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Wednesday, October 1
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Joe Sullivan & the Falcons face IPFW Wednesday night in Fort Wayne
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Falcons Begin October with Wednesday Trip to Fort Wayne
September 30, 2014 | Men's Soccer
BGSU faces IPFW as three-match road swing continues
The Bowling Green State University men's soccer team, having surpassed the win total for all of last season before the end of September, begins October with a trip to Fort Wayne, Ind., on Wednesday night (Oct. 1). The Falcons of head coach Eric Nichols continue a three-game road swing, facing IPFW in a 7:00 p.m. kickoff at the Hefner Soccer Complex.
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BGSU Notes & Stats - PDF | BGSU Men's Soccer Story Archives
BGSU Statistics | 2014 Media Guide | Career Stats of Current Falcons
BennettRank.Com Story: Bowling Green's Mighty Flynn
IPFW Men's Soccer
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LAST WEEK
Tim Kreutz scored on a rebound with just over 10 minutes left, lifting #16 Michigan State to a 1-0 win over the Falcons Wednesday evening (Sept. 24) at Cochrane Field. Redshirt sophomore Nick Landsberger made four saves, including a tough stop on the Spartans' Ken Krolicki from point-blank range, but Kreutz was the first one to the rebound and knocked it home to snap BGSU's three-match win streak.
On Sunday (Sept. 28), it was BGSU's turn to score late, as sophomore Joe Sullivan's goal in the 77th minute lifted the Falcons to a 1-0 win at St. Bonaventure. Fellow soph Pat Flynn and junior Ryan James picked up assists on the goal, while redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Heuton made seven saves to earn the shutout in his first start as a Falcon.
CHART-TOPPERS
The Falcons are very well represented in the latest NCAA Division I statistical rankings, released Monday (Sept. 29). BGSU is ranked among the top five teams in the nation in six categories, while sophomore Pat Flynn leads the country in five individual categories. Junior Ryan James and sophomores Jacob Roth and Joe Sullivan all are listed among the top-30 players in the nation on at least one list. BGSU's top-30 rankings can be found in the PDF version of these notes. That PDF is just a click away, near the top of this page.
GOOD START
BGSU's 7-2-0 start to the season is the team's best in nearly two decades, since the 1995 team went 8-1-0 through the first nine matches. That '95 club went on to a 16-3-2 record, a MAC Tournament title and the first of three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
SURPASSING LAST YEAR'S WIN TOTAL
With Sunday's win at St. Bonaventure, the Falcons have topped the win total for all of last season. BGSU is 7-2-0 this fall, after the 2013 club went 6-7-6 overall.
BUILD FROM THE BACK
Slowly but surely, the Falcons have improved defensively during the Eric Nichols Era. BGSU's totals/averages in a multitude of categories have gotten better in nearly every season since Nichols took over in 2009. Last year, the Falcon defense ranked 26th in the nation in saves pct., 33rd in the country in goals-against average and 36th in NCAA Division I in shutout pct. This season to date, the Falcons are in the top-25 in each of those categories. And, the 2014 team ranks 14th in the nation in another rather important category: winning percentage. A few more statistics that illustrate BG's defensive improvement over the last few seasons can be found in the PDF version of these notes.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons' overall record of 7-2-0 includes marks of 4-1 at home, 2-1 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site matches to date. BGSU has outscored opponents by a 23-6 margin over the first nine games.
Sophomore Pat Flynn leads the Falcons – and the nation – with 12 goals and 27 points. Flynn also has three assists, and five of his goals have been game winners.
Sophomore Joe Sullivan has 12 points on the year, with four goals and four assists. Sullivan has a pair of game-winning goals this fall. Senior Danny Baraldi and redshirt sophomore Max Auden have eight and seven points, respectively. Baraldi is third on the team in goals, with three, while Auden has two goals and three assists. Freshman Brad Macomber has six points, while sophomore Jacob Roth has five and junior Ryan James four. Roth leads the Brown and Orange with five assists, while James and Sullivan have four apiece.
In goal, redshirt sophomore Nick Landsberger has started eight games, and has three complete-match shutouts, 26 saves and a goals-against average of 0.78. Redshirt soph Ryan Heuton has played in two matches, starting one. He has stopped all eight shots on goal he has faced in 135 minutes of work.
Head coach Eric Nichols and his staff lost 10 seniors off of last year's team, which went 6-7-6 overall and 2-2-2 in MAC play and tied for fourth in the conference.
Nichols and his staff – Eric Reed, Zach Lemke and Brandon Silva – have utilized the same starting lineup for all but two matches this season to date. Auden, Baraldi, Flynn, James, Roth, Sullivan, seniors Jon Kumher and Vlad Lekarev and junior Jake Genrich have started all nine games, while Landsberger and junior Jake Martin have made eight starts apiece
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• For the second Monday in a row, the Falcons received votes in this week's College Soccer News poll.
