Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, March 3
Louisville, KY
10:00 AM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Indiana State
Laine Simmons & the Falcons travel to Louisville this weekend (Paul Duncan photo)
Red & Black Tournament Next Up for Falcons
March 01, 2017 | Softball
BGSU to face ISU, Green Bay & Louisville this weekend
LEADING OFF
• The Bowling Green State University softball team hits the road for a fourth tournament in as many weekends. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons will compete in the Red & Black Tournament in Louisville, Ky., this Friday through Sunday (March 3-5).
• The Falcons will play a pair of games against both Indiana State and Green Bay, and BGSU will also will take on the host school, Louisville. All games will be held at Ulmer Stadium.
BGSUÂ SOFTBALLÂ LINKS
NOTES/WEB SITE:Â BGSU (PDF Notes)Â | ISU | Green Bay | Louisville
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Red & Black Tournament
BGSU 2017 Quick Facts
RED & BLACK TOURNAMENT • March 3-5 • Louisville, Ky.
(live stats will be available for all games; with live video for all games involving Louisville – all BGSU-related links will be available at BGSUFalcons.com)
Friday, March 3 (all times Eastern)
Bowling Green vs. Indiana State, 10:00 a.m.
Indiana State at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
Green Bay at Louisville, 3:00 p.m.
Bowling Green vs. Green Bay, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 4
Green Bay vs. Indiana State, 10:00 a.m.
Green Bay at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
Bowling Green at Louisville, 3:00 p.m.
Bowling Green vs. Indiana State, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 5
Bowling Green vs. Green Bay, 10:00 a.m.
Indiana State at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
NOTING THE FALCONS
• The Falcons have a 6-8 record on the season, heading into the weekend tournament in Louisville. BGSU is 1-3 in true road games and 5-5 in neutral-site contests. BG went a perfect 4-0 at the Cleveland Dome Tournament (Feb. 11-12), then advanced to the championship game of Charlotte's First Pitch Classic (Feb. 17-19), before dropping five games at the Mardi Gras Invitational in Lafayette, La., last weekend (Feb. 23-25).
• Redshirt junior Chelsea Raker, after hitting .611 in the Falcons' five games in the Charlotte First Pitch Classic (Feb. 17-19), batted a team-best .400 at the Mardi Gras Invitational in Lafayette, La., last weekend (Feb. 23-25). Raker had a slugging percentage of .800 and an on-base pct. of .538 during last weekend's five games.
• Raker currently leads the Mid-American Conference and ranks 23rd in the nation in doubles per game, with 0.50 two-base hits per contest. Raker is second in the MAC in on-base pct. (.532), third in runs batted in per game (1.14) and sixth in slugging pct. (.775).
• On the year, Raker is batting .450, and leads BG in hits (18), doubles (seven), homers (two - tied for team lead), RBI (16), walks (seven), total bases (31), slugging pct. and on-base pct. She has a BG-best six multiple-hit games, including three three-hit contests.
• Freshman Kendyl Wheeler is hitting .378, and ranks second on the team in at-bats and hits. She has gone 17-for-45 over her first 14 collegiate games.
• Sophomore Alex Sorgi is hitting .333 on the season, and leads the team in runs scored (13) and stolen bases (five). Sorgi, primarily a pinch-runner last year, was hitless in eight at-bats as a freshman in 2016. After going 0-for-3 in the 2017 season opener, she then put together a 10-game hitting streak, the longest by a Falcon in at least four years. Sorgi hit .467 (14-for-30) in those 10 games.
• Redshirt junior Aspen Searle is batting .304 on the young season, and ranks second on the team with four extra-base hits, 11 RBI, 22 total bases and a .478 slugging pct. Searle is tied with Raker for the BG lead with two homers.
• Freshman Logan Everett is hitting .300, while junior Katee Hinkle is batting .296. Hinkle is second on the team with eight runs scored.
• BGSU had a double-digit hit total nine times during the entire 2016 campaign (54 games), but BG has had 10 or more hits four times this season to date.
• The Falcons had a total of 23 stolen bases during all of '16. Through 14 games in 2017, BGSU has stolen 14 bases in 16 attempts.
