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The Falcons are home for a pair of matches this weekend, including Saturday's "Senior Day" contest
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BGSU Closes Home Schedule vs. BSU, Miami this Weekend
April 11, 2013 | Women's Tennis
Saturday's Miami match is Senior Day for the Falcons
The Bowling Green State University tennis team, after playing on the road each of the last two weekends, returns to Northwest Ohio to close the home schedule. The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean will face Ball State University on Friday (April 12), then will meet Miami University in Saturday action (April 13). Both Mid-American Conference matches are scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. at Keefe Courts on the BGSU campus.
LINKS
BGSU Release & Stats - PDF
Interview with Penny Dean - Thursday, April 11
Ball State tennis web site | Miami tennis web site
In the event of inclement weather, the BSU and/or Miami matches would be held at the Perrysburg Tennis Center. Starting time for each match would remain 1:00 p.m.
Saturday will be 'Senior Day' for the BGSU program, as Dean and assistant coach Cindy Yonker will recognize the seniors prior to the Miami match. That senior class, which comprises 50 percent of the roster, includes co-captains Maddy Eccleston and Mary Hill, along with Katie Grubb and Jade Johnson. Heading into the weekend, that quartet has combined for 212 singles victories and 298 doubles wins. Eccleston is BGSU's all-time leader in career doubles wins, and all four seniors are ranked among the school's top-15 in doubles victories and the BG top-30 in combined career wins.
BGSU enters the weekend with a record of 14-3 in dual-match play, and the Falcons are 3-2 in MAC action. In what appears to be one of the most wide-open MAC races in recent memory, BG trails co-leaders MU and Western Michigan by one game. The Falcons are tied with Akron and BSU for third place in the league.
With 14 overall wins, BGSU is just two shy of tying the school's single-season record for overall victories. Both the 1998-99 and 2007-08 Falcon teams posted 16 dual-match wins.
While the remaining schedule is definitely not an easy one, the 2012-13 Falcons certainly control their own destiny in the league race. BGSU's three remaining regular-season matches come against the league leaders (Miami and WMU) along with one of the teams currently deadlocked with the Brown and Orange (Ball State).
The Falcons split a pair of matches on the road last weekend, beating Akron before falling at Buffalo. On Friday (April 5), BGSU won the final three singles matches on the courts, posting a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Zips. Freshman Katie Brozovich capped the comeback for the Brown and Orange, winning a 6-0 third set at the fourth singles flight. BGSU had won the doubles point, then fell behind to a 3-1 score before getting singles wins from junior Nikki Chiricosta, Grubb and Brozovich to capture the victory against the preseason MAC favorites.
On Saturday (April 6), though, Buffalo captured five of the six singles contests to take a 5-2 win over the Falcons in Western New York. Brozovich was the lone BG winner in singles after the Brown and Orange had swept the three doubles matches.
The Falcons now have an overall record of 51-31 (62.2%) since BGSU's seniors arrived on campus (Hill, a transfer from Coastal Carolina Univ., is in her third season at BG). The school record for wins in a four-year span is 55, set by the 2007-08 senior class and matched by the '08-09 and '10-11 classes.
This weekend, the 2012-13 Falcons will be looking to continue a trend that has led to success much more often than not. BGSU has captured the doubles point in 16 consecutive matches, and the Falcon competitors have a combined record of 39-9 during that time. BG tandems are 10-6 at the top doubles flight, 15-1 at the second and 14-2 at the third flight during that 16-match span.
BGSU has won the doubles point in 16 of this season's 17 dual matches, after turning that trick 13 times in last season's 20 duals. In the last three-plus years (since the current senior class came to BG), the Falcons have won the doubles point 59 times and lost the point 23 times. In MAC regular-season matches in that time, BG has won the doubles point 21 times and lost it eight times.
In each of the Falcons' five MAC matches this season to date, Dean and Yonker have seen those four seniors combine to pick up doubles wins at the bottom two flights. Eccleston and Grubb have posted seven consecutive victories at the second flight, while Hill and Johnson have combined to win each of their first five MAC matches in third-flight action.
On Saturday at Buffalo, BG's two juniors joined the seniors in the doubles win column, as Chiricosta and classmate Emily Reuland came away with a victory at the top flight.
Each of the senior tandems has won exactly 80 percent of the time this year to date. The Hill/Johnson team has gone 12-3 on the season, with all but one of those matches having come in dual-match play. Eccleston and Grubb are 20-5 on the year and 13-2 since the start of the dual-match schedule.
