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Wednesday, April 12
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Alex Sorgi & the Falcons face Miami Wednesday before hosting Buffalo this weekend (Amanda Cutcher photo)
Midweek Miami Matchup Marks #MACtion Midpoint
April 11, 2017 | Softball
Then, BGSU-Buffalo series at Meserve Field kicks off second half of league schedule
• The Bowling Green State University softball team, riding a four-game winning streak, hits the road for a midweek matchup before returning to Meserve Field this weekend. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons take on Miami University on Wednesday afternoon (April 12) in Oxford. First pitch for the Mid-American Conference East Division game is set for 3:00 p.m. at the Miami Softball Stadium.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will host the University at Buffalo in a three-game series. The Falcons and Bulls are scheduled to play a Friday (April 14) single game and a Saturday (April 15) doubleheader.
• Admission to all home Falcon softball action is free. Live stats will be available for all BGSU home games as well, and twitter updates for all BG softball action, both home and away, can be found at @BGSUSoftball on your twitter-related device.
• Live stats will be available for the game at Miami on Wednesday, and there will be a live stream (fee required) as well.
BGSU SOFTBALL LINKS
THIS WEEK'S NOTES: BGSU
BGSU 2017 Media Guide
THE OPPONENTS: Miami | Buffalo
TRUST THE PROCESS
• The Falcons opened the home portion of the schedule by winning four of five games last week. BGSU split a Tuesday (April 4) doubleheader vs. Miami before sweeping three games from Eastern Michigan over the weekend.
• The Falcons' first win over EMU was BG's 18th of the season, matching the total for all of last year. The Brown and Orange went on to take two more games from the Eagles before the weekend was done, topping last season's overall victory total and matching the 2016 MAC victory mark with over half of the conference season remaining. And, after just one week at Meserve Field, the Falcons have surpassed last year's home win total as well.
SHOWING IMPROVEMENT
Year Overall MAC Home
2016 18-36 6-17 3-11
2017 20-22 6- 5 4- 1
NOTING THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 20-22 on the season, and BGSU is 6-5 in the Mid-American Conference. BG, riding a four-game winning streak, is tied for second place in the MAC's East Division. The Falcons and Miami are a game behind first-place Ohio in the divisional standings.
• BGSU went 4-1 last week, splitting a pair of games with Miami before sweeping Eastern Michigan in a three-game series.
• Redshirt juniors Chelsea Raker and Aspen Searle are hitting .360 and .350, respectively, on the year. Both players have five homers to tie for the team lead in that category.
• Raker leads BG in runs batted in (32), on-base percentage (.434) and slugging pct. (.595), and the first baseman is second on the team in hits (45), doubles (11), total bases (71) and walks (18).
• Searle paces the Falcons in at-bats (137), hits (48), doubles (13) and total bases (76), and the shortstop is second in runs (23) and slugging pct. (.555).
• The Falcons' corner outfielders, freshman RF Kendyl Wheeler and sophomore LF Alex Sorgi, are third and fourth, respectively, on the team in batting. Wheeler is hitting .317 with a team-leading three triples on the year, and she is third on the team in total bases, with 46.
• Sorgi is batting .306 and leads the Falcons in runs (31), walks (21) and stolen bases (14). She is second on the team in on-base pct. (.400) and third in hits (41), while Wheeler is fourth on the club with 38 hits and a .383 slugging pct.
• Senior 3B Haley Schrock is batting .279 on the season, and is third on the team in doubles, homers and walks. Sorgi has 14 RBI and Schrock 13, ranking them third and fourth, respectively, in that category.
• Schrock has seven sacrifice flies this year, a new school single-season record. She leads the MAC and is tied for first in the entire nation in that category.
• Junior C Laine Simmons (.272), sophomore CF Hannah Giammarino (.260) and junior 2B Katee Hinkle (.250) all raised their batting averages at least eight points last week, with Simmons improving hers by 22 points.
• In the circle, four different Falcons have made at least four starts, and all four have thrown at least one complete game.
• Three sophomores have three or more wins apiece. Meredith Miller owns an 11-5 record and a 2.54 earned-run average. In addition to wins and ERA, Miller leads the Falcons in innings pitched (113), strikeouts (87), complete games (12) and shutouts (three).