• Sophomore Pat Flynn has 12 goals and 27 points through nine games this season. No BG player scored more than six goals or 13 points during all of last year.
• No BGSU player had scored as many as 12 goals since Steve Klein had 18 in the 1996 season, and no Falcon had reached 27 points since Klein exploded for 50 points in that '96 campaign.
* The Falcons are now 7-0-0 this season in matches in which Flynn scores at least one point, and BG is 0-2-0 in matches in which he is held scoreless.
• Flynn has five game-winning goals on the year, leading the nation in that category.
• Sophomore Joe Sullivan has scored six goals in his BGSU career. Four of those six goals have been game-winners. He had a pair of winners last season, and has scored the GWG in Falcon victories over Niagara and St. Bonaventure this fall.
• Sullivan ranks second on the team with 12 points this year. He has doubled his goal, assist and point totals from a year ago. The Naperville, Ill., native had two goals and two assists for six points as a freshman in 2013, and has four goals and four assists this fall to date.
• In his BGSU career, Sullivan has played in two matches in Western New York. And, in both matches, he scored what proved to be the winning goal late in the second half of a 1-0 victory. Last season, Sullivan's goal at the 80:18 mark gave the Brown and Orange a win at Buffalo (Oct. 4, 2013). And, on Sunday, the sophomore striker scored with 76:18 gone in the match against the Bonnies.
• Junior Ryan James had an assist on Sullivan's goal at SBU Sunday. James has four assists in 2014 after registering two helpers in both 2012 and '13. He now has career totals of eight assists and 18 points as a Falcon.
• Redshirt sophomore Ryan Heuton made the first start of his BGSU career on Sunday, and also picked up his first career shutout. Heuton sat out last season at BG, and made his Falcon debut in the Findlay match just under a month ago (Sept. 2).
• Heuton's total of seven saves vs. SBU was a BGSU season high. He now has eight saves this season, and his goals-against average remains 0.00.
• Senior tri-captain Danny Baraldi has 55 points in 63 career matches, with 17 goals and 21 assists as a Falcon. He is just one assist and four points away from moving into the BGSU career top 10 on each of those lists.
• BGSU posted six wins in the month of September, going 6-2-0. The Falcons had not won six games in a calendar month since 1997. That '97 club won six games in both October (6-2-0) and November (6-1-0), with the November wins including three MAC Tournament games, an NCAA Tournament Play-In match and an NCAA first-round victory.
• The Falcons were held scoreless against Michigan State, ending a streak of nine-straight matches (dating to late last season) in which BG scored at least one goal. That was the Falcons' longest such streak since BGSU scored in the first 10 matches of the 2011 season.
• The Falcons have scored 23 goals this season to date, after scoring a total of 25 during all of last season. This year's club has scored at least two goals in six of the nine games thus far.
• Sophomore Jacob Roth has five assists this fall, while James and Sullivan each have four. No BG player had more than four assists during all of last season.
SCOUTING THE MASTODONS
IPFW brings a 3-3-3 overall record into Wednesday night's match, and the Mastodons are off to a 1-0-0 start in Summit League play. The 'Dons downed IUPUI by a 4-0 count on Saturday to begin the conference season. The team's other wins have come against St. Joseph's (Ind.) and Asbury, and IPFW has tied Western Michigan, Northern Kentucky and Green Bay. Junior Austin West leads the 'Dons with four goals and eight points, after netting a hat trick in the IUPUI match. Junior Corey Tom and sophomore Jacob Murphy have five points apiece, with Tom's total including two goals and Murphy having recorded a team-high three assists. In goal, redshirt soph Raphael Kotzock has played in six matches, and has 23 saves, two shutouts and a goals-against average of 0.97. Freshman Cody Schweitzer has seen action in four games, and has one shutout, nine saves and a 2.57 GAA. West and Kotzock were named the Summit League's Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, on Monday. Head coach Mike Harper welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from last year's club which finished 1-15-1 overall and 1-5-0 in league play.
THE SERIES
BGSU leads IPFW, 7-4-2, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Falcons won the most recent meeting. Last season, the Brown and Orange exploded for an 8-0 win at Cochrane Field (Nov. 5, 2013), with Danny Baraldi scoring five points on a goal and three assists, and Jon Kumher also finding the back of the net. Two years ago, in BG's last trip to Fort Wayne, the Mastodons posted a 2-1 win (Oct. 16, 2012), snapping a five-match series unbeaten streak for the Falcons. BGSU is 3-1-1 vs. the 'Dons in the Eric Nichols Era, and the Falcons are 4-2-2 in home matches and 3-2-0 in away games in the IPFW series.
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS
Following the IPFW match, the Falcons will conclude a three-game road swing with a trip to Cleveland State next Tuesday (Oct. 7). Then, the Brown and Orange will play back-to-back MAC matches at Cochrane Field, beginning with a game vs. Akron on Saturday evening, Oct. 11.
