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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, October 28
Dayton, Ohio
7:00 PM
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Wright State
Falcons Face Wright State Before Beginning Three-Match Homestand
October 27, 2009 | Men's Soccer
BGSU hosts Northern Illinois in a key MAC matchup Saturday
The Bowling Green State University men's soccer team, after hitting the road one final time in the regular season, will return to Northwest Ohio for a season-long three-game homestand ... the Falcons of head coach Eric Nichols will travel to Dayton to face Wright State University Wednesday night (Oct. 28) ... kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at WSU's Alumni Field ... then, the Brown and Orange will begin the homestand with a Mid-American Conference match vs. Northern Illinois University on Saturday (Oct. 31) ... kickoff is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. at Cochrane Field ... following the NIU match, BGSU will host Detroit (Nov. 4) and Florida Atlantic (Nov. 7) to end the regular season.
STUFF TO CLICK
BGSU NOTES & STATS (PDF) | MAC NOTES & STATS (PDF)
Wright State men's soccer home page
Northern Illinois men's soccer home page
Live Stats Link for BGSU-WSU
Live Stats Link for BGSU-NIU (link will be updated Friday evening or Saturday morning)
LAST WEEK
The Falcons lost a narrow 2-1 decision on the road against Michigan State Wednesday (Oct. 21) before battling Hartwick to a 2-2, double-overtime draw on Sunday (Oct. 25) ... in East Lansing, the Spartans scored a pair of goals two minutes apart early in the second half, then held on for the victory ... redshirt junior Ahmad Smith scored his first goal of the season in the 69th minute to cut MSU's lead in half, but the Falcons could not get the equalizer ... freshman goalkeeper Dylan Schoettley, making his second consecutive start, had eight saves, the highest total of his young collegiate career ... seniors Jacob Lawrence and Gavin Dozier assisted on Smith's goal ... on Sunday, Lawrence scored a pair of goals seven minutes apart in a wild second half ... Hartwick broke a scoreless tie in 72nd minute, but Lawrence converted a penalty kick three minutes later, then headed home a corner kick by fellow senior co-captain Hunter Van Houten with nine minutes left in regulation ... but, the Hawks were awarded a PK of their own, converting it to tie the game with 4:42 remaining in the second half ... Schoettley made seven saves in the match.
LAWRENCE STEPS UP AS A SCORING OPTION
The Falcons have scored seven goals over the last three matches, after scoring a total of nine goals in the season's first 11 games ... and, BG was without leading scorer Cameron Hepple for a game-and-a-half of that three-match span, due to injury ... senior Jacob Lawrence certainly has done his part, having scored nine points over the last three games ... Lawrence has had two-goal games in back-to-back MAC matches, vs. Buffalo (Oct. 16) and Hartwick (Oct. 25), and had the primary assist on BG's goal at Michigan State (Oct. 21) ... Lawrence now has 10 points on the season.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons will take a 2-9-3 record into Wednesday's Wright State match, and BG is 1-2-1 in MAC action ... BGSU is 1-2-2 in home matches, 1-5-1 in road games and 0-2 in neutral-site contests ... for head coach Eric Nichols and Company, senior Cameron Hepple leads the Falcons in scoring, with 15 points on the year ... Hepple, who has missed five complete matches and parts of two others due to injury, has a team-high seven goals and one assist ... senior Jacob Lawrence joins Hepple in double digits in scoring ... Lawrence has 10 points, on four goals and two assists ... five other Falcons – senior Chuko Evwaraye, redshirt junior Ahmad Smith, redshirt sophomores Chris Jurtovski and Max Weston and true soph Byard Ebling – have scored one goal apiece ... Weston, a transfer from Indiana, has two assists and is tied for third on the club with four points ... senior Hunter Van Houten also has four points, on a team-leading four assists, while Ebling and Evwaraye have three points apiece ... in goal, redshirt freshman Jeff Smoker has started 11 of this season's 14 matches, while true freshman Dylan Schoettley has gotten the start in the last three ... Smoker has a total of 56 saves and a goals-against average of 2.41 ... Schoettley, who has played in six games this year to date, has 25 saves, a 1-2-1 record and a 2.54 GAA ... last fall, the Falcons finished with an overall mark of 4-13-2, and BGSU was 0-6-0 in MAC action ... Nichols inherited 15 returning letterwinners, including nine starters, from the 2008 club ... the Falcon returnees combined to score 17 of the team's 18 goals and register 11 of the 13 assists a year ago ... Evwaraye, Hepple and Lawrence combined for 11 goals last fall ... Evwaraye led BG in both goals (5) and points (10), while Lawrence and Hepple had eight points apiece ... the Falcons had a 2-4-0 home record a season ago, and BGSU was 1-7-2 on the road and 1-2-0 at neutral sites in '08.
