Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host EMU in MAC Tournament QF Sunday
November 03, 2007 | Women's Soccer
Nov. 3, 2007
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, having won four consecutive matches to conclude the regular-season schedule, has earned a first-round home game in the Mid-American Conference Tournament ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (9-9-1, 6-5-0 MAC), having earned the fourth seed for the MAC Tournament, host fifth-seeded Eastern Michigan University in league tourney quarterfinal action Sunday afternoon (Nov. 4) ... the Falcons and Eagles will meet in a 1:00 p.m. kickoff at Cochrane Field ... the winner of the BGSU-EMU match will join the other three quarterfinal-round survivors for Friday's (Nov. 9) semifinal round, which will be held at the highest-remaining seed among those four teams ... the championship match is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 11, at the semifinal site.
Quarterfinals - Sunday, Nov. 4 - campus sites
#5 Eastern Michigan at #4 Bowling Green, 1:00
#8 Miami at #1 Ball State, 1:00
#6 Ohio at #3 Northern Illinois, 1:00 CST
#7 Kent State at #2 Toledo, 1:00
Semifinals - Friday, Nov. 9 - at site of highest-remaining seed
BGSU-EMU winner vs. BSU-Miami winner
NIU-Ohio winner vs. UT-KSU winner
(starting times and order of games to be determined)
Championship - Sunday, Nov. 11 - at semifinal site
Semifinal winners
LAST TIME OUT
Freshman Meagan Moran scored twice in the final two minutes of regulation, lifting the Falcons to a 2-1 road win over arch-rival Toledo Thursday afternoon (Nov. 1) ... UT got on the board early in the second half ... Moran scored the equalizer off an assist from Danielle Cygan with just 1:44 remaining ... then, Moran scored again, on a 25-yard bullet with only 23 seconds left in the second half ... redshirt freshman goalkeeper Alexa Arsenault made three saves in the victory, the Falcons' sixth-straight win at UT's Scott Park Field ... the win, coupled with Eastern Michigan's loss to Central Michigan, gave the Falcons the fourth seed and a home berth for the MAC Tournament.
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THE BGSU-EASTERN MICHIGAN SERIES
(EMU leads, 7-6-1) Sept. 28, 1997 A L 0-1 Sept. 20, 1998 A L 2-5 Nov. 3, 1998 A$ W 1-0 Oct. 15, 1999 H L 2-4 Sept. 24, 2000 A W 1-0 (2-OT) Oct. 31, 2000 A$ W 2-1 Oct. 12, 2001 H L 0-3 Oct. 13, 2002 A T 2-2 (2-OT) Sept. 7, 2003 H L 0-1 Nov. 4, 2003 A$ W 2-1 Sept. 26, 2004 A L 2-3 Oct. 23, 2005 A W 2-1 Oct. 22, 2006 H W 1-0 Oct. 7, 2007 H L 0-2 $ MAC Tournament QF
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Sunday's EMU match, like all of BG's home contests, is scheduled to have live stats on the web ... fans who can't make it to a match at Cochrane Field can get up-to-the-minute statistics on the web via GameTracker, simply by logging on to BGSUFalcons.com.
FALCONS IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
BGSU has qualified for the MAC Tournament for the sixth consecutive season and the eighth time in the 11-year history of the program ... prior to the current six-year run, the Falcons had never made the tourney in back-to-back seasons ... the Falcons, the 2004 and 2005 tournament champions, are 2-1-2 all-time in league tourney home matches entering Sunday's contest vs. Eastern Michigan ... BGSU has a 5-1-1 record in the quarterfinal round through the years.
FALCONS AND EAGLES IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
Eastern Michigan is one of the Falcons' most common opponents in MAC Tournament play over the years ... but, BGSU has never met the Eagles at home in the league tourney ... the teams have met on three prior occasions - all in the quarterfinal round, and all in Ypsilanti - with the Falcons winning all three matches by a single goal ... BGSU has beaten Eastern as a six, seven and eight seed in the league tourney ... the Falcons have also met Miami and Western Michigan three times in MAC Tournament action.
