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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Sunday, September 22
Bowling Green, OH
1:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Evansville
Falcons Return Home to Face Evansville Sunday Afternoon
September 20, 2013 | Women's Soccer
BGSU to conduct free youth clinic, autograph session after the game
BGSU NOTES & STATS - PDF
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.
FREE ADMISSION TO POSTGAME EVENTS, TOO
Following Sunday's Evansville match, the Falcons will offer a free youth clinic at Cochrane Field. The clinic is open to boys and girls ages 3-14, and will be a great chance for kids to interact with the Falcons, while learning and honing their soccer skills at the same time. There will also be a post-match autograph session on Sunday.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons are 0-5-0 on the young season, having dropped three of those five matches by one goal apiece. 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 last fall, including six in conference play, came by a single goal.
Four of BGSU's first five matches this year have come on the road, against Cleveland State (Aug. 25), IUPUI (Sept. 8), Michigan State (Sept. 13) and Detroit (Sept. 17). BG's lone home match to date was a 2-1 setback, in overtime, to Butler (Aug. 31).
Senior Kaitlyn Tobin, junior Ashley Garr and freshman Haley Malaczewski each have scored one goal apiece for the Falcons this year to date. Malaczewski came off the bench to score her first collegiate goal in her first collegiate match, at CSU. Garr scored the first goal of her BGSU career vs. Butler, while Tobin found the back of the net at Michigan State.
Senior Madeline Wideman has a team-leading two assists on the young season, and is tied with Garr, Malaczewski and Tobin for the team scoring lead with two points. Senior Alyssa Carmack has one assist this fall.
In goal, redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel has played all 458-plus minutes to date. She has 42 saves, a saves percentage of .792 and a goals-against average of 2.16.
BGSU's list of returning starters includes the team's two 2013 co-captains, 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, made 17 starts in 2012.
Other returning letterwinners include seniors Tobin, Wideman and Ivi Casagrande, redshirt junior Kylie Briem, true juniors Garr, Kaylee Draper 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 '12.
Wideman has a career total of 21 points to lead active Falcons. She also paces all members of the 2013 team with 11 career assists at BGSU. Huth and Wideman are tied for the active career lead with five goals apiece.
Cadel, the lone returnee among the goalkeepers, is in her first playing season with the Falcons, having sat out the 2012 season as a redshirt. The goalkeeping corps also includes true freshmen 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 Malaczewski, Paige Amodio, Taylor Bucaro, Sabrina Cisneros, Jessica Creech, Taylor Dackin and Melissa Needham.
CADEL, FALCONS AMONG THE NCAA LEADERS
Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Lauren Cadel leads the MAC, and ranks among the top 10 in the nation, in saves per game. Cadel has 42 saves in five contests, an average of 8.40 per game to date. She was eighth in the country in that category when the last NCAA stats were released (prior to Tuesday's Detroit match).
As a team, BGSU was 10th nationally in saves per game, as of the most recent NCAA listings.
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• Senior Kaitlyn Tobin's goal at Michigan State marked the first time the Falcons had scored against the Spartans in six years. The teams battled to a 1-1, double-overtime tie in East Lansing on Sept. 21, 2007, before MSU posted shutout victories in each of the next five seasons.
• Redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel made eight saves in the Detroit match. Cadel has made a total of 42 saves in the Falcons' five matches to date, with at least six stops in every game.
• A host of Falcons have made their respective collegiate debuts over the past few weeks, with six players seeing their first action in the CSU match, and one more doing so against both Butler and Detroit.
• No fewer than five freshmen were in the starting lineup in Cleveland. 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. Haley Malaczewski came off the bench against the Vikings, and scored BGSU's goal.
• Against Butler, Taylor Bucaro made her collegiate debut. She played 12 minutes vs. the Bulldogs, and hit the crossbar on her first shot attempt as a Falcon.
• And, on Tuesday at Detroit, freshman Melissa Needham made her BGSU debut, playing the final 27 minutes at an outside-back position.
• Redshirt junior Kylie Briem made her 2013 season debut against the Bulldogs. Briem, who saw 38 minutes of action in that match, was making her first appearance since suffering an injury in last season's Akron contest (Oct. 14, 2012) and missing the remainder of the year. Briem played all 90 minutes vs. both MSU and UDM.
• While Briem had not played since late last year, Kailey Paszko had been sidelined for much longer. Paszko came off the bench to play 12 minutes in the Detroit contest after missing the last two seasons due to injury. Prior to Tuesday, the Maumee, Ohio, native had not played since the Falcons' match at Northern Illinois on Oct. 24, 2010.
• BGSU has taken a total of 27 shots this season to date, with 18 of those shots – 66.7% – on goal. By contrast, the opposition has put only 44.7% of their shots on target through the first five matches.
• Falcon goalkeepers have posted double-digit save totals in five of the last eight matches, dating to last season. BGSU had 10 or more saves in each of the last three 2012 games, and redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel had 12 stops vs. Butler and 10 more at IUPUI this fall.
SCOUTING THE PURPLE ACES
Evansville has an overall record of 5-2-1, and the Purple Aces have a two-game winning streak, as well as a four-match unbeaten streak. UE plays at Eastern Kentucky on Friday (Sept. 20) prior to facing the Falcons two days later. The Aces defeated Belmont and Valparaiso in a pair of home matches last weekend, and the team is 4-1 at home and 1-1-1 on the road this season to date. Kayla Smith leads the team with eight points, and Smith is tied with Stephanie Thompson for the team lead in goals, with three apiece. Simone Busby has played all but 20 minutes in goal, and has 26 saves and a goals-against average of just 0.62. Defender Taylor Brand has been named the Missouri Valley Confernece Defensive Player of the Week in each of the four weeks the league has handed out the award this year to date. Head coach Krista McKendree welcomed back 12 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's club. The 2013 team has already matched last year's win total, as the 2012 Purple Aces went 5-8-3 overall. UE won the MVC regular-season title with a 4-1-1 league record last year.
THE SERIES
Sunday's match will be the first-ever meeting between the Falcons and Evansville 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 right here at BGSUFalcons.com.
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS
Following the UE match, the Falcons begin Mid-American Conference play with a pair of road matches next weekend. BGSU will face Ohio on Friday (Sept. 27) and Kent State two days later. The Brown and Orange will return to Northwest Ohio for a four-game homestand to start the month of October, beginning with a match against Eastern Michigan on Friday, Oct. 4.
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