FALCON COACH ERIC NICHOLS
Eric Nichols is in his first season at the BGSU helm ... he was hired on Feb. 17, 2009, becoming just the fifth head coach in the 45-year history of the program ... Nichols came to BGSU after spending the 2008 season as assistant coach at Davidson College ... he had a successful debut to his BGSU head-coaching career, as the Falcons defeated Marshall, 2-0, in the regular-season opener, and picked up his first MAC victory at Buffalo ... Nichols has a 2-9-3 record at the helm of the men's soccer Falcons, and is 61-31-4 in his fifth season as a collegiate head coach ... prior to his stint at Davidson, Nichols was the head men's soccer coach at Ohio Dominican for four seasons (2004-07) ... under his guidance, the Panthers recorded a 59-22-1 (.728) record, including a final ranking of fourth in 2007 ... that team advanced all the way to the quarterfinals of the NAIA National Tournament ... Nichols served as an assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan for four seasons ... he played collegiately at Ohio State, and also played five years of professional soccer for several teams, including the Columbus Xoggz and Indiana Blast of the USISL ... Nichols is joined on the BGSU staff by assistant coaches Paul Habrecht and Eric Pfeifer.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Wright State enters Wednesday's match against BGSU with an overall record of 4-9-1, and the Raiders are 2-4-1 in Horizon League play ... Wright State saw a two-match winning streak broken with Saturday's (Oct. 24) 2-0 home loss to Cleveland State ... WSU had downed Loyola (Ill.), 1-0, and IUPUI, 2-1 in overtime, prior to the loss to CSU ... the Raiders are 2-3-1 in home games this season to date ... individually, Braden Fleak and Brian Cothern are tied for the team scoring lead, with 11 points apiece ... Fleak has a team-high five goals, while Cothern has four goals and a team-leading three assists ... Brad Bamberger also has four goals this year to date, for a total of eight points ... in goal, Corey Whisenhunt has played in six games, starting the last five contests ... he has a 3-3-0 record, 30 saves and a 1.81 GAA ... Aaron Ritter has a 2.57 GAA in five appearances, while Matt Koewler has a team-leading 36 saves and a 2.81 GAA in seven games ... Bryan Davis is in his first season as head coach of the Raiders ... last season, WSU went 6-13-1 overall and 3-4-1 in the HL ... the school's athletics web site is www.wsuraiders.com.
The Falcons and Wright State are all even, 4-4-2, in the all-time series between the teams, but the Falcons have won two consecutive meetings ... last year, BGSU got goals from Chuko Evwaraye, Thomas McLean and Byard Ebling in a 3-0 win over the Raiders at Cochrane Field (Oct. 22, 2008) ... two-thirds of BGSU's first-half goals in 2008 came in that game ... two years ago, in the Falcons' last trip to WSU, BG came away with a 2-0 win (Sept. 23, 2007) ... Cameron Hepple scored one of the Falcons' goals in that victory ... BGSU is 2-2-0 in road games vs. the Raiders ... all four of the Falcons' series wins have been shutouts.