• In the circle, four different Falcons have made a start, and all four have thrown at least one complete game. Sophomore Kiley Sosby has a 3-3 record and a team-leading 2.53 earned-run average, while classmate Meredith Miller is 2-1 with a 3.25 ERA. Sosby leads the BG staff in games started, with six, and is allowing opponents to hit just .152 against her. She has a team-high 33 strikeouts.
• Sosby is second in the MAC in hits allowed per seven innings (3.54), fourth in strikeouts per seven innings (8.3) and fifth in total strikeouts.
• Miller is allowing foes to bat just .245 against her, and has 24 strikeouts and just eight walks. She leads the Falcon pitchers in appearances (seven) and complete games (three).
• Both Sosby and Miller have one complete-game shutout this year.
• Senior Briana Combs is 1-3 with a 6.68 ERA. She has made four appearances, starting them all, this season to date. Sophomore Brooke Parker has made five appearances, starting one game, and is 0-1 with a 4.91 ERA.
• All four pitchers have thrown between 14 and 28 innings this season.
• Sosby and Parker combined on a one-hitter in Thursday's (Feb. 23) Drake game.
• The Falcons have been outscored, 59-51, this year. BG has 103 hits to the foes' 84, with a team batting average of .286 to the opponents' .250.
• BG scored 24 runs to the opponents' two in the four games in Cleveland, with a 35-11 hits advantage on the weekend. In Charlotte, the Falcons outhit the opposition, 50-32, in the five games.
• Six players – Raker, Searle, Sorgi, Wheeler, senior Haley Schrock and sophomore Hannah Giammarino – have started all 14 games, while Hinkle has made 11 starts, junior Laine Simmons 10 and Everett eight.
• Raker is hitting .458 (11-for-24) with runners on base, .474 (9-of-19) with runners in scoring position and .500 (10-for-20) with two outs. Sorgi is hitting .400 (6-of-15) with runners on base and .444 (4-for-9) with runners in scoring position.
• Raker, as mentioned, leads the Falcons with six multi-hit games, while Searle and Wheeler have five apiece. Searle and Raker each have three multiple-RBI games to tie for the BG lead in that department.
• Raker went 2-for-3 against Drake in the Falcons' first game in Louisiana. That capped a five-game stretch in which she was an incredible 13-of-18 (.722) at the plate. She had at least two hits in all five of those games, including three three-hit contests. Raker had five doubles in those five games (for a slugging pct. of 1.000) and was intentionally walked once.
• Raker had three of those doubles in a win over St. Bonaventure, tying the BGSU single-game record. Raker matched the mark set by Erin Zwinck (March 12, 1999, vs. Illinois State) and tied by Renee Rosemeier (April 28, 2002, vs. Buffalo).
• Head coach Sarah Willis and her staff – assistant coaches Katie Reiff and Lauren Gambone, volunteer assistant Lyndsey Clark and alumnae coordinator Kolleen Kopchak – welcomed back 12 letterwinners, including five starters, from a year ago.
• BGSU was picked to finish sixth in the Mid-American Conference East Division according to the MAC's preseason coaches' poll.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE OPPONENTS
• Indiana State will enter weekend action with a 5-4 record. The Sycamores went 3-1 at last weekend's WKU Hilltopper Spring Fling, scoring at least 15 runs in two of the three wins.Â
• Kassie Brown leads the team with a .458 batting average, while Brooke Mann is hitting .375 with team-leading totals of three homers and 14 RBI. In the circle, Kylie Stober has an ISU-best 3.13 ERA, while Kenzie Ihle paces the club with four wins and 24 strikeouts.
• Head coach Shane Bouman's team went 16-35 overall and 9-15 in the Missouri Valley Conference last year. Seven letterwinners, including six positional starters, returned from that club. The Sycamores were picked to finish ninth in the MVC in 2017, according to the league's preseason poll.
• Green Bay is 1-4 on the season. The Phoenix opened the season with five games in Rosemont, Ill., dropping the first four before downing IUPUI, 10-2. That tournament ran from Feb. 10-12.
