Falcon Tennis Wrapup: BGSU Ends 2009-10 Season at 12-10

FALCONS' SEASON COMES TO AN END
BGSU Ends 2009-10 Campaign with 12-10 Dual-Match Record

THIS WEEK
The Bowling Green State University tennis team has seen the 2009-10 season come to an end ... the Falcons of head coach Penny Dean finished with a 12-10 overall record in dual matches and a 2-6 mark in Mid-American Conference regular-season play ... the Brown and Orange tied for sixth place in the league standings, and received the seventh seed for the MAC Championships ... BGSU was knocked out of the league championships by second-seeded Akron in the quarterfinal round last weekend (April 30).

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LAST TIME OUT
Second-seeded Akron posted a 4-1 win over the BGSU tennis team last Friday afternoon (April 30), knocking the Falcons out of the MAC Championships ... the quarterfinal-round match was held at Sorensen Courts on the campus of Western Michigan Univ. ... UA picked up the doubles point with wins at the top-two flights to begin the match ... in singles play, freshman Katie Grubb's match was the first to finish ... in her MAC Championships singles debut, Grubb lost just three games in a straight-sets sweep of Carolina Castro Cota at the sixth flight (6-3, 6-0) ... but, the Zips had won the opening set at each of the other five flights, and UA closed out three of those matches to reach four points and seal the victory ... the match marked the final collegiate action for senior co-captains Katia Babina and Samantha Kintzel.

CHIRICOSTA NAMED TO ALL-MAC FIRST TEAM
Junior Christine Chiricosta was named to the All-MAC Team for the third time in as many years as a Falcon ... the Avon Lake, Ohio, native earned first-team honors in 2010 after being named to the all-conference second team in each of her first two years ... she led the Falcons in singles and overall wins this season ... her 43-18 overall mark included a 22-9 singles ledger and a 21-9 doubles slate ... her overall win total tied her for the 10th-highest single-season victory count in school history.

THANKS, SENIORS
As mentioned, the Akron match marked the final collegiate contest for BGSU senior co-captains Katia Babina and Samantha Kintzel ... that duo combined for 272 career wins, and helped the Falcons to a total of 53 wins during their four-year tenure ... the win total is the third highest in a four-year span in school history, falling just two shy of the BGSU record ... that record of 55 wins was set by the senior class of 2007-08 (Jenna Nussbaum and Andrea Volle) and matched by last year's seniors (Libby Harrison, Kelsey Jakupcin and Stefanie Menoff).

THE FALCONS' 2009-10 MAC WEEKLY AWARDS
Several members of the Falcons collected multiple weekly awards from the Mid-American Conference office this spring ... junior Christine Chiricosta was named the MAC player of the Week on March 17, and picked up the MAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week three times this season (Jan. 22, Feb. 19 and April 2) ... senior Katia Babina was named the MAC Player of the Week on both Feb. 3 and March 3.

KINTZEL, KATIA KOMPLETE KAREERS
Senior co-captains Samantha Kintzel and Katia Babina, as mentioned, have wrapped up their collegiate playing careers ... Kintzel posted a total of 142 combined career wins, ranking sixth in BGSU history ... she had 70 doubles wins to tie for eighth in school history, and picked up 72 singles victories, the 11th-highest total in BG annals ... Babina finished in 11th place with a total of 130 victories ... she is also 11th in doubles wins (66) and is tied for 14th on the singles wins list (64).

CHIRICOSTA MOVING UP CAREER LISTS
Junior Christine Chiricosta is moving up BGSU's various career lists as well, and is within striking distance of the school records in all three categories ... Chiricosta ends the 2009-10 season with 128 combined career wins, tying her for 12th in school history ... she has 64 singles wins (T-14th) and 64 doubles wins (12th) over her first three years ... Chiricosta is 17 singles wins, 20 doubles wins and 25 overall victories from matching those respective school records ... she has had at least 39 total wins in each of her first three seasons.

DOUBLE YOUR FUN
Junior Christine Chiricosta teamed with freshman Maddy Eccleston to post a 6-2 record in MAC regular-season matches at the number-one doubles flight this season ... in her career, Chiricosta has played doubles in 59 dual matches, seeing action at the top flight in 58 ... she has a career record of 42-16 overall in duals at the number-one doubles flight, including a mark of 17-6 in MAC regular-season action ... Chiricosta played one doubles match at flight number two as a sophomore.