Northern Illinois enters the week with an overall record of 8-6-1, and the Huskies will bring a MAC record of 2-2-0 to Cochrane Field this weekend ... prior to Saturday's game against the Falcons, Northern will play a Wednesday (Oct. 28) match at Wisconsin ... NIU has a two-game winning streak, having scored eight goals in those two games ... most recently, the Huskies posted a 3-1 road win over Florida Atlantic on Sunday (Oct. 25) ... that came five days after a 5-1 victory vs. Milwaukee ... earlier this season, the Huskies posted a 1-1 tie with North Carolina, at the time ranked #1 in the nation ... three players have five goals apiece this year ... that list includes Brad Horton, Luis De La Cerda and Josh Karsten ... Horton and De La Cerda each have three assists and 13 points on the season, while Karsten has 11 points ... Engebreth Faerden has a team-high five assists to date ... in goal, Jordan Godsey has started 14 of the 15 matches, and has five shutouts, 60 saves and a GAA of just 0.70 ... Eric Luzzi is in his first season at the Huskie helm after serving as the team's top assistant for the three previous seasons ... NIU returned 17 letterwinners from last year's team that went 11-6-4 overall and 4-1-1 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.niuhhuskies.com.
Northern Illinois leads the Falcons, 13-8-0, in that series, and the Huskies have won the last three meetings ... the teams have met twice in each of the last two seasons, having squared off in MAC Tournament quarterfinal-round matchups in both 2007 and '08 ... last year, the Huskies posted a 1-0 win in DeKalb (Oct. 25, 2008), then picked up a 2-0 victory in the league tourney in Akron (Nov. 13, 2008) ... the teams met twice at Cochrane Field in 2007, with the Falcons recording a 3-1 win in the regular-season finale (Nov. 2, 2007), but the Huskies knocking BG out of the MAC Tournament, 3-0 (Nov. 13, 2007) ... Thomas McLean, Chuko Evwaraye and Hunter Van Houten scored the Falcons' goals in that 2007 regular-season meeting ... BGSU is 6-4-0 all-time in home games vs. the Huskies.
(Note: The complete game-by-game results for both the WSU and NIU series can be found in the PDF version of this release)
FALCON NOTES (AND LOTS OF 'EM)
• Redshirt junior Ahmad Smith's goal at Michigan State was his first of the season ... in fact, it was his first goal since Sept. 8, 2006 ... Smith scored three goals in '06, his freshman season, with all three coming in the first five games of the year ... Smith now has career totals of four goals and eight points.
• Senior co-captain Jacob Lawrence's assist on Smith's goal was his second of the season and the fifth of his career ... senior Gavin Dozier also picked up an assist on that goal, for his first point of the year ... Dozier has three career assists and a total of five points as a Falcon.
• Lawrence had both BG goals vs. Hartwick ... the two-goal game was his second of the season and the third of his career ... in fact, Lawrence has had two-goal games in each of the Falcons' last two MAC matches ... he found the net twice, including the game-winning penalty kick with under five minutes left, at Buffalo.
• Lawrence now has four goals and 10 points on the season, ranking second on the Falcons in both categories ... he has tied his career best in goals, having also scored four times last fall ... Lawrence's 10-point total represents a career high in that column.
• Lawrence now has 10 goals and 25 points in his BGSU career ... he ranks second among active Falcons, trailing only Cameron Hepple (14 goals, 37 points) in both categories.
• Lawrence has a three-game point-scoring streak ... he has scored nine points in those three matches.
• Senior Hunter Van Houten's assist on Lawrence's second goal vs. Hartwick was the 10th of his career ... Van Houten leads all active Falcons in that category ... he leads the team with four assists this season.
• Redshirt freshman Zach Lemke made the first start of his young collegiate career in Wednesday's match at MSU, and also drew a starting assignment on Sunday vs. Hartwick ... he played a career-high 78 minutes vs. the Spartans, then set a new career standard with 89 minutes in the Hartwick match ... Lemke's previous high in minutes was 61, in last month's Duquesne match (Sept. 12) ... Lemke had played a total of 228 minutes over the Falcons' first 12 games, prior to playing 167 last week.
