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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, September 3
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Madeline Wideman and her fellow freshmen make their first collegiate road trip this weekend
Falcons Head to Western New York
August 31, 2010 | Women's Soccer
BGSU faces Niagara, St. Bonaventure this weekend
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team takes to the road for the first time this season ... the Falcons of head coach Andy Richards head to Western New York for a pair of matches this weekend, facing Niagara University on Friday evening (Sept. 3), and taking on Saint Bonaventure Universitiy on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 5) ... Friday's match will begin at 7:00 p.m. at Niagara Field ... Sunday's match starts at 1:00 p.m. at SBU's McGraw-Jennings Field.
BGSU Release & Stats | Mid-American Conference Release & Stats
LIVE STATISTICS
Again in 2010, all BGSU home women's soccer matches, and most away contests, will have live statistics available on the web ... if you can't make it to Cochrane Field for the Falcons' home games, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com ... additionally, each of this weekend's matches will have live stats, and those links will be available on BGSUFalcons.com as well ... the live stats links can be found on the front page of the site (in the 'schedule' section) or by clicking on the women's soccer 2010 schedule and choosing the corresponding match.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches at Cochrane Field over the weekend, falling to West Virginia, 3-0, on Friday (Aug. 27), then losing a 3-2 decision to Xavier on Sunday (Aug. 29) ... on Friday, a WVU goal exactly 20 minutes into the match gave the visitors the lead for good, and the Mountaineers put the game away with a pair of second-half goals ... Sunday's back-and-forth game saw Xavier take a 1-0 lead into the half, but junior Katelyn Turner tied the score just 26 seconds into the second half ... senior Katie Stephenson scored to give the Falcons the lead less than eight minutes later ... but, an own goal enabled XU to tie the score, and the visitors got the eventual winning goal on a BG defensive breakdown in the 77th minute ... redshirt sophomore Becca Ison and true soph Laura Arnold split time in goal in each match ... senior Alicia Almond, a co-captain along with Stephenson, had assists on both of BGSU's goals vs. XU.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU is 0-3-0 on the young season ... the Falcons have faced a pair of Big East Conference opponents and an Atlantic 10 Conference foe to date, losing to Cincinnati, West Virginia and Xavier ... junior Alyssa Zuccaro leads the team with three points on the year, while classmate Katelyn Turner and senior co-captains Alicia Almond and Katie Stephenson have two points apiece ... Stephenson, Turner and Zuccaro each have one goal this fall, while Almond leads the team with two assists ... each of the team's three goalkeepers – fifth-year senior Alexa Arsenault, redshirt sophomore Becca Ison and true sophomore Laura Arnold – have started one match to date ... Ison has played 147 of the team's 282 minutes to date, and has seven saves ... Arnold has five stops in 90 minutes of action, while Arsenault has played 45 minutes and made two saves ... head coach Andy Richards, in his 11th season at the helm, welcomed back a total of 17 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's club ... BGSU's returning players combined for over 81 percent of the team's goals and 76% of the assists a year ago ... eight of the top-nine scorers returned from a year ago ... junior Megan Amann paced the Falcons with nine points last fall, including two goals and a team-high five assists ... Turner and Zuccaro scored eight and seven points, respectively, during their sophomore campaigns ... Turner tied for the team lead with three goals ... sophomore Keely Chandler also had three goals in her initial season at BGSU ... additionally, all three goalkeepers return from last season's roster ... Arsenault started 17 of the Falcons' 20 matches between the posts last fall, while Arnold made three starts.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 11th season at the helm, has proven himself to be one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... he has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 98-99-22, and a record of 53-49-12 in MAC regular-season play ... in his first 10 years in BG, Richards led the Falcons to the MAC Tournament on eight occasions, leading the team to the semifinals seven times ... BGSU is 10-5-5 in MAC Tournament matches during his tenure, and no coach has more trips to the league tourney title game than 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 ... a native of Warwick, England, Richards earned his Bachelor of Education degree from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1989 ... he received his Master of Education degree from Oregon State in 1997.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 117-133-26 in the history of the program, which began in 1997;
