It's 1 v 2 as Falcons Head to Morgantown to Face League-Leading WVU

FALCONS at WEST VIRGINIA – Friday, Oct. 26
• 7:00 p.m. | Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium | Morgantown, W.Va.
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UP NEXT IN FALCON SOCCER
• The Bowling Green State University men's soccer team, looking to extend a six-match unbeaten streak, hits the road for a key Mid-American Conference contest this weekend. Head coach Eric Nichols and the Falcons, currently second in the MAC standings, travel to Morgantown to meet league-leading West Virginia University on Friday evening (Oct. 26). Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

• Then, BGSU will return home to close the regular season against SIUE on Saturday, Nov. 3. That match will begin at 7:00 p.m. at Cochrane Stadium. Admission is free to all Falcon home regular-season soccer matches.

THE FALCONS AND THE MAC RACE
• With 60 percent of the conference schedule completed, the Falcons currently sit in second place in the MAC standings. BGSU is four points behind Friday's opponent, West Virginia, in the standings, and the Falcons are one point ahead of third-place SIUE. BG hosts the Cougars to end the regular season on Sat., Nov. 3.

• For the first time in a decade, every school qualifies for the MAC Tournament. First-round (quarterfinal) matches will be held at campus sites on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and the top-two seeds will earn byes. The regular-season champion will host the semifinals (Friday, Nov. 9) and championship (Sunday, Nov. 11).

• The current MAC standings and remaining conference matches for each team ...

MAC STANDINGS & REMAINING SCHEDULE
Team W-L-T Pts. Remaining MAC Matches
1. West Virginia (11-5-0) 3-0-0 9   v BGSU @NIU
2. Bowling Green (5-5-4) 1-0-2 5   @WVU v SIUE
3. SIUE (9-2-4) 1-1-1 4   v Akron @BGSU
4. Northern Ill. (8-6-1) 1-2-0 3   @WMU v WVU
5. Western Mich. (8-5-3) 0-1-2 2   v NIU   @Akron
6. Akron (6-6-2) 0-2-1 1   @SIUE   v WMU
teams earn 3 pts for a win, 1 for a tie – complete list of MAC results on page 7

SIX-SHOOTERS
• The Falcons' 2-0 win at Cincinnati on Tuesday night (Oct. 23) increased BGSU's current unbeaten streak to six matches. BG is 4-0-2 since a Sept. 22 loss on an overtime penalty kick at Purdue Fort Wayne.

• BGSU's current unbeaten streak is the Falcons' longest in over two decades, since the 1997 team reeled off an 11-match unbeaten streak (all wins) which took that club all the way to the second round of the NCAA Championships.

WORKING OVERTIME
• All three of BGSU's Mid-American Conference matches this season to date have gone to overtime. The Falcons defeated Northern Illinois on the road on a Golden Goal by junior Charlie Maciejewski, and BG played both Akron and Western Michigan to a draw at Cochrane Stadium.

• In all, BGSU has played seven overtime matches this season. The school record for OT matches in a season is nine, set by the 2013 team. Both the 1984 Falcons and the 2003 club saw a total of eight games go to overtime.

ROBERTSON'S ON A ROLL
• Senior Tate Robertson was involved in the scoring of both goals in Tuesday's win at Cincinnati, scoring the first goal and setting up the second. Robertson now has totals of four goals, nine assists and 17 points, and he leads the team in all three categories.

• Robertson has been directly involved in the scoring of 13 of BGSU's 18 goals this fall, including nine of the Falcons' last 11 goals.

• The tri-captain has 12 points during BGSU's six-match unbeaten streak, with four goals and four assists in that time.

• In his BGSU career, Robertson now has totals of 20 assists and 36 points. He leads all active Falcons in both categories, and is just two helpers away from moving into the top-10 on that BG career list.

CHARLIE IS GOLDEN
• Junior Charlie Maciejewski scored in overtime in back-to-back road matches at IUPUI (Oct. 9) and Northern Illinois (Oct. 13). The first goal came with just 3.5 seconds remaining in the first scheduled OT period in Indy, and the latter came roughly seven minutes into overtime in DeKalb.

• Maciejewski now has three career goals. All three have come on the road. One came with under two minutes left in regulation and tied the match, and the other two came in OT. And, two of the three goals have come with the Falcons playing at least one man down.

BREATHING ROOM
• BGSU's win at Cincinnati was the Falcons' first multiple-goal victory of the season. Prior to Tuesday, BG's last two-goal win was a 3-1 victory over Northern Illinois on Oct. 28, 2017.

