Bowling Green State University Athletics
First Place on the Line Friday at Central Michigan
October 15, 2008 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 15, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, riding a five-game unbeaten streak, has moved into second place in the Mid-American Conference ... now, the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (9-3-3, 4-1-1 MAC) begin the final road trip of the regular season by taking on the only team above them in the league standings ... BGSU heads to Mount Pleasant, Mich., for a Friday (Oct. 17) matchup with Central Michigan University ... kickoff is set for 4:00 p.m. at the CMU Soccer Complex ... then, the Brown and Orange will face Eastern Michigan University in Sunday (Oct. 19) action, beginning at 1:00 p.m. at EMU's Scicluna Field.
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LIVE STATS ON THE WEB
Sunday's Eastern Michigan match is scheduled to have live stats on the web ... there will not be live stats for Friday's game at CMU ... all of BGSU's home games will have live stats once again in 2008, through the magic of Gametracker ... for up-to-the-minute statistical information for all matches at Cochrane Field, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com ... the Gametracker link(s) can be found by accessing the women's soccer schedule, and clicking on that day's game.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 109-115-22 all-time, in the 12th season in program history;
• 43-29-8 overall in the last three-plus seasons;
• 57-57-12 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches (the first time in school history that BGSU has reached the .500 mark in MAC games);
• 36-18-7 vs. MAC schools over the last four-plus seasons (including regular-season and tournament matches), and 28-13-5 vs. league foes in the last three-plus years;
• 54-51-8 at home, and 24-12-2 at Cochrane Field in the last three-plus years;
• 9-1-2 since the start of September;
• 5-1-0 at Cochrane this year, with the only loss coming to nationally-ranked Michigan State;
• 47-55-12 in road contests;
• 8-9-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 47-48-8 in October matches;
• 2-2-0 in games played on Oct. 17 (including a win at Buffalo in 2004, in the only prior road game on that date);
• 0-2-1 in Oct. 19 matches (including an 0-2-0 road mark);
• 39-1-1 in the last 41 games in which BG scored first (9-0-0 this season); and
• 0-3-1 in 2008 matches in which the opponent has scored first (with the tie coming at Ohio State).
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons picked up two wins, with two more shutouts ... on Friday (Oct. 10), senior Corbie Yee scored 92 seconds into the second overtime, giving BGSU a 1-0 win over visiting Ball State ... redshirt sophomore Alexa Arsenault made six saves in the win ... then, on Sunday (Oct. 12), the Brown and Orange saw four different players score goals, while Arsenault and the Falcon defense posted another shutout, in a 4-0 win over Miami ... three freshmen and a senior scored, as Alyssa Zuccaro, Yee, Megan Amann and Katelyn Turner all found the back of the net ... Arsenault had seven saves in the MU match.
YEE NAMED MAC PLAYER OF WEEK
Senior Corbie Yee was named MAC Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday (Oct. 13) ... she earns the honor for the first time this season and the third time in her Falcon career ... Yee, who shared this week's award with Toledo's Molly Cornwell, scored a goal in each of BGSU's two games over the weekend ... she scored in the second overtime to give the Falcons a 1-0 win over Ball State on Friday (Oct. 10) ... then, Yee scored another goal in Sunday's (Oct. 12) win over Miami ... she now has team-leading totals of five goals and 12 points this season to date.
SIX MORE NOTES ON #6
• Senior Corbie Yee is only the second Falcon player to earn the MAC P-O-W award three times in a career ... Kristy Coppes, the leading scorer in school history, also earned the honor three times in her storied BG tenure.
• Yee's goal on Friday (Oct. 10) vs. Ball State was the ninth game-winning goal of her career ... she moved ahead of Samantha Meister (8 GWG from 2002-05) into second place on that BG career list ... Coppes holds that record with 14 GWG.
• The goal was Yee's fourth career 'Golden Goal,' setting a new BGSU record ... Meister held the old mark, with three OT goals during her stellar career.
• The Berea, Ohio, native now has 18 career goals ... she moved past Britt Anderson (16 from 2002-05), and is now tied with Michelle Lisy (1997-2000) for fifth place on that BGSU list.
• Yee now has 47 points to rank eighth in school history ... she trails Lisy and Tracy Gleixner (1998-2002) by just one point, and is only two points in back of fifth-place Anderson on that BG chart.
• Yee, the Falcons' active career scoring leader, is also BGSU's 2008 scoring leader, pacing the current team in goals (five) and points (12).
GREAT STARTS
The Falcons' 9-3-3 record marks the best 15-game start in school history ... BGSU's 4-1-1 MAC ledger is the best record in history through six conference contests ... the 2002 and 2005 teams both were 4-2-0 after six MAC matches.