• 51-47-12 overall in the last five seasons (plus three matches);
• 60-66-16 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 40-28-11 vs. MAC schools over the last six seasons (including regular-season & tourney matches), and 32-23-9 vs. league foes in the last five years;
• 61-56-11 at home, and 31-17-5 at Cochrane Field in the last five-plus seasons;
• 12-6-3 at Cochrane since the start of the '08 season;
• 48-67-13 in road contests in program history;
• 8-10-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 46-51-9 in the month of September through the years;
• 0-4-0 in games played on Sept. 3 in the history of the program;
• 0-2-0 in road matches on that date, having not played a road game on Sept. 3 since 1999 (the two road losses came at Dayton [0-5] in 1997 and at Georgia [0-1] in 1999);
• 2-3-0 in Sept. 5 matches;
• 1-1-0 in away games on that date (a 2-0 loss at Eastern Illinois in 2004, and a 4-0 victory at IPFW two years ago);
• 47-1-2 in the last 50 games when scoring first (17-0-1 since the start of the 2008 season); and
• 0-21-3 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
THE PURPLE EAGLES / THE BGSU-NU SERIES
Niagara enters the BGSU match with a record of 2-0-0 on the young season ... last weekend, the Purple Eagles went to Philadelphia and won a pair of matches in the Owl Eyes Classic ... NU downed host Temple, 2-1, before topping Drexel by a 1-0 count ... three different players scored goals for the Purple Eagles, while senior Ashleigh Bowers surrendered just one goal in 180 minutes in net ... one of the goalscorers, freshman Danielle Kennedy, was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week on Monday (Aug. 30) ... Bowers and junior Jen Kimoto joined Kennedy on the all-tourney team at Temple ... NU was picked to finish fourth in the MAAC in 2010 ... head coach Peter Veltri welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's club ... the 2009 team went 10-10-1 overall and 4-5-0 in the MAAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.PurpleEagles.com.
The Falcons lead Niagara, 1-0-0, in the all-time series between the teams ... the lone prior meeting came over a decade ago (Sept. 12, 1999), and saw BGSU post a 2-0 win at Cochrane Field ... the Falcons had no fewer than 46 shot attempts in that game, a total that still stands as the school record ... despite a 46-4 advantage in shots, BGSU did not take the lead until the 82:02 mark ... the Falcons added a goal in the final minute of play.
THE BONNIES / THE BGSU-SBU SERIES
St. Bonaventure is 1-2-0 on the year ... the Bonnies opened the season with a 3-2 home win over Bucknell, but lost on the road vs. DePaul (0-1) and Purdue (1-4) last weekend ... senior Courtney Bosse leads the team in scoring, with two goals and five points, while sophomore Kathryn Kerkman has started all three matches in goal ... Kerkman has 11 saves and a 1.81 goals-against average ... last year, the Bonnies went 10-11-0 overall and 7-4-0 in the Atlantic 10, setting a program record for conference wins ... head coach Manoj Khettry welcomed back all but one starter from that club ... 100 percent of the Bonnies' scoring returns from a season ago ... the school's athletics web site is www.GoBonnies.com.
The Falcons and Bonnies are tied, 1-1-0, in that series ... BGSU won a 2-0 decision over SBU, in the first game in the Andy Richards Era ... that match, played on Aug. 25, 2000, was part of the Kent Classic in Kent, Ohio ... last year, however, the Bonnies came to Cochrane Field and dealt the Falcons a 1-0 loss (Sept. 11, 2009) ... that loss snapped BGSU's school-record home unbeaten streak at 11 matches ... Shannon Van Riper scored the Bonnies' goal in the 17th minute, off of a corner kick ... Kathryn Kerkman made seven saves to earn the shutout for SBU.
QUICK STRIKE
Junior Katelyn Turner scored just 26 seconds into the second half of Sunday's (Aug. 29) Xavier match ... that ranks fourth on the BGSU list of fastest goals to begin a half ... the record is 19 seconds, set by Corbie Yee the last time the Falcons played XU (Sept. 21, 2008) ... Yee's goal came in the first half of that win ... BG has scored just 22 seconds into the second half on two occasions (Jamie Eshleman vs. Kent State, Oct. 17, 1997; Kristy Coppes at Central Michigan, Oct. 11, 2002).
