Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Close Out Home Regular-Season Schedule this Weekend
October 24, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 24, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, with just three games remaining on the regular-season schedule, returns home for a pair of Mid-American Conference games this weekend ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (6-9-1, 3-5-0 MAC) close the home schedule with a pair of matches at Cochrane Field, beginning with a Friday (Oct. 26) contest vs. Ohio University ... kickoff is set for 4:00 p.m. ... then, on Sunday (Oct. 28), the Brown and Orange will wrap up the home regular-season slate with a 1:00 p.m. game vs. the University of Akron ... that match will be 'Senior Day' for the Falcons, and there will also be an autograph session following the match.
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SENIOR DAY
Sunday's game will be 'Senior Day' for the BGSU women's soccer program at Cochrane Field ... the Falcons' four seniors - Danielle Cygan, Tiffany Hansen, Rachael Ross and Tiernay Tilford - will be recognized in pregame festivities before the Falcons take on Akron ... a number of BGSU women's soccer alumnae are expected to be on hand.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 96-112-17 all-time, in the 11th season in program history;
• 50-56-11 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 28-17-4 vs. MAC schools over the last three-plus seasons (including regular-season and tournament matches), and 20-12-2 vs. conference foes in the last two-plus years;
• 46-50-8 in home games, including 15-9-2 at Cochrane Field in the last two-plus seasons;
• 42-53-8 in road contests;
• 1-6-1 in Friday matches this season to date;
• 5-3-0 in Sunday contests so far in 2007;
• 42-48-7 in the month of October through the years;
• 28-1-0 in the last 29 games in which the Falcons have scored first (with the one loss during that time coming last weekend);
• 2-2-0 all-time in matches played on Oct. 26, with the last three of those games going to overtime (BGSU has won the last two games on that date, including a 4-3 OT win at Marshall four years ago to clinch a MAC Tournament berth, and a 1-0 double-OT victory over arch-rival Toledo last season); and
• 2-1-0 in contests played on Oct. 28, with all three previous matches coming on the road (the last two matches have been wins at Toledo, in 2004 and 2005).
LIVE STATS ON THE WEB
Both of this weekend's matches will have live stats on the web via Gametracker ... for up-to-the-minute statistical information on all matches at Cochrane Field throughout the season, log on to BGSUFalcons.com.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons split a pair of road matches last weekend,, with both going to double overtime ... BGSU became the only MAC team to score against first-place Ball State so far this year, but the Cardinals captured a 3-2 win over the Brown and Orange Friday (Oct. 26) ... sophomores Samantha Bland and Stacey Lucas scored the Falcons' goals, while redshirt freshman Alexa Arsenault made 11 saves, the highest total of her career to date ... on Sunday (Oct. 28), freshman Katie Stephenson's first collegiate goal came at an opportune time, as she found the back of the net in the second OT for a 1-0 BG win over Miami ... soph Colleen Kordan assisted on the goal, while Arsenault earned the shutout win with four saves in 101-plus minutes.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU is 6-9-1 on the season ... the Falcons have a 3-5-0 record in the MAC and a 2-4-0 mark at home to date ... BG has split a pair of road matches in each of the last two weekends, with three of the four matches going to OT ... two of the Falcons' top-three scorers are freshmen ... in fact, freshmen and sophomores have combined to score 16 of the team's 20 goals this season to date ... soph Stacey Lucas leads the way with five goals and 12 points, while freshman Jackie Tamerlano has eight points ... Tamerlano ranks second on the Falcons with four goals ... freshman Meagan Moran has seven points on two goals and three assists, while senior Danielle Cygan has scored six points this season to date ... soph Faith Juillerat and junior Corbie Yee have five points apiece, with Yee owning a team-high five assists ... in goal, redshirt freshman Alexa Arsenault is 3-3-1 with a team-high 45 saves and a team-low goals-against average of 0.99 ... junior Christy Zabek has a 3-5-0 record with 32 saves and a 1.93 GAA ... senior Tiffany Hansen has eight saves in her four matches played ... the Falcons returned 16 of 20 letterwinners, including nine starters, from a youthful 2006 squad that went 10-10-0 overall and 7-4-0 in MAC play ... the '06 Falcons tied for third in conference action, and the Brown and Orange advanced to the league tournament for the fifth consecutive year ... Cygan is the top returning scorer, having scored 10 points last season, while juniors Brianne Eisenhard and Yee had eight and seven points, respectively, in '06 ... all three players had three goals, including two game-winning goals, to tie for the team lead in both categories ... Hansen had a 5-8-0 record and a 1.74 GAA a year ago, while Zabek had a 5-2-0 mark and a MAC-leading 0.67 GAA.
