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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Sunday, August 28
Bowling Green, Ohio
1:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Detroit
Sophomore Ashley Miller and the Falcons open the home schedule with Sunday's match vs. Detroit
Falcons Begin Home Schedule vs. Detroit Sunday
August 25, 2011 | Women's Soccer
BGSU hosts Titans in 1:00 pm start at Cochrane Field
The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team begins the home portion of the 2011 schedule this weekend. The Falcons of head coach Andy Richards host the University of Detroit Mercy in Sunday (Aug. 28) action, with kickoff scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Cochrane Field. Admission to all BGSU home soccer matches is free.
FALCONS vs. DETROIT
Sunday, August 28, 2011 • 1:00 p.m.
VENUE: Cochrane Field; Bowling Green, Ohio
RECORDS:
• BGSU: 0-2-0 (4-12-4, 2-6-3 MAC in 2010)
• Detroit: 1-1-0 (8-7-5, 4-2-2 Horizon League in 2010) – UDM plays at IUPUI on Friday
SERIES*: Detroit leads, 4-3-0 | STREAK: BGSU - 2
LAST MEETING: BGSU 4, at Detroit 0 (Sept. 4, 2009)
LAST MEETING AT BGSU: at BGSU 4, Detroit 0 (Sept. 19, 2008)
COACHES:
• BGSU: Andy Richards (Sheffield City Polytechnic [England], '89), 102-110-26 in 12th year at BGSU and overall; 55-55-15 in MAC matches
• Detroit: Mike Lupenec (Oakland, '86), 163-158-28 in 19th year at UDM and overall
LIVE STATS: Available right here at BGSUFalcons.com
* Note: Series information can be found on pages 47-49 of the 2011 BGSU online media guide, which is available in both PDF and flip interactive formats here at BGSUFalcons.com
LIVE STATISTICS
Again in 2011, 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 the field, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com at game time. 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 schedule and choosing the corresponding match.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons will enter the Detroit contest with a record of 0-2-0. BGSU began the season with a trip to Illinois last weekend, dropping a 1-0 decision to Loyola (Ill.) in the season opener on Friday (Aug. 19) and falling at Illinois State, 5-2, Sunday afternoon (Aug. 21).
Five players played all 180 minutes in last weekend's two matches. That group included redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison as well as senior captain Alyssa Zuccaro, sophomore Alyssa Carmack, redshirt freshman Kylie Briem and true freshman Kaylee Draper. In addition to that quintet, Senior Megan Amann, redshirt sophomore Jenny Fowler and true soph Madeline Wideman each started both matches.
Draper and sophomore Ashley Miller are tied for the team scoring lead with two points apiece. Each player scored in the Falcons' match at ISU. Junior Sarah VonderBrink has one point, having assisted on Miller's goal.
In net, Ison currently has a total of 14 saves to lead the MAC. She made a career-high 11 stops in the ISU contest.
Head coach Andy Richards and his staff, assistants Kellie Evans and Jimmy Walker, welcomed back a total of 17 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's club. BGSU's returning players combined for nearly 67 percent of the team's goals and almost 73% of the assists a year ago. Four of the Falcons' top-five scorers return from the 2010 campaign, including Zuccaro, who led the team in scoring. Zuccaro had one-third of the team's goals, with eight, and also led the Brown and Orange with six assists. Her total of 22 points was the highest by a BGSU player since the 2005 season.
Zuccaro currently has career totals of 40 points on 15 goals and 10 assists. She ranks eighth on the school career list for goals, and is ninth in career points on that BG chart.
Wideman had 11 points in her inaugural season at BGSU, tying for second on the team in scoring. Nine of those 11 points came in MAC matches, with that total trailing only Zuccaro's 14 points.
Amann and VonderBrink each had seven points last season. Amann's five assists last fall upped her career total to 18, tying her for fourth in BGSU history.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches during the season-opening trip to the state of Illinois. Last Friday (Aug. 19), an own goal midway through the first half held up as the game winner, as Loyola (Ill.) posted a 1-0 win over the Brown and Orange. Redshirt junior Becca Ison, who played all 90 minutes in a match for the first time in her collegiate career, made three saves.
Then, on Sunday (Aug. 21), host Illinois State exploded for five second-half goals en route to a 5-2 win over the Falcons. Sophomore Ashley Miller and freshman Kaylee Draper had given the visitors a 2-0 halftime lead with a pair of goals less than five minutes apart, but ISU scored four times in an 19-minute span early in the second period to take control. Ison made a career-high 11 saves in the match.