HELPING OUT
Senior co-captain Alicia Almond had the first two-assist game of her career, with helpers on both of the Falcons' goals against Xavier ... additionally, it was the first two-assist contest by a Falcon since Leah Johnson had a pair of assists in BGSU's win at Detroit last Sept. 4.
A HISTORY OF BOUNCING BACK
The Falcons are off to an 0-3 start for the first time since 2003 ... that '03 squad began the regular season with four consecutive losses, but bounced back to advance all the way to the championship match of the MAC Tournament.
FALCON NOTES
Junior Katelyn Turner's goal was the seventh of her BGSU career ... she is second among active Falcons on that career list, trailing only classmate Alyssa Zuccaro (eight) ... Turner now has 16 career points, fourth among current BGSU players ... senior co-captain Katie Stephenson's goal on Sunday was the sixth of her career, ranking her third among current Falcons ... Stephenson now has 18 career points, the third-highest career total of the 2010 team members ... Zuccaro and fellow junior Megan Amann are at the top of the BG's active career scoring list with 21 points apiece ... Zuccaro's assist on Sunday afternoon vs. XU was the fifth of her BGSU career ... redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Becca Ison has seen time in goal in all three matches this season to date ... Ison has played a total of 147:18 in 2010 ... she has nearly matched her totals for all of last season ... in '09, Ison was in net for just under 159 minutes, playing in four matches ... BGSU's youth is evident in a scan of the team's boxscores this season to date ... seven of the team's 11 starters in Friday's (Aug. 27) West Virginia match had made five or fewer career starts heading into that contest ... two of those players, Ison and freshman Kylie Briem, were making their first collegiate starts ... Briem was one of three Falcon players to play all 90 minutes vs. WVU, joining senior co-captains Stephenson and Alicia Almond ... freshman Ashley Miller saw her first playing time as a Falcon in that match, getting 20 minutes of work ... the Falcons wore brown uniforms for the first 5:56 of the WVU contest ... after play was stopped for a conversation among the officials, however, it was decided that BG's brown jerseys were too similar in color to WVU's navy blue shirts ... the Falcon players switched to white jerseys for the remainder of the match.
THE 2010 CAPTAINS
Seniors Alicia Almond and Katie Stephenson are the co-captains of the 2010 women's soccer Falcons.
BGSU Release & Stats | Mid-American Conference Release & Stats
LIVE STATISTICS
Again in 2010, all BGSU home women's soccer matches, and most away contests, will have live statistics available on the web ... if you can't make it to Cochrane Field for the Falcons' home games, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com ... additionally, each of this weekend's matches will have live stats, and those links will be available on BGSUFalcons.com as well ... the live stats links can be found on the front page of the site (in the 'schedule' section) or by clicking on the women's soccer 2010 schedule and choosing the corresponding match.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches at Cochrane Field over the weekend, falling to West Virginia, 3-0, on Friday (Aug. 27), then losing a 3-2 decision to Xavier on Sunday (Aug. 29) ... on Friday, a WVU goal exactly 20 minutes into the match gave the visitors the lead for good, and the Mountaineers put the game away with a pair of second-half goals ... Sunday's back-and-forth game saw Xavier take a 1-0 lead into the half, but junior Katelyn Turner tied the score just 26 seconds into the second half ... senior Katie Stephenson scored to give the Falcons the lead less than eight minutes later ... but, an own goal enabled XU to tie the score, and the visitors got the eventual winning goal on a BG defensive breakdown in the 77th minute ... redshirt sophomore Becca Ison and true soph Laura Arnold split time in goal in each match ... senior Alicia Almond, a co-captain along with Stephenson, had assists on both of BGSU's goals vs. XU.