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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Thursday, October 29
Toledo, Ohio
3:00 PM
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October 28, 2009 | Women's Soccer
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team closes the 2009 season with a game against the school's arch rival ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards will make the short trip north to face the University of Toledo ... the Falcons and Rockets will meet on Thursday (Oct. 29), with kickoff scheduled for 3:00 p.m. at UT's Scott Park ... the UT match marks the final 2009 action for the Falcons.
STUFF TO CLICK
BGSU NOTES & STATS (PDF) | MAC NOTES & STATS (PDF)
Toledo women's soccer home page
Live Stats Link for BGSU-UT match
BCSN web site
END OF A SUCCESSFUL RUN
As the month of October winds down, the Falcon players and coaches find themselves in an unfamiliar position ... for the first time since the 2001 season, BGSU will not qualify for the MAC Tournament ... entering the 2009 campaign, the Falcons' total of seven consecutive league tourney appearances was the second-longest active streak in the MAC, trailing only Ball State (eight-straight trips) ... BSU's streak also will come to an end in '09.
BRIGHT LIGHTS, GLASS CITY
Thursday's BGSU-Toledo game is scheduled to be televised live by the Buckeye Cable Sports Network (BCSN) in the Toledo area ... according to the broadcast schedule on BCSN's web site (www.bcsn.tv), the station will air the game live, and will also rebroadcast it on Thursday at 11:00 p.m. and Friday (Oct. 30) at both 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches on the road to the teams ranked first and second, respectively, in the current MAC standings ... on Friday (Oct. 23), MAC regular-season champion Central Michigan posted a 1-0 shutout over the Brown and Orange in Mt. Pleasant ... in monsoon-like conditions, the teams combined for only nine shots, including just one in the second half ... Central scored midway through the opening period ... redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault made two saves on the day ... on Sunday (Oct. 25), Eastern Michigan scored early in each half to pick up a 2-0 win over the Falcons ... the Eagles got a goal with just under 11 minutes gone, then doubled the lead five minutes into the second half ... Arsenault had a pair of saves in 60-plus minutes, while freshman Laura Arnold worked the final 29:01 and stopped the only shot on goal she faced.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU enters the Toledo match with an overall record of 5-11-3, including a mark of 1-6-3 in MAC play ... the Falcons went 4-2-2 in home games, and BG is 1-8-1 in road contests and 0-1-0 in neutral-site matches to date ... the Brown and Orange, as mentioned, dropped road games against Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan last weekend, snapping a two-match unbeaten streak ... the Falcons have scored 16 goals and allowed 27 this year to date ... BG's top-three scorers, and four of the top six, come from the sophomore class ... soph Megan Amann leads the team with nine points, while classmate Katelyn Turner has eight ... another sophomore, Alyssa Zuccaro, has seven points on the year, while freshman Keely Chandler and senior Colleen Kordan each have six ... soph Leah Johnson has five points this season to date ... Chandler and Turner share the team lead in goals, with three apiece, while Amann, Kordan and Zuccaro each have two ... Amann has five assists to pace the Falcons in that department, while Johnson and Zuccaro have three assists apiece ... four different Falcons – Johnson, Zuccaro, senior Samantha Bland and junior Alicia Almond – have started all 19 games ... Johnson leads the team in minutes played with 1711, while Almond has played 1638 and Bland 1630 ... in goal, redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault has started 17 matches, and has a team-high 74 saves and a goals-against average of 1.28 ... redshirt freshman Becca Ison has a GAA of 1.13, in nearly 159 minutes of work ... true freshman Laura Arnold has played just over 209 minutes, and has a 2.15 GAA.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 10th season at the helm, has proven himself to be one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... he has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 98-95-22, and a record of 53-48-12 in MAC regular-season play ... BGSU is 10-5-5 in MAC Tournament matches during his tenure, and no coach has as many trips to the league tourney title game as Richards (five) ... 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 in May of 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.
STATS DON'T ALWAYS TELL THE STORY
Bowling Green dominated many of the statistical categories in Sundays 2-0 loss to Eastern Michigan ... the Falcons outshot the Eagles, 16-11, and BGSU more than doubled the home team's shots-on-goal total, with 11 shots on target to Eastern's five ... and, BG had a sizable advantage in corner kicks, 9-2.