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LINKS
BGSU Notes & Stats - PDF | BGSU Men's Soccer Story Archives
BGSU Statistics | 2014 Media Guide | Career Stats of Current Falcons
BennettRank.Com Story: Bowling Green's Mighty Flynn
IPFW Men's Soccer
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| UP NEXT IN FALCON SOCCER | ||
| BGSU at IPFW | Wed., Oct. 1 7:00 p.m. | Live Stats | Twitter |
| BGSU at Cleveland St. | Tue., Oct. 7 7:00 p.m. | Live Stats | Twitter |
LAST WEEK
Tim Kreutz scored on a rebound with just over 10 minutes left, lifting #16 Michigan State to a 1-0 win over the Falcons Wednesday evening (Sept. 24) at Cochrane Field. Redshirt sophomore Nick Landsberger made four saves, including a tough stop on the Spartans' Ken Krolicki from point-blank range, but Kreutz was the first one to the rebound and knocked it home to snap BGSU's three-match win streak.
On Sunday (Sept. 28), it was BGSU's turn to score late, as sophomore Joe Sullivan's goal in the 77th minute lifted the Falcons to a 1-0 win at St. Bonaventure. Fellow soph Pat Flynn and junior Ryan James picked up assists on the goal, while redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Heuton made seven saves to earn the shutout in his first start as a Falcon.
CHART-TOPPERS
The Falcons are very well represented in the latest NCAA Division I statistical rankings, released Monday (Sept. 29). BGSU is ranked among the top five teams in the nation in six categories, while sophomore Pat Flynn leads the country in five individual categories. Junior Ryan James and sophomores Jacob Roth and Joe Sullivan all are listed among the top-30 players in the nation on at least one list. BGSU's top-30 rankings can be found in the PDF version of these notes. That PDF is just a click away, near the top of this page.
GOOD START
BGSU's 7-2-0 start to the season is the team's best in nearly two decades, since the 1995 team went 8-1-0 through the first nine matches. That '95 club went on to a 16-3-2 record, a MAC Tournament title and the first of three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
SURPASSING LAST YEAR'S WIN TOTAL
With Sunday's win at St. Bonaventure, the Falcons have topped the win total for all of last season. BGSU is 7-2-0 this fall, after the 2013 club went 6-7-6 overall.
BUILD FROM THE BACK
Slowly but surely, the Falcons have improved defensively during the Eric Nichols Era. BGSU's totals/averages in a multitude of categories have gotten better in nearly every season since Nichols took over in 2009. Last year, the Falcon defense ranked 26th in the nation in saves pct., 33rd in the country in goals-against average and 36th in NCAA Division I in shutout pct. This season to date, the Falcons are in the top-25 in each of those categories. And, the 2014 team ranks 14th in the nation in another rather important category: winning percentage. A few more statistics that illustrate BG's defensive improvement over the last few seasons can be found in the PDF version of these notes.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons' overall record of 7-2-0 includes marks of 4-1 at home, 2-1 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site matches to date. BGSU has outscored opponents by a 23-6 margin over the first nine games.
Sophomore Pat Flynn leads the Falcons – and the nation – with 12 goals and 27 points. Flynn also has three assists, and five of his goals have been game winners.
Sophomore Joe Sullivan has 12 points on the year, with four goals and four assists. Sullivan has a pair of game-winning goals this fall. Senior Danny Baraldi and redshirt sophomore Max Auden have eight and seven points, respectively. Baraldi is third on the team in goals, with three, while Auden has two goals and three assists. Freshman Brad Macomber has six points, while sophomore Jacob Roth has five and junior Ryan James four. Roth leads the Brown and Orange with five assists, while James and Sullivan have four apiece.
In goal, redshirt sophomore Nick Landsberger has started eight games, and has three complete-match shutouts, 26 saves and a goals-against average of 0.78. Redshirt soph Ryan Heuton has played in two matches, starting one. He has stopped all eight shots on goal he has faced in 135 minutes of work.
Head coach Eric Nichols and his staff lost 10 seniors off of last year's team, which went 6-7-6 overall and 2-2-2 in MAC play and tied for fourth in the conference.
Nichols and his staff – Eric Reed, Zach Lemke and Brandon Silva – have utilized the same starting lineup for all but two matches this season to date. Auden, Baraldi, Flynn, James, Roth, Sullivan, seniors Jon Kumher and Vlad Lekarev and junior Jake Genrich have started all nine games, while Landsberger and junior Jake Martin have made eight starts apiece
FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• For the second Monday in a row, the Falcons received votes in this week's College Soccer News poll.
• Sophomore Pat Flynn has 12 goals and 27 points through nine games this season. No BG player scored more than six goals or 13 points during all of last year.
