Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, October 9
Bowling Green, Ohio
4:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Ohio
Falcons Finally Return Home, Face Ohio and Akron
October 06, 2009 | Women's Soccer
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, after playing no fewer than six consecutive matches away from home, returns to Cochrane Field for a pair of Mid-American Conference games this weekend ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards begin a four-match homestand with a Friday (Oct. 9) contest vs. Ohio University ... kickoff is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Cochrane ... then, the Brown and Orange will host the University of Akron on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 11), beginning at 1:00 p.m. ... the Falcons will complete the home portion of the regular-season schedule with a pair of matches next weekend, vs. Kent State University (Oct. 16) and the University at Buffalo (Oct. 18).
PINK-OUT
Sunday's game vs. Akron is the Falcons' annual 'pink-out' game in support of breast cancer awareness ... all fans are encouraged to wear pink to the game ... more information will be available right here at BGSUFalcons.com later in the week.
BGSU NOTES & STATS (PDF) | MAC NOTES & STATS (PDF)
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU has an overall record of 4-8-1, including a mark of 0-3-1 in MAC play, entering Friday's Ohio game ... the Falcons are 3-1-0 in home games, 1-6-1 in road contests and 0-1-0 in neutral-site matches to date, and the Brown and Orange will be looking to snap a six-game winless streak ... last weekend, the Falcons suffered a 1-0 loss at Ball State Friday (Oct. 2) before falling at Miami, 4-1, Sunday afternoon (Oct. 4) ... the Falcons have scored 13 goals and allowed 21 this year to date ... BG's top-four scorers all are sophomores, while a freshman is deadlocked for fifth on the team ... sophs Megan Amann and Alyssa Zuccaro are tied for the team lead with seven points apiece ... Katelyn Turner and Leah Johnson have six and five points, respectively, this season, while freshman Keely Chandler and senior Colleen Kordan each have four ... the Falcons' 13 goals have come from nine different players ... Amann, Chandler, Turner and Zuccaro each have a pair of goals ... Amann, Johnson and Zuccaro have three assists apiece to share the team lead in that department ... four different Falcons – Johnson, Zuccaro, senior Samantha Bland and junior Alicia Almond – have started all 13 games ... Johnson leads the team in minutes played with 1131, while Almond has played 1076 and Bland 1050 ... in goal, redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault has started 11 matches, and has a team-high 52 saves and a goals-against average of 1.48 ... redshirt freshman Becca Ison has a GAA of 1.13, in nearly 159 minutes of work ... true freshman Laura Arnold has played 180 minutes, and has a 2.50 GAA ... head coach Andy Richards is in his 10th season ... he welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including nine starters, from last year's team ... the 2008 Falcons finished 12-6-4 overall and 6-3-2 in the MAC.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 10th season at the helm, is one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... he has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 97-92-20, and a record of 52-45-10 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.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 116-126-24 in the history of the program, which began in 1997;
• 50-40-10 overall in the last four-plus seasons;
• 59-62-14 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 39-24-9 vs. MAC schools over the last five-plus seasons (including regular-season & tourney matches), and 31-19-7 vs. league foes in the last four-plus years;
• 60-52-9 at home, and 30-13-3 at Cochrane Field in the last four-plus seasons;
• 11-2-1 at Cochrane since the start of the '08 season, with the only losses in that time coming to Michigan State (Aug. 31, 2008) and Saint Bonaventure (Sept. 11, 2009);
• 48-64-13 in road contests in program history;
• 8-10-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 49-54-9 in the month of October through the years;
• 27-15-3 in October matches in the last four-plus seasons;
• 2-1-0 in games played on Oct. 9 in the history of the program, including a 2-0 mark during the Andy Richards Era (a 2-1 home win over Wright State in 2001 and a 1-0 home victory vs. Akron in 2005);
• 1-1-0 in Oct. 11 matches over the years, including a 1-0 mark under Richards (a 2-0 win at Central Michigan in 2002);
• 46-1-1 in the last 48 games when scoring first (16-0-0 since the start of last season); and
• 0-14-3 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
Ohio will enter Friday's BGSU match with an overall record of 5-5-1, and the Bobcats are 2-1-1 in MAC action ... the 'Cats have matched the overall winning total for all of last season ... Ohio has won two consecutive games, and the 'Cats are unbeaten over the last three matches ... last weekend, Ohio went on the road and picked up a pair of wins, at Northern Illinois (2-0; Oct. 2) and Western Michigan (2-1; Oct. 4) ... the team's first MAC weekend included a 4-0 loss vs. Central Michigan (Sept. 25) and a scoreless tie against Eastern Michigan (Sept. 27) ... individually, Kelsey Pichel has a team-high seven points, including five assists ... Erin Schwenke is second on the Bobcats with six points ... she leads the team in goals, with three ... in goal, Jess MacLean has seen the bulk of the time ... she has two shutouts, 35 saves and a GAA of 1.71 ... Christa Puccio has a 1.64 GAA in just under 220 minutes of action ... head coach Stacy Strauss, in her 10th year in Athens, welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's team that went 5-10-3 overall and 4-5-2 in MAC play ... the school's athletics web site is www.OhioBobcats.com.