THE OPPONENT / THE SERIES
Toledo will enter Thursday's BGSU match with an overall record of 9-6-3, and the Rockets have a MAC mark of 5-3-2 ... UT currently sits in fifth place in the conference standings, needing a win to have a chance at a first-round home game in the MAC Tournament ... Toledo can finish as high as the fourth seed or as low as the sixth seed for the league tourney ... last weekend, the Rockets lost a 2-1 decision at Eastern Michigan on Friday (Oct. 23) before battling Central Michigan to a scoreless tie Sunday (Oct. 25) ... the Rockets are 6-3-0 at home this year to date, including a 3-1 mark in MAC matches at Scott Park ... individually, three players – Molly Cornwell, Ali Leak and Brittany Hensler – have four goals apiece ... Cornwell has team-leading totals of six assists and 14 points, while Leak also has a double-digit point total, with 10 ... Hensler has eight points and Heather Wesley seven ... in goal, Vicki Traven has played in 17 of UT's 18 matches ... she has six complete-match shutouts, 68 saves and a GAA of 0.87 ... Brad Evans is in his ninth season with the Rockets ... he welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including eight starters, from the '08 team that went 16-5-1 overall and 8-2-1 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.utrockets.com.
The Falcons lead Toledo, 7-5-4, in the all-time series between the teams ... BG is just 1-3-3 in home games vs. the Rockets, but the Falcons are 6-2-0 in road games in the series, including a 6-1-0 record at Scott Park ... the teams met twice in each season between 2005 and 2008, facing off in the MAC Tournament in all four years ... last season, the teams battled to a 1-1 tie in the regular-season meeting at Cochrane Field (Oct. 30, 2008), witih Megan Amann scoring BG's goal ... but, the Rockets got a late goal in the teams' MAC Tournament quarterfinal-round meeting at Scott Park (Nov. 7, 2008) ... that snapped BGSU's six-match road winning streak against the Rockets ... in the last regular-season meeting at UT, Meagan Moran scored twice in the last two minutes of the second half to give the Falcons a stunning 2-1 win in the 2007 regular-season finale (Nov. 1, 2007) ... the home team has won only three times in the 16 series meetings ... seven of the 16 games have gone to overtime ... interestingly, none of the eight matches played in the Glass City have required OT ... as always, the entire game-by-game breakdown can be found by clicking the PDF link at the top of this very page.
BREAKING DOWN THE BG-UT SERIES
• As mentioned, in the 16 series meetings between BGSU and Toledo through the years, the home team has won only three times ... 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 6-2-0 all-time in road games vs. the Midnight Blue and Gold, including a 6-1-0 at UT's Scott Park, the site of Thursday's match ... one match – the 2007 MAC Tournament championship – was played at a neutral site ... the Falcons lead the overall series by a 7-5-4 margin.
• 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, in the last few years, the 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 title.
• 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 (Oct. 26), 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 (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.
• But, a week later (Nov. 7, 2008), the host Rockets scored with 8:08 left in regulation for a 1-0 win over the Falcons in the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round ... it was just the third win by the home team in the series.
• This year, obviously, the Falcons have been eliminated from the MAC Tournament race ... but, Toledo needs a win to have a chance at a top-four seed and a home game in the quarterfinal round of the tourney.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 117-129-26 in the history of the program, which began in 1997;
• 51-43-12 overall in the last four-plus seasons;
• 60-65-16 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 40-27-11 vs. MAC schools over the last five-plus seasons (including regular-season & tourney matches), and 32-22-9 vs. league foes in the last four-plus years;
• 61-53-11 at home, and 31-14-5 at Cochrane Field in the last five seasons;
• 12-3-3 at Cochrane since the start of the '08 season;
• 48-66-13 in road contests in program history;
• 8-10-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 50-57-11 in the month of October through the years;
• 28-18-5 in October matches in the last four-plus seasons;
• 0-3-0 in games played on Oct. 29 in the history of the program;
• 0-0-0 in road matches on that date;
• 47-1-2 in the last 50 games when scoring first (17-0-1 since the start of last season); and
• 0-17-3 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
THE 2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Samantha Bland and Colleen Kordan are the co-captains of the 2009 women's soccer Falcons.
