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Falcons Face MSU, UC This Weekend
February 03, 2011 | Women's Tennis
The Bowling Green State University tennis team is preparing for another busy weekend of action. The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean will put a four-match winning streak on the line with a Friday (Feb. 4) match against Michigan State University. Then, BGSU will return to Northwest Ohio for a Saturday (Feb. 5) dual against the University of Cincinnati.
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Friday's MSU match is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility. Saturday's UC match will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Perrysburg Tennis Center.
The Falcons opened dual-match play by dropping a 7-0 decision at Louisville two weekends ago. But, BGSU has bounced back with four consecutive victories. After posting a 6-1 triumph over West Virginia, the Brown and Orange picked up three 7-0 wins last weekend. BG topped Cleveland State at the PTC, then headed to Indianapolis and picked up wins over IUPUI and Butler.
Senior Christine Chiricosta won five total matches last weekend, in the process breaking the BGSU career record for combined wins. The co-captain enters weekend action with 154 combined career victories, having topped Deidee Bissinger's old mark. Bissinger had 153 wins during her career, which spanned from 1997-2000.
Three of Chiricosta's teammates - sophomore Mary Hill and freshmen Nikki Chiricosta and Emily Reuland - each went a perfect 6-0 in last weekend's matches. Hill has won four-straight matches at the second singles flight, and teamed with sophomore Katie Grubb for wins in each of the last four duals as well.
Nikki Chiricosta has won her last four matches at the third singles flight, while Reuland has captured four-straight wins at the fourth flight. The two frosh have teamed up to post a perfect 5-0 record at the second doubles flight in dual-match play this spring.
On the year, Nikki Chiricosta has a team-best 16-3 singles record, while Christine Chiricosta is 14-4. Three Falcons - Hill, Reuland and sophomore Maddy Eccleston - are 13-5 in singles play this season.
The Spartans enter the BGSU match with a 2-1 record. MSU opened dual-match play with 7-0 wins over IPFW and Detroit two weeks ago (Jan. 23), but dropped a narrow 4-3 decision to Akron last Friday (Jan. 28). Last season, the Spartans posted an overall dual-match record of 7-17 and a 1-9 Big Ten Conference ledger.
Cincinnati will enter the match against the Falcons with a dual-match record of 0-4. The Bearcats have played three Big Ten teams - Purdue, Ohio State and Indiana - all on the road. UC's other match was a 5-2 loss to MAC champion Miami. Last year, the Bearcats posted an 11-13 mark in dual matches.
The Falcons trail Michigan State, 14-1, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Spartans have won nine-straight meetings since BGSU's lone series win, in the 1999-2000 season. The Falcons and Spartans have met in East Lansing in 11 of the last 12 seasons, and all but one of the 15 total series meetings have been at MSU. The teams have not met in Ohio since the 1985-86 season. Last year, MSU picked up a 5-2 win in East Lansing (Feb. 13, 2010).
The Falcons lead Cincinnati, 18-10, in that series, including a 7-0 win at the PTC two years ago (Feb. 8, 2009). Last season, the Falcons headed to the Queen City and posted a 5-2 win (Jan. 23, 2010). BGSU has won three consecutive series meetings, after UC had taken six of the previous seven duals. BGSU is 10-3 at home, 5-7 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site matches (one early BG-UC match is site unknown). The Falcons are 10-8 against the 'Cats during Dean's head-coaching tenure.
Following this weekend's action, the Falcons will head to Indiana for one match next weekend. BG will travel to Fort Wayne for a match vs. IPFW on Saturday, Feb. 12.
