Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Close Home Portion of Season with Two Matches
October 19, 2004 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 19, 2004
Complete Release & Statistics (6 pages) in PDF Format
Download Free Acrobat Reader
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, still battling for a Mid-American Conference Tournament berth, begins the final quarter of the league regular-season schedule Friday (Oct. 22) ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (5-10-1, 3-5-1 MAC) conclude the home schedule with a pair of MAC matches at Cochrane Field, including Friday's contest vs. Northern Illinois University ... kickoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. ... then, on Sunday (Oct. 24), the Brown and Orange will host Western Michigan University in a 1:00 p.m. start at Cochrane ... BGSU's final MAC regular-season match will come on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the arch-rival University of Toledo.
SENIOR DAY
Sunday's match vs. Western Michigan will mark the Falcons' final home regular-season contest of the 2004 season, and will be 'Senior Day' at Cochrane Field ... the seven student-athletes in their final season with the Falcon program - Jenny Berlovan, Kristy Coppes, Jenifer Kernahan, Kylene Newell, Katie Piening, Nikki Pucillo and Beth Rieman - will be recognized in ceremonies prior to the match.
THE MAC RACE
Eight teams will qualify for the MAC Tournament, which begins Nov. 2 with quarterfinal matches at campus sites ... the Falcons currently sit in a tie with Buffalo for 10th place, just three points behind eighth-place Miami ... Toledo is in ninth, one point ahead of BGSU and UB ... teams earn three points for a win and one for a tie ... the Falcons, UT and Miami are the lone teams with three league matches remaining ... BG currently holds the tiebreaker with both Miami and Buffalo, by virtue of head-to-head results ... the Falcons beat the RedHawks, 2-0, and the Bulls by a 1-0 count ... the top-four teams in the final regular-season standings will host teams five through eight in the quarterfinal round, with the highest-remaining seed among the four survivors hosting the semifinals (Nov. 5) and championship (Nov. 7) ... the complete standings, with MAC record, points and remaining MAC regular-season matches ...
Team MAC Pts. Remaining MAC Matches Ohio 7-0-3 24 2 (@KSU Fri., @Buffalo Sun.) Central Michigan 6-1-3 21 2 (@EMU Fri., @Miami Sun.) Ball State 5-2-4 19 1 (@Akron Sun.) Kent State 5-2-3 18 2 (Ohio Fri., Marshall Sun.)Western Michigan 5-3-2 17 2 (@Toledo Fri., @BGSU Sun.) Eastern Michigan 5-3-2 17 2 (Central Mich. Fri., @Miami Oct. 29) Northern Illinois 3-2-5 14 2 (@BGSU Fri., @Toledo Sun.) Miami 4-4-1 13 3 (@Akron Fri., CMU Sun., EMU Oct. 29)
Toledo 3-4-2 11 3 (WMU Fri., NIU Sun., BGSU Oct. 28) Bowling Green 3-5-1 10 3 (NIU Fri., WMU Sun., @Toledo Oct. 28) Buffalo 3-6-1 10 2 (Marshall Fri., Ohio Sun.) Akron 1-9-0 3 2 (Miami Fri., Ball State Sun.) Marshall 0-9-1 1 2 (@Buffalo Fri., @Kent State Sun.)
COPPES SETS SINGLE-SEASON RECORD FOR GOALS
Senior Kristy Coppes scored a goal in each of the Falcons' two matches last weekend, setting a new BGSU single-season record in the process ... Coppes found the back of the net in BGSU's 4-2 loss at Kent State Friday (Oct. 15), then scored the lone goal of the afternoon in a 1-0 victory at Buffalo Sunday (Oct. 17) ... she now has 13 goals this season, giving her sole possession of first place on that school list ... Tracy Gleixner had set the record with 12 goals in 1998, and Coppes matched that mark as both a freshman (2001) and sophomore (2002), before breaking the record this year.
COPPES CLIMBS CAREER CHARTS, REACHES CENTURY MARK
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 had a hand in all three of BG's goals last weekend, with a pair of goals and an assist ... with 47 goals, Coppes is now in a tie for third place on the MAC list, deadlocked with Eastern Michigan's Jessica Hupe ... the two share the active career lead ... Coppes now has an even 100 points, and is in seventh place on that MAC chart ... the lists follow ...
MAC CAREER RECORDS
GOALS 60 - Danielle Berkemeier, Miami (1999-2002) 58 - Andrea Cunningham, Miami (1999-2002) 47 - Kristy Coppes, Bowling Green (2001-SA) 47 - Jessica Hupe, Eastern Michigan (2000-SA) 46 - Paula Listrani, Buffalo (1997-2000) 46 - Christel Schiering, Ohio (2000-03)POINTS 148 - Danielle Berkemeier, Miami (1999-2002) 141 - Andrea Cunningham, Miami (1999-2002) 116 - Paula Listrani, Buffalo (1997-2000) 111 - Jessica Hupe, Eastern Michigan (2000-SA) 104 - Christel Schiering, Ohio (2000-03) 101 - Amanda Kulikowski, Eastern Michigan (1998-2001) 100 - Kristy Coppes, Bowling Green (2001-SA)
FIVE MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT KRISTY COPPES
SHINGLER'S SUNDAY SHUTOUT
Ali Shingler posted a shutout at Buffalo Sunday, her third of the season and the seventh of her career ... she ranks second in BGSU history on the career list ... Shingler's total of eight saves tied a BG season high, and also matched her career best ... she had eight stops at Central Michigan (Sept. 24), after doing so in both of the team's 2003 meetings with Eastern Michigan.