• Including goalkeepers, a total of 20 different Falcon players have started at least one match this season to date ... senior Tyler Deal and sophomore Tanner Fink are the only two Falcons to have started all 14 games.
• The Falcons scored three goals in last week's two games ... that figure is not necessarily mind-boggling, but it is an impressive total when considering the opposition ... Michigan State entered last Wednesday's match with a team goals-against average of just 0.58, leading the Big Ten Conference by over 0.20 ... MSU had posted 17 shutouts in the previous 24 games, dating to last season.
• Hartwick had entered Sunday's game having allowed only five goals in 12 matches this year, for a GAA of just 0.40 ... BGSU became the first team to score more than one goal in a game against HC since last Nov. 1, a span of 17 games for the Hawks.
• The Falcons played without Hepple, the team's leading scorer, in the Hartwick game ... Hepple had scored seven of BG's 14 total goals entering Sunday's match, and has 15 points on the year.
EVEN STEVEN
The Falcons' results last week mean that BGSU is now deadlocked with Michigan State and Hartwick in the all-time series ... BGSU and MSU each have won 16 matches (with five ties) in that series ... the Falcons and Hartwick are all even at 1-1-2 in their four meetings ... and, BG is currently tied with Wright State in that series as well ... as mentioned earlier, the Falcons and Raiders are 4-4-2 heading into Wednesday's game.
LEADERS OF THE MAC
Several Falcons are among the MAC leaders in the latest conference statistics ... in MAC games only, senior Jacob Lawrence is second in the league in goals (4), goals per game (1.00) and points per game (2.00) ... he ranks third in points (8) ... fellow senior co-captain Hunter Van Houten is tied for second in both assists (3 in MAC games) and assists per game (0.75) ... at the other end of the field, freshman Dylan Schoettley is tied for first in the MAC in saves per game (6.00 spg in MAC matches), while redshirt frosh Jeff Smoker is third (5.50 spg).
FALCONS TABBED FOR FIFTH
The Falcons were predicted to finish fifth in the MAC's preseason poll ... the poll is the result of voting by the league's seven head coaches ... Akron was predicted to win the regular-season and tournament crowns in 2009 ... Florida Atlantic and Hartwick are affiliate members of the MAC in men's soccer.
2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Jacob Lawrence and Hunter Van Houten are the co-captains of the 2009 men's soccer Falcons.
STUFF TO CLICK
BGSU NOTES & STATS (PDF) | MAC NOTES & STATS (PDF)
Wright State men's soccer home page
Northern Illinois men's soccer home page
Live Stats Link for BGSU-WSU
Live Stats Link for BGSU-NIU (link will be updated Friday evening or Saturday morning)
LAST WEEK
The Falcons lost a narrow 2-1 decision on the road against Michigan State Wednesday (Oct. 21) before battling Hartwick to a 2-2, double-overtime draw on Sunday (Oct. 25) ... in East Lansing, the Spartans scored a pair of goals two minutes apart early in the second half, then held on for the victory ... redshirt junior Ahmad Smith scored his first goal of the season in the 69th minute to cut MSU's lead in half, but the Falcons could not get the equalizer ... freshman goalkeeper Dylan Schoettley, making his second consecutive start, had eight saves, the highest total of his young collegiate career ... seniors Jacob Lawrence and Gavin Dozier assisted on Smith's goal ... on Sunday, Lawrence scored a pair of goals seven minutes apart in a wild second half ... Hartwick broke a scoreless tie in 72nd minute, but Lawrence converted a penalty kick three minutes later, then headed home a corner kick by fellow senior co-captain Hunter Van Houten with nine minutes left in regulation ... but, the Hawks were awarded a PK of their own, converting it to tie the game with 4:42 remaining in the second half ... Schoettley made seven saves in the match.