WORKING OVERTIME
The win over Miami on Sunday (Oct. 21) gives the Falcons an all-time record of 15-14-17 in overtime matches ... believe it or not, Friday's (Oct. 19) loss at Ball State was the first time in the 11-year history of BGSU women's soccer that the Falcons lost a road game in OT ... BG has now gone 7-1-8 in overtime matches on opposing soil ... a few other Falcon overtime facts ...
• The Falcons are 6-11-8 in home overtime games and 2-2-1 in neutral-site overtime affairs;
• BGSU went nearly four years without an overtime loss ... after an OT setback vs. Ohio State on Halloween of 2003, the Falcons were unbeaten in the next 10 such matches (5-0-5), including seven-straight at home, before a home loss to Wright State on Sept. 14 of this season;
• Beginning with that WSU game, the Falcons were winless in four consecutive OT matches this year (0-3-1) before the win at Miami;
• BGSU is 2-2-3 in MAC Tournament contests that require overtime ... the Falcons advanced via penalty kicks in all three of those ties;
• The Falcons have played five OT matches in 2007 to date ... the school record is eight OT matches, as the Falcons went 2-3-3 in 2003 ... BGSU was 3-0-0 in overtime last season, tying the school mark for OT wins in a year (3-1-1 in 2000).
ARSENAULT AGGRAVATES ATTACKERS
Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Alexa Arsenault has had a successful start to her BGSU playing career ... Arsenault enters the week ranked among the MAC's leaders in several categories ... she is seventh in the conference in goals-against average, at 0.99, and ranks second in saves percentage (.849), tied for fourth in shutouts per game (0.38) and fifth in saves per game (5.62).
HEAD COACH Andy Richards
Andy Richards is in his eighth season as a collegiate head coach, all with the Falcons ... he has guided the Brown and Orange to unprecedented heights during that time ... the 2005 MAC Coach of the Year, Richards currently has an overall record of 77-78-13, including a MAC Tournament mark of 8-4-3 ... upon his arrival in Northwest Ohio, he took over a team that had gone 19-34-4 in the previous three seasons ... last year, Richards guided the youthful Falcons to 10 overall wins and a tie for third place in the MAC standings ... that came on the heels of the '05 campaign, in which he led the Falcons to the first regular-season title in BG annals and a second-straight MAC Tournament crown ... Richards has led BGSU to the semifinal round of the league tourney on five occasions, to the championship match four times, and, in 2004, to the first league tourney title and NCAA Tournament berth in school history ... Richards and the Falcons repeated that feat in '05, as BGSU again won the MAC Tournament crown.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Ohio enters the weekend with an overall record of 4-8-3 ... all four of the Bobcats' wins have come in MAC play, as the team sits in fourth place with a 4-3-1 league mark heading into Friday's match vs. BGSU ... Ohio opened the season with a non-conference mark of 0-5-2, before winning four-of-five matches to begin MAC play ... the 'Cats now are looking to snap a three-game winless streak, including a pair of 1-0 home losses last weekend, to Northern Illinois and Western Michigan ... OU is 1-3-2 in road games this year to date ... Erika Schmitt leads the team with five goals and 11 points, while Amy Lower has seven points and Lindsey Price six ... Jess MacLean has played all but 45 minutes in goal this year, and has 45 saves and a goals-against average of 0.97 ... head coach Stacy Strauss welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's team that finished 9-9-1 overall and placed second in the MAC with a 7-3-1 league ledger ... the school's athletics web site is ohiobobcats.com.