Chiricosta and Reuland have teamed up to go 21-10 this year. The juniors are 9-6 overall in dual matches, with all but two of those 15 matches having come at the number-one flight.
Chiricosta and Reuland rank one-two on the team in total wins, as Chiricosta is now 48-18 on the season, while Reuland is 43-23. Grubb has 41 wins and Brozovich 40, and both players – like Chiricosta – have won more than two-thirds of their overall matches. Grubb has a winning percentage of 73.2% (41-15) in 2012-13, with Brozovich (40-15) and Chiricosta both at 72.7%. Reuland has won nearly two-thirds of her matches, with a 65.2% rate.
Freshman Drew Fillis has won over two-thirds of the time in her first season as a Falcon. She has an overall record of 23-11 to date, good for a winning percentage of 67.6%.
Eccleston ranks fifth on the Falcons in overall wins with a 37-22 record this year, good for a 62.7% success rate. Both Johnson and Hill have 29 victories apiece.
In fact, all eight players on the BGSU roster have at least 23 total wins, and every Falcon is at least seven games over .500, with seven of the eight players at least 10 games above the break-even mark.
Brozovich has 25 singles wins, while Chiricosta has 24 and Reuland 19. In doubles, Eccleston has a 25-8 record, and both Chiricosta and Reuland are 24-11. Grubb has a stellar 23-5 doubles mark this season, while Johnson is 23-7, Hill 18-8, Fillis 16-5 and Brozovich 15-7. Every player on the team has won at least two-thirds of her doubles matches this year.
Brozovich is a perfect 5-0 in MAC singles play, and has captured 16 consecutive singles matches since her last loss back on Jan. 18. Overall, she has won 23 matches in a row since that singles setback. Eccleston has won eight consecutive doubles contests, while Grubb has been a winner in seven doubles matches in a row.
Both the Eccleston/Grubb and Hill/Johnson doubles tandems have perfect 5-0 MAC records heading into Friday's Ball State match.
Eccleston, BGSU's all-time leader in doubles wins, now has 94 career victories. Eccleston, who broke the record of 89 set by Christine Chiricosta (2008-11), has won 15 of her last 16 doubles matches.
Eccleston teamed with Christine Chiricosta for 44 victories during the two years that both players were on the BG roster. Eccleston and Grubb now are 27-8 as a duo in their respective BG careers.
Nikki Chiricosta, just a junior, is tied for ninth in BG history with 71 career doubles victories, while Grubb is deadlocked for 11th with 70. Hill and Johnson are tied for 15th on that list with 67 career doubles victories, while Reuland, just two wins behind that duo, ranks 18th in BGSU history.
Chiricosta is now tied for eighth on the BGSU singles wins list, with 75, while Eccleston is 14th with 70 victories. Reuland is 17th with 67 career singles wins, with Grubb tied for 22nd (56 wins) and Hill in 23rd place (55).
Eccleston is second on the BGSU combined career wins list, with a total of 164 victories as a Falcon. Christine Chiricosta holds that BG record, with 178 total wins during her BG tenure.
All four BGSU seniors and both Falcon juniors are on the list of the top-30 players in school history in combined career wins, with Chiricosta seventh (146), Reuland 13th (132), Grubb tied for 18th (126), Hill 22nd (122) and Johnson 29th (98). All three lists can be found on page eight of these notes.
Ball State enters Friday's match with an overall record of 12-9, and the Cardinals – like the Falcons – are 3-2 in MAC action to date. The Cards split a pair of home matches last weekend, downing Toledo but losing to Miami. BSU has obliterated last season's win totals, as the 2011-12 team went 7-16 overall and 0-8 in the MAC.
Miami is 8-12 overall, but the RedHawks are tied with Western Michigan for first place in the MAC standings with a 4-1 league ledger. MU faces WMU in Kalamazoo on Friday before meeting the Falcons on Saturday. The RedHawks have won four-straight matches since a 4-3 loss to BSU in the conference opener. That was MU's first league regular-season loss in nearly five years, since April of 2008. Last year, the RedHawks went 14-10 overall and 8-0 in the MAC, winning the regular-season crown but falling, 4-3, to Akron in the championship match of the league tournament.
BGSU leads Ball State, 18-17, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Falcons have won each of the last six meetings. Last season, BG posted a 6-1 win in Muncie (April 7, 2012). Two years ago, in the last matchup in Northwest Ohio, the Brown and Orange picked up a 6-1 victory at the Perrysburg Tennis Center (April 2, 2011). Ball State's last series win came in March of 2006. BGSU is 9-7 in home matches, 7-9 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site contests vs. the Cardinals over the years.