• The UC match was the Falcons' first multi-goal win on the road since a 2-0 triumph at Penn on Sept. 3, 2017.

A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FALCONS
• BGSU enters the WVU match with a record of 5-5-4 on the season, and the Falcons are 1-0-2 in MAC play. BG is in second place in the six-team conference entering this weekend's match against the first-place Mountaineers.

• The Falcons, as mentioned, are unbeaten in the last six matches. Four-straight contests during that stretch went to overtime, including a scoreless draw with Akron (Oct. 6) and road wins vs. IUPUI (3-2; Oct. 9) and Northern Illinois (2-1; Oct. 13). BG tied Western Michigan, 1-1, at Cochrane Stadium on Saturday (Oct. 20) before going to Cincinnati and closing out the non-conference schedule with a 2-0 win Tuesday night.

• The Falcons are 1-2-3 at home and 4-3-1 on the road. BGSU has scored 18 goals and allowed 20 this season to date. The Falcons have scored two or more goals in five of the last seven contests.

• BGSU began the season with a 1-5-2 record, but among those results was a scoreless draw with Wright State. That result has proven to be more impressive as time has passed, as the Raiders are now 12-1-2 and ranked 16th in the nation.

• Senior Tate Robertson leads the Falcons with 17 points, and has been involved in the scoring of 13 of BGSU's 18 goals this fall. Robertson has four goals, including two game-winning goals, and nine assists. He leads BG in goals and assists, as well as points, and is tied for the team GWG lead.

• Senior Ebenezer Ackon and sophomores Chris Sullivan and Vinny Worner all have seven points. Ackon has three goals to rank second on the Falcons, while Sullivan and Worner each have two goals and three helpers.

• Junior Charlie Maciejewski has five points this season, including a pair of Golden Goals, while senior Peter Pugliese also has five points, all on assists.

• Maciejewski is the first Falcon with two Golden Goals in a season since 2014, when Max Auden and Jacob Roth each had a pair of OT winners. That '14 team won no fewer than five matches in overtime en route to the championship match of the MAC Tournament.

• Junior Anthony Mwembia has played all 14 matches in goal, and has 47 total saves, three shutouts and a goals-against average of 1.33.

• In BG's 14 matches, the Falcons have been shut out five times, scored one goal on two occasions, and scored two or more goals seven times.

• Four different Falcons have started all 14 games this fall. That list includes Mwembia, Robertson, Sullivan and sophomore Zach Buescher. A total of 16 Falcons have made at least one start this season, and 13 different players have started at least eight matches to date.

• Mwembia has been on the pitch for every second of every match so far, while Buescher has played 1326 of the 1358-plus minutes. Sullivan (1311), Robertson (1281) and senior Moe Mustafa (1278) are close behind.

TWO GOALS (USUALLY) DOES THE TRICK
• Prior to this season, the Falcons had a record of 50-4-6 when scoring two goals in a match in the Eric Nichols Era. BGSU has lost twice this year when doing so, but the Falcons are 5-2-0 in such matches this season to date. BG is now 55-6-6 when scoring two or more goals in the Nichols Era.

THE OPPONENT
• West Virginia is 11-5-0 overall, and the Mountaineers sit atop the MAC standings with a 3-0-0 league record. WVU is coming off a 2-1 win over Pitt on Tuesday night, and the team's league wins include a 5-1 home victory vs. SIUE last weekend, as well as 2-1 road wins over Western Michigan and Akron. WVU is 7-1 at home and 4-3 on the road. Joey Piatczyc leads the team with six assists and 16 points, and both Piatczyc and Pascal Derwaritsch have five goals this fall. Steven Tekesky has started every match in goal, and has five shutouts and a GAA of 1.00. Last year, coach Marlon LeBlanc's team went 9-6-4 overall and 1-2-2 in the MAC, and WVU returned 15 letterwinners from that club.

THE SERIES
• BGSU leads West Virginia, 6-2-3, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Falcons are unbeaten in the last four meetings. Last year, the teams battled to a scoreless draw at Cochrane. BG picked up a 1-0 win in the last trip to Morgantown, in the 2016 MAC opener. The Falcons are 2-1-1 at home, 1-1-1 on the road and 3-0-1 at neutral sites vs. WVU through the years.

DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the WVU match, the Falcons will end the regular season by hosting SIUE on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Cochrane Stadium. It will be Senior Night, with the Falcons' four seniors – Ebenezer Ackon, Moe Mustafa, Peter Pugliese and Tate Robertson – recognized in ceremonies prior to kickoff. Admission to all Falcon futbol home regular-season action is free.

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