MAC Champions Close Out Regular-Season Schedule vs. UT Thursday

FALCONS vs. TOLEDO – Thursday, Oct. 25
• 3:00 p.m. | Cochrane Stadium | Bowling Green, Ohio
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FALCONS vs. TBA – Sunday, Oct. 28 – MAC Tournament Quarterfinal
• 1:00 p.m. | Cochrane Stadium | Bowling Green, Ohio
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UP NEXT IN FALCON SOCCER
• The Bowling Green State University women's soccer team, having clinched the Mid-American Conference regular-season championship, will play a pair of home matches this week. Head coach Matt Fannon and the Falcons wrap up the regular season on Thursday (Oct. 25) afternoon, facing the arch-rival University of Toledo. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. at Cochrane Stadium, and admission is free.

• Then, the Brown and Orange will face an opponent to be determined in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament on Sunday (Oct. 28). That contest is scheduled for a 1:00 p.m. start at Cochrane, and admission will be free for that match as well.

MAC CHAMPS! FALCONS CAPTURE CONFERENCE REGULAR-SEASON CROWN
• With a 5-0 win at Buffalo on Sunday (Oct. 21), the Falcons clinched the second regular-season championship in the 22-year history of the program. The 2005 team was the only previous BG club to capture a regular-season title.

• BGSU's total of nine conference wins ties the school record. That '05 club went 9-2-0 in league play. If the Falcons beat Toledo on Thursday, this year's team would finish with the highest MAC winning percentage in school history, and the 2018 Falcons would tie for the third-best winning percentage in MAC history.

MAC RECORD BOOK – HIGHEST WINNING PERCENTAGE, SEASON
.955 (10-0-1) Miami, 2012
.917 (11-1-0) Miami, 2002
.909 (10-1-0) Ball State, 2015; Toledo, 2010; CMU, 2010
.909 (9-0-2) CMU, 2009; Buffalo, 2014
.900 (9-1-0) Ohio, 1998; NIU, 1998; Bowling Green, 2018
.864 (9-1-1) Ball State, 2007; Toledo, 2011; Ball State, 2016
.857 (6-1-0) NIU, 1997
.833 (10-2-0) Ohio, 2001
.818 (9-2-0) Bowling Green, 2005; CMU, 2012; Kent State, 2017
.818 (8-1-2)   EMU, 1999; CMU, 2011; Kent State, 2016, Ball State, 2017

START FAST, FINISH STRONG
• BGSU scored early and often on Sunday at Buffalo, rolling along to a 5-0 win and clinching the conference regular-season crown in the process.

• Senior Laura Bozzelli scored BG's first goal at the 10:30 mark. It was her first collegiate goal, and also proved to be her first career game-winning goal.

• After scoring the first goal of the match just once in the first five contests of the season, the Falcons have scored first in 11 of the last 12 matches.

• Believe it or not, Bozzelli's goal was only the fifth-earliest goal the Falcons have scored in MAC play this fall. BGSU has scored a goal in less than eight minutes in four MAC matches, and the Falcons have taken the lead with under 15 minutes elapsed in no fewer than six of the 10 MAC matchups.

• BGSU scored just 1:50 into the MAC campaign (in the league opener at Miami), and the Falcons have also scored at the 2:51 mark (vs. Kent State), the 3:09 mark (at Ball State) and the 7:19 mark (vs. Ohio). In another "believe it or not" situation, junior Chelsee Washington scored all four of the aforementioned goals.

• On the year, BGSU is now 11-0-1 when scoring first, and the Falcons are 0-4-1 when the opponent scores first.

GREAT START!
• The Falcons got off to an 8-0-0 start in MAC play for the first time in program history before losing a 1-0 decision at Akron. Entering the UT match, BGSU has outscored the opponents, 25-4, in conference contests to date. BG's MAC start was by far the best in program history.

• Prior to this season, the only Falcon team to win as many as three-straight games to kick off the conference campaign was the 2000 club. Only five BGSU teams – the 1999, 2000, '06 and '10 clubs and this year's squad – began the MAC schedule with as many as two consecutive wins.

A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 11-4-2 this season, and BGSU enters the Toledo match with a 9-1-0 record in conference play. As mentioned, the Falcons have clinched the 2018 MAC regular-season title.

• BGSU won nine-straight games before dropping a 1-0 decision at Akron on Thursday (Oct. 18), but the Falcons bounced back with a 5-0 win at Buffalo three days later.

• The Falcons are 7-1-1 at home, 4-3 on the road and 0-0-1 in neutral-site matches this season to date. BGSU has outscored opponents, 36-10, including 25-4 in the 10 conference contests.

• BGSU has scored two or more goals in a match on 10 occasions this season, including eight times in 10 MAC contests. The Falcons have allowed as many as two goals only once, in a 2-0 loss at No. 15 Northwestern.

• Following that Northwestern match on Sept. 9, BGSU never trailed at any point in any game until Akron scored with just 1:41 left in Thursday's contest. The Falcons had gone a total of 1008:19 – nearly 17 hours of match time – without finding themselves behind on the scoreboard.