DOUBLE YOUR FUN II
BGSU went 6-2 in MAC doubles action at both the first and third flights during the regular season ... at the third level, freshman Katie Grubb was a part of all eight matches ... she went 3-1 with both senior Samantha Kintzel and sophomore Jessica Easdale ... Kintzel had an overall record of 5-3 in MAC doubles play, competing with classmate Katia Babina at the second flight in four matches (2-2).

DOUBLE YOUR FUN III
The Falcons picked up the doubles point in 14 of this season's 22 dual matches, including in five of the eight MAC matches ... over the last three years, BGSU has won the doubles point in 43 of 61 matches.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU concluded the regular season with a record of 12-10 in dual matches, and the Falcons finished MAC play with a 2-6 mark ... BG tied for sixth place in the final regular-season standings, and the Falcons were the seventh seed for the MAC Championships ... BGSU fell to second-seeded Akron, 4-1, in the league tourney's quarterfinal round ... the Falcons were 5-4 at home, 4-5 on the road and 3-1 in neutral-site contests ... in the home matches, BG went 0-2 at Keefe Courts and 5-2 at the Perrysburg Tennis Center ... the neutral-site matches saw the Falcons defeat Morehead State (in Louisville, Ky.), South Dakota and Temple (both in Orlando, Fla.), prior to the UA match.

Junior Christine Chiricosta, who earned All-MAC honors for the third consecutive season, had a 15-7 record at singles and a 16-6 mark in doubles in dual-match play this season ... she played at the number-one flight in both, teaming with freshman Maddy Eccleston in doubles play ... Chiricosta's overall total of 43 wins this year led the team and tied her for 10th in BGSU history ... she also paced BG in singles wins, with a 22-9 mark this year.

Senior co-captains Katia Babina and Samantha Kintzel played at the second and third singles flights all season ... Babina was at the second flight and Kintzel at the third for the first 20 duals ... they switched spots in the lineup for the final regular-season match and the MAC Championships quarterfinal-round contest ... Babina was 12-10 in dual matches, and went 4-4 in MAC play ... Kintzel finished with a record of 11-10 in duals this year.

Eccleston was 12-9 in duals, primarily at the fourth flight ... she played at the fifth level in each of the last seven matches (her MAC Championships singles match was unfinished) ... sophomore Jessica Easdale had a 10-8 record in duals, including a 6-3 mark at the fifth level and a 2-0 record in sixth-flight play ... Easdale played each of the final seven contests at flight number four ... freshmen Katie Grubb and Jade Johnson each saw time at the fifth and sixth flights in dual action, with Grubb holding down the sixth flight for most of MAC play ... Grubb picked up the Falcons' lone point in the tourney match, with a straight-sets victory vs. UA at the sixth singles flight.

In doubles, the Chiricosta/Eccleston duo was 16-6 at the top flight, and went 6-2 in MAC play, while Babina and Johnson had a 10-7 mark in second-flight play ... Kintzel teamed with Grubb (7-5 in duals) and Easdale (2-2) at the third flight in dual-match action for much of the spring ... but, the two senior co-captains teamed up at the second doubles flight for each of the last five matches, while Easdale and Grubb played together at the third flight during that stretch ... head coach Penny Dean's eight-player roster included four returnees from a year ago and four newcomers to Division-I tennis.

A FEW MORE FALCON NOTES
The Falcons recorded at least 10 dual-match victories for the eighth consecutive season, extending the school record ... prior to the current streak, the longest string of double-digit win totals was four-straight seasons, on two prior occasions (1988-92 and 1996-2000) ... additionally, the Falcons finished with a winning streak for the sixth-straight season, extending that school record ... the current streak breaks the old mark of four consecutive winning seasons (originally set from 1974-75 through 1977-78, and matched from 1996-97 through 1999-2000).

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2010-11
Six of the eight players on Falcon head coach Penny Dean's roster are slated to return next season ... Christine Chiricosta and transfer Mary-Catherine Beck will be seniors in 2010-11 ... the '09-10 campaign marked Beck's first in Northwest Ohio, as she played her first two seasons at Mount Union College before transferring to BG ... Jessica Easdale will be the team's lone returning junior, while Maddy Eccleston, Katie Grubb and Jade Johnson each will be rising sophomores in 2010-11 ... Dean announced the signings of Nikki Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio/Avon Lake HS) – Christine's younger sister – and Emily Reuland (Oswego, Ill./Rosary HS) during the November signing period.

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