Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Visits Detroit for a Pair at UDM
April 16, 2007 | Softball
April 16, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University Falcons will travel to Detroit's Buysse Ballpark for a double act with the Titans. The 37th and 38th meetings between the programs are pegged to begin at 3:00 p.m. and approximately 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon.
Originally, this meeting was slated as the final non-conference opponent for the Falcons, but with the postponement of the April 11 doubleheader at No. 1 Tennessee BGSU will have a remaining non-conference contest before heading into the Mid-American Conference tournament in May.
Bowling Green put together quite a successful weekend for themselves winning their eighth straight conference game as well as sweeping both series with the visiting Miami RedHawks and the Ball State Cardinals. They are currently riding their longest conference win streak since the 2003 season where they strung together 10 W's.
The Falcons outscored their combined opponents 18-7 in four games. The BGSU bats also let lose scoring six doubles and four homeruns at the BGSU Softball Field whereas the defense let up just one double and a homerun. BGSU also tied the single season homerun record by hitting their 29th of the season on Sunday against Ball State.
Individually, junior Allison Vallas ended the weekend on a high note surpassing personal career milestones on a variety of all-time record lists and now sits in the top four of the career RBI (90), career HR (11) and single season HR (8) lists. Sophomore Hayley Wiemer also entered the single season HR race booting her seventh homerun of the season. With the long ball she sits fourth all-time on the single season list. Senior Jeanine Baca is also chipping away at the top career spots on the games played (211 - 3rd), games started (210 - 3rd), at bats (687 - 2nd), hits (193 - t-3rd), runs (123 - 3rd), total bases (271 - 4th), and stolen bases (38 - t-4th).
Scouting Detroit
The Titans of the University of Detroit Mercy are 9-18 on the season and 1-5 in the Horizon League ... their conference win came over Butler in a 9-2 decision on Sunday at Buysse Ballpark ... currently UDM is 0-2 against the MAC as a result of dropping two to Central Michigan at home on March 28 ... despite a losing record, UDM has a strong presence at the plate with six Titans batting over .300 including three over .400 ... Sarah Dickey leads the team with a .480 BA and a high 47 hits ... she is just two at bats shy of the century mark this season ... Adrienne Baran sits behind Dickey with a .429 BA ... she also holds the second best slugging percentage with a .778 ... in 78 at bats, Kaleigh Rafter adds pressure to the opposing defense with her .403 BA, .779 slugging percentage, .534 on base percentage all while leading the team with 12 multiple base hits and 26 RBI's ... Kellie Short leads the UDM pitching staff with four wins (4-7) and a team low 3.97 ERA ... in 60.0 IP she has 44 strikeouts and 42 walks ... dual threat Baran (3-9) leads the staff with 67.2 innings in the circle and has thrown 51 K's to her 35 BB's ... similar to BG, UDM has the ability to hit the homerun and have sent 28 out of the park this season ... as a team, they have a .309 batting average while slugging .471 ... UDM has stolen 15 bases on 18 attempts ... all-time the Falcons hold a 29-7 record with the Titans ... the last loss to UDM occurred in 2003 when the Titans took both ends of a doubleheader over BGSU in Detroit on March 26 ... predicted forecast: mostly sunny with a high of 55 degrees and a 10% chance of precipitation.
Full gamenotes for the MAC games against Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan will be available later in the week as well as overall MAC statistics.
