Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Meets Toledo, Again
November 05, 2008 | Women's Soccer
Nov. 5, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, coming off a win in the Mid-American Conference Tournament's quarterfinal round, meets a familiar foe in the semifinals ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards (12-5-4 [6-3-2 MAC]) make the short trip north to face the arch-rival University of Toledo Friday afternoon (Nov. 7) ... the teams are meeting for the second time in just over a week, and the BG faces UT in the league tourney for the fourth consecutive year ... kickoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at UT's Scott Park ... the Rockets are the top seed for the eight-team tournament, while the Falcons are seeded fourth ... in the day's first game, second-seeded Central Michigan will meet third-seeded Eastern Michigan at 11:00 a.m. ... Friday's winners will advance to Sunday's (Nov. 9) championship match, which will begin at 1:00 p.m. in Toledo.
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2008 MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Quarterfinals - Sunday, Nov. 2 - campus sites
at #4 Bowling Green 2, #5 Western Michigan 0
at #1 Toledo 1, #8 Miami 0
at #2 Central Michigan 1, #7 Ball State 0
#3 Eastern Michigan 2, #6 Northern Illinois 0
Semifinals - Friday, Nov. 7 - at Toledo, Ohio
#2 Central Michigan vs. #3 Eastern Michigan, 11:00 a.m.
#4 Bowling Green at #1 Toledo, 2:00 p.m.
Championship - Sunday, Nov. 9 - at Toledo, Ohio
Semifinal winners, 1:00 p.m.
LAST TIME OUT
Junior Colleen Kordan and freshman Alyssa Zuccaro scored second-half goals to propel the Falcons past visiting Western Michigan Sunday afternoon (Nov. 2), in the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round at Cochrane Field ... BG outshot WMU, 9-2, in a scoreless first period ... Kordan converted a penalty kick just over a minute into the second half, and Zuccaro scored midway through the period ... redshirt sophomore Alexa Arsenault made three saves as the Falcon defense recorded a clean sheet.
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THE BGSU-TOLEDO SERIES
(BGSU leads, 7-4-4) Sept. 20, 1997 A^ L 2-3 Sept. 17, 1998 A W 2-1 Oct. 30, 1999 H L 1-2 (OT) Sept. 22, 2000 A W 2-1 Sept. 9, 2001 H T 2-2 (2-OT) Sept. 6, 2002 A W 1-0 Sept. 28, 2003 H L 0-1 (OT) Oct. 28, 2004 A W 3-0 Oct. 28, 2005 A W 3-2 Nov. 1, 2005 H%# T 0-0 (2-OT) Oct. 26, 2006 H W 1-0 (2-OT) Oct. 29, 2006 H% L 0-3 Nov. 1, 2007 A W 2-1 Nov. 11, 2007 N!& T 2-2 (2-OT) Oct. 30, 2008 H T 1-1 (2-OT) ^ at the Glass Bowl % MAC Tourn. QF # BG advanced, 3-2, on PKs ! MAC Tourn. Champ. (Muncie, Ind.) & UT advanced, 3-2, on PKs
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BGSU has qualified for the MAC Tournament for the seventh consecutive season and the ninth time in the 12-year history of the program ... prior to the current seven-year run, the Falcons had never made the tourney in back-to-back seasons ... BG enters the Toledo game with a record of 11-5-5 in MAC Tournament matches ... the Falcons, the 2004 and 2005 tournament champions, are 4-1-2 all-time in league tourney home matches after Sunday's win over Western Michigan ... BGSU now has a 7-1-1 record in the quarterfinal round through the years ... the Falcons enter Friday's match at Toledo with an overall record of 3-2-2 in semifinal-round action ... BGSU is 1-2-2 in league tournament championship games.
FALCONS IN THE QUARTERFINAL
The Falcons have advanced past the quarterfinals eight times in nine tries ... BGSU, as mentioned, is now 7-1-1 in quarterfinal-round play ... a loss to Toledo in 2006 marked the lone time in program history that the Falcons' season ended in the quarterfinal round ... BG is now 3-1-1 at home and 4-0-0 on the road in quarterfinal play (with three of those road victories coming vs. Eastern Michigan).