LAWRENCE STEPS UP AS A SCORING OPTION
The Falcons have scored seven goals over the last three matches, after scoring a total of nine goals in the season's first 11 games ... and, BG was without leading scorer Cameron Hepple for a game-and-a-half of that three-match span, due to injury ... senior Jacob Lawrence certainly has done his part, having scored nine points over the last three games ... Lawrence has had two-goal games in back-to-back MAC matches, vs. Buffalo (Oct. 16) and Hartwick (Oct. 25), and had the primary assist on BG's goal at Michigan State (Oct. 21) ... Lawrence now has 10 points on the season.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons will take a 2-9-3 record into Wednesday's Wright State match, and BG is 1-2-1 in MAC action ... BGSU is 1-2-2 in home matches, 1-5-1 in road games and 0-2 in neutral-site contests ... for head coach Eric Nichols and Company, senior Cameron Hepple leads the Falcons in scoring, with 15 points on the year ... Hepple, who has missed five complete matches and parts of two others due to injury, has a team-high seven goals and one assist ... senior Jacob Lawrence joins Hepple in double digits in scoring ... Lawrence has 10 points, on four goals and two assists ... five other Falcons – senior Chuko Evwaraye, redshirt junior Ahmad Smith, redshirt sophomores Chris Jurtovski and Max Weston and true soph Byard Ebling – have scored one goal apiece ... Weston, a transfer from Indiana, has two assists and is tied for third on the club with four points ... senior Hunter Van Houten also has four points, on a team-leading four assists, while Ebling and Evwaraye have three points apiece ... in goal, redshirt freshman Jeff Smoker has started 11 of this season's 14 matches, while true freshman Dylan Schoettley has gotten the start in the last three ... Smoker has a total of 56 saves and a goals-against average of 2.41 ... Schoettley, who has played in six games this year to date, has 25 saves, a 1-2-1 record and a 2.54 GAA ... last fall, the Falcons finished with an overall mark of 4-13-2, and BGSU was 0-6-0 in MAC action ... Nichols inherited 15 returning letterwinners, including nine starters, from the 2008 club ... the Falcon returnees combined to score 17 of the team's 18 goals and register 11 of the 13 assists a year ago ... Evwaraye, Hepple and Lawrence combined for 11 goals last fall ... Evwaraye led BG in both goals (5) and points (10), while Lawrence and Hepple had eight points apiece ... the Falcons had a 2-4-0 home record a season ago, and BGSU was 1-7-2 on the road and 1-2-0 at neutral sites in '08.
FALCON COACH ERIC NICHOLS
Eric Nichols is in his first season at the BGSU helm ... he was hired on Feb. 17, 2009, becoming just the fifth head coach in the 45-year history of the program ... Nichols came to BGSU after spending the 2008 season as assistant coach at Davidson College ... he had a successful debut to his BGSU head-coaching career, as the Falcons defeated Marshall, 2-0, in the regular-season opener, and picked up his first MAC victory at Buffalo ... Nichols has a 2-9-3 record at the helm of the men's soccer Falcons, and is 61-31-4 in his fifth season as a collegiate head coach ... prior to his stint at Davidson, Nichols was the head men's soccer coach at Ohio Dominican for four seasons (2004-07) ... under his guidance, the Panthers recorded a 59-22-1 (.728) record, including a final ranking of fourth in 2007 ... that team advanced all the way to the quarterfinals of the NAIA National Tournament ... Nichols served as an assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan for four seasons ... he played collegiately at Ohio State, and also played five years of professional soccer for several teams, including the Columbus Xoggz and Indiana Blast of the USISL ... Nichols is joined on the BGSU staff by assistant coaches Paul Habrecht and Eric Pfeifer.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Wright State enters Wednesday's match against BGSU with an overall record of 4-9-1, and the Raiders are 2-4-1 in Horizon League play ... Wright State saw a two-match winning streak broken with Saturday's (Oct. 24) 2-0 home loss to Cleveland State ... WSU had downed Loyola (Ill.), 1-0, and IUPUI, 2-1 in overtime, prior to the loss to CSU ... the Raiders are 2-3-1 in home games this season to date ... individually, Braden Fleak and Brian Cothern are tied for the team scoring lead, with 11 points apiece ... Fleak has a team-high five goals, while Cothern has four goals and a team-leading three assists ... Brad Bamberger also has four goals this year to date, for a total of eight points ... in goal, Corey Whisenhunt has played in six games, starting the last five contests ... he has a 3-3-0 record, 30 saves and a 1.81 GAA ... Aaron Ritter has a 2.57 GAA in five appearances, while Matt Koewler has a team-leading 36 saves and a 2.81 GAA in seven games ... Bryan Davis is in his first season as head coach of the Raiders ... last season, WSU went 6-13-1 overall and 3-4-1 in the HL ... the school's athletics web site is www.wsuraiders.com.
