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Mary Hill & the Falcons will play 3 matches in a 5-day span (Doug Sampson photo)
Tennis Falcons Begin a Busy Stretch
April 05, 2012 | Women's Tennis
BGSU to play three matches in a five-day span
The Bowling Green State University tennis team begins a busy stretch this weekend, as the Falcons of head coach Penny Dean will play three matches in a five-day span. BGSU will hit the road for a pair of Mid-American Conference matches over the weekend, beginning with Friday's (April 6) match vs. defending league regular-season champion Miami University.
BGSU STATS & MATCH-BY-MATCH RESULTS - PDF
Following the Miami match, the Brown and Orange will continue on to Muncie, Ind., for a Saturday (April 7) contest vs. Ball State University. BG returns home to face Valparaiso University at Keefe Courts on Tuesday afternoon (April 10). All three matches are scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
Friday's Miami match is scheduled to be played at the Hepburn Varsity Tennis Courts. In the event of inclement weather, the match will be moved to the Riverside Athletic Club in Hamilton, Ohio.
On Saturday, the Falcons will meet BSU at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center. Should the match be forced indoors, BG would face the Cards at the Muncie YMCA Tennis Center.
Tuesday's Valpo match is scheduled for Keefe Courts, but would be played at the Perrysburg Tennis Center if weather conditions necessitate a move.
BGSU (6-6 overall) split a pair of matches at the PTC last weekend. The Falcons improved to 2-0 in MAC play for the first time in six years with Friday's (March 30) 4-3 win over Buffalo, but defending league tournament champion Akron knocked BG from the ranks of the unbeaten on Saturday (March 31), downing the Falcons, 7-0.
Entering this weekend's play, BGSU is tied for third in the MAC standings with Eastern Michigan. The Falcons and Eagles each are 2-1 in conference matches, trailing first-place Miami and second-place UA (3-1).
Miami is 9-9 in dual-match play this year, but the RedHawks are off to a 4-0 start in MAC action. MU went on the road last weekend to pick up wins over Toledo (5-2, March 30) and EMU (6-1, March 31). In fact, the RedHawks have won 29 consecutive MAC regular-season matches heading into Friday's BGSU contest. Second-year head coach Anca Dumitrescu led MU to a 19-6 overall record and a MAC ledger of 8-0 last season. The 'Hawks won the league's regular-season crown for the third-straight year, but suffered a 4-3 loss to UA in the finals of the MAC Championships.
Ball State enters the weekend with an overall mark of 5-11. The Cardinals are 0-4 in MAC matches heading into a home contest against Western Michigan on Friday. BSU is looking to snap a six-match losing streak, including setbacks at EMU (5-2, March 30) and UT (4-3, March 31) last weekend. In her first year at the helm, coach Christine Bader guided the Cards to an overall record of 8-17 and a MAC mark of 1-7 in the 2010-11 campaign.
Valparaiso has a 4-9 overall record, and the Crusaders currently are 0-4 in Horizon League matches. VU has two matches before venturing to Northwest Ohio, with a Friday match at Detroit and a home contest vs. South Dakota on Monday (April 9). Last weekend, the Crusaders dropped a pair of 6-1 decisions on the road against Northern Illinois (March 30) and Green Bay (April 1). Head coach Traci Young's club is looking to break a five-match losing streak in Friday's UDM contest. VU already has quadrupled last season's win total, as the 2010-11 team went 1-20 overall and 0-8 in league action.
The Falcons swept all three doubles matches in Friday's win over Buffalo, doing so for the second time in as many MAC contests. Dean and assistant coach Cindy Yonker have mixed and matched their doubles teams a great deal this season, but the pairings have remained the same for each of the first three conference contests.
Those doubles teams have been comprised of sophomores Nikki Chiricosta and Emily Reuland at the number-one flight, juniors Maddy Eccleston and Katie Grubb at the second level and juniors Mary Hill and Jade Johnson at flight number three.
In singles play, Eccleston and Chiricosta have split time at the top-two flights, while Reuland has played every match at the third flight. Hill has been a mainstay at the number-four spot, with Grubb having played at the fifth flight in nine of this season's 12 duals, including each of the last five. Jessica Easdale, the Falcons' lone senior, has played at the sixth singles flight in each of the last seven matches.
Reuland paces the Falcons in wins this season, with her total of 37 victories including 18 in singles and 19 in doubles. Eccleston has 35 total wins, while Chiricosta has 34 and Hill 33.
All seven BGSU players have winning records this season to date, with six of them having won 60 percent or more of their matches.