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU is 0-3-0 on the young season ... the Falcons have faced a pair of Big East Conference opponents and an Atlantic 10 Conference foe to date, losing to Cincinnati, West Virginia and Xavier ... junior Alyssa Zuccaro leads the team with three points on the year, while classmate Katelyn Turner and senior co-captains Alicia Almond and Katie Stephenson have two points apiece ... Stephenson, Turner and Zuccaro each have one goal this fall, while Almond leads the team with two assists ... each of the team's three goalkeepers – fifth-year senior Alexa Arsenault, redshirt sophomore Becca Ison and true sophomore Laura Arnold – have started one match to date ... Ison has played 147 of the team's 282 minutes to date, and has seven saves ... Arnold has five stops in 90 minutes of action, while Arsenault has played 45 minutes and made two saves ... head coach Andy Richards, in his 11th season at the helm, welcomed back a total of 17 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's club ... BGSU's returning players combined for over 81 percent of the team's goals and 76% of the assists a year ago ... eight of the top-nine scorers returned from a year ago ... junior Megan Amann paced the Falcons with nine points last fall, including two goals and a team-high five assists ... Turner and Zuccaro scored eight and seven points, respectively, during their sophomore campaigns ... Turner tied for the team lead with three goals ... sophomore Keely Chandler also had three goals in her initial season at BGSU ... additionally, all three goalkeepers return from last season's roster ... Arsenault started 17 of the Falcons' 20 matches between the posts last fall, while Arnold made three starts.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, in his 11th season at the helm, has proven himself to be one of the most successful mentors in MAC women's soccer history ... he has guided the Falcons to an overall record of 98-99-22, and a record of 53-49-12 in MAC regular-season play ... in his first 10 years in BG, Richards led the Falcons to the MAC Tournament on eight occasions, leading the team to the semifinals seven times ... BGSU is 10-5-5 in MAC Tournament matches during his tenure, and no coach has more trips to the league tourney title game than 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 ... a native of Warwick, England, Richards earned his Bachelor of Education degree from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1989 ... he received his Master of Education degree from Oregon State in 1997.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 117-133-26 in the history of the program, which began in 1997;
• 51-47-12 overall in the last five seasons (plus three matches);
• 60-66-16 in Mid-American Conference regular-season matches;
• 40-28-11 vs. MAC schools over the last six seasons (including regular-season & tourney matches), and 32-23-9 vs. league foes in the last five years;
• 61-56-11 at home, and 31-17-5 at Cochrane Field in the last five-plus seasons;
• 12-6-3 at Cochrane since the start of the '08 season;
• 48-67-13 in road contests in program history;
• 8-10-2 all-time in neutral-site matches;
• 46-51-9 in the month of September through the years;
• 0-4-0 in games played on Sept. 3 in the history of the program;
• 0-2-0 in road matches on that date, having not played a road game on Sept. 3 since 1999 (the two road losses came at Dayton [0-5] in 1997 and at Georgia [0-1] in 1999);
• 2-3-0 in Sept. 5 matches;
• 1-1-0 in away games on that date (a 2-0 loss at Eastern Illinois in 2004, and a 4-0 victory at IPFW two years ago);
• 47-1-2 in the last 50 games when scoring first (17-0-1 since the start of the 2008 season); and
• 0-21-3 since the start of 2008 in matches in which the opponent scored first.
THE PURPLE EAGLES / THE BGSU-NU SERIES
Niagara enters the BGSU match with a record of 2-0-0 on the young season ... last weekend, the Purple Eagles went to Philadelphia and won a pair of matches in the Owl Eyes Classic ... NU downed host Temple, 2-1, before topping Drexel by a 1-0 count ... three different players scored goals for the Purple Eagles, while senior Ashleigh Bowers surrendered just one goal in 180 minutes in net ... one of the goalscorers, freshman Danielle Kennedy, was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week on Monday (Aug. 30) ... Bowers and junior Jen Kimoto joined Kennedy on the all-tourney team at Temple ... NU was picked to finish fourth in the MAAC in 2010 ... head coach Peter Veltri welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's club ... the 2009 team went 10-10-1 overall and 4-5-0 in the MAAC ... the school's athletics web site is www.PurpleEagles.com.
The Falcons lead Niagara, 1-0-0, in the all-time series between the teams ... the lone prior meeting came over a decade ago (Sept. 12, 1999), and saw BGSU post a 2-0 win at Cochrane Field ... the Falcons had no fewer than 46 shot attempts in that game, a total that still stands as the school record ... despite a 46-4 advantage in shots, BGSU did not take the lead until the 82:02 mark ... the Falcons added a goal in the final minute of play.