FALCONS IN THE SEMIFINAL
BGSU's game at Toledo will mark the Falcons' sixth trip to the semifinal round of the MAC Tournament in the last seven years ... BG has advanced to the semis seven times in the nine-year tenure of Andy Richards and eight times in program history ... the eight trips is the most in MAC history (Ohio has made seven trips) ... BGSU enters Friday's match with an overall record of 3-2-2 in semifinal-round play ... that includes a 1-0-0 mark at home, a record of 0-1-1 on the road and a 2-1-1 slate in neutral-site games ... BGSU has advanced to the championship match in each of its last four semifinal trips, with a tie vs. Central Michigan in 2003 (BG advanced via penalty kicks), wins over Western Michigan in 2004 and Miami in '05 and another deadlock at Ball State last season.
FALCONS AND ROCKETS IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
BGSU is meeting Toledo in MAC Tournament play for the fourth consecutive season ... the Falcons are 0-1-2 against the Rockets in league tourney action to date ... BGSU and UT tied, 0-0, through regulation and two overtimes in the 2005 league tourney, before the Falcons advanced via penalty kicks ... in '06, the Rockets exacted a measure of revenge, with a 3-0 victory over the Falcons in the quarterfinal round ... each of those meetings took place at Cochrane Field ... then, last year, the teams met in the championship match in Muncie, Ind. ... after battling to a 2-2 tie through regulation and a pair of OT periods, the Rockets advanced via the PK route.
THAT WACKY BG-UT SERIES
In 15 series meetings between BGSU and Toledo through the years, the home team has won only twice ... the first such result came in the teams' first-ever meeting, in 1997 ... that game was held at the Glass Bowl ... the Falcons are 1-3-3 in home games vs. the Rockets - with six of the seven games having gone to overtime - but BG is 6-1-0 all-time in road games vs. the Midnight Blue and Gold, including a perfect 6-0-0 at UT's Scott Park, the site of Friday's match ... one match - last year's MAC Tournament championship - was played at a neutral site ... the Falcons lead the overall series by a 7-4-4 margin.
SOMETHING ALWAYS RIDING ON BG-UT GAME
It seems as if something is always on the line when BGSU meets Toledo ... sure, the importance of getting a win over your arch-rival school always exists ... but, the last eight meetings certainly have had a great deal at stake ... bear with us while we refresh your memory ...
• In 2004, the Falcons and Rockets met in the final regular-season game, and BG and UT entered that match in a tie for ninth place ... with the winner earning a trip to the MAC Tournament, and the loser seeing the season come to an end, the Falcons picked up a 3-0 victory at Scott Park (Oct. 28, 2004) ... that win put BG into the league tourney as the eighth and final seed, and the Falcons proceeded to win three games and the tournament.
• Exactly one year later (Oct. 28, 2005), BG and UT again met at Scott Park to close the regular season ... this time, the Falcons needed a win to clinch the first regular-season title in school history ... BGSU got that victory, by the slimmest of margins, 3-2, as Falcon goalie Ali Shingler was forced to make a save in the final seconds of the match.
• The teams met at Cochrane Field less than a week later (Nov. 1, 2005), in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament ... top-seeded BG and eighth-seeded UT battled through 110 minutes of scoreless soccer, before the Falcons advanced to the semifinal round via penalty kicks.
• In the final regular-season game of 2006, with BGSU needing a win to clinch a home berth for the league tourney quarterfinals, the Falcons and Rockets again waged a scoreless battle into overtime ... this time, however, a Brianne Eisenhard goal gave the Falcons a 1-0 win in the second OT period.
• Three days later (Oct. 29, 2006), though, the Rockets returned to Cochrane Field and exacted some revenge with a 3-0 win in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals ... that UT win snapped a four-game series unbeaten streak for the Falcons.
• In the 2007 regular-season meeting (Nov. 1), Meagan Moran scored a pair of late goals, giving BGSU a 2-1 road win and clinching a home berth for the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament ... Moran's two goals came just 1:21 apart, with the second goal coming with only 23 seconds left in regulation.