Eccleston, a co-captain along with Easdale, is tied for 18th on the BGSU career wins list with 121 total victories. She has 56 singles wins, tying her for 19th in school history, and ranks 13th on the doubles wins list with 65.
Chiricosta, just a sophomore, is just one win away from moving into the top 25 on both the singles and overall wins lists. She has an overall record of 87-36 in her career, including a 45-17 singles mark.
Grubb, with 13 singles wins this season, needs just one more to match her personal best. She had 14 singles victories in her freshman season of 2009-10. Grubb already has set new personal single-season standards in doubles wins (15) and overall victories (28 - tying her previous best).
Reuland, after posting a total of 17 doubles wins as a freshman, already has 19 this season. Her 37 total wins in 2011-12 is just three shy of matching her total for all of last year.
The Falcons trail Miami, 34-5, in the all-time series between the teams, and the RedHawks have won each of the last five meetings. Last season saw MU post a 5-2 win at the Perrysburg Tennis Center (April 1, 2011), and the Red and White downed BG, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the MAC Championships in Ypsilanti, Mich. (April 30, 2011). Two years ago, Miami picked up a 5-2 home win over the Falcons (March 27, 2010). Two of BGSU's five series meetings came in the 2006-07 season, with the latter match coming in the league tourney quarterfinal round.
BGSU and Ball State are tied, 17-17, in that series, but the Falcons have captured the last five meetings. Last season, the Brown and Orange picked up a 6-1 win at the PTC (April 2, 2011), and BG downed the Cards by an identical 6-1 score in the last meeting in Muncie, two years ago (March 26, 2010). BSU's last series win came in March of 2006.
The Falcons lead Valparaiso, 1-0, and the teams have not met in over two decades. The lone prior series meeting came on Sept. 29, 1990, with BG picking up a 9-0 win in a neutral-site matchup in Milwaukee, Wis. That was the first match in Penny Dean's BGSU coaching career.
This year's Valparaiso match begins a two-match homestand for the Brown and Orange. BGSU will face Western Michigan on Saturday, April 13, with that match marking the final home contest of the season for the Falcons. BG will end the regular season with short trips to EMU (April 20) and UT (April 21).
For what it's worth, BGSU is playing the eight MAC opponents in exactly the same order as last season, with one exception. This year, the Falcons opened the league schedule by facing Northern Illinois, while the Brown and Orange met Northern in the final regular-season match last year. BG heads to the home of the Huskies after the conclusion of regular-season play this year, traveling to DeKalb, Ill., for the 2012 MAC Championships (April 26-29).
BGSU STATS & MATCH-BY-MATCH RESULTS - PDF
Following the Miami match, the Brown and Orange will continue on to Muncie, Ind., for a Saturday (April 7) contest vs. Ball State University. BG returns home to face Valparaiso University at Keefe Courts on Tuesday afternoon (April 10). All three matches are scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
Friday's Miami match is scheduled to be played at the Hepburn Varsity Tennis Courts. In the event of inclement weather, the match will be moved to the Riverside Athletic Club in Hamilton, Ohio.
On Saturday, the Falcons will meet BSU at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center. Should the match be forced indoors, BG would face the Cards at the Muncie YMCA Tennis Center.
Tuesday's Valpo match is scheduled for Keefe Courts, but would be played at the Perrysburg Tennis Center if weather conditions necessitate a move.
BGSU (6-6 overall) split a pair of matches at the PTC last weekend. The Falcons improved to 2-0 in MAC play for the first time in six years with Friday's (March 30) 4-3 win over Buffalo, but defending league tournament champion Akron knocked BG from the ranks of the unbeaten on Saturday (March 31), downing the Falcons, 7-0.
Entering this weekend's play, BGSU is tied for third in the MAC standings with Eastern Michigan. The Falcons and Eagles each are 2-1 in conference matches, trailing first-place Miami and second-place UA (3-1).
Miami is 9-9 in dual-match play this year, but the RedHawks are off to a 4-0 start in MAC action. MU went on the road last weekend to pick up wins over Toledo (5-2, March 30) and EMU (6-1, March 31). In fact, the RedHawks have won 29 consecutive MAC regular-season matches heading into Friday's BGSU contest. Second-year head coach Anca Dumitrescu led MU to a 19-6 overall record and a MAC ledger of 8-0 last season. The 'Hawks won the league's regular-season crown for the third-straight year, but suffered a 4-3 loss to UA in the finals of the MAC Championships.