The Falcons and Wright State are all even, 4-4-2, in the all-time series between the teams, but the Falcons have won two consecutive meetings ... last year, BGSU got goals from Chuko Evwaraye, Thomas McLean and Byard Ebling in a 3-0 win over the Raiders at Cochrane Field (Oct. 22, 2008) ... two-thirds of BGSU's first-half goals in 2008 came in that game ... two years ago, in the Falcons' last trip to WSU, BG came away with a 2-0 win (Sept. 23, 2007) ... Cameron Hepple scored one of the Falcons' goals in that victory ... BGSU is 2-2-0 in road games vs. the Raiders ... all four of the Falcons' series wins have been shutouts.
Northern Illinois enters the week with an overall record of 8-6-1, and the Huskies will bring a MAC record of 2-2-0 to Cochrane Field this weekend ... prior to Saturday's game against the Falcons, Northern will play a Wednesday (Oct. 28) match at Wisconsin ... NIU has a two-game winning streak, having scored eight goals in those two games ... most recently, the Huskies posted a 3-1 road win over Florida Atlantic on Sunday (Oct. 25) ... that came five days after a 5-1 victory vs. Milwaukee ... earlier this season, the Huskies posted a 1-1 tie with North Carolina, at the time ranked #1 in the nation ... three players have five goals apiece this year ... that list includes Brad Horton, Luis De La Cerda and Josh Karsten ... Horton and De La Cerda each have three assists and 13 points on the season, while Karsten has 11 points ... Engebreth Faerden has a team-high five assists to date ... in goal, Jordan Godsey has started 14 of the 15 matches, and has five shutouts, 60 saves and a GAA of just 0.70 ... Eric Luzzi is in his first season at the Huskie helm after serving as the team's top assistant for the three previous seasons ... NIU returned 17 letterwinners from last year's team that went 11-6-4 overall and 4-1-1 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.niuhhuskies.com.
Northern Illinois leads the Falcons, 13-8-0, in that series, and the Huskies have won the last three meetings ... the teams have met twice in each of the last two seasons, having squared off in MAC Tournament quarterfinal-round matchups in both 2007 and '08 ... last year, the Huskies posted a 1-0 win in DeKalb (Oct. 25, 2008), then picked up a 2-0 victory in the league tourney in Akron (Nov. 13, 2008) ... the teams met twice at Cochrane Field in 2007, with the Falcons recording a 3-1 win in the regular-season finale (Nov. 2, 2007), but the Huskies knocking BG out of the MAC Tournament, 3-0 (Nov. 13, 2007) ... Thomas McLean, Chuko Evwaraye and Hunter Van Houten scored the Falcons' goals in that 2007 regular-season meeting ... BGSU is 6-4-0 all-time in home games vs. the Huskies.
(Note: The complete game-by-game results for both the WSU and NIU series can be found in the PDF version of this release)
FALCON NOTES (AND LOTS OF 'EM)
• Redshirt junior Ahmad Smith's goal at Michigan State was his first of the season ... in fact, it was his first goal since Sept. 8, 2006 ... Smith scored three goals in '06, his freshman season, with all three coming in the first five games of the year ... Smith now has career totals of four goals and eight points.
