Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, September 18
Riverside, Calif.
7:00 PM
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The Falcons look to finish the non-league schedule on a successful note
Falcons Head West for Two Tough Tests
September 15, 2009 | Women's Soccer
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, having wrapped up the home portion of the non-conference schedule, heads to the left coast for two final matches before Mid-American Conference play commences ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards will head to Riverside, Calif., to play a pair of games in the UCR Tournament ... BGSU will meet the host school, University of California Riverside, in Friday (Sept. 18) action, with kickoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. locally (10:00 p.m. Eastern Time) ... then, the Brown and Orange will meet the University of California Irvine on Sunday (Sept. 20) at 10:00 a.m. local time (1:00 p.m. Eastern) ... both matches will be held at UCR Soccer Stadium.
* BGSU Notes & Statistics - PDF
* MAC Notes & Statistics - PDF
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons split a pair of games at Cochrane Field ... BGSU saw a school-record home unbeaten streak come to an end with a 1-0 loss to Saint Bonaventure Friday afternoon (Sept. 11), but bounced back with a 2-0 win over Youngstown State on Sunday (Sept. 13) ... freshman Keely Chandler scored both goals in the YSU match, while redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault and redshirt freshman Becca Ison combined on the shutout, making one save each.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 116-121-23 all-time, seven matches into the 13th season in program history;
• 50-35-9 overall in the last four-plus seasons;
• 59-59-13 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 39-21-8 vs. MAC schools over the last five seasons (including regular-season and tournament matches), and 31-16-6 vs. league foes in the last four 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 SBU;
• 48-60-12 in road contests in program history;
• 8-9-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 46-48-8 in the month of September through the years;
• 9-2-1 in September games since the start of the 2008 season;
• 2-1-0 in games played on Sept. 18 in the history of the program, with all three previous games on that date having come on the road (wins at Northern Illinois in 1999 and Ohio State in 2001, and a loss at Indiana in 2005);
• 0-3-0 in Sept. 20 matches over the years;
• 0-0-0 in neutral-site contests on that date;
• 46-1-1 in the last 48 games when scoring first (16-0-0 since the start of last season); and
• 0-9-2 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
CHANDLER RECORDS FIRST TWO-GOAL GAME
Falcon freshman Keely Chandler scored the first points of her young career with a first-half goal vs. Youngstown State on Sunday (Sept. 13) ... then, she doubled her career total with a second-half marker in the 2-0 win over the Penguins ... the two-goal game, obviously, was her first at BGSU.
THE STREAK IS OVER; LONG LIVE THE STREAK
Friday's loss to St. Bonaventure ended the Falcons' home unbeaten streak at a school-record 11 matches ... BG had been 10-0-1 at Cochrane Field since the prior home loss, which had come to Michigan State in last season's home opener (Aug. 31, 2008) ... the Falcons got back to winning ways with Sunday's 2-0 victory against Youngstown State.
HOME-PITCH ADVANTAGE
Despite the loss to SBU, the Falcons have been very successful at home in recent years ... after Sunday's win over Youngstown State, the current fourth-year Falcons have a record of 23-11-1 in their careers to date at Cochrane Field ... BG is 11-2-1 at home since the beginning of the 2008 season, and the Falcons are 11-1-1 in the last 13 home games.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 10th 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 97-87-19 ... BGSU is 10-5-5 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, 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.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU has a record of 4-3-0 on the season ... the Falcons are 3-1-0 in home games and 1-2-0 on the road to date ... the road losses came to a pair of Big Ten foes in Ohio State and Michigan State ... Sunday's (Sept. 20) UC Irvine match will be BG's first neutral-site contest this year ... the Falcons' nine goals have come from seven different players ... sophomore Megan Amann and freshman Keely Chandler each have scored twice, with Chandler's goals both coming in the team's most recent game, vs. Youngstown State (Sept. 13) ... Amann leads the team in points, with six, while classmate Leah Johnson has five points, including a team-high three assists ... Chandler and sophomores Alyssa Zuccaro and Katelyn Turner have four points apiece ... Turner and Zuccaro each have a goal and two assists this year to date ... four different Falcons – Johnson, Zuccaro, senior Samantha Bland and junior Alicia Almond – have started all seven games ... Johnson leads the team in minutes played with 607, while Almond has played 593 and Bland 585 ... in goal, three different 'keepers have seen action, with redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault having played 426 of the 630 minutes ... Arsenault has a 3-2-0 record, a team-high 24 saves and a goals-against average of 0.84 ... redshirt freshman Becca Ison has a GAA of just 0.79, in 113-plus minutes of work ... true freshman Laura Arnold has started two games, and has a 1-1-0 record and a 3.00 GAA ... head coach Andy Richards, in his 10th season in Northwest Ohio, welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including nine starters, from last year's club that finished 12-6-4 overall and 6-3-2 in MAC action ... the '08 team's overall winning percentage of .636 was the second best in school history, and last year's club set a school record for fewest losses in a season.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
UC Riverside will bring a 3-2-2 record into Friday night's game with BGSU, and the Highlanders are riding a five-game unbeaten streak ... last weekend, UCR posted a pair of double-overtime ties at home, against San Francisco (0-0; Sept. 11) and San Diego State (1-1; Sept. 13) ... those matches came after three-straight 1-0 wins ... the team is 1-1-2 at home to date, with the loss coming to Oregon State ... five different players have scored one goal apiece for the Highlanders this year to date ... Kayla Troesh leads UCR with four points, on a goal and a team-high two assists ... goalkeeper Jessica White has started all seven games, and has three shutouts, 35 saves and a GAA of just 0.55 ... head coach Veronica O'Brien, in her ninth year, welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's team that went 8-10-2 overall and 2-5-1 in Big West Conference play ... the school's athletics web site is gohighlanders.com.