Ball State enters the weekend with an overall mark of 5-11. The Cardinals are 0-4 in MAC matches heading into a home contest against Western Michigan on Friday. BSU is looking to snap a six-match losing streak, including setbacks at EMU (5-2, March 30) and UT (4-3, March 31) last weekend. In her first year at the helm, coach Christine Bader guided the Cards to an overall record of 8-17 and a MAC mark of 1-7 in the 2010-11 campaign.
Valparaiso has a 4-9 overall record, and the Crusaders currently are 0-4 in Horizon League matches. VU has two matches before venturing to Northwest Ohio, with a Friday match at Detroit and a home contest vs. South Dakota on Monday (April 9). Last weekend, the Crusaders dropped a pair of 6-1 decisions on the road against Northern Illinois (March 30) and Green Bay (April 1). Head coach Traci Young's club is looking to break a five-match losing streak in Friday's UDM contest. VU already has quadrupled last season's win total, as the 2010-11 team went 1-20 overall and 0-8 in league action.
The Falcons swept all three doubles matches in Friday's win over Buffalo, doing so for the second time in as many MAC contests. Dean and assistant coach Cindy Yonker have mixed and matched their doubles teams a great deal this season, but the pairings have remained the same for each of the first three conference contests.
Those doubles teams have been comprised of sophomores Nikki Chiricosta and Emily Reuland at the number-one flight, juniors Maddy Eccleston and Katie Grubb at the second level and juniors Mary Hill and Jade Johnson at flight number three.
In singles play, Eccleston and Chiricosta have split time at the top-two flights, while Reuland has played every match at the third flight. Hill has been a mainstay at the number-four spot, with Grubb having played at the fifth flight in nine of this season's 12 duals, including each of the last five. Jessica Easdale, the Falcons' lone senior, has played at the sixth singles flight in each of the last seven matches.
Reuland paces the Falcons in wins this season, with her total of 37 victories including 18 in singles and 19 in doubles. Eccleston has 35 total wins, while Chiricosta has 34 and Hill 33.
All seven BGSU players have winning records this season to date, with six of them having won 60 percent or more of their matches.
Eccleston, a co-captain along with Easdale, is tied for 18th on the BGSU career wins list with 121 total victories. She has 56 singles wins, tying her for 19th in school history, and ranks 13th on the doubles wins list with 65.
Chiricosta, just a sophomore, is just one win away from moving into the top 25 on both the singles and overall wins lists. She has an overall record of 87-36 in her career, including a 45-17 singles mark.
Grubb, with 13 singles wins this season, needs just one more to match her personal best. She had 14 singles victories in her freshman season of 2009-10. Grubb already has set new personal single-season standards in doubles wins (15) and overall victories (28 - tying her previous best).
Reuland, after posting a total of 17 doubles wins as a freshman, already has 19 this season. Her 37 total wins in 2011-12 is just three shy of matching her total for all of last year.
The Falcons trail Miami, 34-5, in the all-time series between the teams, and the RedHawks have won each of the last five meetings. Last season saw MU post a 5-2 win at the Perrysburg Tennis Center (April 1, 2011), and the Red and White downed BG, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the MAC Championships in Ypsilanti, Mich. (April 30, 2011). Two years ago, Miami picked up a 5-2 home win over the Falcons (March 27, 2010). Two of BGSU's five series meetings came in the 2006-07 season, with the latter match coming in the league tourney quarterfinal round.
BGSU and Ball State are tied, 17-17, in that series, but the Falcons have captured the last five meetings. Last season, the Brown and Orange picked up a 6-1 win at the PTC (April 2, 2011), and BG downed the Cards by an identical 6-1 score in the last meeting in Muncie, two years ago (March 26, 2010). BSU's last series win came in March of 2006.
The Falcons lead Valparaiso, 1-0, and the teams have not met in over two decades. The lone prior series meeting came on Sept. 29, 1990, with BG picking up a 9-0 win in a neutral-site matchup in Milwaukee, Wis. That was the first match in Penny Dean's BGSU coaching career.
This year's Valparaiso match begins a two-match homestand for the Brown and Orange. BGSU will face Western Michigan on Saturday, April 13, with that match marking the final home contest of the season for the Falcons. BG will end the regular season with short trips to EMU (April 20) and UT (April 21).
For what it's worth, BGSU is playing the eight MAC opponents in exactly the same order as last season, with one exception. This year, the Falcons opened the league schedule by facing Northern Illinois, while the Brown and Orange met Northern in the final regular-season match last year. BG heads to the home of the Huskies after the conclusion of regular-season play this year, traveling to DeKalb, Ill., for the 2012 MAC Championships (April 26-29).
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