STUFF TO CLICK
BGSU NOTES & STATS (PDF) | MAC NOTES & STATS (PDF)
Toledo women's soccer home page
Live Stats Link for BGSU-UT match
BCSN web site
END OF A SUCCESSFUL RUN
As the month of October winds down, the Falcon players and coaches find themselves in an unfamiliar position ... for the first time since the 2001 season, BGSU will not qualify for the MAC Tournament ... entering the 2009 campaign, the Falcons' total of seven consecutive league tourney appearances was the second-longest active streak in the MAC, trailing only Ball State (eight-straight trips) ... BSU's streak also will come to an end in '09.
BRIGHT LIGHTS, GLASS CITY
Thursday's BGSU-Toledo game is scheduled to be televised live by the Buckeye Cable Sports Network (BCSN) in the Toledo area ... according to the broadcast schedule on BCSN's web site (www.bcsn.tv), the station will air the game live, and will also rebroadcast it on Thursday at 11:00 p.m. and Friday (Oct. 30) at both 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches on the road to the teams ranked first and second, respectively, in the current MAC standings ... on Friday (Oct. 23), MAC regular-season champion Central Michigan posted a 1-0 shutout over the Brown and Orange in Mt. Pleasant ... in monsoon-like conditions, the teams combined for only nine shots, including just one in the second half ... Central scored midway through the opening period ... redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault made two saves on the day ... on Sunday (Oct. 25), Eastern Michigan scored early in each half to pick up a 2-0 win over the Falcons ... the Eagles got a goal with just under 11 minutes gone, then doubled the lead five minutes into the second half ... Arsenault had a pair of saves in 60-plus minutes, while freshman Laura Arnold worked the final 29:01 and stopped the only shot on goal she faced.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU enters the Toledo match with an overall record of 5-11-3, including a mark of 1-6-3 in MAC play ... the Falcons went 4-2-2 in home games, and BG is 1-8-1 in road contests and 0-1-0 in neutral-site matches to date ... the Brown and Orange, as mentioned, dropped road games against Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan last weekend, snapping a two-match unbeaten streak ... the Falcons have scored 16 goals and allowed 27 this year to date ... BG's top-three scorers, and four of the top six, come from the sophomore class ... soph Megan Amann leads the team with nine points, while classmate Katelyn Turner has eight ... another sophomore, Alyssa Zuccaro, has seven points on the year, while freshman Keely Chandler and senior Colleen Kordan each have six ... soph Leah Johnson has five points this season to date ... Chandler and Turner share the team lead in goals, with three apiece, while Amann, Kordan and Zuccaro each have two ... Amann has five assists to pace the Falcons in that department, while Johnson and Zuccaro have three assists apiece ... four different Falcons – Johnson, Zuccaro, senior Samantha Bland and junior Alicia Almond – have started all 19 games ... Johnson leads the team in minutes played with 1711, while Almond has played 1638 and Bland 1630 ... in goal, redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault has started 17 matches, and has a team-high 74 saves and a goals-against average of 1.28 ... redshirt freshman Becca Ison has a GAA of 1.13, in nearly 159 minutes of work ... true freshman Laura Arnold has played just over 209 minutes, and has a 2.15 GAA.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 10th season at the helm, has proven himself to be one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... he has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 98-95-22, and a record of 53-48-12 in MAC regular-season play ... BGSU is 10-5-5 in MAC Tournament matches during his tenure, and no coach has as many trips to the league tourney title game as Richards (five) ... 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 in May of 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.
STATS DON'T ALWAYS TELL THE STORY
Bowling Green dominated many of the statistical categories in Sundays 2-0 loss to Eastern Michigan ... the Falcons outshot the Eagles, 16-11, and BGSU more than doubled the home team's shots-on-goal total, with 11 shots on target to Eastern's five ... and, BG had a sizable advantage in corner kicks, 9-2.
