 11 times in four October contests to date.
SHINGLER'S SHUTOUT STREAK
Ali Shingler posted back-to-back shutouts for the first time in her Falcon career, blanking Akron and Miami ... the redshirt junior now has six career shutouts, the second-most in school history, and had a career-long shutout streak of 268:02, the second-longest such streak in BGSU history, before allowing a goal early in the second half vs. Ball State ... Shingler's streak is second only to the record set by Erika Flanders (340:24) from Sept. 27-Oct. 6 of 2002 ... Shingler lowered her seasonal goals-against average from 2.22 to 1.74 during the two shutouts, and her GAA currently stands at 1.76.
ROSSI MAKES MOST OF CHANCE
Head coach Andy Richards gave freshman Gina Rossi the first starting assignment of her young Falcon career on Friday, and Rossi made the most of her chance, scoring the first goal of the 2-0 win over Miami ... for Rossi, the goal was her second in as many matches ... she picked up her first match-winning goal, and the goal-scoring streak was the first of her career ... Rossi had a three-match scoring streak, with six points during that span, before being held scoreless on Sunday.
BREMEN, EGGLETON PUT TOGETHER SCORING STREAKS
Junior Molly Bremen put together the first four-match scoring streak of her career ... Bremen, who entered the 2004 season looking for her first collegiate point, had seven points over the four matches, culminating with Friday's Miami contest ... she had a three-match assist streak, and now has eight points on the season, good for a second-place tie on the Falcons ... junior Leah Eggleton's assist on Gina Rossi's Friday goal was her team-leading fifth helper of the season ... all five of those assists came in a four-match span, tying her with Bremen for the Falcons' longest point-scoring streak of 2004 ... Eggleton now has a career total of 12 assists, second most among current Falcons (classmate Julie Trundle has 17) and tied with Michelle Lisy (1997-2000) for fifth on the BGSU career list.
CORNERING THE MARKET
The Falcons have taken 105 corner kicks this season, already having set the school single-season record in that category ... the 2003 team took an even 100 corners over 23 matches, an average of 4.35 per contest ... this season's squad is averaging 7.5 corners per match, leading the MAC in both CKs and CKs per contest ... BG has had more corner kicks than the opponents in 13 of this year's 14 matches ... Falcon foes have taken a total of 42 CKs in 2004 ... currently, the Falcons are on pace to set a school record for most corner kicks per match, while holding opponents to the fewest CKs per match in a season ... BGSU's corner kick information by year ...
YEAR BGSU'S CORNER KICKS OPPONENTS 1997 86 CKs in 18 matches (4.78 avg.) 95 CKs (5.27 avg.) 1998 86 CKs in 20 matches (4.30 avg.) 109 CKs (5.45 avg.) 1999 101 CKs in 19 matches (5.32 avg.) 80 CKs (4.21 avg.) 2000 104 CKs in 21 matches (4.95 avg.) 108 CKs (5.14 avg.) 2001 80 CKs in 19 matches (4.21 avg.) 95 CKs (5.00 avg.) 2002 98 CKs in 22 matches (4.45 avg.) 77 CKs (3.50 avg.) 2003 100 CKs in 23 matches (4.35 avg.) 136 CKs (5.91 avg.) 2004 105 CKs in 14 matches (7.50 avg.) 42 CKs (3.00 avg.)
THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Kristy Coppes
HEAD COACH Andy Richards
Andy Richards is in his fifth season as a collegiate head coach, all with the Falcons, and has an overall record of 41-49-9 ... Richards has led BGSU to the three finest seasons in school history over his first four years ... last fall, he guided the Falcons to the championship match of the MAC Tournament for the second time in his four seasons ... BGSU has advanced to the semifinals of the league tourney in three of his four campaigns to date ... Ashlee Orr is in her fifth season as an assistant coach for the Brown and Orange, while Eric Golz is in his first fall on Richards' staff.
FALCONS ON THE ROAD
After losing the first four road matches of the year, the Falcons now have a two-match road winning streak heading into the KSU-UB weekend ... the Falcons began the month of October with wins at Cleveland State (5-1) and Akron (3-0) ... BGSU is 2-4-0 on the road in 2004, including a 1-2-0 mark in MAC road contests ... since the beginning of the 2002 season, the Falcons have a record of 10-4-1 in MAC regular-season road matches.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Kent State will enter the weekend with an overall record of 8-2-4, and the Golden Flashes are tied for fourth place in the MAC with a league mark of 4-2-2 ... KSU is unbeaten (3-0-2) over the last five matches, including last weekend's double-OT contests, a 2-2 tie at Northern Illinois and a 3-2 win at Western Michigan ... freshman Kimberly Dimitroff leads the team offensively, with 10 goals and 24 points ... in goal, sophomore Alicia Fernandez has played all but 25 minutes this season, and has three shutouts and a goals-against average of 1.28 ... the Flashes went 12-5-3 overall last season, and tied for the MAC regular-season title with a league mark of 8-2-2 ... fourth-year head coach Rob Marinaro lost 10 letterwinners from that squad ... the school's athletics web site is kentstatesports.com.
Buffalo has an overall record of 3-10-1, and the Bulls will take a MAC slate of 2-5-1 into a Friday match vs. Toledo ... the UT match will be the Bulls' first home contest since Sept. 19 ... UB is looking to snap a six-match winless streak (0-5-1), which includes a 2-2 tie at WMU and a 2-1 loss to NIU last weekend ... junior Natalia Crofut leads the team with five goals and 12 points on the season, while senior Jenny Dannecker has 11 points, including a UB-high five assists ... senior goalie Anna-Lesa Calvert has played all but one match for the Bulls this season, and has 77 saves, three shutouts and a 1.85 GAA ... a year ago, UB went 11-8-1 overall and 6-5-1 in league action ... a total of 21 letterwinners returned from that team for head coach Jean-A. Tassy ... the school's athletics web site is www.buffalobulls.com.
The Falcons lead Kent State, 4-2-2, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU is 2-1-0 in road matches vs. the Golden Flashes ... last season, the teams battled to a scoreless tie at BGSU's Cochrane Field (Oct. 19, 2003) ... in the most recent meeting in Kent, a Britt Anderson header gave the Falcons a 1-0 win (Sept. 29, 2002) ... four of the previous eight series meetings went to overtime ... BGSU leads Buffalo, 4-3-1, in that series, another series that is no stranger to OT ... each of the last five BG-UB meetings has required overtime, including last season's 3-2 Buffalo win at Cochrane (Oct. 17, 2003) ... the Falcons are 1-0-1 on the road vs. the Bulls, including a 1-1 tie in 2000 and a 2-1 OT win on a Samantha Meister extra-session goal two years ago (Oct. 20, 2002).
