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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Sunday, September 8
Indianapolis, IN
1:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
at
IUPUI
Falcons Prepare for Weekend Trip to Indy
September 05, 2013 | Women's Soccer
BGSU to face IUPUI Sunday afternoon
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LAST WEEK
The Falcons dropped an overtime heartbreaker, falling by a 2-1 score against Butler at Cochrane Field Saturday afternoon (Aug. 31). Junior Ashley Garr scored the BG goal, heading home senior Madeline Wideman's corner kick with just over a minute gone in the second half. But, the Bulldogs tied the match 12 minutes later, then scored off of a corner kick of their own nearly nine minutes into overtime for the win. BGSU redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel had 12 saves in goal.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons are 0-2-0 on the young season, having dropped both matches by narrow 2-1 scores. 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.
BGSU's matches this year have come against Cleveland State on the road (Aug. 25) and Butler at home (Aug. 31). The BU match required overtime.
Junior Ashley Garr and freshman Haley Malaczewski have scored the Falcons' goals, and are tied for the team scoring lead with two points each. 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.
Seniors Alyssa Carmack and Madeline Wideman each have an assist on the young season, as Carmack played a through ball to Malaczewski for her goal at CSU, while Garr converted a Wideman corner kick vs. BU.
In goal, redshirt freshman Lauren Cadel has played all 188-plus minutes to date. She has 18 saves, a saves percentage of .818 and a goals-against average of 1.91.
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, started 17 times in 2012.
Other returning letterwinners include seniors Wideman, Ivi Casagrande and Kaitlyn Tobin, 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 2012.
Wideman has a career total of 20 points to lead active Falcons. She also paces all members of the 2013 team with 10 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, made her collegiate debut in the Cleveland State match. She 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.
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• Butler's 37 shots attempted on Saturday marked the second-highest total against the Falcons in program history. The record of 44 total shots attempted was set by another Hoosier state program, Indiana, on Sept. 12, 1997.
• BGSU has taken a total of 17 shots this season to date, with 15 of those shots – 88.2% – on goal. By contrast, the opposition has put only 41.8% of their shots on target through the first two matches.
• Six Falcons made their respective collegiate debuts in the CSU match, and one more did so against Butler ... 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, and hit the crossbar on her first shot attempt as a Falcon.
• Redshirt junior Kylie Briem made her 2013 debut against the Bulldogs ... Briem, who saw 38 minutes of action in the 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.
• After the BU match, the Falcons now have an all-time record of 19-21-32 in overtime contests ... BGSU has a 10-15-14 record in OT matches at Cochrane Field, a 7-4-16 mark in road games and a 2-2-2 ledger in neutral-site OT contests.
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 coaching staff, can be found on the web here at BGSUFalcons.com.
SCOUTING THE JAGUARS
IUPUI has a record of 2-1-1 heading into the weekend. The Jaguars play a Friday match at Evansville before hosting the Falcons on Sunday. IUPUI is 2-0-1 at home and 0-1-0 on the road this fall. The wins have come against Indianapolis and Grand Canyon, while the Jags tied Green Bay and lost at SIU Edwardsville. Five different players have scored one goal apiece, and Taylor Heldorn and Catherine Raster are tied for the team scoring lead with three points each. In goal, Giselle Guzman has started all four matches to date and has 19 saves and a goals-against average of 0.93. Nicole Kulovitz has played a total of 90 minutes in two relief stints, and has a 2-0-0 record along with a GAA of 1.00. Head coach Chris Johnson welcomed back 14 letterwinners, including nine starters, from a 2012 team that went 3-14-2 overall and 1-5-2 in Summit League action.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead IUPUI, 1-0-0, in the all-time series between the teams. The lone prior meeting between the Falcons and Jaguars came last season, when BGSU scored a pair of second-half goals en route to a 2-1 win at Cochrane Field (Aug. 26, 2012). Madeline Wideman scored the Falcons' second goal of that match, while Kaylee Draper and Kylie Briem each had assists in the win.
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 here 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
The IUPUI match is the first of three consecutive road matches for the Falcons. The road swing also includes 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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