• Chyanne Onstad is hitting .500, with four of her nine hits good for extra bases. Allie Taylor is batting .429 on the young season. Katie Rossman started three of the five games on opening weekend, and is 1-2.
• Last year, the Phoenix went 21-33 overall and 12-10 in the Horizon League. Green Bay was picked to place seventh in the HL in the 2017 league preseason poll. Scott Wachholz is in his first season with the Phoenix.
• Louisville is 8-6 on the year. The Cardinals went 4-1 in a tourney at UNLV, followed by a 3-1 mark at the ACC/Big 10 Challenge in Chapel Hill, N.C. Last weekend, U of L dropped four close games at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, before ending the tourney with a 4-2 win over Cal State Fullerton.
• Sidney Melton is batting .364, while Maryssa Becker is hitting .350 with a team-high three homers on the young season. Becker has started eight games in the circle, and has seven complete games, a 6-4 record and an ERA of just 0.97.
• Last year, coach Sandy Pearsall's team went 35-17 overall and 15-8 in Atlantic Coast Conference action. Pearsall and her staff welcomed back 12 letterwinners, including eight starters, from that club. Louisville was picked to finish second in the ACC race in 2017.
THE SERIES
• BGSU leads Indiana State, 3-2, in the all-time series between the teams. The Falcons and Sycamores met twice in both 1985 and 1991, with BGSU winning three of those four meetings. In the teams' last matchup, ISU captured a 5-3 decision in Bowling Green, Ky., in February of 2012.
• The Falcons trail Louisville, 2-1, in that series. BG suffered a one-run loss in Cookeville, Tenn., in 2002, before splitting a pair of games at U of L the following year. The Cards won a 5-2 game before the Falcons posted a 3-0 shutout two days later (March 9, 2003).
• The Falcons and Green Bay have never met on the softball diamond.
COMING UP...
• Following the five games in Louisville, the Falcons will play a doubleheader at Western Kentucky on Wednesday (March 8), with the first pitch of game one set for 4:00 p.m. The next day, the Falcons will begin play in the Ole Miss Tournament by taking on the host school. BGSU is also scheduled to meet Jackson State, Oklahoma State and Eastern Kentucky during that three-day (March 9-11) tourney in Oxford, Miss.
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• The Bowling Green State University softball team hits the road for a fourth tournament in as many weekends. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons will compete in the Red & Black Tournament in Louisville, Ky., this Friday through Sunday (March 3-5).
• The Falcons will play a pair of games against both Indiana State and Green Bay, and BGSU will also will take on the host school, Louisville. All games will be held at Ulmer Stadium.
BGSUÂ SOFTBALLÂ LINKS
NOTES/WEB SITE:Â BGSU (PDF Notes)Â | ISU | Green Bay | Louisville
TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Red & Black Tournament
BGSU 2017 Quick Facts
RED & BLACK TOURNAMENT • March 3-5 • Louisville, Ky.
(live stats will be available for all games; with live video for all games involving Louisville – all BGSU-related links will be available at BGSUFalcons.com)
Friday, March 3 (all times Eastern)
Bowling Green vs. Indiana State, 10:00 a.m.
Indiana State at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
Green Bay at Louisville, 3:00 p.m.
Bowling Green vs. Green Bay, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 4
Green Bay vs. Indiana State, 10:00 a.m.
Green Bay at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
Bowling Green at Louisville, 3:00 p.m.
Bowling Green vs. Indiana State, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 5
Bowling Green vs. Green Bay, 10:00 a.m.
Indiana State at Louisville, 12:30 p.m.
NOTING THE FALCONS
• The Falcons have a 6-8 record on the season, heading into the weekend tournament in Louisville. BGSU is 1-3 in true road games and 5-5 in neutral-site contests. BG went a perfect 4-0 at the Cleveland Dome Tournament (Feb. 11-12), then advanced to the championship game of Charlotte's First Pitch Classic (Feb. 17-19), before dropping five games at the Mardi Gras Invitational in Lafayette, La., last weekend (Feb. 23-25).
