Falcons Continue Home Action By Hosting Morehead State, Oakland

Thursday, August 25

Bowling Green, Ohio

7:00 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

Morehead State

Photo by: Brad Phalin, BGSU Marketing and Communications

August 23, 2016 | Women's Soccer

By: Jenna Jorgensen (Assistant Director of Athletic Communications)

Bowling Green (2-0, 0-0 MAC)
vs.
Morehead State (0-1, 0-0 OVC)
Regular Season Game #3
Thursday, August 25, 2016; 7 p.m. ET
Cochrane Stadium / Bowling Green, Ohio
LIVE STATS

Bowling Green (2-0, 0-0 MAC)
vs.
Oakland (1-1, 0-0 Horizon)
Regular Season Game #4
Sunday, August 28, 2016; 2:30 p.m. ET
Cochrane Stadium / Bowling Green, Ohio
LIVE STATS

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CALLING ALL FALCON FANATICS
Falcon Fanatics T-shirt pick-up will be held throughout Sunday's matchup against Oakland.

PREVIEW OF MOREHEAD STATE
The Eagles completed their 2015 campaign with an overall record of 9-11-2 and 5-4-1 record in the Ohio Valley Conference. Morehead State lost their first match of the season against Illinois in a 2-0 final, in which its goalkeeper Michelle Washburn recorded a single match career-high of 11 saves. The Eagles averaged 1.5 goals per game and 12.2 shots per game last season, with the help of the team's top two goal scores in sophomores Abby Timm and Dani Wilson.

FALCONS VERSUS THE EAGLES ON THE PITCH
BGSU is 0-2-0 all-time against Morehead State on the pitch. The most recent meeting was last season in which the Eagles defeated the Falcons in a 2-1 final on the road.

PREVIEW OF OAKLAND
Last season the Grizzlies made it to the NCAA tournament after winning the Horizon League tournament. They finished with an overall record of 8-6-7 overall and a 6-1-2 mark in conference play. Oakland had two scrimmages prior to the start of the 2016 season in which they lost 3-1 to Eastern Michigan and downed Fort Wayne by a score of 3-1. In its opening game of the season, the Grizzlies lost 2-0 to Montana, followed by defeating Saginaw Valley State 1-0 to bring their overall record to 1-1. The Grizzlies have returned its top goal scorer from the 2015 season in Alice Palmer, in addition to Cecilie Dokka, who marked the second-most assists on the team.

FALCONS VERSUS THE GRIZZLIES ON THE PITCH
On the field, the Falcons are 0-2-1 all-time against Oakland. The most recent match between the pair was back in 2008 where the game ended in a 0-0 double-overtime tie in Rochestern, Mich.

LAST WEEK'S WRAP UP
The Falcon's started off the 2016 campaign with a pair of late game-winners to earn a 2-0 start on the season for the second consecutive year. In the home opener against Eastern Illinois, the Falcons came out firing as they put up 27 attempted shots with eight landing on goal. It wasn't until the 88^th minute when sophomore Erica Hubert was able to find the back of the net with one of her 12 school record-setting shots. In Sunday's matchup with Valparaiso, the Falcons narrowly won 1-0 after an 82^nd minute goal, once again by Hubert. On the defensive end, redshirt senior goalkeeper Lauren Cadel made a combined five saves to earn a pair of shutouts, increasing her career total to nine.

FOCUS ON THE FALCONS
Bowling Green and fourth-year head coach Lindsay Basalyga return 10 starters and a total of 19 letterwinners from last year's team and added seven new Falcons in the 2016 recruiting class. Despite the loss of just one letterwinner from last season, BGSU is still stacked with youth as 13 members of the 26 players on the 2016 roster are either sophomores or freshmen. However, the Falcons return the top four goal scorers from the 2015 campaign including leading goal scorer and 2015 MAC All-Freshman Team member Erica Hubert. BGSU also returns starting goalkeeper Lauren Cadel, who recorded 113 saves in 18 matches started last season, and set a Bowling Green record of 19 saves against Valparaiso in a 1-1 double overtime tie.

ON TAP FOR THE FALCONS
The Falcons will remain at home on Cochrane Field for its next game on Thursday, Sept. 1 against Detroit at 7 p.m. The Falcons will then hit the road for the first time this season as they head to Annapolis, Md. for the Navy Invitational, in which they will face Towson Sept. 9 and Navy on Sept. 11.