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BGSU Battles Austin Peay Saturday
December 10, 2010 | Women's Basketball
Falcons conclude two-game swing by taking on the Lady Govs
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, riding a nine-game winning streak, heads to Clarksville, Tenn., to conclude a two-game road swing ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will face Austin Peay State University in Saturday (Dec. 11) action ... tipoff is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. locally – 6:15 p.m. Eastern – at the Dunn Center (7,257) ... following the APSU game, the Brown and Orange will take a break for fall semester exams, before hosting Canisius on Tuesday, Dec. 21 ... Miller and his staff returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's 27-7 team that won the Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships.
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PROCHASKA SETS AN NCAA RECORD
Most people couldn't make 67 consecutive layups in an empty gym ... senior Lauren Prochaska, however, has hit 67 consecutive shots from 15 feet away ... Prochaska was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free-throw line in Thursday's (Dec. 9) win at Western Kentucky, in the process setting a new NCAA Division-I record ... Prochaska had broken her own school record of 45-straight shots from the stripe in the Vanderbilt game (Dec. 1), then surpassed the Mid-American Conference mark in Saturday's (Dec. 4) win over Cal State Fullerton ... continue reading for more notes about Prochaska's proclivity from the line.
PROCHASKA AT THE STRIPE
Senior Lauren Prochaska, as mentioned, continues to rewrite BGSU's free-throw records – and, for the most part, they were records that she already owned ...
• Prochaska topped her own single-game mark in the win over UALR on Nov. 26, shooting a perfect 15-for-15 from the stripe ... her 'old' mark was 13-for-13, set last season against Miami (Jan. 19, 2010) ... she has gone at least 8-of-8 from the line in four of the last six games, making 10 free throws vs. both Detroit and Vanderbilt and eight vs. Fullerton.
• Prochaska has made 75 of her 76 shots from the stripe this year, a 98.7-percent success rate ... she ranked second in the country in the most recent NCAA Division-I statistics, released Monday (Dec. 6) ... the lone player ahead of her, Monmouth's Erin Rooney, has attempted just 20 tosses this year, having gone 20-of-20 ... she did not have a free-throw attempt in her team's Thursday game.
• As mentioned earlier, Prochaska has broken the BGSU, MAC and NCAA Division-I records in back-to-back-to-back games ... her current streak of 67 in a row marks the third time Prochaska has made over 30-straight free throws in her BGSU career ... the Division-I list, according to the NCAA Record Book ...
NCAA DIVISION-I RECORDS: MOST CONSECUTIVE FREE THROWS MADE
FTM Player, School (Year[s])
67 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2010-11) – current
66 Ginny Doyle, Richmond (1991-92)
60 Adrienne Squire, Penn State (2004-06)
57 Jody Beerman, Central Michigan (1986-87)
53 Katie Miller, UNI (1999-00)
49 Lisa Rathburn, BYU (1990-91)
46 Brooke Lassiter, Louisiana Tech (2000-01)
45 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2008-09)
45 Amy Slowikowski, Kent State (1988-89)
45 Wendy Scholtens, Vanderbilt (1988-89)
PROCHASKA ALREADY HAD THIS RECORD
Even prior to the WKU game, Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska already owned the NCAA Division-I record for consecutive free throws made in a single season ... Richmond's Ginny Doyle held the old NCAA mark of consecutive FTM ... Doyle made 66-straight free throws, hitting 60 consecutive shots from the line to end the 1991-92 season, then making her first six free throws of the '92-93 campaign ... all of Prochaska's 67 consecutive makes have come in the 2010-11 season.
AND, SHE'S GOT A SHOT AT THIS RECORD
Entering Saturday's Austin Peay game, senior Lauren Prochaska has made 497 free throws in 543 attempts in her career ... that is good for a percentage of 91.5 ... Prochaska is in line to finish among the NCAA's all-time leaders in free-throw pct. ... the list ...
NCAA LEADERS, CAREER FREE-THROW PERCENTAGE
(minimum 250 free throws made)
Player, Team Seasons G FT FTA Pct.
1. Shanna Zolman, Tennessee 2003-06 144 306 334 91.6
2. Kandi Brown, Morehead St. 2000-04 114 357 390 91.538
# Lauren Prochaska, BGSU 2008-SA 112 497 543 91.529
3. Brooke Lassiter, Louisiana Tech 1998-02 128 269 294 91.496
4. Jill Marano, La Salle 2002-05 111 257 282 91.1
5. Gabriela Marginean, Drexel 2007-10 125 684 769 88.9
6. Morgan Warburton, Utah 2006-09 132 439 497 88.3
7. Laiken Dollente, Portland 2007-10 122 572 648 88.3
8. Cyndi Valentin, Indiana 2003-06 118 403 457 88.2
9. Lindsay Bowen, Michigan St. 2003-06 131 309 352 87.8
10. Andrea Lightfoot, Idaho St. 2005-08 91 390 445 87.6
# current players are not listed in NCAA career percentage-based categories until the completion of their career
BUT WHAT ABOUT OTHER NCAA DIVISIONS?