ISON IMPRESSES
Despite the Falcons' two losses over the weekend, redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison had a pair of solid matches between the posts. Ison played 90 minutes of a match for the first time in her collegiate career in Friday's (Aug. 19) Loyola contest. The Ramblers' only goal was an own goal, as a free kick glanced off of the head of a BGSU defender and into the net. Ison's three saves included a pair of spectacular stops within the first 15 minutes of the match.
At Illinois State, Ison had a career-high 11 saves, nearly double her previous career-best total of six stops (vs. Indiana State in her collegiate debut on Aug. 28, 2009). Ison's save total on Sunday included eight in the second half alone. She made several acrobatic saves in each half vs. the Redbirds.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, now in his 12th 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 102-110-26, and a record of 55-55-15 in MAC regular-season play. Richards picked up the 100th victory of his collegiate head-coaching career in the Falcons' 3-2 win at Indiana State last season (Sept. 19).
Richards' teams perennially play one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the MAC. In his first decade-plus in BG, he has led the Falcons to the MAC Tournament on eight occasions, with the team advancing 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.
FALCONS PICKED TO FINISH FIFTH IN EAST
The Falcons have been picked to finish fifth in the MAC's East Division standings in 2011, according to the preseason coaches poll, released Aug. 15. The 2011 season marks the second year that a divisional format has been utilized for MAC women's soccer. Last year, the Brown and Orange tied for fourth in the East.
THE OPPONENT
Detroit takes a 1-1-0 record into a Friday (Aug. 26) match at IUPUI. The Titans have played a pair of MAC opponents to date, with a 1-0 loss at Central Michigan on Friday (Aug. 19) and a 4-0 victory over Eastern Michigan Tuesday (Aug. 23). In that EMU match, senior Lauren Roffey registered her first career hat trick. Sophomore Nora Abolins has played both matches in goal for head coach Mike Lupenec's club. UDM returned 14 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from the 2010 team that finished with an overall record of 8-7-5. UDM went 4-2-2 in Horizon League play. The school's athletics web site is www.detroittitans.com.
THE BGSU-UDM SERIES
The Falcons trail Detroit, 4-3-0, in the all-time series between the teams, but BGSU has won each of the last two matches by 4-0 scores. Those results include a 2008 meeting at Cochrane Field and a 2009 rematch in the Motor City.
The BGSU-UDM series certainly has not been marked by closely-played matches. None of the seven matches has ever been decided by fewer than two goals, and each of the last six contests has been at least a three-goal victory for either the Falcons or the Titans.
THE BGSU-DETROIT SERIES
(Detroit leads, 4-3-0)
Oct. 27, 1998 -- at Detroit 6, BGSU 4
Oct. 20, 1999 -- Detroit 6, at BGSU 0
Sept. 6, 2000 -- at Detroit 6, BGSU 3
Sept. 4, 2002 -- at BGSU 5, Detroit 2
Sept. 17, 2003 -- at Detroit 3, BGSU 0
Sept. 19, 2008 -- at BGSU 4, Detroit 0
Sept. 4, 2009 -- BGSU 4, at Detroit 0
EXTRA TIME (A FEW FINAL FALCON NOTES)
After just two matches, redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison has set a career high for minutes played in a season ... Ison played all 180 minutes in the Falcons' trip to Illinois last weekend ... She played a total of 158:51 in the 2009 season and 147:18 last fall • Ison has 14 saves this year, leading the MAC in that category ... she entered the season with a career total of 18 stops ... Ison's career high for saves in a season was 11 (in 2009), and she matched that total in the Illinois State game alone • freshman Kaylee Draper scored her first collegiate goal in Sunday's match at Illinois State ... Draper had nearly scored in her collegiate debut, Friday's Loyola contest, as she rang a first-half shot off the post • sophomore Ashley Miller also scored her first collegiate goal in the ISU contest ... Miller, who played in 16 matches a year ago, had one shot on goal in all of 2010, but put her lone shot of Sunday's match past ISU 'keeper Aryn Newsom • junior Sarah VonderBrink picked up an assist on Miller's goal, giving her career totals of four assists and 10 points • Draper was in the starting lineup for each of her first two collegiate contests • another freshman, Kenzie Schlemitz, made the first start of her career, joining Draper in the starting lineup at Illinois State • BGSU scored two goals in the first half of the ISU match, marking the first time the Falcons had scored a pair of first-half goals on the road in nearly three years ... the last such instance came in a 4-0 win at IPFW on Sept. 5, 2008.
THE 2011 CAPTAIN
Senior Alyssa Zuccaro is the captain of the 2011 women's soccer Falcons.
