Falcons Battle Huskies to 0-0 Draw, Earn First Point in MAC Play

Friday, October 11

Bowling Green, OH

7:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

0-10-1, 0-4-1MAC

Northern Illinois

4-7-2, 2-2-1MAC

Team	1	2	OT 3	OT 4	Final F
Northern Illinois	0	0	0	0	0
Bowling Green	0	0	0	0	0

October 11, 2013 | Women's Soccer

Box Score

BGSU posts first shutout of season as Cadel makes 10 saves

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team earned its first point in Mid-American Conference play, battling Northern Illinois University to a 0-0, double-overtime draw at Cochrane Field Friday night (Oct. 11).

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The result gives the Falcons an overall record of 0-10-1 and a MAC ledger of 0-4-1. The Huskies are now 4-7-2 and 2-2-1, respectively.

Redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel and the BGSU defense earned their first shutout of the season. Cadel made 10 saves in net, and her teammates helped her out with a pair of 'team saves' in the second half.

That back line included senior co-captain Alyssa Carmack, redshirt junior Kylie Briem, true junior Kaylee Draper and freshman Paige Amodio, each of whom played all 110 minutes.

"We put one hundred and ten minutes of work together tonight," said BGSU head coach Lindsay Basalyga. "Our body of work was well beyond what it's been over the last couple weekends. I think we were playing like a team that feels like they deserve to win.

"I think we weathered some storms throughout the match, but we also put ourselves in some positions to win the soccer game, and that's a big step for us."

The Huskies had a shots advantage of 22-11, but the Falcons controlled the action for large quantities of the match. NIU 'keeper Amy Carr made three stops on the night.

Northern had four shots within the first eight minutes of the match, putting three of those shots on goal. But, Cadel stopped a shot from distance by Nicole Gobbo, the Huskies' leading scorer, in the opening minute of play, and she saved a hard turnaround shot from Gobbo and a header by Emily Nulty within a 65-second span.

The Falcons' first solid chance came after a corner kick by freshman Taylor Bucaro with 14 minutes gone. That kick was blocked out of the box, but sophomore Haley Parkinson regained possession for the home side, and lofted a ball over the defense to junior Ashley Garr in the penalty area. Garr, from approximately 12 yards out on the right side, settled the ball and blasted a hard shot toward the left corner of the frame. But, Carr made a leaping effort to get a hand on the ball and keep it out of the net.

Several moments later, senior Madeline Wideman did yeoman's work to win the ball at midfield, then found Parkinson in space, racing down the right side of the pitch. Parkinson fired a hard shot, but the ball sailed high with 17 minutes gone in the half.

Wideman and senior co-captain Jenny Fowler successfully worked a combination play on the left side of the pitch. Wideman took a pass from Fowler, and hit a cross into the box. Fowler was able to leap and get her head on the ball, redirecting it toward the right side of the goal, but the ball went out of bounds before the charging Bucaro could reach it.

Late in the first half, NIU's Sara Spaulding's volley was struck well, but Cadel parried the shot in traffic. The Huskies had a narrow 6-5 advantage in first-period shot attempts.

Just 10 seconds into the second half, the Falcons had won a corner kick on the right side of the field. Bucaro took that kick, near the Cochrane Field scoreboard, and the ball somehow sailed through a cluster of players from both teams without anyone touching it.

The Huskies earned a corner of their own, and got a pair of shots in the next few minutes after that corner, but BG dealt with those two shots, and the Falcons then had several good chances.

First, the Falcons had a flurry in the box, after Wideman made a defender look foolish with a nifty cut-back move as she brought the ball along the end line. Wideman hit a short cross into the center of the box, but the Huskies blocked that ball. Northern could not clear the ball out of the defensive end for the next few seconds, but the Falcons were unable to get a shot off.

But, in the 53rd minute of the match, senior Kaitlyn Tobin got past several would-be defenders near midfield, and was fouled by the last of them. Amodio took the ensuing free kick, and hit a hard shot that forced Carr to come up with a save at the upper-right-hand corner of the goal.

