Falcons Host Michigan State Friday

Sept. 2, 2004

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, after opening the season with a bang last weekend, will play a pair of formidable opponents this weekend ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (1-1-0) will conclude a three-match, season-opening homestand with a Friday (Sept. 3) contest vs. Michigan State University, beginning at 4:00 p.m. at Cochrane Field ... on Sunday (Sept. 5), the Brown and Orange will open the road portion of the schedule with a match vs. Eastern Illinois University, beginning at 1:00 p.m. locally (2:00 p.m. Eastern) at Lakeside Field in Charleston, Ill.

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COPPES HAS A DAY VS. DUKES
Falcon forward Kristy Coppes certainly opened her senior season on a successful note ... Coppes shattered the BGSU and Mid-American Conference records by scoring six goals in Friday's (Aug. 27) 7-3 win over visiting Duquesne ... her total fell just one shy of matching the NCAA Division I record of seven goals in a match.

COPPES EARNS MAC WEEKLY HONORS...
Not surprisingly, senior Kristy Coppes was named the MAC Player of the Week on Monday (Aug. 30) ... Coppes earned the honor for the third time in her Falcon career, becoming the first BGSU women's soccer player to be named the league P-O-W on three occasions ... Jill Conover is the only other player in school history to earn multiple league player-of-the-week awards, having been chosen twice in her BG tenure.

...AND NATIONAL WEEKLY HONORS
In addition to her MAC honor, Kristy Coppes received another prestigious award after her prodigious performance ... late Wednesday (Sept. 1), Coppes was named to the Soccer Buzz National Elite Team of the Week ... this marks the fourth week in the history of the BGSU women's soccer program that a Falcon player has been named to a national weekly team, with Coppes becoming the first-ever BG player named in two different weeks ... she was named to the Soccer America Team of the Week last Oct. 8 ... the Soccer Buzz National Elite Team of the Week is comprised of 11 players from around the country, chosen on the basis of their play the previous week ... the complete list of BGSU honorees follows ...
BGSU REPRESENTATIVES, NATIONAL TEAMS OF THE WEEK

Kristy Coppes     Sept. 1, 2004  Soccer Buzz
Samantha Meister  Oct. 15, 2003  Soccer America, Soccer Buzz
Kristy Coppes     Oct. 8, 2003   Soccer America
Erika Flanders    Sept. 5, 2001  Soccer America, Soccer Buzz

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 38-41-6 ... Richards has led the Falcons to the three finest seasons in school history over his first four years ... last season, 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.

ANDERSON MATCHES A SCHOOL MARK
Perhaps lost in the Kristy Coppes scoring frenzy was the fact that junior Britt Anderson tied the school record for assists in a match, with three vs. Duquesne ... four other players, including current Falcon senior Nikki Pucillo, had registered three assists in a match ... in the DU contest, Anderson equalled her assist total for all of last season ... she entered the 2004 campaign with a career total of four assists.

THE FALCONS ARE NOW...

6-2-0 in regular-season openers

4-4-0 in home openers

3-1-0 when opening the season in a tournament

6-4-0 in in-season tournaments

MORE NOTES FROM THE DUQUESNE MATCH

As mentioned, senior Kristy Coppes set school and conference records with her six-goal outburst Friday ... teammate Samantha Meister had set the BGSU record, and tied the MAC mark, with a four-goal performance in last year's 4-3 overtime win at Northern Illinois (Oct. 12, 2003) ... Meister's total still stands as the league record for a conference match.

Coppes, who entered the day already ranked as the Falcons' career leader in goals and points, now has 40 goals and 85 points in her BG tenure ... she had two previous hat tricks, against Youngstown State (Oct. 3, 2001) and Detroit (Sept. 4, 2002), and is the only player in school history with multiple matches of three goals or more.

As mentioned earlier, Coppes fell just one goal shy of the NCAA Division I record for goals in a match ... a pair of players have scored seven goals in a contest ... Sarah Comeaux of Ole Miss had seven goals in a match vs. Northwestern State on Nov. 1, 1996 ... Kristen Arnott of St. Francis (Pa.) matched that total in an Oct. 18, 2000 contest vs. YSU ... according to the NCAA Soccer Records manual, a player has scored six goals in a match on 11 occasions prior to the 2004 season ... that list follows ...