• No BGSU player had scored as many as 12 goals since Steve Klein had 18 in the 1996 season, and no Falcon had reached 27 points since Klein exploded for 50 points in that '96 campaign.
* The Falcons are now 7-0-0 this season in matches in which Flynn scores at least one point, and BG is 0-2-0 in matches in which he is held scoreless.
• Flynn has five game-winning goals on the year, leading the nation in that category.
• Sophomore Joe Sullivan has scored six goals in his BGSU career. Four of those six goals have been game-winners. He had a pair of winners last season, and has scored the GWG in Falcon victories over Niagara and St. Bonaventure this fall.
• Sullivan ranks second on the team with 12 points this year. He has doubled his goal, assist and point totals from a year ago. The Naperville, Ill., native had two goals and two assists for six points as a freshman in 2013, and has four goals and four assists this fall to date.
• In his BGSU career, Sullivan has played in two matches in Western New York. And, in both matches, he scored what proved to be the winning goal late in the second half of a 1-0 victory. Last season, Sullivan's goal at the 80:18 mark gave the Brown and Orange a win at Buffalo (Oct. 4, 2013). And, on Sunday, the sophomore striker scored with 76:18 gone in the match against the Bonnies.
• Junior Ryan James had an assist on Sullivan's goal at SBU Sunday. James has four assists in 2014 after registering two helpers in both 2012 and '13. He now has career totals of eight assists and 18 points as a Falcon.
• Redshirt sophomore Ryan Heuton made the first start of his BGSU career on Sunday, and also picked up his first career shutout. Heuton sat out last season at BG, and made his Falcon debut in the Findlay match just under a month ago (Sept. 2).
• Heuton's total of seven saves vs. SBU was a BGSU season high. He now has eight saves this season, and his goals-against average remains 0.00.
• Senior tri-captain Danny Baraldi has 55 points in 63 career matches, with 17 goals and 21 assists as a Falcon. He is just one assist and four points away from moving into the BGSU career top 10 on each of those lists.
• BGSU posted six wins in the month of September, going 6-2-0. The Falcons had not won six games in a calendar month since 1997. That '97 club won six games in both October (6-2-0) and November (6-1-0), with the November wins including three MAC Tournament games, an NCAA Tournament Play-In match and an NCAA first-round victory.
• The Falcons were held scoreless against Michigan State, ending a streak of nine-straight matches (dating to late last season) in which BG scored at least one goal. That was the Falcons' longest such streak since BGSU scored in the first 10 matches of the 2011 season.
• The Falcons have scored 23 goals this season to date, after scoring a total of 25 during all of last season. This year's club has scored at least two goals in six of the nine games thus far.
• Sophomore Jacob Roth has five assists this fall, while James and Sullivan each have four. No BG player had more than four assists during all of last season.
SCOUTING THE MASTODONS
IPFW brings a 3-3-3 overall record into Wednesday night's match, and the Mastodons are off to a 1-0-0 start in Summit League play. The 'Dons downed IUPUI by a 4-0 count on Saturday to begin the conference season. The team's other wins have come against St. Joseph's (Ind.) and Asbury, and IPFW has tied Western Michigan, Northern Kentucky and Green Bay. Junior Austin West leads the 'Dons with four goals and eight points, after netting a hat trick in the IUPUI match. Junior Corey Tom and sophomore Jacob Murphy have five points apiece, with Tom's total including two goals and Murphy having recorded a team-high three assists. In goal, redshirt soph Raphael Kotzock has played in six matches, and has 23 saves, two shutouts and a goals-against average of 0.97. Freshman Cody Schweitzer has seen action in four games, and has one shutout, nine saves and a 2.57 GAA. West and Kotzock were named the Summit League's Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, on Monday. Head coach Mike Harper welcomed back 17 letterwinners, including 10 starters, from last year's club which finished 1-15-1 overall and 1-5-0 in league play.
THE SERIES
BGSU leads IPFW, 7-4-2, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Falcons won the most recent meeting. Last season, the Brown and Orange exploded for an 8-0 win at Cochrane Field (Nov. 5, 2013), with Danny Baraldi scoring five points on a goal and three assists, and Jon Kumher also finding the back of the net. Two years ago, in BG's last trip to Fort Wayne, the Mastodons posted a 2-1 win (Oct. 16, 2012), snapping a five-match series unbeaten streak for the Falcons. BGSU is 3-1-1 vs. the 'Dons in the Eric Nichols Era, and the Falcons are 4-2-2 in home matches and 3-2-0 in away games in the IPFW series.
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS
Following the IPFW match, the Falcons will conclude a three-game road swing with a trip to Cleveland State next Tuesday (Oct. 7). Then, the Brown and Orange will play back-to-back MAC matches at Cochrane Field, beginning with a game vs. Akron on Saturday evening, Oct. 11.
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