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Saturday, September 18
Bowling Green, Ohio
9:00 AM
Bowling Green State University
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BGSU Invitational
Senior Christine Chiricosta and the Falcons open the 2010-11 season by hosting the BGSU Invitational
Falcons Open Season with This Weekend's BGSU Invitational
September 15, 2010 | Women's Tennis, Tennis
The Bowling Green State University tennis team begins the 2010-11 season this weekend, hosting the BGSU Invitational. The two-day, nine-team event will be held Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 18-19) at Keefe Courts on the BGSU campus. Admission is free.
Keefe Courts are located on Stadium Drive, between Steller Field (baseball) and the Meserve Softball Field. Some matches will be held at Bowling Green High School. Play begins at 9:00 a.m. each day.
Head coach Penny Dean enters her 21st season at the BGSU helm. She and the Falcons will host a tourney field that includes Cincinnati, Cleveland State, Detroit, IPFW, IUPUI, Toledo, Xavier and Youngstown State. Team scores will not be kept, but individual champions will be crowned at each of the singles and doubles flights.
Dean's eight-player roster includes two freshmen, four sophomores, just one junior and only one senior. That senior, Christine Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio), is the only Falcon with more than one year of collegiate experience.
Chiricosta, who has earned All-Mid-American Conference accolades in each of her first three seasons, is ranked in the top 15 on all three of the school's career wins list, and is within striking distance of the top spot on each chart. A two-time Academic All-America selection, she played at the top singles and doubles flights during all of last season, posting an overall mark of 43-18. In her first three years with the Falcons, Chiricosta has won two singles flight titles and one doubles crown at the BGSU Invitational, while advancing to the flight championships in both singles and doubles last year.
Junior Jessica Easdale (Dublin, Ohio) is back for her second full season after missing nearly all of her freshman year due to injury. She stepped into the lineup last year, and had an overall record of 29-17. Sophomores Maddy Eccleston (Toledo, Ohio), Katie Grubb (Elkhart, Ind.) and Jade Johnson (Fort Wayne, Ind.) are back for their sophomore campaigns, after gaining valuable experience in 2009-10.
Eccleston finished second on the team in wins in her first year on campus, with her overall record of 40-21 including a team-high 22 doubles victories. Grubb and Johnson, both natives of Indiana, each saw the lion's share of time in the lineup last season, and combined for a total of 55 victories.
The roster also includes another Indiana native in sophomore Mary Hill (Munster, Ind.). Hill begins her first season at BGSU after posting an overall mark of 41-18 as a freshman at Coastal Carolina University last year. She had an 18-4 singles record in dual-match play.
Freshmen Nikki Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio) and Emily Reuland (Oswego, Ill.) round out the squad for Dean and assistant coach Cindy Yonker. Nikki Chiricosta, the younger sister of Christine Chiricosta, went a perfect 54-0 in conference matches during her high-school career and teamed with her older sibling to win a state doubles title in 2006.
Reuland, a four-time state tournament qualifier in Illinois, capped off her career by going 32-3 and reaching the round of 16 in the state tourney a year ago.
The BGSU Invitational is the first of three tourneys on the Falcons' fall schedule. BGSU will venture to East Lansing, Mich., for the Spartan Invite on Sept. 24-26, and will make the short trip north to the Glass City for Toledo's Rocket Invitational on Oct. 8-9. Additionally, selected team members will participate in the ITA Midwest Regional in Ann Arbor, Mich., in late October.
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Keefe Courts are located on Stadium Drive, between Steller Field (baseball) and the Meserve Softball Field. Some matches will be held at Bowling Green High School. Play begins at 9:00 a.m. each day.
Head coach Penny Dean enters her 21st season at the BGSU helm. She and the Falcons will host a tourney field that includes Cincinnati, Cleveland State, Detroit, IPFW, IUPUI, Toledo, Xavier and Youngstown State. Team scores will not be kept, but individual champions will be crowned at each of the singles and doubles flights.
Dean's eight-player roster includes two freshmen, four sophomores, just one junior and only one senior. That senior, Christine Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio), is the only Falcon with more than one year of collegiate experience.
Chiricosta, who has earned All-Mid-American Conference accolades in each of her first three seasons, is ranked in the top 15 on all three of the school's career wins list, and is within striking distance of the top spot on each chart. A two-time Academic All-America selection, she played at the top singles and doubles flights during all of last season, posting an overall mark of 43-18. In her first three years with the Falcons, Chiricosta has won two singles flight titles and one doubles crown at the BGSU Invitational, while advancing to the flight championships in both singles and doubles last year.
Junior Jessica Easdale (Dublin, Ohio) is back for her second full season after missing nearly all of her freshman year due to injury. She stepped into the lineup last year, and had an overall record of 29-17. Sophomores Maddy Eccleston (Toledo, Ohio), Katie Grubb (Elkhart, Ind.) and Jade Johnson (Fort Wayne, Ind.) are back for their sophomore campaigns, after gaining valuable experience in 2009-10.
Eccleston finished second on the team in wins in her first year on campus, with her overall record of 40-21 including a team-high 22 doubles victories. Grubb and Johnson, both natives of Indiana, each saw the lion's share of time in the lineup last season, and combined for a total of 55 victories.
The roster also includes another Indiana native in sophomore Mary Hill (Munster, Ind.). Hill begins her first season at BGSU after posting an overall mark of 41-18 as a freshman at Coastal Carolina University last year. She had an 18-4 singles record in dual-match play.
Freshmen Nikki Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio) and Emily Reuland (Oswego, Ill.) round out the squad for Dean and assistant coach Cindy Yonker. Nikki Chiricosta, the younger sister of Christine Chiricosta, went a perfect 54-0 in conference matches during her high-school career and teamed with her older sibling to win a state doubles title in 2006.
Reuland, a four-time state tournament qualifier in Illinois, capped off her career by going 32-3 and reaching the round of 16 in the state tourney a year ago.
The BGSU Invitational is the first of three tourneys on the Falcons' fall schedule. BGSU will venture to East Lansing, Mich., for the Spartan Invite on Sept. 24-26, and will make the short trip north to the Glass City for Toledo's Rocket Invitational on Oct. 8-9. Additionally, selected team members will participate in the ITA Midwest Regional in Ann Arbor, Mich., in late October.
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