FALCONS IN THE QUARTERFINAL
Last year's MAC Tournament loss to Toledo marked the first time in program history that the Falcons' season ended in the quarterfinal round ... BGSU enters Sunday's match has an overall record of 5-1-1 in quarterfinal-round play ... that includes a 1-1-1 mark at home and a 4-0-0 record on the road (with three of those road victories coming vs. Eastern Michigan).
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 99-112-17 all-time, in the 11th season in program history;
• 53-56-11 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 31-17-4 vs. MAC schools over the last three-plus seasons (including regular-season and tournament matches), and 23-12-2 vs. conference foes in the last two-plus years;
• 48-50-8 in home games, including 17-9-2 at Cochrane Field in the last three seasons;
• 43-53-8 in road contests;
• 2-6-1 in Friday matches this season to date;
• 6-3-0 in Sunday contests so far in 2007;
• 1-0-0 in Thursday contests this fall;
• 11-7-3 in the month of November through the years (3-0-2 at home, 5-4-0 on the road and 3-3-1 in neutral-site matches during the 11th month);
• 30-1-0 in the last 31 games in which the Falcons have scored first; and
• 2-0-0 all-time in matches played on Nov. 4, with both games coming in the MAC Tournament (a 2-1 win at Eastern Michigan in the 2003 quarterfinals, and a 2-0 home victory over Miami in the semifinal round in 2005).
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU is 9-9-1 on the season, and the Falcons ended the MAC regular-season schedule with a 6-5-0 league ledger ... BGSU finished in fourth place in the final conference standings ... the Falcons have a 4-4-0 record at home and a 5-5-1 mark on the road to date ... BG has won four consecutive matches, each by a single goal ... three of those games ended with 1-0 scores, with two going to double-OT (Miami and Ohio) ... the Brown and Orange downed Akron last Sunday (Oct. 28), also by a 1-0 count, then got two late goals for a 2-1 win at Toledo Thursday (Nov. 1) ... freshmen and sophomores have combined to score 18 of the team's 24 goals this season to date ... sophomore Stacey Lucas leads the Falcons with five goals and 12 points, while freshman Meagan Moran has four goals and 11 points ... Moran scored two goals in the last two minutes of the game in that 2-1 win at UT ... freshman Jackie Tamerlano and junior Corbie Yee have nine points apiece ... Tamerlano is tied for second on the Falcons with four goals, while Yee has two game-winning goals and a team-leading five assists ... senior Danielle Cygan has scored seven points this season to date, while soph Faith Juillerat has five points ... in goal, redshirt freshman Alexa Arsenault is 6-3-1 with a team-high 53 saves and a team-low goals-against average of 0.80 ... 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 was 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 had three goals, including two GWG, to tie for the team lead in both categories ... Hansen was 5-8-0 with a 1.74 GAA a year ago, while Zabek was 5-2-0 with a MAC-leading 0.67 GAA.
PRONOUNCED AR-SUH-NO (AS IN NO GOALS ALLOWED)
Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Alexa Arsenault has a 6-3-1 record and a goals-against average of just 0.80 ... the Richmond Hill, Ontario, native has five complete-game shutouts this season, including three in a row through the Akron game ... BG allowed a goal early in the second half at Toledo, snapping Arsenault's and BGSU's shutout streak at 346:56 ... that marks the third-longest streak in school history (by the team), and the fourth-longest such streak of consecutive shutout minutes by an individual ... teammate Christy Zabek owns the longest streak in BGSU history, blanking opponents for a total of 544:48 over parts of the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
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 80-78-13, 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.
MORAN STRIKES TWICE AT TOLEDO
Freshman Meagan Moran, as mentioned numerous times already, scored a pair of late goals in the Falcons' win at Toledo ... Moran's two goals came 1:21 apart, ranking her third on the list of 'fastest two goals' by an individual ... but, it could be argued that Moran's two goals were the most dramatic ... Moran's feat marked the fastest two goals by an individual in a MAC game in school history ... and, no other pair of goals came so close together, so late in a game ... Tracy Gleixner set the record with a pair of goals just 17 seconds apart vs. Detroit nine years ago (Oct. 27, 1998) ... Kristy Coppes scored two goals just 1:10 apart against the same school, in a win over UDM on Sept. 4, 2002.