• Redshirt junior Chelsea Raker, after hitting .611 in the Falcons' five games in the Charlotte First Pitch Classic (Feb. 17-19), batted a team-best .400 at the Mardi Gras Invitational in Lafayette, La., last weekend (Feb. 23-25). Raker had a slugging percentage of .800 and an on-base pct. of .538 during last weekend's five games.
• Raker currently leads the Mid-American Conference and ranks 23rd in the nation in doubles per game, with 0.50 two-base hits per contest. Raker is second in the MAC in on-base pct. (.532), third in runs batted in per game (1.14) and sixth in slugging pct. (.775).
• On the year, Raker is batting .450, and leads BG in hits (18), doubles (seven), homers (two - tied for team lead), RBI (16), walks (seven), total bases (31), slugging pct. and on-base pct. She has a BG-best six multiple-hit games, including three three-hit contests.
• Freshman Kendyl Wheeler is hitting .378, and ranks second on the team in at-bats and hits. She has gone 17-for-45 over her first 14 collegiate games.
• Sophomore Alex Sorgi is hitting .333 on the season, and leads the team in runs scored (13) and stolen bases (five). Sorgi, primarily a pinch-runner last year, was hitless in eight at-bats as a freshman in 2016. After going 0-for-3 in the 2017 season opener, she then put together a 10-game hitting streak, the longest by a Falcon in at least four years. Sorgi hit .467 (14-for-30) in those 10 games.
• Redshirt junior Aspen Searle is batting .304 on the young season, and ranks second on the team with four extra-base hits, 11 RBI, 22 total bases and a .478 slugging pct. Searle is tied with Raker for the BG lead with two homers.
• Freshman Logan Everett is hitting .300, while junior Katee Hinkle is batting .296. Hinkle is second on the team with eight runs scored.
• BGSU had a double-digit hit total nine times during the entire 2016 campaign (54 games), but BG has had 10 or more hits four times this season to date.
• The Falcons had a total of 23 stolen bases during all of '16. Through 14 games in 2017, BGSU has stolen 14 bases in 16 attempts.
• In the circle, four different Falcons have made a start, and all four have thrown at least one complete game. Sophomore Kiley Sosby has a 3-3 record and a team-leading 2.53 earned-run average, while classmate Meredith Miller is 2-1 with a 3.25 ERA. Sosby leads the BG staff in games started, with six, and is allowing opponents to hit just .152 against her. She has a team-high 33 strikeouts.
• Sosby is second in the MAC in hits allowed per seven innings (3.54), fourth in strikeouts per seven innings (8.3) and fifth in total strikeouts.
• Miller is allowing foes to bat just .245 against her, and has 24 strikeouts and just eight walks. She leads the Falcon pitchers in appearances (seven) and complete games (three).
• Both Sosby and Miller have one complete-game shutout this year.
• Senior Briana Combs is 1-3 with a 6.68 ERA. She has made four appearances, starting them all, this season to date. Sophomore Brooke Parker has made five appearances, starting one game, and is 0-1 with a 4.91 ERA.
• All four pitchers have thrown between 14 and 28 innings this season.
• Sosby and Parker combined on a one-hitter in Thursday's (Feb. 23) Drake game.
• The Falcons have been outscored, 59-51, this year. BG has 103 hits to the foes' 84, with a team batting average of .286 to the opponents' .250.
• BG scored 24 runs to the opponents' two in the four games in Cleveland, with a 35-11 hits advantage on the weekend. In Charlotte, the Falcons outhit the opposition, 50-32, in the five games.
• Six players – Raker, Searle, Sorgi, Wheeler, senior Haley Schrock and sophomore Hannah Giammarino – have started all 14 games, while Hinkle has made 11 starts, junior Laine Simmons 10 and Everett eight.
• Raker is hitting .458 (11-for-24) with runners on base, .474 (9-of-19) with runners in scoring position and .500 (10-for-20) with two outs. Sorgi is hitting .400 (6-of-15) with runners on base and .444 (4-for-9) with runners in scoring position.
• Raker, as mentioned, leads the Falcons with six multi-hit games, while Searle and Wheeler have five apiece. Searle and Raker each have three multiple-RBI games to tie for the BG lead in that department.