EGGLETON ADDS AN ASSIST (OR SEVEN)
Junior Leah Eggleton picked up an assist in each of last weekend's matches, increasing her season total to a team-high seven ... Eggleton now has at least one assist in six of the last seven matches ... she has a career total of 14 assists, the second most among current Falcons (Julie Trundle has 17) ... Eggleton ranks fifth on the BGSU career assists list ... on the single-season chart, she is just two shy of the school mark.
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Falcons and Buffalo are now tied, 4-4-1, in the all-time series ... BGSU, however, has never lost to the Bulls at RAC Field, holding a 2-0-1 advantage ... all-time, the Falcons are 3-1-1 in matches played in Buffalo, including a pair of contests in the 2000 MAC Tournament (a 2-1 semifinal win over WMU, and a 1-0, double-OT loss to Miami in the championship).
|
|
|
|
|
|
As mentioned, the Falcons and Bulls are all even, 4-4-1, in the series ... believe it or not, Sunday's match marked the first time in the Andy Richards Era that a match between BGSU and UB did not require overtime ... each of the previous five meetings, dating to 2000, had gone to OT ... eight of the nine series matches have been decided by one goal or less ... the Falcons and Bulls each have scored a total of 13 goals in the series.
CORNERING THE MARKET
The Falcons have taken 113 corner kicks this season, and have set a new 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 7.1 corners per match, leading the MAC in both CKs and CKs per contest ... BG has had more corner kicks than the opponents in 15 of this year's 16 matches ... Falcon foes have taken a total of 46 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 info. 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 113 CKs in 16 matches (7.06 avg.) 46 CKs (2.88 avg.)
SCORING SLUMP IN SEPTEMBER, SUCCESS IN OCTOBER
The Falcons had difficulty finding the back of the net during the month of September, but have had much more success in that department in October ... despite Friday's loss at Kent State, the Falcons have a 4-2-0 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 14 times in six October contests to date.
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 42-50-9 ... 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.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Northern Illinois will bring an overall record of 6-4-5 to Cochrane Field, and the Huskies currently sit in seventh place in the MAC with a 3-2-5 league mark ... NIU suffered a 1-0 loss to Centenary Sunday, but the Huskies are unbeaten in the last four conference matches, including a 2-0 win over Akron Friday ... junior Christie Ehrhardt leads a balanced NIU attack with 11 points, while freshman Beth Matus has nine points, including a team-high four goals ... junior Carrie Dvorak has played every minute in goal for the Huskies, and has 101 saves and a goals-against average of 1.17 ... NIU has doubled the win total amassed by last year's 3-15-1 squad ... and, 12th-year head coach Frank Horvat's team has more than tripled the MAC point total (last year's team was 1-10-1) ... the school's athletics web site is www.niu.edu/athletics.
Western Michigan has an overall record of 10-4-2, and the Broncos will take a 5-3-2 MAC mark into a Friday match at Toledo ... WMU rebounded from a three-match winless streak with a pair of victories last weekend, over Youngstown State (4-1) and UA (2-0) ... sophomore Mandi Marsh has five goals and 14 points to lead the Broncos, while classmate Chantal Robinson has four goals and 12 points ... three of Robinson's four goals have been match winners ... sisters Lea and Kate Perz have played the bulk of the minutes in net ... Kate, a junior, is 5-2-1 with a GAA of 1.06 ... Lea, a freshman, has a 3-1-1 record and a 1.02 GAA ... a year ago, WMU went 14-8-1 overall (8-4-0 MAC) and won the MAC Tournament title under head coach Mike Haines ... the school's athletics web site is www.wmubroncos.com.
The Falcons trail Northern Illinois, 5-3-0, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Huskies have won all four prior meetings at Cochrane Field ... in fact, the road team has won all seven matches played at one of the schools (one neutral-site match) ... last season, the Falcons picked up a 4-3 overtime win in DeKalb (Oct. 12, 2003), behind a four-goal performance from Samantha Meister ... BGSU trails Western Michigan, 7-2-0, in that series, and the Broncos swept both of last year's matches in Kalamazoo ... WMU won the regular-season match, 2-0 (Oct. 10, 2003), then posted a 4-1 win in the MAC Tournament's championship contest (Nov. 9, 2003) ... those Western wins avenged a 7-0 BGSU victory in the most recent meeting at Cochrane (Oct. 25, 2002), the most lopsided MAC win in Falcon history ... BG is 1-2-0 in home matches vs. the Broncos.