The Falcons trail Ohio, 8-2-2, in the all-time series between the teams, but BGSU is unbeaten in the teams' last two meetings ... both of those games have required double overtime ... last fall, the Falcons and Bobcats battled to a scoreless tie in Athens, with Alexa Arsenault making two saves to earn the shutout (Oct. 3, 2008) ... in the last meeting in Bowling Green, Corbie Yee's 'Golden Goal' gave the Brown and Orange a 1-0 win (Oct. 26, 2007) ... Katie Stephenson assisted on that goal ... overall, BGSU has gone 2-1-1 over the last four meetings, after going just 0-7-1 in the first eight matchups with the Bobcats ... the Falcons are 2-4-0 in home games vs. Ohio, but BG has won the last two meetings at Cochrane, including a 2-0 triumph in 2005.
Akron will take a record of 3-5-2 into a Friday match at Toledo, before facing BGSU two days later ... the Zips enter the weekend with a MAC record of 1-2-1 ... last weekend, UA earned a split on the road, losing a 2-0 decision at WMU (Oct. 2) before picking up a 1-0 win at NIU (Oct. 4) ... the Zips enter the weekend with a 2-3-1 record on the road ... Britni Back and Rachel Phillip are tied for the team's scoring lead, with six points apiece ... both players have two goals and two assists this year to date ... Alysia Virkler has four points on a pair of goals ... in net, Jeny Wolbert has played in nine of UA's 10 matches ... she has two shutouts, 44 saves and a 1.36 GAA ... Chris Pfau is in his second season as the Zips' head coach ... he welcomed back 19 letterwinners, including nine starters, from the 2008 team that went 7-9-2 overall and 2-7-2 in MAC action ... the school's athletics web site is www.gozips.com.
The Falcons lead Akron, 7-1-0, in that series, and BGSU has won each of the last two meetings ... the Brown and Orange picked up a 2-0 win at UA's Lee Jackson Field last year (Oct. 5, 2008) ... Arsenault picked up the shutout, while Alicia Almond had one of the Falcons' two late goals ... BGSU has a 4-0-0 home record vs. the Zips, including a 1-0 win two years ago (Oct. 28, 2007) ... Jackie Tamerlano picked up one of the assists on Yee's goal in that match ... UA's lone series win came in Akron in 2006, a 2-1 triumph over the Brown and Orange ... in the four meetings at Cochrane, the Falcons have outscored the Zips by a 7-1 count.
FALCON NOTES
• BGSU had a total of 12 corner kicks Friday (Oct. 2) at Ball State, the team's highest total in nearly five years ... the Falcons last had 12 CKs on Oct. 24, 2004, in a 2-2 double-overtime tie vs. Western Michigan at Cochrane Field.
• The last time BG had had 12 or more corner kicks in a match decided in regulation was five years and a day prior to the BSU contest ... the Falcons had 13 corners in a 5-1 win at Cleveland State on Oct. 1, 2004.
• At Ball State, the Falcons had nine corners in the first half alone, including seven in the first 20:23 of the period.
• Last weekend's losses ended a pair of series unbeaten streaks for the Falcons ... the loss at Ball State snapped a two-game unbeaten string for BG vs. the Cardinals ... the Falcons had taken last year's meeting, 1-0, at Cochrane Field, and the teams had battled to a scoreless tie in Muncie in the semifinal round of the 2007 MAC Tournament (before BG advanced to the championship via penalty kicks).
• Sunday's (Oct. 4) loss to Miami snapped a seven-game series winning streak for the Falcons ... after Miami had won the first eight meetings in the series, from 1997 through 2002, BGSU had won each matchup since 2003, including a 2005 MAC Tournament semifinal match ... in the Falcons' last six wins, BG had outscored Miami by a 14-1 count.
• Miami's four goals in Sunday's match represented the highest total allowed by the Falcons in a MAC game in over four years, since a 4-0 loss at Western Michigan on Sept. 25, 2005.
• The Falcons' 0-3-1 MAC start is the team's worst since the 2004 team also went 0-3-1 in the first four conference matches ... the '04 Falcons went on to earn a berth in the MAC Tournament, then won three more games to capture the league tourney title and advance to the NCAA Championships for the first time in program history.
• Ten of the Falcons' 13 goals this season have been scored by freshmen or sophomores.
THE 2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Samantha Bland and Colleen Kordan are the co-captains of the 2009 women's soccer Falcons.
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