• Senior co-captain Jacob Lawrence's assist on Smith's goal was his second of the season and the fifth of his career ... senior Gavin Dozier also picked up an assist on that goal, for his first point of the year ... Dozier has three career assists and a total of five points as a Falcon.
• Lawrence had both BG goals vs. Hartwick ... the two-goal game was his second of the season and the third of his career ... in fact, Lawrence has had two-goal games in each of the Falcons' last two MAC matches ... he found the net twice, including the game-winning penalty kick with under five minutes left, at Buffalo.
• Lawrence now has four goals and 10 points on the season, ranking second on the Falcons in both categories ... he has tied his career best in goals, having also scored four times last fall ... Lawrence's 10-point total represents a career high in that column.
• Lawrence now has 10 goals and 25 points in his BGSU career ... he ranks second among active Falcons, trailing only Cameron Hepple (14 goals, 37 points) in both categories.
• Lawrence has a three-game point-scoring streak ... he has scored nine points in those three matches.
• Senior Hunter Van Houten's assist on Lawrence's second goal vs. Hartwick was the 10th of his career ... Van Houten leads all active Falcons in that category ... he leads the team with four assists this season.
• Redshirt freshman Zach Lemke made the first start of his young collegiate career in Wednesday's match at MSU, and also drew a starting assignment on Sunday vs. Hartwick ... he played a career-high 78 minutes vs. the Spartans, then set a new career standard with 89 minutes in the Hartwick match ... Lemke's previous high in minutes was 61, in last month's Duquesne match (Sept. 12) ... Lemke had played a total of 228 minutes over the Falcons' first 12 games, prior to playing 167 last week.
• Including goalkeepers, a total of 20 different Falcon players have started at least one match this season to date ... senior Tyler Deal and sophomore Tanner Fink are the only two Falcons to have started all 14 games.
• The Falcons scored three goals in last week's two games ... that figure is not necessarily mind-boggling, but it is an impressive total when considering the opposition ... Michigan State entered last Wednesday's match with a team goals-against average of just 0.58, leading the Big Ten Conference by over 0.20 ... MSU had posted 17 shutouts in the previous 24 games, dating to last season.
• Hartwick had entered Sunday's game having allowed only five goals in 12 matches this year, for a GAA of just 0.40 ... BGSU became the first team to score more than one goal in a game against HC since last Nov. 1, a span of 17 games for the Hawks.
• The Falcons played without Hepple, the team's leading scorer, in the Hartwick game ... Hepple had scored seven of BG's 14 total goals entering Sunday's match, and has 15 points on the year.
EVEN STEVEN
The Falcons' results last week mean that BGSU is now deadlocked with Michigan State and Hartwick in the all-time series ... BGSU and MSU each have won 16 matches (with five ties) in that series ... the Falcons and Hartwick are all even at 1-1-2 in their four meetings ... and, BG is currently tied with Wright State in that series as well ... as mentioned earlier, the Falcons and Raiders are 4-4-2 heading into Wednesday's game.
LEADERS OF THE MAC
Several Falcons are among the MAC leaders in the latest conference statistics ... in MAC games only, senior Jacob Lawrence is second in the league in goals (4), goals per game (1.00) and points per game (2.00) ... he ranks third in points (8) ... fellow senior co-captain Hunter Van Houten is tied for second in both assists (3 in MAC games) and assists per game (0.75) ... at the other end of the field, freshman Dylan Schoettley is tied for first in the MAC in saves per game (6.00 spg in MAC matches), while redshirt frosh Jeff Smoker is third (5.50 spg).
FALCONS TABBED FOR FIFTH
The Falcons were predicted to finish fifth in the MAC's preseason poll ... the poll is the result of voting by the league's seven head coaches ... Akron was predicted to win the regular-season and tournament crowns in 2009 ... Florida Atlantic and Hartwick are affiliate members of the MAC in men's soccer.
2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Jacob Lawrence and Hunter Van Houten are the co-captains of the 2009 men's soccer Falcons.
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