• Raker went 2-for-3 against Drake in the Falcons' first game in Louisiana. That capped a five-game stretch in which she was an incredible 13-of-18 (.722) at the plate. She had at least two hits in all five of those games, including three three-hit contests. Raker had five doubles in those five games (for a slugging pct. of 1.000) and was intentionally walked once.
• Raker had three of those doubles in a win over St. Bonaventure, tying the BGSU single-game record. Raker matched the mark set by Erin Zwinck (March 12, 1999, vs. Illinois State) and tied by Renee Rosemeier (April 28, 2002, vs. Buffalo).
• Head coach Sarah Willis and her staff – assistant coaches Katie Reiff and Lauren Gambone, volunteer assistant Lyndsey Clark and alumnae coordinator Kolleen Kopchak – welcomed back 12 letterwinners, including five starters, from a year ago.
• BGSU was picked to finish sixth in the Mid-American Conference East Division according to the MAC's preseason coaches' poll.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE OPPONENTS
• Indiana State will enter weekend action with a 5-4 record. The Sycamores went 3-1 at last weekend's WKU Hilltopper Spring Fling, scoring at least 15 runs in two of the three wins.Â
• Kassie Brown leads the team with a .458 batting average, while Brooke Mann is hitting .375 with team-leading totals of three homers and 14 RBI. In the circle, Kylie Stober has an ISU-best 3.13 ERA, while Kenzie Ihle paces the club with four wins and 24 strikeouts.
• Head coach Shane Bouman's team went 16-35 overall and 9-15 in the Missouri Valley Conference last year. Seven letterwinners, including six positional starters, returned from that club. The Sycamores were picked to finish ninth in the MVC in 2017, according to the league's preseason poll.
• Green Bay is 1-4 on the season. The Phoenix opened the season with five games in Rosemont, Ill., dropping the first four before downing IUPUI, 10-2. That tournament ran from Feb. 10-12.
• Chyanne Onstad is hitting .500, with four of her nine hits good for extra bases. Allie Taylor is batting .429 on the young season. Katie Rossman started three of the five games on opening weekend, and is 1-2.
• Last year, the Phoenix went 21-33 overall and 12-10 in the Horizon League. Green Bay was picked to place seventh in the HL in the 2017 league preseason poll. Scott Wachholz is in his first season with the Phoenix.
• Louisville is 8-6 on the year. The Cardinals went 4-1 in a tourney at UNLV, followed by a 3-1 mark at the ACC/Big 10 Challenge in Chapel Hill, N.C. Last weekend, U of L dropped four close games at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, before ending the tourney with a 4-2 win over Cal State Fullerton.
• Sidney Melton is batting .364, while Maryssa Becker is hitting .350 with a team-high three homers on the young season. Becker has started eight games in the circle, and has seven complete games, a 6-4 record and an ERA of just 0.97.
• Last year, coach Sandy Pearsall's team went 35-17 overall and 15-8 in Atlantic Coast Conference action. Pearsall and her staff welcomed back 12 letterwinners, including eight starters, from that club. Louisville was picked to finish second in the ACC race in 2017.
THE SERIES
• BGSU leads Indiana State, 3-2, in the all-time series between the teams. The Falcons and Sycamores met twice in both 1985 and 1991, with BGSU winning three of those four meetings. In the teams' last matchup, ISU captured a 5-3 decision in Bowling Green, Ky., in February of 2012.
• The Falcons trail Louisville, 2-1, in that series. BG suffered a one-run loss in Cookeville, Tenn., in 2002, before splitting a pair of games at U of L the following year. The Cards won a 5-2 game before the Falcons posted a 3-0 shutout two days later (March 9, 2003).
• The Falcons and Green Bay have never met on the softball diamond.
COMING UP...
• Following the five games in Louisville, the Falcons will play a doubleheader at Western Kentucky on Wednesday (March 8), with the first pitch of game one set for 4:00 p.m. The next day, the Falcons will begin play in the Ole Miss Tournament by taking on the host school. BGSU is also scheduled to meet Jackson State, Oklahoma State and Eastern Kentucky during that three-day (March 9-11) tourney in Oxford, Miss.
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