Good question ... the NCAA record for consecutive free throws made, regardless of division, is 78 ... that streak was put together just two years ago, by Jamey Gelhar of St. Martin's ... the NCAA all-divisions list follows ...
NCAA RECORDS (ALL DIVISIONS): MOST CONSECUTIVE FT MADE
FTM Player, School (Year[s])
78 Jamey Gelhar, St. Martin's (2008-09)
69 Jamie Visness, Concordia-Moorhead (2002-03)
67 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2010-11) – current
66 Ginny Doyle, Richmond (1991-92)
61 Valerie Kepner, Baldwin-Wallace #
# Kepner had eight in a row to finish the 1986-87 season at Lake Erie, not an NCAA member at the time, and made her first 61 attempts to start the 1988-89 season at Baldwin-Wallace, thereby making 69 consecutive free throws
LAUREN'S TEAMMATES AREN'T TOO SHABBY, EITHER
Entering this week, as mentioned, senior Lauren Prochaska was ranked second in the country in free-throw percentage ... her teammates are doing just fine in that department as well, thanks ... as a team, the Falcons also ranked second in the nation in free-throw accuracy on Monday ... BGSU was shooting 83.7 percent from the stripe this season as of Monday's rankings, trailing only Villanova (84.9%) ... after the win at WKU, BG is now shooting 84.8%, while 'Nova is at 84.4% after Thursday's game vs. West Virginia ... last season, the Falcons shot 75.3% from the free-throw line, ranking second in the MAC and 22nd in the country.
FALCON WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: A MULTIMEDIA FRENZY
BGSU fans can follow the Falcons all year long in a variety of ways ...
• AUDIO: WBGU-FM 88.1 is scheduled to carry all of this season's games ... the radio broadcasts can be heard online for free by logging on to BGSUFalcons.com ... click on 'Fan Zone' and 'Live Audio' to hear all the action.
• TELEVISION: Six of the Falcons' school-record 15 home games will be televised in the Toledo area on BCSN ... two additional games at Anderson Arena will be aired as the MAC Game of the Week by SportsTime Ohio ... the televised games can be found in the schedule on page 1 of these notes.
• VIDEO: All home games will be available via live video stream, through B2/America One, for a small fee ... fans can watch the Anderson Arena action on their computers by visiting BGSUFalcons.com and clicking on the America One logo on the right-hand side of the page ... a number of the Falcons' road games also will have live video, at the jurisdiction of the host school, and the link(s) will be available at BGSUFalcons.com.
• LIVE STATS: Links are also available at BGSUFalcons.com for live stats for all home games (and all road games in which the host team provides live stats).
PROCHASKA RANKS SECOND ON BGSU CAREER SCORING LIST
Senior Lauren Prochaska, 10 games into her senior season, resides in second place on the BGSU career scoring list, and has a total of exactly 1,900 points in 112 games ... she now trails only Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89) ... Prochaska moved past Ali Mann (1,825 points from 2003-07) in the win over Seattle ... Prochaska is averaging 17.0 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.
PONTIUS MOVES INTO THE TOP 20
With her first basket in the season opener at Evansville (Nov. 12), senior Tracy Pontius surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career ... Pontius became the 24th player to reach the milestone ... heading into the APSU game, Pontius has a total of 1,140 points as a Falcon ... over 1,000 of those points have come since the start of her sophomore season ... Pontius has moved into 19th place on the BGSU scoring list, having passed Stefanie Wenzel (1,099 points from 2000-04) in the Vanderbilt game ... her next target is 18th-place Andrea Nordmann (1,164 points).
PROCHASKA NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
On Monday (Dec. 6), Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska was named MAC Player of the Week ... she earned the honor for the first time this season and the 10th time in her Falcon career ... Prochaska averaged 26.0 points in wins over nationally-ranked Vanderbilt and Cal State Fullerton, including a 31-point outing vs. the Commodores ... she also tied her career high with six assists in that game ... on the week, Prochaska also averaged 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 3.0 steals.