OFFENSE? CHECK
The Falcons have scored a total of 31 goals through 15 games this year, having topped the total for all of last season ... the 2007 club scored 28 goals in 22 matches ... in fact, with 2.07 goals per game to date, this year's team is on pace to challenge the school record ... the 1998 Falcons had 2.10 gpg.
DEFENSE? CHECK
The BGSU defense, not to be outdone by the offense, is on a school-record pace ... the Falcons have allowed just nine goals through 15 games, an average of only 0.60 gpg surrendered ... the school-record low is 1.30 gpg allowed, by both the 2005 and 2006 BG teams.
ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER SHUTOUT
Sunday's win over Miami marked the 11th shutout of the year for the BGSU defense, a new school record ... the 2006 team had 10 shutouts ... the shutout of the RedHawks was the Falcons' ninth in the last 10 games.
ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER SHUTOUT II
Sunday's win marked BGSU's fifth shutout in a row, also a new school record ... a few more shutout notes will follow after the "About the Falcons" paragraph.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons are 9-3-3 on the season, and BGSU is 4-1-1 in MAC play ... following this weekend's two road games, the BG will close the regular season with three home contests ... the Brown and Orange, as mentioned, posted two more shutouts last weekend, downing Ball State and Miami ... BGSU had closed the non-conference portion of the schedule with four consecutive wins, and the Falcons are 9-1-2 since the beginning of September ... no fewer than 15 different Falcons have scored at least one goal this season to date ... seniors Corbie Yee and Gina Rossi currently lead the way ... Yee paces the Falcons with five goals and 12 points, while Rossi has four goals and 10 points ... sophomore Katie Stephenson has three goals this fall, and is third on the team with eight points ... freshmen Megan Amann and Alyssa Zuccaro each have seven points ... Zuccaro has three goals, and Amann has a team-leading five assists this year to date ... redshirt sophomore Alexa Arsenault has started all 15 matches, and has 78 saves and a goals-against average of just 0.60 ... senior Christy Zabek has played over 76 minutes of shutout ball in three relief appearances ... BGSU returned 18 of 23 letterwinners, including nine starters, from a 2007 squad that went 10-9-3 overall and 6-5-0 in MAC play ... the '07 Falcons finished fourth in the final conference standings, then advanced all the way to the MAC Tournament's championship match for the fourth time in five seasons ... the returning Falcons combined for nearly 90 percent of the team's goals scored in 2007, while the two returning goalkeepers combined to start 21 of the team's 22 matches last fall.
ONE SHUTOUT STREAK AFTER ANOTHER
The Falcons saw a school record-tying streak of four consecutive shutouts come to an end with a 2-1 loss at Northern Illinois on Sept. 26 ... but, BGSU bounced back with another shutout win at Western Michigan two days later ... the Falcons then posted shutouts vs. Ohio, Akron, Ball State and Miami ... BGSU, after seeing a shutout streak of 425:34 (now the third longest in BG annals) end at NIU, now has blanked opponents for 556:22 since that time, a new school record ... the old record was 445:03, set in October of 2005 (coinciding with BG's first streak of four-straight shutouts).
ARSENAULT SETS A NEW RECORD, TOO
Redshirt sophomore Alexa Arsenault has been in goal for the entire 556:22 of the current streak, the longest streak of her career and a new BG record ... her previous best was a streak of 380:34 earlier this year, a streak which ended at NIU ... Arsenault's current streak broke the old record set by Christy Zabek ... Zabek had a scoreless streak of 544:48 to begin her Falcon career (Sept. 16, 2005 to Oct. 20, 2006).
TWENTY-FIVE MORE NOTES ON #25 (WELL, NOT QUITE 25)
Alexa Arsenault and the Falcon defense are putting together one of the top seasons in school history ... a few more notes on the redshirt sophomore 'keeper from Richmond Hill, Ontario ...
• Arsenault's shutouts over the weekend were her eighth and ninth of the season, a new school record for an individual ... Erika Flanders had set the record, with seven shutouts in 2002, and Ali Shingler matched that total in 2005.
• Arsenault now has 15 career shutouts ... she ranks third on that school list, trailing only Flanders (17 from 1999-2002) and Shingler (16 from 2001-05).
• Arsenault's 15 shutouts have come in just 28 career starts ... she has lowered her goals-against average to just 0.60 this season and 0.71 in her career.
• She has a GAA of only 0.31 in the six MAC games to date, having allowed just two goals in over 571 minutes vs. conference competition ... Arsenault and the Falcon defense have five shutouts in those six matches.
FROM A(MANN) TO Z(UCCARO) AND BACK AGAIN
Freshmen Megan Amann and Alyssa Zuccaro teamed up for a pair of goals in the Falcons' 4-0 win over Miami Sunday (Oct. 12) ... Zuccaro scored what would prove to be the game-winning goal, heading home Amann's corner kick ... then, in the second half, Zuccaro returned the favor, playing a cross to Amann, whose one-timer resulted in her first goal ... the assist was Zuccaro's first as a Falcon ... for both players, Sunday marked their first collegiate three-point game ... Amann and Zuccaro have seven points each, tied for the lead among BG newcomers.