• Sophomore Brooke Parker has five wins after going 2-0 last week. She is 5-11 on the year and has a 3.58 ERA, 39 strikeouts and a save. Another soph, Kiley Sosby, is 3-3 with a 4.32 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 34 innings. She has allowed opponents to hit just .176 against her.
• Parker and Miller combined for five complete games in as many starts last week, with Parker winning both of her decisions and Miller going 2-1. Each pitcher threw a shutout, and the duo combined to post an ERA of just 0.80 last week.
• Senior Briana Combs is 1-3 with a 6.46 ERA. She has made eight appearances, starting four games, this spring.
• The Falcons have 312 hits to the foes' 292 this year, with a team batting average of .281 to the opponents' .273.
• Four players – Raker, Schrock, Searle and Sorgi – have started all 42 games, while Wheeler has made 40 starts, Giammarino 39 and Hinkle 31. The catching platoon of Simmons and freshman Logan Everett have started 26 and 21 times, respectively, and senior OF/DP Sami Parave also has made 21 starts.
• BGSU has records of 4-13 in true road games and 12-8 in neutral-site contests this season to date.
• 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.
ADDITIONAL FALCON FACTS
• As mentioned earlier, BGSU (20-22) has topped the win total for all of last year. The 2016 club finished with an overall record of 18-36. Weather permitting, BGSU has 14 games remaining in the 2017 regular season.
• With one game remaining in the first half of the MAC schedule, the Falcons have equalled last season's conference win total. BG is 6-5 in league action after going 6-17 a year ago.
• The Falcons are 4-1 at Meserve Field after finishing with a 3-11 home mark last year.
• All of BGSU's remaining MAC games are against East Division opponents. The Falcons went 5-4 against MAC West Division foes, and BG is currently 1-1 in intra-divisional games after last week's doubleheader split with Miami.
• Sophomore Brooke Parker fired the first complete-game shutout of her career in last week's second game vs. the RedHawks. She did not allow a single Miami runner to reach third base, and only two 'Hawks advanced as far as second base in the game.
• MU had a total of just eight hits, all singles, in the two games last week. BGSU pitching surrendered 30 runs in three games vs. MU last year, but just three runs (two earned) in Tuesday's twinbill.
• Three days later, soph Meredith Miller threw her first shutout of the conference schedule, blanking Eastern Michigan on six hits. Falcon pitchers have six shutouts this season after posting just one in the 2016 campaign.
• Sophomore Kiley Sosby entered Saturday's (April 8) doubleheader with just eight at-bats this season, and none since March 19. But, she started both games at the designated-player spot, and hit a solo homer to open the scoring in the fourth inning of game two. The round-tripper was her first this year and her second as a Falcon.
• The Falcons are over .500 in MAC play for the first time since early in the 2015 league slate, when BGSU was 3-2. BG has not been over the .500 mark in league action this late in the year since the 2012 team finished the regular season with a 15-7 conference record.
• Senior 3B Haley Schrock, as mentioned earlier, has seven sacrifice flies this season, a new school record. Schrock has broken the BGSU career record as well, with nine. Redshirt junior 1B Chelsea Raker has eight career sac flies, tying her for second in BG history.
• Schrock is tied for third in program history with 76 career walks.
• Sophomore CF Hannah Giammarino is batting .391 in MAC games to date, while junior 2B Katee Hinkle is hitting .364. Freshman RF Kendyl Wheeler and junior C Laine Simmons each are hitting .333 against conference competition.
A QUICK LOOK AT MIAMI
• Miami enters Wednesday's game with a 20-16 overall record and a 6-5 MAC ledger. The RedHawks took two of three games from visiting Toledo over the weekend, scoring a total of 23 runs in the two wins.
• Michaela Schlattman is batting .368, while Kat Lee is hitting .356 on the year. Schlattman leads the RedHawks in runs (33), extra-base hits (20), on-base percentage and slugging pct. She is second on the team with seven homers, as Miami has a total of 33 round-trippers on the year.