GOOD START
The Falcons' 9-1 record is tied for the best start in school history ... the 2005-06 team also won nine of 10 games to begin the year ... no BGSU team ever has gone 10-1 to start a season ... that '05-06 club lost the 11th game of the year, falling in overtime at Kentucky before winning the next 19 games to advance to the NCAA Championships.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Here's yet another note pertaining to Lauren Prochaska ... the senior scored 18 points in the win at Western Kentucky on Thursday (Dec. 9) ... she has scored in double digits in 101 of her 112 career games to date.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE TROUBLE
Senior Tracy Pontius had 11 points and a career-high 10 assists last Saturday (Dec. 4) vs. Cal State Fullerton, for her first career double-double ... the double-double was the Falcons' fifth this season ... senior Lauren Prochaska has had two, while classmates Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl have had one apiece ... all but the Pontius double-double have been of the points-rebounds variety.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Austin Peay game with a record of 9-1 ... BGSU is 6-0 at home, 2-1 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... the Falcons' 19-game win streak at Anderson Arena was tied for the ninth-longest current homecourt winning streak in the nation, as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Dec. 6) ... BG received five votes in both Monday's Associated Press poll and Tuesday's USA Today ESPN Coaches poll, and the Falcons are ranked second in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.
• The Falcons suffered a 63-62 loss at Evansville in the regular-season opener (Nov. 12), but BG has bounced back with nine-straight wins ... BG swept a four-game homestand, with the victims including Creighton, Youngstown State, Oakland and Detroit ... the Falcons headed West and won a pair of games in the Seattle University Thanksgiving Tournament, with a 56-47 win over UALR (Nov. 26) and a 71-51 win over the host school in the championship game (Nov. 27) ... last week, the Brown and Orange picked up two more wins at Anderson Arena, downing #23/23 Vanderbilt, 79-68 (Dec. 1), and dismantling Cal State Fullerton by a 91-51 score (Dec. 4) ... then, BG pulled out a 72-68 win at Western Kentucky on Thursday night (Dec. 9).
• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 20.1 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 7.1 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in six games this year, including a season-high 31-point performance in the win over Vanderbilt ... she is the reigning MAC Player of the Week as well ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 14.2 ppg, and has a team-leading 25 three-point field goals made, three more than Prochaska ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 38.6 and 35.7 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 75-of-76 (98.7%) from the free-throw line on the year.
• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 10 games has remained unchanged ... that lineup has included four seniors in Pontius, Prochaska, Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl, along with sophomore Chrissy Steffen.
• Hennegan is third on the team in scoring, with 8.6 ppg, and also has 6.3 rpg to rank second on the Falcons ... she leads the Brown and Orange in blocked shots, with 1.2 per outing ... Steffen has 8.3 ppg and is second on the team in steals, with 1.6 per game ... Uhl is averaging 7.3 points and 5.0 boards ... she had a double-double in the Seattle game, and has scored at least nine points in each of the last four games.
• Pontius paces BGSU in assists (4.0 apg), with Prochaska ranking second (2.8 apg) ... Prochaska leads the Falcons in steals (1.9 bpg) and is second in blocks.
• BGSU returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that won 27 games, captured MAC regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships ... the Falcons finished the 2009-10 season with an overall record of 27-7, and BGSU went 14-2 in MAC play ... BG won an outright MAC regular-season championship for the sixth-straight season, a conference record ... the Falcons earned the league's East Division title for the fifth consecutive year (after winning the West crown in 2005) ... BGSU won three more games in Cleveland to capture the MAC Tournament title for the fourth time in those six seasons ... the Falcons went 13-0 at home, 11-6 on the road and 3-1 in neutral-site games last year ... the neutral-site games came in the MAC Tournament and in the NCAA Championships.
• The Falcons lost the services of four seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper and Tamika Nurse – from a year ago ... the three fourth-year players were part of 113 wins, the second-highest total in school and MAC annals ... Nurse was in her first playing season in 2009-10 after transferring from the University of Oregon ... Breske, Bugher and Clapper averaged 28.25 wins per season and helped the Falcons go 57-7 in MAC regular-season games after their arrival on campus.
• Miller and his staff have six seniors on the 15-player active roster this year ... that group includes three returning starters in Prochaska, Pontius and Uhl ... Prochaska and Pontius each started all 34 games a year ago, while Uhl made 31 starts ... Prochaska, of course, has been named the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, while Pontius earned all-league second-team honors in 2009-10.
• Hennegan, a co-captain along with Prochaska, played in all 34 games last season ... post players Chelsea Albert and Kelly Zuercher round out the senior class ... Zuercher played in 30 games off the bench last winter, while Albert appeared in 28 contests.
• The Falcons' lone junior is Jessica Slagle, who played in every game last season ... BG has a pair of redshirt sophomores in Maribeth Giese and Danielle Havel ... Giese played in two games early last season before suffering an injury and sitting out the rest of the season as a redshirt ... Havel sat out the entire campaign after transferring from DePaul University.