• The Falcons and Rockets met just 10 days later (Nov. 11) in the '07 MAC Tournament's championship match in Muncie, Ind. ... the teams battled rain, mud and a lightning delay of over an hour, and played to a 2-2 tie through double OT, before the Rockets advanced to the NCAA Championships via penalty kicks.
• The teams closed the '08 regular season with a meeting at Cochrane Field last week (Oct. 30) ... the Rockets had clinched the regular-season title, but the Falcons were still battling for a top-four finish and a home game in the tourney quarterfinals ... Megan Amann's second-half goal gave the Brown and Orange a 1-1 tie and gave BG the fourth seed for the tournament.
• Each of the last four MAC Tournament titles have gone to Northwest Ohio teams, with the Falcons and Rockets winning two apiece.
GREAT RECORD
The Falcons' 12-5-4 record is one of the best in school history ... the 2008 team's current winning percentage of .667 is second only to the 2005 team ... that BG squad was 14-6-1 through 21 games, for a .690 winning pct. ... this year's team has the fewest losses through 21 games ... in fact, the 2008 club will finish with the fewest losses in a season in school history.
OFFENSE? CHECK
The Falcons have scored a total of 38 goals this year, having easily topped the total for all of last season ... the 2007 club scored 28 goals in 22 matches ... the school record for goals in a season is 42, set by the 1998 team.
DEFENSE? CHECK
The BGSU defense, not to be outdone by the offense, is on a school-record pace ... the Falcons have allowed just 13 goals through 21 games, an average of only 0.67 gpg surrendered ... the school-record low is 1.30 gpg allowed, by both the 2005 and 2006 BG teams.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 112-117-23 all-time, in the 12th season in program history;
• 46-31-9 overall in the last three-plus seasons;
• 59-59-13 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 39-20-8 vs. MAC schools over the last four-plus seasons (including regular-season and tournament matches), and 31-15-6 vs. league foes in the last three-plus years;
• 57-51-9 at home, and 27-12-3 at Cochrane Field in the last four seasons;
• 12-3-3 since the start of September;
• 8-1-1 at Cochrane this year, with the only loss coming to a team (Michigan State) that spent time in the national rankings;
• 47-57-12 in road contests;
• 8-9-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 49-50-9 in October matches;
• 13-7-5 in the month of November;
• 1-0-1 in games played on Nov. 7 (with both coming against Central Michigan in the MAC Tournament - a scoreless tie in the 2003 semifinals [with BG advancing via penalty kicks], and a 2-0 Falcon win in the '04 championship match);
• 42-1-1 in the last 44 games in which BGSU scored first (12-0-0 this season); and
• 0-5-2 in 2008 matches in which the opponent has scored first (with the ties coming at Ohio State and in the regular-season meeting with UT).
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons are 12-5-4 on the season, and BGSU finished MAC play with a league ledger of 6-3-2 ... the Falcons placed fourth in the 12-team league ... BG is 12-3-3 since the beginning of September, and the Falcons head to Toledo riding a four-game unbeaten streak ... 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 six goals and 16 points, while Rossi has five goals and 12 points ... freshman Megan Amann also has 12 points, and classmate Alyssa Zuccaro has 11 ... Zuccaro has five goals, and Amann has a team-leading eight assists this year to date ... junior Colleen Kordan and sophomore Katie Stephenson each have three goals and eight points ... redshirt sophomore Alexa Arsenault has started all 21 matches, and has 111 saves, a goals-against average of just 0.67 and a school-record 11 shutouts ... senior Christy Zabek has played over 92 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 the MAC ... that team also finished fourth, before advancing 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.
WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?
The Falcons had their first back-to-back losses in exactly one year, falling at Central Michigan (Oct. 17) and Eastern Michigan (Oct. 19) ... BG had last suffered consecutive setbacks on Oct. 14 and 19 of last season ... after that Oct. 19 loss in 2007, the Brown and Orange went on a seven-match unbeaten streak to end the season, a streak that took BG all the way to the championship game of the MAC Tournament ... BGSU won four-straight games to end the regular season, then picked up an overtime win in the 2007 MAC Tournament ... the Falcons had a pair of ties in the next two rounds of the tourney, advancing past Ball State via penalty kicks in the semifinals before seeing Toledo advance through PKs in the MAC Tournament's championship match ... this year, BG has a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1) since the setbacks at CMU and EMU.