UP NEXT
Following the UDM match, the Falcons will play three of the next four contests on the road. BGSU will head to Cleveland State next Friday (Sept. 2), before returning home for a Sunday (Sept. 4) contest vs. Niagara. The CSU match begins at 7:00 p.m., while the Niagara match is scheduled for a 1:00 p.m. kickoff at Cochrane Field.
FALCONS vs. DETROIT
Sunday, August 28, 2011 • 1:00 p.m.
VENUE: Cochrane Field; Bowling Green, Ohio
RECORDS:
• BGSU: 0-2-0 (4-12-4, 2-6-3 MAC in 2010)
• Detroit: 1-1-0 (8-7-5, 4-2-2 Horizon League in 2010) – UDM plays at IUPUI on Friday
SERIES*: Detroit leads, 4-3-0 | STREAK: BGSU - 2
LAST MEETING: BGSU 4, at Detroit 0 (Sept. 4, 2009)
LAST MEETING AT BGSU: at BGSU 4, Detroit 0 (Sept. 19, 2008)
COACHES:
• BGSU: Andy Richards (Sheffield City Polytechnic [England], '89), 102-110-26 in 12th year at BGSU and overall; 55-55-15 in MAC matches
• Detroit: Mike Lupenec (Oakland, '86), 163-158-28 in 19th year at UDM and overall
LIVE STATS: Available right here at BGSUFalcons.com
* Note: Series information can be found on pages 47-49 of the 2011 BGSU online media guide, which is available in both PDF and flip interactive formats here at BGSUFalcons.com
LIVE STATISTICS
Again in 2011, 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 the field, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com at game time. 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 schedule and choosing the corresponding match.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons will enter the Detroit contest with a record of 0-2-0. BGSU began the season with a trip to Illinois last weekend, dropping a 1-0 decision to Loyola (Ill.) in the season opener on Friday (Aug. 19) and falling at Illinois State, 5-2, Sunday afternoon (Aug. 21).
Five players played all 180 minutes in last weekend's two matches. That group included redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison as well as senior captain Alyssa Zuccaro, sophomore Alyssa Carmack, redshirt freshman Kylie Briem and true freshman Kaylee Draper. In addition to that quintet, Senior Megan Amann, redshirt sophomore Jenny Fowler and true soph Madeline Wideman each started both matches.
Draper and sophomore Ashley Miller are tied for the team scoring lead with two points apiece. Each player scored in the Falcons' match at ISU. Junior Sarah VonderBrink has one point, having assisted on Miller's goal.
In net, Ison currently has a total of 14 saves to lead the MAC. She made a career-high 11 stops in the ISU contest.
Head coach Andy Richards and his staff, assistants Kellie Evans and Jimmy Walker, welcomed back a total of 17 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's club. BGSU's returning players combined for nearly 67 percent of the team's goals and almost 73% of the assists a year ago. Four of the Falcons' top-five scorers return from the 2010 campaign, including Zuccaro, who led the team in scoring. Zuccaro had one-third of the team's goals, with eight, and also led the Brown and Orange with six assists. Her total of 22 points was the highest by a BGSU player since the 2005 season.
Zuccaro currently has career totals of 40 points on 15 goals and 10 assists. She ranks eighth on the school career list for goals, and is ninth in career points on that BG chart.
Wideman had 11 points in her inaugural season at BGSU, tying for second on the team in scoring. Nine of those 11 points came in MAC matches, with that total trailing only Zuccaro's 14 points.
Amann and VonderBrink each had seven points last season. Amann's five assists last fall upped her career total to 18, tying her for fourth in BGSU history.
LAST WEEKEND
The Falcons dropped a pair of matches during the season-opening trip to the state of Illinois. Last Friday (Aug. 19), an own goal midway through the first half held up as the game winner, as Loyola (Ill.) posted a 1-0 win over the Brown and Orange. Redshirt junior Becca Ison, who played all 90 minutes in a match for the first time in her collegiate career, made three saves.
Then, on Sunday (Aug. 21), host Illinois State exploded for five second-half goals en route to a 5-2 win over the Falcons. Sophomore Ashley Miller and freshman Kaylee Draper had given the visitors a 2-0 halftime lead with a pair of goals less than five minutes apart, but ISU scored four times in an 19-minute span early in the second period to take control. Ison made a career-high 11 saves in the match.
ISON IMPRESSES
Despite the Falcons' two losses over the weekend, redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison had a pair of solid matches between the posts. Ison played 90 minutes of a match for the first time in her collegiate career in Friday's (Aug. 19) Loyola contest. The Ramblers' only goal was an own goal, as a free kick glanced off of the head of a BGSU defender and into the net. Ison's three saves included a pair of spectacular stops within the first 15 minutes of the match.
