Hawai'i Nets Golden Goal to Down Falcons, 1-0

Sunday, August 19

Honolulu, HI

5:00 PM HT (11:00 PM ET)

Bowling Green State University

0-1-1

Hawai'i

1-1-0

OT 2

Bowling Green

Hawaii

Kathleen Duwve made 10 saves in Sunday's match

Photo by: BGSU Strategic Communications

August 20, 2018 | Women's Soccer

Box Score Final Statistics (PDF)

BGSU faces Oakland in Saturday's home opener

By: HONOLULU, Hawai'i (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Raisa Strom-Okimoto broke a scoreless deadlock just over five minutes into overtime, giving the University of Hawai'i a 1-0 win over the Bowling Green State University women's soccer team Sunday (Aug. 19) in Honolulu. The match, part of the Outrigger Soccer Kickoff, was held at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium.

BGSU junior Kathleen Duwve made 10 saves for the Falcons, who drop to 0-1-1 on the young season.

QUOTING COACH FANNON
"We have to learn quickly that being the better team and creating the most key chances all amounts to nothing if we don't take care of the big moments. We feel like we should be leaving Hawai'i with two wins. But, that is not how the game works, and we need to get our winning habits back."

HUBERT NAMED TO ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
• Redshirt senior Erica Hubert was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Outrigger Soccer Kickoff. Hubert had team-high totals of six shot attempts and three shots on goal in the two matches in Honolulu.

FIRST-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 4' | Duwve was tested with 3:43 gone, and the junior made the save on a shot by Mikaelah Johnson-Griggs. Duwve would make another save on Johnson-Griggs at the 11:25 mark, her third save in the early going.
• 14' | BG's first shot of the night came from Friday's goal-scorer. Redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox, who found the back of the net in BGSU's season-opening 1-1 draw with Loyola Marymount, uncorked a shot with 13:05 elapsed, but it was saved by UH 'keeper Alexis Mata.
• 16' | Duwve made a total of eight saves during all of last season. On Sunday, she made four stops within the first 15:18 of the match, denying Strom-Okimoto for the fourth of those saves.
• 31' | Freshman Emilie Reese and junior Chelsee Washington put shots on frame within moments of one another, but both efforts were denied by Mata.
• 45' | Duwve made a great diving stop just before the end of the opening period, going to her left to keep a Claire Jo Diede shot from finding the net. The save was Duwve's sixth of the half.

SECOND-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 49' | Senior Erica Hubert fired a shot after a corner kick by junior Maureen Kennedy, but Hubert's try was blocked.
• 59' | The teams combined for 12 shots in the first half, but six in the opening 13-plus minutes of the second half. Washington's second shot of the second half was on frame, but Mata made the stop to keep the match scoreless.
• 76' | Senior Alexis Fricke got forward and fired a shot, but it went over the target.
• 89' | A shot by Hubert forced Mata to make a great save with just over one minute remaining in regulation.

OVERTIME HIGHLIGHTS
• 95' | Duwve's 10th save of the night came against Kayla Ryan just over four minutes into overtime.
• 96' | Strom-Okimoto broke the scoreless deadlock at the 95:07 mark, giving the hosts the victory.

FALCON NOTES
• A total of 22 of the 30 players on the BGSU roster saw action in Sunday's match. That number includes 21 of the team's 26 field players.
• A pair of freshmen were in the starting lineup for head coach Matt Fannon's team. Alexis Miller made her second consecutive start for the Falcons, while Mackenzie Reuber was in the starting XI for the first time in her young BGSU career.
• Two Falcon freshmen, Ruby Linton and Zoe Hudson, made their respective BGSU debuts during the first half of Sunday's match. In all, a total of six true freshmen – Hudson, Linton, Miller, Reuber, Emilie Reese and Lynsey Spotts – saw action vs. UH.
• Another BGSU newcomer, redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox, started each match in Hawai'i. Cox, a transfer from UNC-Wilmington, made a total of 18 starts during her time with the Seahawks.
• In addition to Cox, Miller and Reuber, Sunday's starting lineup also included seniors Morgan Abbitt, Alexis Fricke and Marissa Swindell; juniors Kathleen Duwve, Maureen Kennedy, Kristin Tveit and Chelsee Washington; and sophomore Sophia Barnes.
• Duwve made a total of eight saves during all of last season. In 2018, she had matched that total by halftime of the season's second match. After stopping two shots vs. Loyola Marymount on Friday, Duwve made six saves during the first half of Sunday's contest vs. the Rainbow Wahine. She had 10 saves on the night and has 12 on the young season.
• With 10 total stops vs. Hawai'i, Duwve posted the fourth double-digit save total of her BGSU career.
• Duwve had a goals-against average of just 0.88 in the two matches in Hawai'i, with a saves percentage of .857. She made 12 saves in 205-plus minutes of action.
• Sunday's match marked the second-ever meeting between BGSU and UH in women's soccer. Hawai'i now leads the series, 2-0-0.
• BGSU now has an all-time record of 21-29-39 in overtime matches.
• The Falcons have gone to overtime twice in as many matches, after playing a total of three OT contests during all of last season. The last time BG saw back-to-back matches go to overtime was in early October of 2014, when the Falcons split a pair of 1-0 matches vs. Akron (win; Oct. 5) and Central Michigan (loss; Oct. 10).
• The Falcons were shut out for just the second time in 23 matches since Matt Fannon was named head coach. BGSU was blanked only once last year, vs. Butler (Aug. 27, 2017).

WHAT'S NEXT?
• The Falcons will open the home portion of the 2018 regular-season schedule on Saturday (Aug. 25), facing Oakland University in a 2:00 p.m. start at Cochrane Stadium. Admission is free to all BGSU regular-season home soccer action.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
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