Less than a minute later, BG had the ball back. Fowler found Parkinson on the right side of the pitch, and Parkinson's cross hit the onrushing Bucaro in stride at the far post. Bucaro hit the ball just wide of goal.

Two minutes later, the Huskies were able to string together several good passes, leading to a shot by Nulty from approximately 20 yards out. Cadel made a dive toward the left post to stop the low blast by the Huskie sophomore.

Just after the match reached the hour mark, Garr put Wideman through on the right side. Wideman hit a gorgeous cross that sailed just behind Bucaro in traffic in the box.

The Huskies responded, as Nulty took a return pass from Cori Frankenberg and played a short cross to Jess Wooldridge on the near side of the six-yard box. Woodridge hit a quick one-timer, but her shot went wide left.

With under eight minutes left in regulation, the visitors had several good chances to get on the scoreboard. First, a Gobbo shot whizzed toward the upper-right corner, but Cadel made a leaping effort to deflect the ball out of bounds for a corner kick.

Off of that corner, however, a Northern flurry resulted in a header by Lauren Solomon that was blocked by a BG defender on the goal line for a 'team save' as the clock ticked down toward the seven-minute mark.

The ball went out of play for another NIU corner, and this time, the corner wound up going to Courtney Ksiazek. Ksiazek hit a shot toward the right post, but Bucaro was there to block that shot off the line.

The teams traded shots on goal in the final five minutes, as Carr made a save on Tobin with 4:21 left, before Lauren Noonan nodded a free kick by Jackie Wandt on target. But, Cadel came up with the stop on the latter play.

Junior Sidney Huth made a run in the final seconds of regulation, and hit a long shot just before the final horn, but the ball sliced away from the goal as time expired.

In the first overtime period, the visitors had four total shots, putting three on goal, but Cadel was equal to the task each time. Then, with just 30 seconds remaining, Wideman made a run down the left side, cut back toward the center of the field and fired a long shot that went just over the crossbar.

The second OT session saw just one shot taken, but the final period was not short on drama. The lone shot, taken by Gobbo, sailed wide with five minutes remaining, but BG had a good chance with 90 seconds to go. A diagonal ball by Draper was grabbed by Carr in the box, after Bucaro just missed getting a touch on the ball.

Then, in the final seconds, as the Huskies frantically looked to mount a final attack, a Northern player blooped a shot toward goal from the right side of the penalty area. The ball actually went under the crossbar and into the far corner, but the ball crossed the line well after the final horn had sounded, and the match ended in a draw.

BGSU returns to Cochrane Field on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 13), closing a season-long four-match homestand by facing the University of Toledo. Kickoff for that match is 1:00 p.m.

FALCON NOTES
* Redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel earned her first collegiate shutout in the NIU game. Cadel made 10 saves in Friday's match.

* The shutout was the Falcons' first in over a year, since BGSU battled Kent State to a scoreless, double-overtime draw at Cochrane Field on Sept. 23, 2012. That KSU match was the last time the Brown and Orange earned a point in a MAC match.

* Cadel had a double-digit save total for the fifth time in her 11 starts. With 86 saves this season to date, she is just two saves away from moving into the top-10 on the BGSU single-season list.

* With those 86 saves, Cadel already ranks fifth on the BGSU career list. Becca Ison, a senior on last year's team, had a total of 143 saves during her BG tenure, and the top-three Falcons on that list each had over 330 saves. That list includes Erika Flanders (473 saves from 1999-2002), Alexa Arsenault (338 from 2007-10) and Ali Shingler (334 from 2001-05).

* BGSU had five corner kicks to NIU's four on Friday night. It marked only the second time this year that the Falcons had the advantage in that department. BG had a season-high seven corners, compared to four for KSU, in the teams' meeting two weekends ago (Sept. 29).