THE BONNIES / THE BGSU-SBU SERIES
St. Bonaventure is 1-2-0 on the year ... the Bonnies opened the season with a 3-2 home win over Bucknell, but lost on the road vs. DePaul (0-1) and Purdue (1-4) last weekend ... senior Courtney Bosse leads the team in scoring, with two goals and five points, while sophomore Kathryn Kerkman has started all three matches in goal ... Kerkman has 11 saves and a 1.81 goals-against average ... last year, the Bonnies went 10-11-0 overall and 7-4-0 in the Atlantic 10, setting a program record for conference wins ... head coach Manoj Khettry welcomed back all but one starter from that club ... 100 percent of the Bonnies' scoring returns from a season ago ... the school's athletics web site is www.GoBonnies.com.
The Falcons and Bonnies are tied, 1-1-0, in that series ... BGSU won a 2-0 decision over SBU, in the first game in the Andy Richards Era ... that match, played on Aug. 25, 2000, was part of the Kent Classic in Kent, Ohio ... last year, however, the Bonnies came to Cochrane Field and dealt the Falcons a 1-0 loss (Sept. 11, 2009) ... that loss snapped BGSU's school-record home unbeaten streak at 11 matches ... Shannon Van Riper scored the Bonnies' goal in the 17th minute, off of a corner kick ... Kathryn Kerkman made seven saves to earn the shutout for SBU.
QUICK STRIKE
Junior Katelyn Turner scored just 26 seconds into the second half of Sunday's (Aug. 29) Xavier match ... that ranks fourth on the BGSU list of fastest goals to begin a half ... the record is 19 seconds, set by Corbie Yee the last time the Falcons played XU (Sept. 21, 2008) ... Yee's goal came in the first half of that win ... BG has scored just 22 seconds into the second half on two occasions (Jamie Eshleman vs. Kent State, Oct. 17, 1997; Kristy Coppes at Central Michigan, Oct. 11, 2002).
HELPING OUT
Senior co-captain Alicia Almond had the first two-assist game of her career, with helpers on both of the Falcons' goals against Xavier ... additionally, it was the first two-assist contest by a Falcon since Leah Johnson had a pair of assists in BGSU's win at Detroit last Sept. 4.
A HISTORY OF BOUNCING BACK
The Falcons are off to an 0-3 start for the first time since 2003 ... that '03 squad began the regular season with four consecutive losses, but bounced back to advance all the way to the championship match of the MAC Tournament.
FALCON NOTES
Junior Katelyn Turner's goal was the seventh of her BGSU career ... she is second among active Falcons on that career list, trailing only classmate Alyssa Zuccaro (eight) ... Turner now has 16 career points, fourth among current BGSU players ... senior co-captain Katie Stephenson's goal on Sunday was the sixth of her career, ranking her third among current Falcons ... Stephenson now has 18 career points, the third-highest career total of the 2010 team members ... Zuccaro and fellow junior Megan Amann are at the top of the BG's active career scoring list with 21 points apiece ... Zuccaro's assist on Sunday afternoon vs. XU was the fifth of her BGSU career ... redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Becca Ison has seen time in goal in all three matches this season to date ... Ison has played a total of 147:18 in 2010 ... she has nearly matched her totals for all of last season ... in '09, Ison was in net for just under 159 minutes, playing in four matches ... BGSU's youth is evident in a scan of the team's boxscores this season to date ... seven of the team's 11 starters in Friday's (Aug. 27) West Virginia match had made five or fewer career starts heading into that contest ... two of those players, Ison and freshman Kylie Briem, were making their first collegiate starts ... Briem was one of three Falcon players to play all 90 minutes vs. WVU, joining senior co-captains Stephenson and Alicia Almond ... freshman Ashley Miller saw her first playing time as a Falcon in that match, getting 20 minutes of work ... the Falcons wore brown uniforms for the first 5:56 of the WVU contest ... after play was stopped for a conversation among the officials, however, it was decided that BG's brown jerseys were too similar in color to WVU's navy blue shirts ... the Falcon players switched to white jerseys for the remainder of the match.
THE 2010 CAPTAINS
Seniors Alicia Almond and Katie Stephenson are the co-captains of the 2010 women's soccer Falcons.
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