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Falcons Face Findlay (Free for Fans)
November 01, 2010 | Women's Basketball
Bowling Green State University women's basketball fans get their first chance to see the 2010-11 Falcons in action Wednesday night (Nov. 3), and the price is more than right. The Falcons of 10th-year head coach Curt Miller will meet the University of Findlay in the team's lone exhibition game, beginning at 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena, and admission – as well as parking – is free to all fans.
PARKING/TRAFFIC NOTE: Due to construction, Ridge Street is closed between Mercer Road and Willard Drive. Fans heading to Anderson Arena from the south or east (off of I-75, for example) should take Mercer Road to East Merry Avenue and make a left. Take Merry to the first stop sign, which is Willard Drive, and turn left. (Willard Drive is the street between the Health Center and Moore Musical Arts Center. Take Willard to Ridge Street, turn right and proceed to Lot N/14. Click here for a BGSU construction map.
Miller and his staff welcome back 10 letterwinners from a year ago, including three starters. The list of returnees includes six seniors, headed by two-time Mid-American Conference Player-of-the-Year Lauren Prochaska. Tracy Pontius and Jen Uhl are the other two returning starters from last season, while Chelsea Albert, Maggie Hennegan and Kelly Zuercher are beginning their senior season in BG as well.
Jessica Slagle is the lone junior on the '10-11 roster, while the sophomore class consists of Maribeth Giese, Danielle Havel, Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen. Giese and Havel are redshirt juniors, as Giese missed all but two games of last year due to injury, while Havel sat out the season as a transfer from DePaul University.
The freshman class includes Jillian Halfhill, Jill Stein and Noelle Yoder. Alexis Rogers also joins the BGSU program for 2010-11, but Rogers will sit out the season after transferring from Duke University.
Wednesday's exhibition is scheduled to be aired on WBGU-FM 88.1, the flagship station for Falcon women's basketball. The audio broadcast also will be available, free of charge, on BGSUFalcons.com. And, as is the case for all home Falcon basketball action, live stats will be available on the home for BGSU Athletics.
Findlay comes to Anderson Arena to play an exhibition game for the fifth consecutive November. Last season, the Brown and Orange picked up an 80-50 win at Anderson (Nov. 4, 2009), with Hennegan posting a double-double in her Falcon debut on U.S. soil.
The Oilers were picked to win the South Division of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) for the second consecutive year, according to the league's preseason media poll.
Junior guard Laura Bardall was a second-team all-league performer for UF last season, and has been named to the Preseason All-GLIAC First Team. She helped the Oilers to a 22-9 record last season, en route to an appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament.
The Falcons finished the 2009-10 season with an overall record of 27-7 and a MAC ledger of 14-2. BGSU won a MAC regular-season title for the sixth consecutive year, and captured the MAC Tournament crown for the fourth time in the last six seasons. BG advanced to national postseason play for the sixth-straight March, earning the MAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.
For BGSU, the regular season begins with a game at Evansville on Friday, Nov. 12. The regular-season home opener is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 15, against Creighton. That game, the first half of an old-fashioned doubleheader in the final season at Anderson Arena, will begin at 6:00 p.m. at "The House That Roars."