At Illinois State, Ison had a career-high 11 saves, nearly double her previous career-best total of six stops (vs. Indiana State in her collegiate debut on Aug. 28, 2009). Ison's save total on Sunday included eight in the second half alone. She made several acrobatic saves in each half vs. the Redbirds.
FALCON COACH ANDY RICHARDS
BGSU head coach Andy Richards, now in his 12th 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 102-110-26, and a record of 55-55-15 in MAC regular-season play. Richards picked up the 100th victory of his collegiate head-coaching career in the Falcons' 3-2 win at Indiana State last season (Sept. 19).
Richards' teams perennially play one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the MAC. In his first decade-plus in BG, he has led the Falcons to the MAC Tournament on eight occasions, with the team advancing 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.
FALCONS PICKED TO FINISH FIFTH IN EAST
The Falcons have been picked to finish fifth in the MAC's East Division standings in 2011, according to the preseason coaches poll, released Aug. 15. The 2011 season marks the second year that a divisional format has been utilized for MAC women's soccer. Last year, the Brown and Orange tied for fourth in the East.
THE OPPONENT
Detroit takes a 1-1-0 record into a Friday (Aug. 26) match at IUPUI. The Titans have played a pair of MAC opponents to date, with a 1-0 loss at Central Michigan on Friday (Aug. 19) and a 4-0 victory over Eastern Michigan Tuesday (Aug. 23). In that EMU match, senior Lauren Roffey registered her first career hat trick. Sophomore Nora Abolins has played both matches in goal for head coach Mike Lupenec's club. UDM returned 14 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from the 2010 team that finished with an overall record of 8-7-5. UDM went 4-2-2 in Horizon League play. The school's athletics web site is www.detroittitans.com.
THE BGSU-UDM SERIES
The Falcons trail Detroit, 4-3-0, in the all-time series between the teams, but BGSU has won each of the last two matches by 4-0 scores. Those results include a 2008 meeting at Cochrane Field and a 2009 rematch in the Motor City.
The BGSU-UDM series certainly has not been marked by closely-played matches. None of the seven matches has ever been decided by fewer than two goals, and each of the last six contests has been at least a three-goal victory for either the Falcons or the Titans.
THE BGSU-DETROIT SERIES
(Detroit leads, 4-3-0)
Oct. 27, 1998 -- at Detroit 6, BGSU 4
Oct. 20, 1999 -- Detroit 6, at BGSU 0
Sept. 6, 2000 -- at Detroit 6, BGSU 3
Sept. 4, 2002 -- at BGSU 5, Detroit 2
Sept. 17, 2003 -- at Detroit 3, BGSU 0
Sept. 19, 2008 -- at BGSU 4, Detroit 0
Sept. 4, 2009 -- BGSU 4, at Detroit 0
EXTRA TIME (A FEW FINAL FALCON NOTES)
After just two matches, redshirt junior goalkeeper Becca Ison has set a career high for minutes played in a season ... Ison played all 180 minutes in the Falcons' trip to Illinois last weekend ... She played a total of 158:51 in the 2009 season and 147:18 last fall • Ison has 14 saves this year, leading the MAC in that category ... she entered the season with a career total of 18 stops ... Ison's career high for saves in a season was 11 (in 2009), and she matched that total in the Illinois State game alone • freshman Kaylee Draper scored her first collegiate goal in Sunday's match at Illinois State ... Draper had nearly scored in her collegiate debut, Friday's Loyola contest, as she rang a first-half shot off the post • sophomore Ashley Miller also scored her first collegiate goal in the ISU contest ... Miller, who played in 16 matches a year ago, had one shot on goal in all of 2010, but put her lone shot of Sunday's match past ISU 'keeper Aryn Newsom • junior Sarah VonderBrink picked up an assist on Miller's goal, giving her career totals of four assists and 10 points • Draper was in the starting lineup for each of her first two collegiate contests • another freshman, Kenzie Schlemitz, made the first start of her career, joining Draper in the starting lineup at Illinois State • BGSU scored two goals in the first half of the ISU match, marking the first time the Falcons had scored a pair of first-half goals on the road in nearly three years ... the last such instance came in a 4-0 win at IPFW on Sept. 5, 2008.
THE 2011 CAPTAIN
Senior Alyssa Zuccaro is the captain of the 2011 women's soccer Falcons.
UP NEXT
Following the UDM match, the Falcons will play three of the next four contests on the road. BGSU will head to Cleveland State next Friday (Sept. 2), before returning home for a Sunday (Sept. 4) contest vs. Niagara. The CSU match begins at 7:00 p.m., while the Niagara match is scheduled for a 1:00 p.m. kickoff at Cochrane Field.
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