• Shannon Hohman paces four MU pitchers with a 3.50 ERA. Hohman is 6-4, while Kelsey Fredericks has an ERA of 3.88 and is 8-6 despite making only three starts.
• Head coach Clarisa Crowell welcomed back 13 letterwinners, including eight positional starters, from last year's team that finished 35-23 overall and 15-7 in the MAC. Miami won the MAC Tournament in 2016.
SCOUTING BUFFALO
• Buffalo is 8-31 on the year, and the Bulls are 3-8 in MAC play entering a Wednesday home game vs. Akron. UB went 2-3 last week, splitting a road DH with UA before going 1-2 vs. Western Michigan. All three games vs. WMU were decided by one run.
• Leandra Jew is batting .338 on the season, while Catrell Robertson is hitting .319. Jew leads the team in on-base pct. (.410), while Robertson has a team-best slugging pct. of .458.
• In the circle, Charlotte Miller is 3-1 with a team-low ERA of 1.62. Miller is the reigning MAC East Pitcher of the Week. Ally Power (3-10, 3.34 ERA) and Bobbi Langlois (2-9, 5.47 ERA) have combined to make 22 starts.
• Head coach Trena Peel welcomed back 14 players from last year's club that went 17-37 overall and 9-14 in MAC action.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead Miami, 54-50, in the all-time series between the teams. The teams split a doubleheader at Meserve Field last week, with MU capturing the opener, 3-2, and BG bouncing back for a 2-0 win. Miami won all three of last year's meetings, including victories by scores of 7-3 and 17-3 in Oxford. Prior to last season, the teams had split their two regular-season meetings in each of four-straight years. The Falcons are 36-16 at home, 13-29 on the road and 5-5 in neutral-site meetings with the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
• BGSU leads Buffalo, 22-12, in that series, but the Bulls swept a three-game series in Western New York last April, scoring at least nine runs in each game. BGSU assistant coach Lauren Gambone, a senior on that 2016 UB team, went 5-for-9 with seven RBI in those three games. Two years ago, the Falcons won a 1-0 opener at Meserve Field, before UB rallied for a 3-1 win in the nightcap. The Falcons are 9-7 at home, 11-5 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site matchups with UB since the dawn of time.
COMING UP...
• Following the UB series, the Falcons venture to Athens for a three-game weekend set against Ohio University. The teams are scheduled to play a Friday (April 21) single game and a doubleheader the following day.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will host the University at Buffalo in a three-game series. The Falcons and Bulls are scheduled to play a Friday (April 14) single game and a Saturday (April 15) doubleheader.
• Admission to all home Falcon softball action is free. Live stats will be available for all BGSU home games as well, and twitter updates for all BG softball action, both home and away, can be found at @BGSUSoftball on your twitter-related device.
• Live stats will be available for the game at Miami on Wednesday, and there will be a live stream (fee required) as well.
BGSU SOFTBALL LINKS
THIS WEEK'S NOTES: BGSU
BGSU 2017 Media Guide
THE OPPONENTS: Miami | Buffalo
TRUST THE PROCESS
• The Falcons opened the home portion of the schedule by winning four of five games last week. BGSU split a Tuesday (April 4) doubleheader vs. Miami before sweeping three games from Eastern Michigan over the weekend.
• The Falcons' first win over EMU was BG's 18th of the season, matching the total for all of last year. The Brown and Orange went on to take two more games from the Eagles before the weekend was done, topping last season's overall victory total and matching the 2016 MAC victory mark with over half of the conference season remaining. And, after just one week at Meserve Field, the Falcons have surpassed last year's home win total as well.
SHOWING IMPROVEMENT
Year Overall MAC Home
2016 18-36 6-17 3-11
2017 20-22 6- 5 4- 1
NOTING THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 20-22 on the season, and BGSU is 6-5 in the Mid-American Conference. BG, riding a four-game winning streak, is tied for second place in the MAC's East Division. The Falcons and Miami are a game behind first-place Ohio in the divisional standings.
• BGSU went 4-1 last week, splitting a pair of games with Miami before sweeping Eastern Michigan in a three-game series.