FALCONS IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
In 2008, BGSU has qualified for the MAC Tournament for the seventh consecutive season and the ninth time in the 12-year history of the program ... prior to the current seven-year run, the Falcons had never made the tourney in back-to-back seasons ... the Falcons, the 2004 and 2005 tournament champions, are 4-1-2 all-time in league tourney home matches after the quarterfinal-round win over Western Michigan ... BGSU now has a 7-1-1 record in the quarterfinals through the years, and the Falcons have an overall record of 3-2-2 in semifinal-round action ... BGSU is 1-2-2 in league tournament championship games through the years ... additional facts about BGSU's MAC Tournament history can be found elsewhere in this release ... the Falcons' all-time game-by-game results can be found by clicking on the PDF link at the top of this page.
A(NOTHER) WINNING RECORD
BGSU has put together several program-best streaks in terms of wins and winning percentage ... don't believe us? Here they are ...
• At 6-3-2, the Falcons have finished with a winning record in MAC play for just the fifth time in the 12-year history of the program ... BGSU has posted four-straight winning MAC records for the first time ever, after going 9-2-0 in league action in 2005, 7-4-0 in '06, and 6-5-0 a year ago ... BGSU's only other winning MAC mark came in 2002, when the Falcons finished at 7-4-1.
• The '08 Falcons finished among the top-four teams in the MAC standings for only the fifth time (fourth in 2002, first in 2005, tied for third in 2006, fourth last year) in school history, and the fourth-straight year.
• Overall, the Falcon have now posted five consecutive seasons of double-digit wins for the first time in school annals.
• And, BG will have four-straight records of at least .500 for the first time ever.
Andy Richards: MR. NOVEMBER
The Falcons have enjoyed more than their fair share of success in MAC Tournament action over the years under head coach Andy Richards ... Richards-coached teams are 10-4-5 in league tourney matches since he took the helm in 2000 ... the Falcons have advanced via PKs in four of the five ties, meaning BG has moved on in 14 of the 19 MAC Tournament matches under Richards ... 2007 marked Richards' fifth trip to the finals, the most of any coach in MAC history (Miami's Bobby Kramig has made four trips).
ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER SHUTOUT
Sunday's win over Western Michigan marked the 14th shutout of the year for the BGSU defense, extending the school record ... the old record of 10 shutouts was set by the 2006 team.
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 shutout of Western Michigan was her 11th of the season, extending the 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 17 career shutouts, tying her for the school record ... she moved past Shingler (16 from 2001-05) and has matched the mark set by Flanders (17 from 1999-2002).
• Arsenault's 17 shutouts have come in just 34 career starts ... she has lowered her goals-against average to just 0.67 this season and 0.73 in her career.
• She had a GAA of only 0.61 in the 11 MAC games this season, and posted a GAA of only 0.42 at Cochrane Field this fall.
FALCONS ARE A 'TOUGH OUT' IN NOVEMBER
It has been well documented on these pages that the BGSU women's soccer program has enjoyed success in the MAC Tournament over the years ... here's one more stat to illustrate the Falcons' success when November rolls around ... entering this season, BGSU had played a total of 20 matches in the MAC Tournament, more than any other program in the conference ... that is an average of 2.5 matches played per tournament appearance - a pretty good ratio when considering that it takes three matches to win the tourney.
