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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Saturday, August 31
Bowling Green, OH
4:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Butler
BGSU Battles Butler in Saturday's Home Opener
August 27, 2013 | Women's Soccer
Falcons face Bulldogs in 4:00 p.m. start at Cochrane
BGSU NOTES & STATS - PDF | BUTLER WOMEN'S SOCCER
FREE ADMISSION TO HOME FALCON FUTBOL
Admission for all Falcon men's and women's soccer home matches again this season is free. For those who can't make it to Cochrane Field, live stats are scheduled to be available for each home game via BGSUFalcons.com.
LAST WEEK
The Falcons closed the exhibition schedule with a 1-0 win over Case Western Reserve on Thursday night (Aug. 22) at Cochrane. Redshirt freshman Courtney Hendrix scored the lone goal of the match with just under five minutes to go, off of an assist by senior Madeline Wideman, while the Falcons' three goalkeepers – all freshmen – split time in between the posts in the shutout win.
On Sunday afternoon (Aug. 25), a senior again assisted a freshman, as Haley Malaczewski scored on a breakaway late in the first half at Cleveland State, after a through-ball by co-captain Alyssa Carmack. That goal tied the match at 1-1, but the Vikings scored with just over an hour gone for what proved to be the winner in a 2-1 decision. Redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel had six saves in her collegiate debut.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons are 0-1-0 on the young season after Sunday's match at Cleveland State. Head coach Lindsay Basalyga and her staff returned 11 letterwinners, including eight starters, from a year ago. The 2012 club finished with an overall record of 1-17-1 and a Mid-American Conference mark of 0-10-1. Ten of the Falcons' losses, including six in conference play, came by a single goal.
BGSU's list of returning starters includes the team's two 2013 co-captains, Alyssa Carmack and Jenny Fowler. Carmack was one of just two players to start all 19 matches last fall, playing at a center-back position. Fowler, a fifth-year Falcon, started 17 times in 2012.
Other returning letterwinners include seniors Ivi Casagrande, Kaitlyn Tobin and Madeline Wideman, redshirt junior Kylie Briem, true juniors Kaylee Draper, Ashley Garr and Sidney Huth and sophomores Emma Norris and Haley Parkinson. Huth led the Brown and Orange in scoring with three goals and seven points a year ago, while Wideman had a pair of goals and five total points in 2012.
Wideman has a career total of 19 points to lead active Falcons. She paces all members of the 2013 team with nine career assists at BGSU. Huth and Wideman are tied for the active career lead with five goals apiece.
Redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel, the lone returnee among the goalkeepers, drew the start at Cleveland State on Sunday, and made six saves in a complete-match effort in her collegiate regular-season debut. The goalkeeping corps also includes true freshman Michelle Denley and Jenna DiTusa.
Cadel is one of four returning Falcons on the 2013 roster who did not see action last fall. Fourth-year Falcon Kailey Paszko and redshirt freshmen Courtney Hendrix and Lexie Schmidt all missed the 2012 campaign due to injury.
Denley and DiTusa are two of the nine true freshmen on the roster this season. That list also includes Paige Amodio, Taylor Bucaro, Sabrina Cisneros, Jessica Creech, Taylor Dackin, Haley Malaczewski and Melissa Needham.
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• The Falcons had 10 shots on goal in Sunday's regular-season opener at Cleveland State ... BGSU hit double digits in that category only once during all of last season, firing 12 shots on target in the win over IUPUI (Aug. 26, 2012).
• BGSU had a 10-8 advantage in shots on goal on Sunday ... the Falcons had more SOG than the opponent only four times in 19 matches in 2012.
• BG was credited with a total of 10 shot attempts at CSU, all of which were on goal ... the last time the Falcons put every shot on target was in the team's prior trip to Cleveland State ... on that day (Sept. 2, 2011), the Brown and Orange had three shots, all on goal, in a 1-0 BGSU win.
• Freshman Haley Malaczewski scored a goal in her collegiate debut, on a breakaway late in the first half at CSU ... the Toledo native, who led the Falcons with four shots, scored that goal just under eight minutes after coming off the bench to make her collegiate debut.
• Malaczewski was one of six players to make her collegiate debut in the CSU match, but the only one to do so off the bench ... no fewer than five freshmen were in the starting lineup ... that group included redshirt freshmen Lauren Cadel and Courtney Hendrix and true frosh Paige Amodio, Sabrina Cisneros and Jessica Creech ... Cadel, Amodio and Creech each played all 90 minutes of the match.
• Senior co-captain Alyssa Carmack's assist on the Malaczewski goal was the second of her career, and her first since September of 2010 ... Carmack had a helper in the Falcons' win over Buffalo in her freshman season.
THE COACH
Lindsay Basalyga is in her first season at the BGSU helm, but she is certainly no stranger to the MAC or the state of Ohio. Basalyga, a native of Cincinnati, came to BGSU after spending eight seasons as the head coach at Eastern Kentucky University. Prior to starting the EKU program from scratch, she spent just over three years as an assistant at the University of Toledo.
Basalyga was hired at EKU in October of 2004 and was involved in every facet of preparing the program for its first season on the pitch in 2005. That first season, the Colonels finished 10th in the Ohio Valley Conference, but Basalyga's club gradually improved, turning the corner in 2008 with a 5-3 conference record and a number-two seed in the program's first-ever appearance in the OVC Tournament. EKU finished second in the league in both '08 and 2010 and third in 2012.
That 2012 team finished at 10-7-3, posting the first winning record in program history and setting school records for overall wins, conference victories (six), goals, assists, points and shots. In the classroom, EKU received an NSCAA Team Academic Award after posting a cumulative grade-point average of 3.15.
Basalyga, who was a standout player at the University of Maryland, received her bachelor's degree in 2001 and earned a master's degree from UT. Her parents both are BGSU graduates, and her father, John, was a member of the 1972 BG baseball team that won the program's first-ever MAC Championship. He is the men's soccer coach at Northern Kentucky University.
Complete biographies of Basalyga, as well as each member of the BGSU women's soccer roster and coaching staff, can be found right here at BGSUFalcons.com.
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
Butler is 1-1-0 on the young season, heading into Wednesday's home opener vs. Northern Kentucky. Last weekend, the Bulldogs dropped a 2-0 verdict to Louisville, but bounced back with a 3-0 win over Indiana State. Co-head coaches Tari St. John and Rob Alman welcomed back 19 letterwinners, including nine starters, from a year ago. The 2012 Bulldogs went 12-5-4 overall and 5-1-3 in Atlantic 10 Conference play (BU is now a member of the Big East). Sophomore Sophia Maccagnone, who had a pair of assists in the win over ISU, led the team with 24 points, including 11 goals, last season. Senior Julie Burton played in 15 matches last fall, and has played all 180 minutes in goal this year to date.
THE SERIES
Saturday's match will mark the first-ever meeting between BGSU and Butler in women's soccer.
Series information and match-by-match results for all of BGSU's opponents can be found on pages 40-42 of the BGSU Women's Soccer Media Guide, which is available on the web at BGSUFalcons.com.
THE 2013 CAPTAINS
Seniors Alyssa Carmack and Jenny Fowler are the co-captains of the 2013 Falcons. Fowler, a fifth-year Falcon, is a team captain for the second-straight year.
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS
Following the Butler match, the Falcons will play three consecutive contests away from home, beginning with a match at IUPUI on Sunday, Sept. 8. After games at Michigan State (Sept. 13) and Detroit (Sept. 17), BGSU will return home to close the non-conference schedule vs. Evansville on Sunday, Sept. 22. The UE match marks the Falcons' lone home game in the month of September.
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