The Falcons trail Miami, 36-5, in that series, and the RedHawks have won each of the last seven meetings. Last season saw MU post two wins over the Falcons, 5-2 in Oxford (April 6, 2012) and 4-0 in the semifinal round of the MAC Championships (4-0; April 28, 2012) in Illinois. Two years ago, the RedHawks downed the Falcons, 5-2, at the PTC (April 1, 2011) in the teams' regular-season meeting. MU has defeated the Brown and Orange in the MAC tourney semifinals in each of the last two seasons. Two of BGSU's five series triumphs over the RedHawks came in the 2006-07 campaign.
Following this weekend's matches, the Falcons will close the regular season with a trip to Kalamazoo, Mich., to face Western Michigan on Saturday, April 20. The MAC Championships will be held the following weekend (April 26-28) in Muncie, Ind.
LINKS
BGSU Release & Stats - PDF
Interview with Penny Dean - Thursday, April 11
Ball State tennis web site | Miami tennis web site
In the event of inclement weather, the BSU and/or Miami matches would be held at the Perrysburg Tennis Center. Starting time for each match would remain 1:00 p.m.
BGSU enters the weekend with a record of 14-3 in dual-match play, and the Falcons are 3-2 in MAC action. In what appears to be one of the most wide-open MAC races in recent memory, BG trails co-leaders MU and Western Michigan by one game. The Falcons are tied with Akron and BSU for third place in the league.
With 14 overall wins, BGSU is just two shy of tying the school's single-season record for overall victories. Both the 1998-99 and 2007-08 Falcon teams posted 16 dual-match wins.
While the remaining schedule is definitely not an easy one, the 2012-13 Falcons certainly control their own destiny in the league race. BGSU's three remaining regular-season matches come against the league leaders (Miami and WMU) along with one of the teams currently deadlocked with the Brown and Orange (Ball State).
The Falcons split a pair of matches on the road last weekend, beating Akron before falling at Buffalo. On Friday (April 5), BGSU won the final three singles matches on the courts, posting a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Zips. Freshman Katie Brozovich capped the comeback for the Brown and Orange, winning a 6-0 third set at the fourth singles flight. BGSU had won the doubles point, then fell behind to a 3-1 score before getting singles wins from junior Nikki Chiricosta, Grubb and Brozovich to capture the victory against the preseason MAC favorites.
The Falcons now have an overall record of 51-31 (62.2%) since BGSU's seniors arrived on campus (Hill, a transfer from Coastal Carolina Univ., is in her third season at BG). The school record for wins in a four-year span is 55, set by the 2007-08 senior class and matched by the '08-09 and '10-11 classes.
This weekend, the 2012-13 Falcons will be looking to continue a trend that has led to success much more often than not. BGSU has captured the doubles point in 16 consecutive matches, and the Falcon competitors have a combined record of 39-9 during that time. BG tandems are 10-6 at the top doubles flight, 15-1 at the second and 14-2 at the third flight during that 16-match span.
BGSU has won the doubles point in 16 of this season's 17 dual matches, after turning that trick 13 times in last season's 20 duals. In the last three-plus years (since the current senior class came to BG), the Falcons have won the doubles point 59 times and lost the point 23 times. In MAC regular-season matches in that time, BG has won the doubles point 21 times and lost it eight times.
In each of the Falcons' five MAC matches this season to date, Dean and Yonker have seen those four seniors combine to pick up doubles wins at the bottom two flights. Eccleston and Grubb have posted seven consecutive victories at the second flight, while Hill and Johnson have combined to win each of their first five MAC matches in third-flight action.
Each of the senior tandems has won exactly 80 percent of the time this year to date. The Hill/Johnson team has gone 12-3 on the season, with all but one of those matches having come in dual-match play. Eccleston and Grubb are 20-5 on the year and 13-2 since the start of the dual-match schedule.
Chiricosta and Reuland have teamed up to go 21-10 this year. The juniors are 9-6 overall in dual matches, with all but two of those 15 matches having come at the number-one flight.
Chiricosta and Reuland rank one-two on the team in total wins, as Chiricosta is now 48-18 on the season, while Reuland is 43-23. Grubb has 41 wins and Brozovich 40, and both players – like Chiricosta – have won more than two-thirds of their overall matches. Grubb has a winning percentage of 73.2% (41-15) in 2012-13, with Brozovich (40-15) and Chiricosta both at 72.7%. Reuland has won nearly two-thirds of her matches, with a 65.2% rate.
Freshman Drew Fillis has won over two-thirds of the time in her first season as a Falcon. She has an overall record of 23-11 to date, good for a winning percentage of 67.6%.