NCAA DIVISION I RECORDS, MOST GOALS, MATCH

No. Player, Team vs. Opponent.............................Date
7   Kristen Arnott, St. Francis (Pa.) vs. Youngstown St.. Oct. 18, 2000
7   Sarah Comeaux, Mississippi vs. Northwestern St........ Nov. 1, 1996
6   KRISTY COPPES, Bowling Green vs. Duquesne ........... Aug. 27, 2004
6   Ashley Bouette, Southern U. vs. Texas Southern ..... Sept. 13, 2003
6   Rachael Waterhouse, Troy State vs. Jackson State .... Oct. 26, 2002
6   Kelly Smith, Seton Hall vs. La Salle ................ Sept. 1, 1999
6   Danielle Fotopoulos, Florida vs. Auburn .............. Nov. 9, 1996
6   Christina Kenney, Va. Commonwealth vs. Pittsburgh ... Oct. 26, 1996
6   Christina Kenney, Va. Commonwealth vs. Howard ....... Oct. 11, 1996
6   Deneil LoGiudice, Army vs. Lafayette ................. Oct. 6, 1990
6   Patti Cassaveh, Rhode Island vs. Fairfield ................... 1984
6   Jodi Krauser, Xavier vs. Wooster .................... Oct. 13, 1984
6   Kris Moller, Canisius vs. Daeman ................... Sept. 10, 1986
6   Becky Worman, Wis.-Milwaukee vs. Beloit ............ Sept. 24, 1985
6   Kathy McNabb, Hartford vs. Iona .............................. 1985
SOURCE: NCAA Soccer Records manual

Freshman Tierney Tilford had a successful debut to her collegiate career, picking up a pair of assists on Coppes goals ... she played a total of 58 minutes in her first match with the Falcons ... additionally, junior Molly Bremen garnered the first point of her Falcon career, picking up the primary assist on Coppes' sixth goal of the day.

Tilford was not the only Falcon to make her debut on Friday ... redshirt freshman Samantha Martinez, who missed last season due to injury, drew the start in goal ... she made five saves while playing the first half, picking up the win ... true frosh Janie Babich, Danielle Cygan, Denise Cygan, Rachael Ross and Gina Rossi all saw action in the match as well ... all 22 Falcons that suited up for the contest saw playing time.

Coppes set a school mark for four goals in a match, with her four-goal second half coming in a span of 34:36 ... of course, she also set BG records for fastest five goals (57:34) and fastest six goals (73:20).

Friday's doubleheader began at 1:00 p.m., with Eastern Michigan taking on Pittsburgh ... that match was delayed due to lightning for nearly two hours early in the second half ... then, after that match was finished, another delay sent BGSU and Duquesne scurrying for cover just minutes before those teams kicked off ... that match, scheduled for 4:00 p.m., began at 5:52 p.m., and featured another weather delay at halftime ... in all, the three delays totalled three hours and 23 minutes ... the BGSU-DU match ended at 8:16 p.m.

THREE FALCONS ON ALL-TOURNEY TEAM
A trio of BGSU standouts were named to the all-tournament team at the Falcon Classic ... Britt Anderson, Kristy Coppes and Tiernay Tilford all earned the honor ... Eastern Michigan, after going 2-0-0 in the tourney, had four players named to the all-tourney squad, while Pittsburgh (1-1-0) and Duquesne (0-2-0) had two honorees each.

THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Michigan State will bring a 2-0-0 record to Cochrane Field on Friday, after beating Colorado College (4-1) and Western Michigan (2-0) to open the year ... the Spartans returned 17 letterwinners, including six starters, from last year's 12-8-0 team ... that group finished 4-6-0 in Big Ten play for head coach Tom Saxton ... MSU is ranked seventh in the Great Lakes Region in this week's Soccer Buzz poll ... the school's athletics web page is www.msuspartans.com.

Eastern Illinois, like MSU, is ranked in the Soccer Buzz poll, listed at 14th in the Great Lakes Region this week ... the Panthers have a tough schedule to open the year ... after opening the season with a 2-0 win over Evansville, EIU played a match at Notre Dame, ranked second in the nation, and fell to the Irish by a 3-0 count ... the Panthers play at Nebraska (receiving votes in the national poll) Friday before hosting BG Sunday ... EIU has 16 letterwinners, including nine starters, back from last year's team that went 11-6-5 overall, 6-0-2 in the Ohio Valley Conference and advanced to the NCAA Tournament ... the school's athletic web site is www.eiu/edu/panthers.

The Falcons trail Michigan State, 5-1-1, in the all-time series ... MSU has won the last two meetings, including a 3-2 verdict in East Lansing last year (Oct. 15, 2003) ... BG's lone series win came in overtime, also by a 3-2 score, in the 1999 season opener at Cochrane Field ... BGSU trails Eastern Illinois, 1-0-1, in that series ... the teams tied in Charleston two years ago, before the Panthers came to Cochrane and left with a 4-2 win last fall, a year to the day before this season's meeting (Sept. 5, 2003).

FALCONS PICKED FOR FIFTH-PLACE TIE
The Falcons were picked to finish in a fifth-place tie in the MAC in the league preseason poll ... the poll, released August 17, is a result of voting by the league's 13 head coaches ... Western Michigan, the defending league tournament champion, was picked to win the 2004 regular-season crown, followed by Ohio, Eastern Michigan and Miami ... BGSU was picked to tie with Ball State for fifth place ... the Falcons were the choice of two coaches to win the league tourney, trailing WMU (7) and OU (3) in that category ... Miami received the other tournament title vote.

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