• Redshirt juniors Chelsea Raker and Aspen Searle are hitting .360 and .350, respectively, on the year. Both players have five homers to tie for the team lead in that category.
• Raker leads BG in runs batted in (32), on-base percentage (.434) and slugging pct. (.595), and the first baseman is second on the team in hits (45), doubles (11), total bases (71) and walks (18).
• Searle paces the Falcons in at-bats (137), hits (48), doubles (13) and total bases (76), and the shortstop is second in runs (23) and slugging pct. (.555).
• The Falcons' corner outfielders, freshman RF Kendyl Wheeler and sophomore LF Alex Sorgi, are third and fourth, respectively, on the team in batting. Wheeler is hitting .317 with a team-leading three triples on the year, and she is third on the team in total bases, with 46.
• Sorgi is batting .306 and leads the Falcons in runs (31), walks (21) and stolen bases (14). She is second on the team in on-base pct. (.400) and third in hits (41), while Wheeler is fourth on the club with 38 hits and a .383 slugging pct.
• Senior 3B Haley Schrock is batting .279 on the season, and is third on the team in doubles, homers and walks. Sorgi has 14 RBI and Schrock 13, ranking them third and fourth, respectively, in that category.
• Schrock has seven sacrifice flies this year, a new school single-season record. She leads the MAC and is tied for first in the entire nation in that category.
• Junior C Laine Simmons (.272), sophomore CF Hannah Giammarino (.260) and junior 2B Katee Hinkle (.250) all raised their batting averages at least eight points last week, with Simmons improving hers by 22 points.
• In the circle, four different Falcons have made at least four starts, and all four have thrown at least one complete game.
• Three sophomores have three or more wins apiece. Meredith Miller owns an 11-5 record and a 2.54 earned-run average. In addition to wins and ERA, Miller leads the Falcons in innings pitched (113), strikeouts (87), complete games (12) and shutouts (three).
• Sophomore Brooke Parker has five wins after going 2-0 last week. She is 5-11 on the year and has a 3.58 ERA, 39 strikeouts and a save. Another soph, Kiley Sosby, is 3-3 with a 4.32 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 34 innings. She has allowed opponents to hit just .176 against her.
• Parker and Miller combined for five complete games in as many starts last week, with Parker winning both of her decisions and Miller going 2-1. Each pitcher threw a shutout, and the duo combined to post an ERA of just 0.80 last week.
• Senior Briana Combs is 1-3 with a 6.46 ERA. She has made eight appearances, starting four games, this spring.
• The Falcons have 312 hits to the foes' 292 this year, with a team batting average of .281 to the opponents' .273.
• Four players – Raker, Schrock, Searle and Sorgi – have started all 42 games, while Wheeler has made 40 starts, Giammarino 39 and Hinkle 31. The catching platoon of Simmons and freshman Logan Everett have started 26 and 21 times, respectively, and senior OF/DP Sami Parave also has made 21 starts.
• BGSU has records of 4-13 in true road games and 12-8 in neutral-site contests this season to date.
• 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.
ADDITIONAL FALCON FACTS
• As mentioned earlier, BGSU (20-22) has topped the win total for all of last year. The 2016 club finished with an overall record of 18-36. Weather permitting, BGSU has 14 games remaining in the 2017 regular season.
• With one game remaining in the first half of the MAC schedule, the Falcons have equalled last season's conference win total. BG is 6-5 in league action after going 6-17 a year ago.
• The Falcons are 4-1 at Meserve Field after finishing with a 3-11 home mark last year.
• All of BGSU's remaining MAC games are against East Division opponents. The Falcons went 5-4 against MAC West Division foes, and BG is currently 1-1 in intra-divisional games after last week's doubleheader split with Miami.
• Sophomore Brooke Parker fired the first complete-game shutout of her career in last week's second game vs. the RedHawks. She did not allow a single Miami runner to reach third base, and only two 'Hawks advanced as far as second base in the game.
• MU had a total of just eight hits, all singles, in the two games last week. BGSU pitching surrendered 30 runs in three games vs. MU last year, but just three runs (two earned) in Tuesday's twinbill.