• The roster includes three true sophomores in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Steffen ... four newcomers join the program in 2010-11 ... that list includes a pair of guards in Jillian Halfhill and Noelle Yoder, along with post player Jill Stein ... additionally, Alexis Rogers joins the program, but will sit out this season after transferring from Duke University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.
• Slagle and Papenfuss each have played in all 10 games off the bench to date, and have 4.6 and 3.8 ppg, respectively ... Papenfuss has 3.1 rpg, ranking fifth on the team in that category.
• Havel and Zuercher also have seen action in all 10 games this year ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least six contests.
• BGSU is shooting 41.6% from the field, 35.0% from three-point land and 84.8% from the free-throw line ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot just 37.5% from the floor and 29.0% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 61.3% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 45 more free throws than the opponents have attempted.
PONTIUS JOINS ASSISTS LIST
Senior Tracy Pontius had a career-high 10 assists in the win over Fullerton (Dec. 4), moving past Judit Lendvay (304 from 1989-93) into eighth place in school history ... after the WKU game, Pontius now has a career total of 313 assists.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons got big plays from multiple players down the stretch, holding off host Western Kentucky, 72-68, on Thursday night (Dec. 9) at E.A. Diddle Arena ... the win moved the Brown and Orange to 9-1 on the season, tying BG's best 10-game start in program history ... seniors Tracy Pontius and Lauren Prochaska combined for 42 points in the win, and classmate Jen Uhl joined that duo in making some key plays in the final moments ... Uhl hit a big three-point field goal with under three minutes remaining, fed Prochaska for a layup to tie the score with just under a minute left, and took a charge on WKU's next possession to give BGSU the ball back ... Pontius had a game-high 24 points, while Prochaska scored 18 ... that duo was a combined 14-of-14 from the free-throw line, as BGSU made all 15 shots from the line as a team ... Prochaska went 6-for-6 from the stripe, and her final toss of the night – coming with only 13.1 seconds left – gave her a new NCAA record ... Prochaska has made 67 consecutive free throws, breaking the NCAA Division-I mark set nearly two decades ago ... in addition to her 18 points, Prochaska had a game-high nine rebounds ... LaTeira Owens had 18 points to lead three Lady Toppers in double figures ... the Falcons did not trail during the game's first 29-plus minutes, but the hosts took the lead on a Keisha Mosley reverse layup with 10:37 left ... Pontius came right back with a three-pointer, beginning an 8-0 run, but the hosts battled back to take a 58-56 lead before another Pontius triple ... Uhl's three with 2:42 left gave the Falcons a 64-62 lead, and after a Mosley turnaround jumper, she found Prochaska for the layup that gave BG the lead for good with 58.3 seconds left ... Uhl then took a charge, and the Falcons would go 6-for-6 from the free-throw line in the final 30 seconds to seal the win.
A QUICK LOOK AT AUSTIN PEAY
Austin Peay has a record of 2-8 on the year, and the Lady Govs are 1-1 in Ohio Valley Conference play ... APSU is 0-2 at home, 1-5 on the road and 1-1 in neutral-site contests to date ... the Lady Govs dropped a 63-58 home decision to Lipscomb on Wednesday night (Dec. 8) ... the team's wins have come on the road vs. Southeast Missouri in the OVC opener (Dec. 2) and against Utah Valley in a neutral-site contest in the Preseason WNIT (Nov. 20) ... individually, junior guard Whitney Hanley leads the team in scoring, with 14.7 points per game ... Hanley also paces the Lady Govs in assists (3.2 apg) and steals (2.3 spg), and is second in rebounding (5.7 rpg) ... she has hit half of the team's three-point field goals this year to date, having made 23 ... junior F/C Jasmine Rayner has 10.2 ppg and a team-leading 6.7 rpg, while sophomore G/F Meghan Bussabarger has 9.1 ppg to date ... senior forward Dalila Thomas, a transfer from Western Kentucky, has 7.1 ppg and leads the Lady Govs with 1.3 blocks per outing ... Hanley has started all 10 games to date ... Bussabarger, Rayner, senior guard Darcie Warner (3.0 ppg, 2.0 apg) and freshman guard Nicole Olszewski (6.4 ppg, 2.6 apg) join her in the probable starting lineup for head coach Carrie Daniels ... Daniels, in her fifth season at her alma mater, welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 15-18 overall and 11-7 in OVC games ... the Lady Govs finished in third place in the regular-season standings, but won the OVC Tournament to advance to the NCAA Championships for the second-straight March ... the school's athletics web site is www.LetsGoPeay.com.
