Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Split Time with In-State Rivals
September 12, 2006 | Men's Soccer
Sept. 12, 2006
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Orange and Brown (1-4-1) will kick-off their first mid-week contest in Columbus against the Ohio State Buckeyes (1-3-2) on Thursday evening...the match is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Jesses Owens Memorial Stadium...Sunday, the Falcons will host their first of three home matches...Wright State (4-2-0) will visit Cochrane Field at 2:00 p.m ...live statistics will be available for each of the matches via the gametracker link on www.bgsufalcons.com.
BIRDS OF PREY
The Falcons on Mickey Cochrane Field
•Sunday's home match will be the first of three consecutive matches in Bowling Green, Ohio...head coach Fred Thompson's Falcons will host Wright State (9/17), Michigan State (9/20) and Evansville University (9/29)...the Orange and Brown are 1-1-0 at home this season.
The past week in Falcon Soccer at the St. Mary's (CA) Classic
•Bowling Green tied one match, 1-1 (2OT), while losing another, 3-0, in Moraga, California...Friday, BGSU forced double overtime in the St. Mary's (CA) match on an Ahmad Smith goal in the 88th minute of regulation...Brent Petkus made three save in the two overtime periods...Sunday's first time opponent Sacramento State scoring attack was too much for the Falcon defense in their 3-0 loss.
SCOUTING THE Buckeyes (9/14)
Ohio State's Team History
•The Buckeyes are coached by John Bluem who eclipses the decade milestone with Ohio State this season...OSU is 91-73-22 under Bluem to date, while Bluem holds a 177-100-34 career record in 15 years...OSU finished 2005 with a 11-8-2 overall record and tied for second in the Big Ten at 3-2-1...seventeen letterwinners return including eight starters from last season's NCAA post-season team.
OSU in 2006
•Ohio State has posted a 1-3-2 record to date in the 2006 season...their last win came Aug. 27 over Furman in Columbus...the Bucks are 1-0-1 at home...at the Penn State Nike Classic, OSU faced two ranked opponents...they were defeated by No. 23 Boston 1-0 on Friday and tied No. 13 San Francisco 1-1 on Sunday.
BGSU/OSU Series History
•In their most recent match-up on Sept. 23, BGSU beat the then No. 11 Bucks in double-overtime at Mickey Cochrane Field...the 3-2 (2OT) Falcon victory broke a 27 match winless streak for BGSU dating back to Nov. 7, 2003...sophomore Kyle Williams solidified the win for the Falcons...Ryan Perea scored one goal while George Davis IV assisted on one goal...the programs have been matching up since 1967...the Orange and Brown lead the series 24-9-2 and have outscored Scarlet and Gray
73-41.
SCOUTING THE Raiders (9/20)
Wright State Team History
•Head coach Mike Tracey enters his sixth season with the Wright State Raiders...Tracey boasts a 51-51-3 career record to date at WSU where he has spent his coaching career...WSU went .500 last season at 10-10-0...they finished fourth in the Horizon League (4-3-0)...the Raiders return 16 letterwinners and five starters from the 2005 season.
Wright State in 2006
•The Raiders are currently on a two-match win streak after beating both Jacksonville University and the University of Central Florida this past weekend...WSU won both matches with scores of 3-2...the common link between WSU and host BGSU is the opponent St. Mary's (CA)...the Raiders lost the St. Mary's (CA) contest 2-1, while the Falcons tied SMC 1-1 in double overtime.
BGSU/WSU Series History
•The in-state competition between the schools began in 1982...WSU leads the 2-3-2 series...both schools have scored a combined eight goals in seven matches...in their last meeting, Wright State took the victory, 1-0, in Dayton.
THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
Soaring in the MAC
•The Falcons offensive attack ranks third among the six MAC schools with 65 shots...BGSU is averaging 10.83 shots per game...the defense is also ranked 3rd in saved with 25 in six game (4.17 svs/g).
Painting the MAC Orange and Brown
•Freshman Ahmad Smith is the youngest of three athletes to rank among the top scorers in the MAC...Smith is tied with Andre Clarke (SR, UB) and Marcus McCarty (R-JR, NIU) with three goals in the 2006 season...Smith and Clarke lead the MAC with a .60 goals per game average...Smith is also one of nine athletes with a game wining goal...after making his first start of the season, Brent Petkus ranks second among MAC goal keepers averaging 7.00 saves per game...strikers Justin Kim and Ryan Perea each average two shots per game; the rank fourth among all MAC athletes...George Davis' 1.83 average ties a sixth ranking.
MISCELLANEOUS FALCON NOTES
Hepple to Play with Bahamian National Team
•Red-shirt freshman Cameron Hepple was chosen as a member of the Bahamian National team and will compete in the second round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament...Hepple and the Bahamian team went 2-1 in the first round of tournament play...the Bahamians beat both the Turks and Cacios National team 3-2 and the Cayman Island National team 3-1...the only loss came at the hands of Cuba, 6-0...the second round is expected to begin in November at a destination which is yet to be determined.