Eccleston ranks fifth on the Falcons in overall wins with a 37-22 record this year, good for a 62.7% success rate. Both Johnson and Hill have 29 victories apiece.
Brozovich has 25 singles wins, while Chiricosta has 24 and Reuland 19. In doubles, Eccleston has a 25-8 record, and both Chiricosta and Reuland are 24-11. Grubb has a stellar 23-5 doubles mark this season, while Johnson is 23-7, Hill 18-8, Fillis 16-5 and Brozovich 15-7. Every player on the team has won at least two-thirds of her doubles matches this year.
Brozovich is a perfect 5-0 in MAC singles play, and has captured 16 consecutive singles matches since her last loss back on Jan. 18. Overall, she has won 23 matches in a row since that singles setback. Eccleston has won eight consecutive doubles contests, while Grubb has been a winner in seven doubles matches in a row.
Both the Eccleston/Grubb and Hill/Johnson doubles tandems have perfect 5-0 MAC records heading into Friday's Ball State match.
Eccleston, BGSU's all-time leader in doubles wins, now has 94 career victories. Eccleston, who broke the record of 89 set by Christine Chiricosta (2008-11), has won 15 of her last 16 doubles matches.
Eccleston teamed with Christine Chiricosta for 44 victories during the two years that both players were on the BG roster. Eccleston and Grubb now are 27-8 as a duo in their respective BG careers.
Nikki Chiricosta, just a junior, is tied for ninth in BG history with 71 career doubles victories, while Grubb is deadlocked for 11th with 70. Hill and Johnson are tied for 15th on that list with 67 career doubles victories, while Reuland, just two wins behind that duo, ranks 18th in BGSU history.
Chiricosta is now tied for eighth on the BGSU singles wins list, with 75, while Eccleston is 14th with 70 victories. Reuland is 17th with 67 career singles wins, with Grubb tied for 22nd (56 wins) and Hill in 23rd place (55).
Eccleston is second on the BGSU combined career wins list, with a total of 164 victories as a Falcon. Christine Chiricosta holds that BG record, with 178 total wins during her BG tenure.
All four BGSU seniors and both Falcon juniors are on the list of the top-30 players in school history in combined career wins, with Chiricosta seventh (146), Reuland 13th (132), Grubb tied for 18th (126), Hill 22nd (122) and Johnson 29th (98). All three lists can be found on page eight of these notes.
Ball State enters Friday's match with an overall record of 12-9, and the Cardinals – like the Falcons – are 3-2 in MAC action to date. The Cards split a pair of home matches last weekend, downing Toledo but losing to Miami. BSU has obliterated last season's win totals, as the 2011-12 team went 7-16 overall and 0-8 in the MAC.
Miami is 8-12 overall, but the RedHawks are tied with Western Michigan for first place in the MAC standings with a 4-1 league ledger. MU faces WMU in Kalamazoo on Friday before meeting the Falcons on Saturday. The RedHawks have won four-straight matches since a 4-3 loss to BSU in the conference opener. That was MU's first league regular-season loss in nearly five years, since April of 2008. Last year, the RedHawks went 14-10 overall and 8-0 in the MAC, winning the regular-season crown but falling, 4-3, to Akron in the championship match of the league tournament.
BGSU leads Ball State, 18-17, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Falcons have won each of the last six meetings. Last season, BG posted a 6-1 win in Muncie (April 7, 2012). Two years ago, in the last matchup in Northwest Ohio, the Brown and Orange picked up a 6-1 victory at the Perrysburg Tennis Center (April 2, 2011). Ball State's last series win came in March of 2006. BGSU is 9-7 in home matches, 7-9 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site contests vs. the Cardinals over the years.
The Falcons trail Miami, 36-5, in that series, and the RedHawks have won each of the last seven meetings. Last season saw MU post two wins over the Falcons, 5-2 in Oxford (April 6, 2012) and 4-0 in the semifinal round of the MAC Championships (4-0; April 28, 2012) in Illinois. Two years ago, the RedHawks downed the Falcons, 5-2, at the PTC (April 1, 2011) in the teams' regular-season meeting. MU has defeated the Brown and Orange in the MAC tourney semifinals in each of the last two seasons. Two of BGSU's five series triumphs over the RedHawks came in the 2006-07 campaign.
Following this weekend's matches, the Falcons will close the regular season with a trip to Kalamazoo, Mich., to face Western Michigan on Saturday, April 20. The MAC Championships will be held the following weekend (April 26-28) in Muncie, Ind.
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