• Three days later, soph Meredith Miller threw her first shutout of the conference schedule, blanking Eastern Michigan on six hits. Falcon pitchers have six shutouts this season after posting just one in the 2016 campaign.
• Sophomore Kiley Sosby entered Saturday's (April 8) doubleheader with just eight at-bats this season, and none since March 19. But, she started both games at the designated-player spot, and hit a solo homer to open the scoring in the fourth inning of game two. The round-tripper was her first this year and her second as a Falcon.
• The Falcons are over .500 in MAC play for the first time since early in the 2015 league slate, when BGSU was 3-2. BG has not been over the .500 mark in league action this late in the year since the 2012 team finished the regular season with a 15-7 conference record.
• Senior 3B Haley Schrock, as mentioned earlier, has seven sacrifice flies this season, a new school record. Schrock has broken the BGSU career record as well, with nine. Redshirt junior 1B Chelsea Raker has eight career sac flies, tying her for second in BG history.
• Schrock is tied for third in program history with 76 career walks.
• Sophomore CF Hannah Giammarino is batting .391 in MAC games to date, while junior 2B Katee Hinkle is hitting .364. Freshman RF Kendyl Wheeler and junior C Laine Simmons each are hitting .333 against conference competition.
A QUICK LOOK AT MIAMI
• Miami enters Wednesday's game with a 20-16 overall record and a 6-5 MAC ledger. The RedHawks took two of three games from visiting Toledo over the weekend, scoring a total of 23 runs in the two wins.
• Michaela Schlattman is batting .368, while Kat Lee is hitting .356 on the year. Schlattman leads the RedHawks in runs (33), extra-base hits (20), on-base percentage and slugging pct. She is second on the team with seven homers, as Miami has a total of 33 round-trippers on the year.
• Shannon Hohman paces four MU pitchers with a 3.50 ERA. Hohman is 6-4, while Kelsey Fredericks has an ERA of 3.88 and is 8-6 despite making only three starts.
• Head coach Clarisa Crowell welcomed back 13 letterwinners, including eight positional starters, from last year's team that finished 35-23 overall and 15-7 in the MAC. Miami won the MAC Tournament in 2016.
SCOUTING BUFFALO
• Buffalo is 8-31 on the year, and the Bulls are 3-8 in MAC play entering a Wednesday home game vs. Akron. UB went 2-3 last week, splitting a road DH with UA before going 1-2 vs. Western Michigan. All three games vs. WMU were decided by one run.
• Leandra Jew is batting .338 on the season, while Catrell Robertson is hitting .319. Jew leads the team in on-base pct. (.410), while Robertson has a team-best slugging pct. of .458.
• In the circle, Charlotte Miller is 3-1 with a team-low ERA of 1.62. Miller is the reigning MAC East Pitcher of the Week. Ally Power (3-10, 3.34 ERA) and Bobbi Langlois (2-9, 5.47 ERA) have combined to make 22 starts.
• Head coach Trena Peel welcomed back 14 players from last year's club that went 17-37 overall and 9-14 in MAC action.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead Miami, 54-50, in the all-time series between the teams. The teams split a doubleheader at Meserve Field last week, with MU capturing the opener, 3-2, and BG bouncing back for a 2-0 win. Miami won all three of last year's meetings, including victories by scores of 7-3 and 17-3 in Oxford. Prior to last season, the teams had split their two regular-season meetings in each of four-straight years. The Falcons are 36-16 at home, 13-29 on the road and 5-5 in neutral-site meetings with the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
• BGSU leads Buffalo, 22-12, in that series, but the Bulls swept a three-game series in Western New York last April, scoring at least nine runs in each game. BGSU assistant coach Lauren Gambone, a senior on that 2016 UB team, went 5-for-9 with seven RBI in those three games. Two years ago, the Falcons won a 1-0 opener at Meserve Field, before UB rallied for a 3-1 win in the nightcap. The Falcons are 9-7 at home, 11-5 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site matchups with UB since the dawn of time.
COMING UP...
• Following the UB series, the Falcons venture to Athens for a three-game weekend set against Ohio University. The teams are scheduled to play a Friday (April 21) single game and a doubleheader the following day.
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