The Falcons have never met UCR in women's soccer.
UC Irvine is 5-1-1 on the season ... the Anteaters play Utah Valley State in Friday night action at the UCR Invitational before meeting the Falcons two days later ... UCI is riding a six-match unbeaten streak after a season-opening loss to Arizona State ... the 'Eaters won five consecutive games, including a victory over Arizona, before tying UNLV, 1-1, on Friday night (Sept. 11) ... UCI has scored 15 goals (after scoring 16 during all of last season) and allowed just five in the seven games to date ... Tanya Taylor and Dana Sanderlin have nine points apiece ... Sanderlin has a team-high four goals, while Taylor has three assists, most on the squad ... Danielle de Seriere has played every minute in goal, and has 24 saves, three shutouts and a GAA of 0.71 ... head coach Scott Juniper, in his third season, welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's team that went 8-9-2 overall and 2-4-2 in the Big West ... the school's athletics web site is www.UCIrvineSports.com.
The Falcons have never met UCI in women's soccer ... in fact, BGSU has never played a match in the state of California, and the Falcons have never faced a California-based school.
A FEW MORE FALCON NOTES
• Freshman Keely Chandler's brace vs. Youngstown State marked the first two-goal game by a BGSU player this season ... in fact, the Falcons had not had a player score multiple goals in a match since Nov. 1, 2007 ... on that date, Meagan Moran scored a pair of late goals to give the Brown and Orange a 2-1 win at Toledo.
• The last two-goal game by a BG player at Cochrane Field had come on Sept. 30, 2007, as Danielle Cygan scored twice in a 3-1 win over Western Michigan.
• Redshirt junior Alexa Arsenault made the 200th save of her career in Sunday's win over YSU ... she is just the third BGSU goalkeeper to reach that plateau, joining Erika Flanders (473 saves) and Ali Shingler (334).
• Junior Alicia Almond's assist on Chandler's first-half goal vs. YSU was the first of her BGSU career ... Almond now has five career points, having scored a goal in each of her first two seasons with the Brown and Orange.
• Junior Katie Stephenson assisted on that same goal ... Stephenson's assist was her first of the season and the sixth of her career.
• Sophomores Megan Amann and Leah Johnson assisted on Chandler's second goal of the day ... for Amann, the assist was her second of the season and the 10th of her career ... Amann is the Falcons' active career leader in assists.
• Johnson's assist was her team-leading third of the season and the fourth of her Falcon career.
• BGSU now leads Youngstown State, 5-0-0, in the all-time series between the teams ... each of the Falcons' last three wins in the series have been shutouts ... overall, BG has outscored the Penguins, 23-3, in the five games.
LOOKING TO EXTEND SOME IMPRESSIVE STREAKS
BGSU is looking to extend several streaks in 2009 ... last year, the Falcons finished with a winning record in MAC play for the fifth time in the 12-year history of the program ... the Falcons have posted four-straight winning conference records for the first time ever ... BG's only other winning MAC mark had come in 2002 (7-4-1) ... the '08 Falcons finished among the top-four teams in the MAC standings for only the fifth time in school history, and the fourth-straight year ... overall, the Falcons have now posted five consecutive seasons of double-digit wins for the first time in school annals ... and, BG has had four-straight records of at least .500 for the first time ever.
THE 2009 CAPTAINS
Seniors Samantha Bland and Colleen Kordan are the co-captains of the 2009 women's soccer Falcons.
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