THE SERIES
BGSU and Austin Peay have never met in women's basketball ... the Falcons have an overall record of 10-7 against Ohio Valley Conference schools ... of the current OVC teams, the Falcons have faced Eastern Illinois (2-1), Eastern Kentucky (2-4), Morehead State (4-2), Southeast Missouri (1-0) and UT Martin (1-0) ... Curt Miller has a record of 4-1 vs. OVC foes in his head-coaching career.
HOLDING ON TO THE BALL
The Falcons have been successful at limiting turnovers this season ... as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Dec. 6), BGSU was sixth in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.6) ... after the win at WKU, that average has dropped to 13.2 ... in each of the Falcons' nine wins, the Falcons have committed fewer turnovers than the opponents ... BG and Evansville each coughed the ball up 19 times in the Falcons' lone loss, in the season opener ... since then, however, BGSU has committed 12.6 turnovers per game, with no more than 15 turnovers in any of the nine games ... in those nine games, the Falcons have forced the opponent into an average of 17.9 turnovers per contest ... BG has forced 15 or more opponent turnovers in eight of the nine games, including 19 or more in six of those contests.
UHL BE SWELL, UHL BE GREAT
Senior Jen Uhl had 13 points in the Falcons' win over Cal State Fullerton, her third consecutive game with a double-figure scoring total ... after scoring a total of 19 points over BG's first six games, Uhl has scored 54 in the last four (an average of 13.5 ppg in that time) ... she has more than doubled her season scoring average, from 3.2 ppg to 7.3 ppg, over that four-game span.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 9-1 this season to date; after going 27-7 last season and 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 14-2 in the MAC last winter, winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 215-81 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 108-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 206-62 overall in the eight years (plus 10 games) since Miller's assistant coaches have all been in place (associate head coach Jennifer Roos and assistant coach Brandi Poole have been on Miller's staff since his first year; assistant Kevin Eckert joined the staff one year later);
• 194-46 over the last seven-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 173-36 in the past six-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in each of the last six seasons;
• an eye-popping 150-28 overall and 73-7 in the MAC regular season in the last five-plus years, with at least 26 wins each year;
• 122-25 in the last four-plus years, including a 57-7 conference ledger;
• 91-21 overall, and 42-6 in MAC regular-season games, since seniors Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher began their respective playing careers at BGSU;
• 65-13 since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 36-8 in the BGSU playing careers of senior Maggie Hennegan and sophomores Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen (2009-10 was Hennegan's first playing season at BGSU, after she sat out the prior year as a transfer from Saint Louis Univ.);
• 91-9 in the last 100 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 50-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 177-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 49-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 165-26 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 129-12 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 34-3 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 30-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004;
• 5-13 in 13 national postseason appearances (including a 3-10 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips); and
• 4-6 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-4 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT).
THE FALCON SENIORS
BGSU has posted a record of 91-21 overall, and the Falcons are 42-6 in MAC regular-season games since Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher set foot on campus ... the team has won an average of 27.3 games per year to date ... the Falcons have made national postseason play in each of those three years, having gone to the NCAA once and the WNIT twice ... Maggie Hennegan joined that group for the 2009-10 season.
THE JUNIOR
The Falcons are 65-13 overall and 29-3 in the MAC since junior Jessica Slagle arrived in Northwest Ohio ... that stretch includes a 25-game winning streak in Slagle's freshman year ... redshirt sophomore Maribeth Giese has been at BGSU for those two seasons, but played in just two games a year ago before missing the rest of the year due to injury ... Giese and Slagle helped the Falcons to a total of 29 wins – the second-highest total in school and MAC history – during their freshman campaign of 2008-09
THE SOPHOMORES
Three sophomores have helped the Falcons to a 36-8 mark, with a 27-7 record a year ago and a 9-1 ledger this year to date ... that group includes Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen ... Danielle Havel is now a member of the sophomore class, having sat out the '09-10 season after transferring from DePaul Univ.
THE FRESHMEN
Three freshmen joined the Falcons for the 2010-11 season ... that list includes Jillian Halfhill (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield), Jill Stein (Clyde, Ohio/Tiffin Columbian) and Noelle Yoder (Millersburg, Ohio/Berlin Hiland) ... Alexis Rogers also joins the Brown and Orange this year, but will sit out the '10-11 season after transferring from Duke Univ.
CAPTAINS
Seniors Maggie Hennegan and Lauren Prochaska are the captains of the 2010-11 Falcons ... Hennegan is a captain for the second consecutive year ... she was chosen as a captain before ever playing her first game as a Falcon.