Akron has a 6-4-6 record, and the Zips are 1-3-4 in MAC play, entering Friday's match at Toledo ... UA, like BGSU, battled through a pair of double-OT matches last weekend, but both of the Zips' contests ended in ties ... UA tied WMU, 1-1, and played to a scoreless draw with NIU ... the Zips are 3-2-2 on the road this season to date ... Britni Back leads the squad in goals (five), assists (three) and points (13) ... Jessica Fix has seven points and Jordan Baranowski six on the season ... Krystin Wilson has played every second of every match in goal this season, and has 69 saves, seven shutouts and a GAA of 0.92 ... head coach Catherine Byrne returned 11 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's club ... the 2006 edition of the Zips went 11-7-0 overall and 4-7-0 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.GoZips.com.
BGSU's two most lopsided series records are with this weekend's opponents ... the Falcons lead one series and trail in the other.
The Falcons trail Ohio, 8-1-1, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU is 1-4-0 in home matches vs. the Bobcats ... that win came in the teams' last meeting at Cochrane Field, a 2-0 Falcon triumph (Oct. 7, 2005) in which Corbie Yee scored the winning goal ... the Bobcats scored three first-half goals en route to a 3-0 win in Athens last season (Oct. 6, 2006) ... OU has outscored BGSU, 18-3, in the series.
BGSU leads Akron by a 5-1-0 margin in that series, but the one UA win came in the Rubber City last year (Oct, 8, 2006), by a 2-1 score ... Brianne Eisenhard scored BGSU's goal in that match ... the Falcons are 3-0 in home games vs. the Zips, including a 1-0 victory in the teams' last meeting at Cochrane (Oct. 9, 2005) ... BG has outscored UA by a 12-4 count in the six series games.
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
Sunday's BGSU-Akron game is scheduled to be televised by the Buckeye Cable Sports Network (BCSN) in the Toledo area on a tape-delay basis ... according to the BCSN web site (www.bcsn.tv), the station will air the game on Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ... the match will likely be shown additional times in the following days (BCSN schedule beyond this week is TBA).
FALCON FACTS
Freshman Katie Stephenson's goal at Miami Sunday (Oct. 21) was her first as a collegian ... she is the fourth Falcon freshman to score a goal this year, joining classmates Alicia Almond, Meagan Moran and Jackie Tamerlano ... redshirt freshman Alexa Arsenault's three wins this season all have been complete-game shutouts ... the Falcons trail Miami by an 8-6-0 margin in the all-time series between the teams, but BGSU has won the last six meetings after dropping eight-straight games to begin the series ... sophomore Stacey Lucas has doubled her point total from a year ago ... Lucas has five goals and 12 points this fall, after scoring a total of six points (two goals, two assists) as a freshman ... the Falcons are the only team to score against Ball State in the Cardinals' eight MAC matches this season to date ... Samantha Bland's goal in the BSU match snapped the Cards' shutout streak at 664:28 ... five of BGSU's eight non-conference opponents have been ranked regionally at some point this year, with four of those eight currently in the Soccer Buzz rankings ... Purdue is first in the Great Lakes region and seventh in the nation, while West Virginia is third in the Mid-Atlantic region and 19th nationally ... Wright State and Kentucky are 11th and 13th, respectively, in the Great Lakes Region ... Purdue, WSU and WVU have a combined record of 36-9-4 this season to date ... with three regular-season games remaining, the Falcons have topped the team's scoring total for all of last year ... BGSU has 20 goals in 2007 after scoring 17 during 2006 ... in fact, the Falcons are third in the league in goals per game in MAC games only (1.50 gpg) ... senior Tiernay Tilford, junior Brianne Eisenhard and sophomores Colleen Kordan and Bland are the only Falcons to have started all 16 games this season.
THE 2007 CAPTAINS
Seniors Danielle Cygan, Tiffany Hansen, Rachael Ross and Tiernay Tilford are the captains of the 2007 Falcons.
THOSE WHO STAY PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
The BGSU women's soccer program is in its 11th season in 2007 ... through the first 10 years (and this fact will not change in '07), every player who has stayed with the program all four years has been a part of at least one team that has advanced to the MAC Tournament's championship match.