THE OPPONENT / THE SERIES
Eastern Michigan enters Sunday's game with a record of 7-7-4, and the Eagles finished fifth in the final MAC standings with a league mark of 5-4-2 ... Eastern is looking to snap a two-game losing streak, having lost one-goal games at Northern Illinois (1-0, Oct. 27) and at home vs. Central Michigan (2-1, Nov. 1) ... prior to the last two contests, Eastern had a six-game unbeaten streak, which began with a win at BGSU on Oct. 7 ... included during that time was a 7-1 offensive explosion vs. Buffalo ... EMU is 4-5-1 on the road, and had a 3-3-0 road record in MAC games this year ... Ashley Rodrigues leads the team in scoring, with 16 points, while Stephanie Janssens has 14 and Maggie Christensen 13 ... Rodrigues and Christensen are tied for the team lead with six goals apiece, while Janssens leads the Eagles with eight assists ... Maggie Manville has played every second of every match in goal, and has 85 saves and a goals-against average of 0.99 ... head coach Scott Hall returned 19 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from last year's team that finished 6-10-2 overall and 3-8-0 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.emueagles.com.
The Falcons trail Eastern Michigan, 7-6-1, in the all-time series ... something will have to give on Sunday, as BGSU is just 1-3-0 vs. the Eagles in home games, but the Falcons are a perfect 3-0-0 in MAC Tournament meetings - all in Ypsilanti - vs. Eastern ... the Eagles posted a 2-0 victory at Cochrane Field in this year's regular-season meeting last month (Oct. 7) ... BGSU's one home win in the series came last season (Oct. 22, 2006), on a last-minute goal by Samantha Bland and a shutout by Christy Zabek ... overall, Eastern's 2007 regular-season win snapped a two-game BGSU series winning streak.
McDONALD MAKES ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
BGSU junior Kristin McDonald has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team, it was announced Thursday (Nov. 1) ... McDonald, named to the second team, earns the honor for the first time in her career ... McDonald maintains a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA as a health science major ... the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee ... McDonald has played in 13 matches this season to date, making one start, and has a pair of assists.
YEE NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Corbie Yee was named the MAC Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday morning (Oct. 29) ... Yee earned the honor for the first time this season and the second time in her Falcon career ... Yee, a native of Berea, Ohio, scored both of the Falcons' goals in a pair of 1-0 wins at Cochrane Field last weekend ... she recorded the second 'Golden Goal' of her career, giving the Falcons a victory over Ohio (Oct. 26) ... two days later (Oct. 28), Yee scored in the 62nd minute for what proved to be the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Akron.
FALCON FACTS
The Falcons will compete in the MAC Tournament for the sixth consecutive season, the second-longest active streak in the MAC ... Ball State has made the league tourney for the seventh-straight year ... BGSU now leads Toledo, 7-4-2, in the all-time series between the teams ... the Falcons are now 6-1-0 in road matches vs. the Rockets, including a perfect 6-0-0 in games played at Scott Park Field ... the home team has won only twice in 13 series meetings between BG and UT ... the Falcons finished third in the league in points in conference games, and BGSU tied Eastern Michigan for second in goals in MAC games (1.45 gpg) ... individually, redshirt freshman Alexa Arsenault finished fourth in goals-against average in conference games (0.82), and she was also fourth in saves percentage (.837) ... she was third in shutouts per game, with four shutouts in her eight appearances in MAC matches ... in all matches, Arsenault ranks second in the MAC in saves pct. (.855) and shutouts per game (0.45), fourth in GAA (0.80) and sixth in saves per game (4.82) ... last Sunday's Akron game was '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 - were recognized in pregame festivities, with a number of BGSU women's soccer alumnae on hand ... the Falcons have won three consecutive 'Senior Day' matches, all by shutout, and BGSU is undefeated (3-0-1) in the last four such contests at Cochrane Field ... BG's last 'Senior Day' loss came to nationally-ranked Ohio State, 3-2 in overtime, in 2003 ... Tilford, junior Brianne Eisenhard and sophomores Colleen Kordan and Samantha Bland are the only Falcons to have started all 19 games this season to date.
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.
