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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Saturday, February 2
Perrysburg, OH
2:30 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Youngstown State
Falcons Begin Lengthy Homestand vs. YSU, Evansville
January 30, 2013 | Women's Tennis
BGSU's next seven matches all will take place in Northwest Ohio
BGSU will face Youngstown State University on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 2) in a 2:30 p.m. start, and the Falcons will meet the University of Evansville on Sunday morning (Feb. 3), with first serve scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Admission to both matches is free.
BGSU STATS & MATCH-BY-MATCH RESULTS - PDF
The Falcons won a pair of matches in Chicagoland last weekend, downing Drake by a 6-1 score before beating Chicago State, 7-0.
Saturday's (Jan. 24) Drake match saw the Brown and Orange capture all three doubles matches and five of the six singles contests. Against CSU the following morning (Jan. 25), the Falcons won at all three doubles flights for the second-straight day, losing a combined total of just five games in the process. BG then went on to win all six singles matches in straight sets.
Juniors Nikki Chiricosta and Emily Reuland each went a perfect 4-0 last weekend, while four of their teammates had 3-0 records. That list included seniors Maddy Eccleston, Katie Grubb and Jade Johnson along with freshman Katie Brozovich.
Senior Mary Hill had a 2-1 record on the weekend, while freshman Drew Fillis won her lone match.
Johnson's two wins on Sunday vs. CSU give her a total of 87 combined career wins at BGSU, moving her into a tie for 30th place on the school's career list. All six of the team's veteran players are ranked among the top 30 on that BG career chart.
Eccleston, a team co-captain, leads active Falcons and is near the top of all three BGSU career wins lists. The Toledo native has moved into sixth place in school history with 146 combined career victories. She moved past former Falcon great and current BG assistant coach Cindy (Mikolajewski) Yonker, who had 143 wins in her career (1994-97).
Eccleston is third on the BGSU career doubles wins list, with 82 victories. She is just seven away from tying the school record held by her former teammate, Christine Chiricosta (89 wins from 2008-11).
On the singles wins list, Eccleston and Nikki Chiricosta each have 64 career wins to tie for 15th in BG history. Chiricosta is also deadlocked for 15th in school history in overall wins, with 127, and she is tied for 14th in doubles victories, with 63.
Reuland, like Chiricosta just a junior, is ranked 20th in singles wins (61) and is tied for 21st in overall victories (117). Hill, in just her third year with the Falcons, is tied for 23rd on the singles wins list (50), deadlocked for 20th in doubles victories (58) and is 23rd in overall wins (108) at the school.
Grubb has moved into a tie for 25th on the singles wins list, with 48, and she is tied for 17th with 59 doubles wins. Grubb is now 24th in school history with 107 overall wins.
Johnson, as mentioned, is now tied for 30th in overall victories. She is 22nd in BGSU history in doubles wins, with 57.
On the season, Chiricosta leads the Falcons with a 29-11 overall record, with Reuland right behind at 28-12. Both Grubb (22-9) and Brozovich (22-15) have surpassed the 20-win mark for the year, while Eccleston has 19 total victories, Johnson 18, Hill 15 and Fillis 14.
Chiricosta and Reuland each are 13-5 in singles play this season, with Brozovich 12-8 and Grubb 10-5 on the year. In doubles play, Chiricosta has a team-best 16-6 mark, while Reuland is 15-7, Johnson 13-4 and Eccleston 13-7. Fillis (10-5) and Brozovich (10-7) each have 10 doubles victories on the season, while Hill has nine.
All eight Falcons are at least three wins over the .500 mark in doubles, and BGSU has combined for a 49-23 doubles record this season.
As mentioned, the Falcons have won three consecutive matches heading into the YSU match. After a road loss at No. 19 Notre Dame to begin the dual-match season, BG bounced back with a 7-0 win over Duquesne at the PTC on Jan. 19, before heading to Illinois and posting the two wins last weekend.
Over the last three matches, the Falcons are a combined 17-1 in singles and 8-1 in doubles action.
Grubb has won six consecutive matches (singles and doubles combined), dating back to a win in exhibition singles play at Notre Dame. No fewer than five of her teammates -- Brozovich, Chiricosta, Eccleston and Johnson and Reuland -- each have won five-straight matches.
Brozovich, as mentioned, has a 12-8 singles record this season to date. Only one of those eight losses has come in two sets. The other seven all have come in third-set super-tiebreakers, with six of those seven tiebreakers ending by a score of 10-6 or closer.
Last weekend, Brozovich lost just one total game in her four singles sets.
Grubb has won six consecutive singles matches, having last lost in singles play way back on Nov. 11. All but one of those wins came in the minimum number of sets.
Youngstown State enters Saturday's BGSU match with a dual-match record of 0-1 on the season. The Penguins headed to Northwest Ohio last weekend as well, suffering a 5-2 loss to Toledo on Saturday night at Shadow Valley. YSU picked up wins at the top-two singles flights as well as the number-one doubles level.
Evansville is 2-1 in dual-match play this year. After posting a victory over Charleston (W.Va.) during the fall portion of the schedule, the Purple Aces split a pair of matches on the road last weekend, losing to Indiana State, 4-3, before picking up a 6-1 win at Lipscomb. UE plays at IPFW on Saturday before meeting BGSU the following day.
BGSU is a perfect 13-0 all time in dual matches vs. Youngstown State, including an 11-0 mark at home. The teams did not meet last season, but played in each of the nine previous years. The most recent meeting saw the Brown and Orange pick up a 7-0 win in Youngstown two years ago (March 19, 2011). In the lone prior meeting at the Perrysburg Tennis Center, the Falcons won a 7-0 decision three years ago (Jan. 31, 2010).
Sunday's meeting will mark BGSU's first-ever dual match vs. Evansville.
Following this weekend's matches, the Falcons will prepare for another set of weekend matches at the PT. BGSU will face Cleveland State on Friday afternoon, Feb. 8, before meeting Cincinnati on Sunday morning, Feb. 10. The CSU match will begin at 12:00 p.m., with the UC match set for a 9:30 a.m. start.
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