FALCON COACH Andy Richards
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his ninth season at the Falcon helm, is one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... Richards has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 90-81-18 ... BGSU is 9-4-5 in MAC Tournament matches during his tenure, and no MAC coach has as many trips to the league tourney's title game as Richards ... the 2007 season marked the fifth time he had guided a BG squad to the championship match ... two of those appearances - in 2004 and 2005 - resulted in MAC Tournament titles and trips to the NCAA Championships ... Richards and the Falcons also won the '05 regular-season crown ... BGSU reached an agreement with Richards on a two-year contract extension, it was announced May 23, 2008 ... his contract now runs through June 30, 2011 ... Richards had inked a three-year contract in February of 2006, marking the first time in school history that a soccer coach had received a multi-year contract.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Central Michigan is 10-2-1 on the season, and the Chippewas are 5-0-1 in MAC play ... CMU currently sits atop the MAC standings, three points ahead of second-place BGSU ... Central is unbeaten in the last six games ... last weekend, the Chippewas posted a convincing 4-1 win at Kent State, then saw a five-game winning streak come to an end with a 2-2 tie at Buffalo ... Central already has four double-digit scorers ... both Stephanie Martin and Amanda Waugh have seven goals and 18 points on the season ... Molly Gerst has 11 points, including four goals, while Erica Rohren's 10-point total includes a team-leading six assists ... in goal, Shay Mannino has played every minute, and has 49 saves, seven shutouts and a goals-against average of just 0.53 ... last year, the Chippewas went 8-10-0 overall and 4-7-0 in MAC action ... coach Tony DiTucci welcomed back seven letterwinners, all starters, from that club ... the school's athletics web site is www.cmuchippewas.com.
The Falcons and Central Michigan are tied, 5-5-2, in the all-time series between the teams ... the Chippewas have won the last two meetings, including a double-overtime, 2-1 win at Cochrane Field last Oct. 5 ... BGSU was victorious in the last visit to Mount Pleasant, a 2-1 win three years ago (Oct. 21, 2005) ... the Falcons are 3-1-0 in road games in the series ... in fact, the home team has won only twice in series history.
Eastern Michigan has an overall record of 8-3-4, and the Eagles will take a 3-1-2 MAC ledger into Friday's home match vs. Toledo ... last weekend, the Eagles tied at UB, 1-1, before picking up a 3-1 win at KSU ... Eastern started the season with a 2-2-2 record, and has gone 6-1-2 over the last nine games ... Chelsea Detrick has team-leading totals of 10 goals and 21 points this year, while three teammates - Stephanie Janssens, Katie Lozar and Katie Zundel - have eight points apiece ... Janssens has a team-leading six assists ... in goal, Maggie Manville has played 11 of the team's 15 games, and has five shutouts and a GAA of 0.94 ... Monique Budani has a GAA of 0.71 in four games of work ... EMU finished 7-8-4 overall and 5-4-2 in MAC play last fall ... head coach Scott Hall welcomed back a total of 14 letterwinners, including nine starters, from that team ... the school's athletics web site is www.emueagles.com.
The Falcons and Eastern Michigan are tied, 7-7-1, in that series, but BGSU has won three of the last four meetings ... in another series dominated by the visiting team, the home side has won only five times in 15 meetings ... last year, the teams split a pair of meetings, with EMU winning, 2-0, in the regular season (Oct. 7), but the Falcons taking a 2-1 overtime decision in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals (Nov. 4) ... the last meeting in Ypsilanti was three years ago (Oct. 23, 2005), with BG pulling out a 2-1 win ... the Falcons are 4-3-1 in road matches vs. the Eagles, and BGSU is 4-1-1 in the last six trips to Scicluna Field.
A FEW FINAL FALCON NOTES
The Falcons are now 57-57-12 in MAC games over the history of the program, now in its 12th season ... this marks the first time BGSU has ever had a winning percentage of .500 in MAC matches ... the Falcons lost the first five league games in the team's initial season of 1997, and BG never got back to even until Sunday's win over Miami ... BGSU is now 54-51-8 all-time in home games ... prior to this season, the Falcons had not had an overall record of better than .500 at Cochrane Field since October of 1999 ... freshman Alyssa Zuccaro's game-winning goal vs. Miami was her second of the season ... she also had the GWG at IPFW on Sept. 5 ... freshman Katelyn Turner has three goals this year, with all three coming at Cochrane Field ... Turner is tied with Megan Amann for second in scoring in home games this fall ... both freshmen have six points at Cochrane, trailing only senior Corbie Yee (10).