THE OPPONENT / THE SERIES
Toledo will enter Thursday's BGSU match with an overall record of 9-6-3, and the Rockets have a MAC mark of 5-3-2 ... UT currently sits in fifth place in the conference standings, needing a win to have a chance at a first-round home game in the MAC Tournament ... Toledo can finish as high as the fourth seed or as low as the sixth seed for the league tourney ... last weekend, the Rockets lost a 2-1 decision at Eastern Michigan on Friday (Oct. 23) before battling Central Michigan to a scoreless tie Sunday (Oct. 25) ... the Rockets are 6-3-0 at home this year to date, including a 3-1 mark in MAC matches at Scott Park ... individually, three players – Molly Cornwell, Ali Leak and Brittany Hensler – have four goals apiece ... Cornwell has team-leading totals of six assists and 14 points, while Leak also has a double-digit point total, with 10 ... Hensler has eight points and Heather Wesley seven ... in goal, Vicki Traven has played in 17 of UT's 18 matches ... she has six complete-match shutouts, 68 saves and a GAA of 0.87 ... Brad Evans is in his ninth season with the Rockets ... he welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including eight starters, from the '08 team that went 16-5-1 overall and 8-2-1 in the MAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.utrockets.com.
The Falcons lead Toledo, 7-5-4, in the all-time series between the teams ... BG is just 1-3-3 in home games vs. the Rockets, but the Falcons are 6-2-0 in road games in the series, including a 6-1-0 record at Scott Park ... the teams met twice in each season between 2005 and 2008, facing off in the MAC Tournament in all four years ... last season, the teams battled to a 1-1 tie in the regular-season meeting at Cochrane Field (Oct. 30, 2008), witih Megan Amann scoring BG's goal ... but, the Rockets got a late goal in the teams' MAC Tournament quarterfinal-round meeting at Scott Park (Nov. 7, 2008) ... that snapped BGSU's six-match road winning streak against the Rockets ... in the last regular-season meeting at UT, Meagan Moran scored twice in the last two minutes of the second half to give the Falcons a stunning 2-1 win in the 2007 regular-season finale (Nov. 1, 2007) ... the home team has won only three times in the 16 series meetings ... seven of the 16 games have gone to overtime ... interestingly, none of the eight matches played in the Glass City have required OT ... as always, the entire game-by-game breakdown can be found by clicking the PDF link at the top of this very page.
BREAKING DOWN THE BG-UT SERIES
• As mentioned, in the 16 series meetings between BGSU and Toledo through the years, the home team has won only three times ... 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 6-2-0 all-time in road games vs. the Midnight Blue and Gold, including a 6-1-0 at UT's Scott Park, the site of Thursday's match ... one match – the 2007 MAC Tournament championship – was played at a neutral site ... the Falcons lead the overall series by a 7-5-4 margin.
• 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, in the last few years, the 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 title.
• 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 (Oct. 26), 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 (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.
• But, a week later (Nov. 7, 2008), the host Rockets scored with 8:08 left in regulation for a 1-0 win over the Falcons in the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round ... it was just the third win by the home team in the series.
• This year, obviously, the Falcons have been eliminated from the MAC Tournament race ... but, Toledo needs a win to have a chance at a top-four seed and a home game in the quarterfinal round of the tourney.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 117-129-26 in the history of the program, which began in 1997;
• 51-43-12 overall in the last four-plus seasons;
• 60-65-16 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 40-27-11 vs. MAC schools over the last five-plus seasons (including regular-season & tourney matches), and 32-22-9 vs. league foes in the last four-plus years;
• 61-53-11 at home, and 31-14-5 at Cochrane Field in the last five seasons;
• 12-3-3 at Cochrane since the start of the '08 season;
• 48-66-13 in road contests in program history;
• 8-10-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 50-57-11 in the month of October through the years;
• 28-18-5 in October matches in the last four-plus seasons;
• 0-3-0 in games played on Oct. 29 in the history of the program;
• 0-0-0 in road matches on that date;
• 47-1-2 in the last 50 games when scoring first (17-0-1 since the start of last season); and
• 0-17-3 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
THE 2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Samantha Bland and Colleen Kordan are the co-captains of the 2009 women's soccer Falcons.
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