THE OPPONENT / THE SERIES
Toledo is 14-4-1 on the season, and the Rockets finished MAC play with a mark of 8-2-1 ... UT won the league's regular-season title and earned the top seed for the MAC Tournament ... the Rockets lost two of three games to begin the conference campaign, but have gone 8-0-1 since that time ... the tie with the Falcons last week (Oct. 30) snapped a seven-game winning streak ... UT defeated Miami, 1-0, in Sunday's MAC Tournament quarterfinal round ... the Rockets are now 9-1-0 at home this year to date ... individually, Molly Cornwell leads the Rockets in scoring, with 17 points on six goals and five assists ... Ali Leak has 12 points, including five goals, while Brittany Hensler also has found the back of the net five times - including in last week's BG game - en route to 11 points ... in goal, Vicki Traven has a record of 12-2-0, seven shutouts and a goals-against average of just 0.56 ... last year, the Rockets went 14-6-3 overall and 8-3-0 in MAC action, tying BGSU in the MAC Tournament championship before advancing past the Falcons via PKs ... coach Brad Evans welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including eight starters, from that club ... the school's athletics web site is www.utrockets.com.
The Falcons lead Toledo, 7-4-4, in the all-time series between the teams ... BG and UT have met twice in every season since 2005 ... the Falcons are 4-1-3 vs. Toledo in the last seven meetings ... BG is just 1-3-3 in home games vs. the Rockets, but 6-1-0 in road games in the series, including a perfect 6-0-0 record at Scott Park ... last week (Oct. 30, 2008), the teams battled to a 1-1 tie at Cochrane Field, with Megan Amann scoring BG's goal ... in the last meeting at UT, Meagan Moran scored twice in the last two minutes of the second half to give the Falcons a 2-1 win in the 2007 regular-season finale (Nov. 1, 2007) ... 10 days later, the teams tied, 2-2, in the MAC Tournament's championship match in Muncie, Ind. ... the Rockets advanced past the Falcons via PKs ... Brianne Eisenhard and Corbie Yee scored BG's goals during scrimmage play in that game ... two years ago, the teams met twice in a four-day span at Cochrane ... Eisenhard's 'Golden Goal' gave the Falcons a 1-0 win in the regular-season meeting (Oct. 26, 2006), but the Rockets responded with a 3-0 victory in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals (Oct. 29, 2006) ... the home team has won only twice in the 15 series meetings ... seven of the 15 games - including six of the seven meetings at Cochrane Field - have gone to overtime.
TWO FALCONS EARN ACADEMIC HONORS
Kristin McDonald and Katie Stephenson have been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team ... McDonald was named to the first team, while Stephenson earned second-team honors ... McDonald makes the team for the second consecutive year, having been named to the second team in '07 ... Stephenson was honored in her first year of eligibility ... both student-athletes maintain a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA, McDonald as a health science major and Stephenson as a finance major.
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL FOUR-YEAR RUN
• The Falcons have won a total of 46 games since the start of the 2005 season ... that is a new school record for victories in a four-year period.
• BGSU is the only team to finish in the top-four of the MAC regular-season standings in each of the last four seasons.
FALCON NOTES
BGSU finished with a home record of 8-1-1 this season, the best in school history ... BG had won seven home games on two prior occasions, going 7-2-2 at Cochrane in 2005 and 7-5-0 the following season • the Falcons were 5-0-1 at home vs. MAC teams this fall, and BG is 8-0-1 in the last nine home games vs. conference foes • the Falcons will finish this year with the fewest losses in school history ... the 2005 team holds the soon-to-be-broken record, having gone 14-7-2 • Toledo's goal in the regular-season finale was the first allowed by the BGSU defense at Cochrane Field since Aug. 31 • the Rockets' goal snapped BGSU's home shutout streak at 687:50 ... the school record remains 946:02, set from Sept. 11, 2005, to Sept. 3, 2006 • BGSU outscored opponents, 26-4, at Cochrane this fall • the Falcons have an all-time home mark of 57-51-9 • BG won seven consecutive home games, a school record, after a loss to Michigan State on Aug. 31 ... the old mark was six consecutive home wins, from Sept. 11 to Oct. 16, 2005 • the Falcons end the season riding a nine-game home unbeaten streak (8-0-1) • BG outscored MAC opponents by a 12-1 margin in home games this year • the Falcons have posted a double-digit victory total for the fifth consecutive year and the seventh time in the 12-year history of the program ... prior to the current five-year run, BG had never posted back-to-back seasons of double-figure win totals ... senior Corbie Yee now has 19 goals and 51 points in her career ... she is fifth on the school list in both categories.