• Senior Erica Hubert and junior Chelsee Washington have paced the BG attack. Hubert exploded for an eight-point match at Buffalo, with a hat trick and a pair of assists, and how has BGSU-leading totals of 12 goals, nine assists and 33 points. Washington has nine goals, eight helpers and 26 points, and the junior has scored a team-leading four game-winning goals. She was named the United Soccer Coaches National Player of the Week on Sept. 25.

• Junior Maureen Kennedy and redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox each have 14 points. Cox is third on the team with six goals, including the GWG in back-to-back wins over Eastern Michigan and Kent State. Kennedy has eight assists to tie Hubert for the team lead, and also has two GWGs on the year. Additionally, Kennedy is one-third of a veteran back line (along with seniors Morgan Abbitt and Alexis Fricke) that has helped BG to six shutouts in 10 MAC matches.

• Junior Kathleen Duwve has started all 17 matches in goal this season, and has 66 saves and a goals-against average of just 0.61. She has posted five complete-match shutouts and combined on three other clean sheets.

• In MAC games only, Hubert leads the league in goals (8), assists (7) and points (23), while Washington is second in goals (7) and points (19), and Washington and Kennedy are among a four-way tie for second in the league in assists.

• Duwve's GAA in MAC action is 0.43. She has allowed just four goals in 837-plus minutes, and has a saves percentage of .900 in conference clashes this season. She leads the MAC in GAA and saves pct., both overall and in league games only.

• Head coach Matt Fannon and his staff – assistant coaches Cian McDonald, Dan Ball and Erin Kielmeyer – welcomed back 18 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's team. BGSU finished the 2017 season with an overall record of 13-7-1, and the Falcons placed second in the MAC's East Division.

• The Falcons are 15-5-1 in MAC regular-season matches and 17-6-1 in all games vs. conference foes since Fannon assumed the helm prior to the 2017 season.

A FEW MORE FASCINATING FALCON FUTBOL FACTS
• Sunday's (Oct. 21) 5-0 win at Buffalo was the Falcons' 24th victory since Matt Fannon was named head coach prior to the 2017 season. BGSU has an overall record of 24-11-3 in that time.

• BGSU's total of 24 overall wins since Fannon's arrival includes 15 MAC regular-season victories. During the previous eight seasons (2009-16), BG won a total of 15 MAC regular-season matches. The Falcons were 15-61-12 in MAC play in that eight-year stretch, but BG is 15-5-1 in the league over the last two years.

• In the Fannon Era, BGSU is a perfect 23-0-0 when scoring at least two goals, and the Falcons are 1-11-3 when being held to fewer than two goals.

• The Falcons have a record of 7-1-1 at home this season, and BGSU is 12-1-1 at Cochrane Stadium in the last 14 matches. In that time, the Falcons have outscored the opponents, 37-9, at Cochrane.

• BGSU's total of five goals at Buffalo was the team's highest in a MAC game in 16 years, since a 7-0 dismantling of WMU at Cochrane Stadium in October of 2002. Sunday's goal total also was the Falcons' highest output in a MAC road game in program history. BG scored four goals on three prior occasions on the road (at Northern Illinois in 2001, Marshall in '03 and Eastern Michigan in 2010).

THE OPPONENTS
• Toledo is 8-8-2 overall, and the Rockets are 4-5-1 in MAC play. UT is currently tied for eighth in the league standings, but if the season ended today, the Rockets would lose the tiebreaker for the eighth and final MAC Tournament berth. After winning three-straight matches in the middle of the league schedule, the Rockets are winless in the last four contests. UT is 0-3-1 in that time, with three 1-0 losses including setbacks at Buffalo and Akron last week. Toledo is 3-4-1 at home and 5-4-1 on the road this season. Hannah Scafaria leads the team with 13 goals and 27 points on the season, while Sophia Lewis has 15 points, including a team-high seven assists. Madison Perrin has played in 16 of the 18 matches in goal, and has 64 saves, four shutouts and a 1.15 GAA. Last year, coach TJ Buchholz's club went 12-8-3 overall and 6-3-2 in the MAC, and the Rockets won the MAC Tournament championship.

THE SERIES
• BGSU trails Toledo, 15-7-4, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Rockets have captured the last 11 meetings. UT won a pair of 2-1 decisions last season, including the regular-season matchup in the Glass City and an overtime victory in the MAC Tournament's championship match in Kent, Ohio. The teams' last meeting at Cochrane, in 2016, also resulted in a 2-1 UT win. BGSU is 1-7-3 at home, 6-7-0 on the road and 0-1-1 in neutral-site matches vs. UT through the years.

DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the UT match, the Falcons will remain at home as the MAC Tournament begins. BGSU, the number-one seed for the tournament, will host an opponent to be determined in a quarterfinal-round match on Sunday (Oct. 28) at 1:00 p.m. at Cochrane Stadium.

• If BGSU advances past the quarterfinals, the remainder of the MAC Tournament will be held at Cochrane as well.

• The four quarterfinal-round survivors will meet at the site of the highest-remaining seed for the semifinal round on Friday, Nov. 2. The MAC Tournament's championship match is set for Sunday, Nov. 4, at the semifinal site.

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