Falcons Head to Kalamazoo for WMU Super Challenge

BGSU seniors 2012-13 Michael Nemeth photo

The Bowling Green State University tennis team wraps up the fall portion of the 2012-13 schedule this weekend, heading to Kalamazoo, Mich., for the WMU Super Challenge. The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean will face some tough competition at the three-day, nine-team event, which begins Friday morning (Nov. 9) at the West Hills Athletic Club.

2012 WMU Super Challenge Draw Sheets

The tourney field includes DePaul, Indiana, Iowa State, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame and Penn State, in addition to the Falcons and host Western Michigan. Play is slated to begin with doubles matches at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, followed by singles play at 1:30 p.m.

Participants are slated to play one round of singles and doubles on both Friday and Saturday (Nov. 10). Doubles play gets underway at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, with singles matches scheduled to start at noon. Sunday's (Nov. 11) action will begin at 9:00 a.m.

Dean and the Falcons have been idle from competition for nearly a month. BGSU last played at the Toledo Invitational on Oct. 12-13, where Falcon individuals combined to go 21-5 on the weekend. Team scores were not kept, but the event utilized a hidden-dual format, and BG would have defeated each of the other three teams – UT, Detroit and Duquesne – had traditional scoring been used.

BGSU TENNIS - 2012-13 Records
Player	Singles	Doubles	Total
Brozovich	8-3	5-3	13-6
Chiricosta	7-2	9-1	16-3
Eccleston	3-2	6-2	9-4
Fillis	2-1	4-2	6-3
Grubb	3-3	5-0	8-3
Hill	1-2	4-0	5-2
Johnson	2-2	4-1	6-3
Reuland	9-1	9-1	18-2

Through the first three tournaments of the fall, the Falcons have combined to post records of 35-16 in singles action and 23-5 in doubles play. All eight student-athletes have winning records heading into the WMU tourney.

The team's two juniors, Emily Reuland and Nikki Chiricosta, are leading the way. Reuland has an overall record of 18-2, while Chiricosta is 16-3 this fall to date. Reuland is 9-1 in both singles and doubles, while Chiricosta has a 7-2 singles mark and has teamed with Reuland for all 10 doubles matches to date.

Freshman Katie Brozovich has an overall record of 13-6 through her first three collegiate competitions. Brozovich ranks second on the team in singles wins, having gone 8-3 so far.

Every Falcon has won at least two-thirds of her matches this fall to date. Senior co-captain Maddy Eccleston, despite missing part of one tournament due to illness, has nine victories this fall.

The other four players, none of whom competed in the team's opening compeitition of the season, all have five wins or more. Senior Katie Grubb is 8-3 this fall, while classmate Jade Johnson and freshman Drew Fillis are each 6-3 and senior co-captain Mary Hill has a 5-2 mark.

Following the WMU Super Challenge, the Falcons will be idle until the spring schedule begins, against one of this weekend's opponents. BGSU will open the dual-match portion of the 2012-13 slate on Friday, January 18, 2013, at Notre Dame, before returning to Northwest Ohio to meet Duquesne the next day.

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