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Sunday, February 10
Perrysburg, OH
9:30 AM
Bowling Green State University
4
vs
3
Cincinnati
Falcons Win Seventh in a Row, 4-3 over Cincinnati
February 10, 2013 | Women's Tennis
With the win, the Falcons improve to 7-1 on the season. BGSU has won seven consecutive dual matches since a road loss to then-No. 19 Notre Dame, and the Falcons are a perfect 5-0 at the PTC in 2012-13.
The Brown and Orange had little trouble during the doubles portion of the match, earning a sweep for the first point of the day. At the number-one flight, juniors Nikki Chiricosta and Emily Reuland defeated Ashleigh Witte and Sierra Sullivan by an 8-3 final. That was the closest result during doubles.
BG captured 8-2 results at both the second and third flights, with two seniors winning in each case. The number-two flight saw Maddy Eccleston and Katie Grubb topping Caitlin O'Gara and Jasmine Lee, while Mary Hill and Jade Johnson dropped just two games in a third-flight win over Kelly Poggensee-Wei and Kristina Georgieva.
A pair of Falcon freshmen, Katie Brozovich and Drew Fillis, downed their UC opponents, Hannah Wille and Carly Wilson by an 8-0 final in a fourth-flight match that did not count in the final scoring.
The Falcons won the opening set in all six singles matches. In three of those contests, BGSU went on to win the second set, earning the required four points to capture the overall match win. The other three singles contests, however, saw the Bearcats battle back to capture three-set victories.
BG's juniors won in straight sets, as Reuland dropped just two total games in her sweep of Lee at the top flight. Both sets of that match ended in 6-1 scores.
Chiricosta rolled through a 6-0 first-set win against O'Gara, then pulled out a 7-5 win in the second set at flight number two.
Brozovich rolled along to a sixth-flight win, dropping only four games in a sweep of Hannah Wille.
Witte, Poggensee-Wei and Sullivan all recorded come-from-behind victories for the Bearcats. Witte downed Eccleston in third-flight action, while Poggensee-Wei defeated Hill at the fourth flight. Both of those matches ended with a 6-3 result in the third set.
The fifth-flight battle saw Sullivan eke out a 6-4 win over Grubb in the third set to capture the match.
The wins by Reuland and Brozovich gave the Falcons a 3-0 lead in the match. Cincinnati then captured the next three matches to finish, tying the contest with only Chiricosta and O'Gara on the court. The BG junior, who had won her first set in the minimum six games, closed out a 7-5 win in the second set, giving the Falcons the overall victory over the Bearcats.
Sunday marked the fifth time in the last seven matches that the Falcons have captured all three doubles contests. BGSU has won the doubles point in all seven of those matches, and the Falcons are a combined 19-2 in doubles (not counting 'fourth-flight' matches) in that time.
In singles play, Sunday was the first time in BG's seven-match winning streak that the Falcons did not win at least five of the six matches. BG has a record of 35-7 in singles play at the top-six flights during that time.
Several Falcons increased their personal winning streaks on Sunday. Chiricosta's two wins give her 13 consecutive victories (singles and doubles combined), while Brozovich has won her last 11 matches. Grubb saw her win streak snapped at 13 on Sunday. Prior to her singles match vs. the Bearcats, she had not lost since the Falcons' Jan. 18 match at Notre Dame.
BGSU now has a 21-11 lead in the series with Cincinnati, and the Falcons are 14-8 vs. the Bearcats since Penny Dean assumed the BG helm. The Falcons have won six consecutive series meetings, and BG has a 3-0 mark vs. UC at the Perrysburg Tennis Center.
A number of Falcons continued their climb up the BGSU records lists. Eccleston's doubles win was the 86th of her career, and she is just three behind school record-holder Christine Chiricosta (89 doubles wins from 2008-11) on that list. Eccleston now has 152 overall wins at BG, ranking third on that list. She trails second-place Deidee Bissinger (1997-2000) by just one win.
Nikki Chiricosta is now tied for 13th in singles wins, with 68, and she has moved into sole possession of 13th place on the career doubles wins list, with 67. Chiricosta has 135 total wins at BG, good for 12th in school history.
No fewer than three Falcons -- Hill, Johnson and Reuland -- all picked up their 60th doubles win on Sunday. They are tied for 17th on that list. Grubb is deadlocked for 15th with 63 doubles victories.
Reuland is now tied for 18th on the combined career wins chart, with 124 overall victories. Grubb and Hill rank 23rd and 24th, respectively, as Grubb has 114 wins and Hill 112. Johnson is now 29th in BG history with 91 career wins.
This season, Chiricosta has a stellar 37-11 record, while Reuland is 35-13. Grubb is 29-10 on the season, while Brozovich improved to 28-15 in her first season as a Falcon. Every member of the team has at least 18 wins in 2012-13, and all eight players are at least four games over the .500 mark.
The Falcons are idle from intercollegiate competition next weekend, but BGSU continues a season-long seven-match homestand with a pair of contests at the Perrysburg Tennis Center the following weekend. BG will take on IPFW on Feb. 22 and California (Pa.) on Feb. 24.
BOWLING GREEN 4, CINCINNATI 3
Sun., Feb. 10, 2013 – Perrysburg Tennis Center – Perrysburg, Ohio
SINGLES
1 – Emily Reuland (BGSU) def. Jasmine Lee 6-1, 6-1
2 – Nikki Chiricosta (BGSU) def. Caitlin O'Gara 6-0, 7-5
3 – Ashleigh Witte (UC) def. Maddy Eccleston 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
4 – Kelly Poggensee-Wei (UC) def. Mary Hill 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
5 – Sierra Sullivan (UC) def. Katie Grubb 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
6 – Katie Brozovich (BGSU) def. Hannah Wille 6-3, 6-1
DOUBLES
1 – Chiricosta/Reuland (BGSU) def. Witte/Sullivan 8-3
2 – Eccleston/Grubb (BGSU) def. O'Gara/Lee 8-2
3 – Hill/Jade Johnson (BGSU) def. Poggensee-Wei/Kristina Georgieva 8-2
# – Brozovich/Drew Fillis (BGSU) def. Wille/Carly Wilson 8-0
# not included in final match scoring
RECORDS
BGSU 7-1
UC 1-4
ORDER OF FINISH
Doubles: 4,3,2,1
Singles: 1,6,3,4,5,2
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