Falcons Celebrate Senior Day in Style With 6-0 Win over YSU

Sunday, September 16

Bowling Green, OH

1:00 PM

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Youngstown State

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Youngstown State

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BGSU women's soccer Senior Day - Sept 16 2018

Photo by: Larry Clapper

September 16, 2018 | Women's Soccer

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Five-point days for Hubert, Washington; BGSU fires 40 shots in shutout win

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Erica Hubert and Chelsee Washington each scored twice as the Bowling Green State University women's soccer team rolled along to a 6-0 win over Youngstown State University Sunday afternoon (Sept. 16). The Senior Day match, BGSU's final non-conference game of 2018, was held at Cochrane Stadium.

Marissa Swindell and Rachel Muller also scored for the Falcons, who outshot the Penguins, 40-1, in the win. Head coach Matt Fannon's program recognized the team's nine seniors prior to kickoff.

Junior Maureen Kennedy had two assists in the victory. A total of 27 players, including three goalkeepers, saw action for the Brown and Orange in the win.

RANDOM NOTE OF THE DAY
• The Falcons' total of six goals was the team's highest in just over four years, since an 8-0 win at Chicago State on Sept. 7, 2014. Sunday's YSU match marked BGSU's highest goal output at Cochrane Stadium in a decade, since a 7-0 victory against Tennessee Tech on Sept. 12, 2008.

THANK YOU SENIORS: Even in a video with no sound, you can tell our seniors are a special group ! #FIGHTFORBGSU pic.twitter.com/rsprheVSZF
— BGSU Women's Soccer (@BGSUWSoccer) September 16, 2018

FIRST-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 2' | Freshman Mackenzie Reuber hit a right-side cross into the six-yard box. YSU starting goalkeeper Kate McEachern tipped the ball away, but into the path of senior Marissa Swindell. Swindell's shot, however, was wide right.
• 3' | Junior Chelsee Washington put senior Erica Hubert through, but Hubert's shot from the left side was blocked.
• 7' | Hubert cross the ball into the area from the left side. Washington met it and hit a sweet one-time volley, but a YSU defender was in the right place at the right time to block the shot, and it went out of play for the first of BGSU's 13 corner kicks.
• 8 ' | Off of that Hubert corner, redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox headed the ball on target, but McEachern was there to make the save.
• 14' | Junior Maureen Kennedy played a ball ahead to Hubert, who cut back and hit a shot, but that effort was blocked.
• 19' | After a YSU foul, Kennedy's free kick was on target, but McEachern made a diving save. Just over a minute later, however, the Falcons were on the board.
• 20' | GOAL | The Penguins were whistled for another foul, and Washington took the ensuing free kick. The junior hit a hard, low shot that found the left corner of the net, just inside the post, and the Falcons had the lead.
• 24' | GOAL | Kennedy took a free kick on the left side of the pitch, near the corner of the18-yard box. She hit a ball into the box, where Washington and a YSU defender were stationed. The low kick glanced off of the boot of a Penguin player, and Washington, from approximately eight yards out, redirected the ball into the right side of the net.
• 27' | After a BG corner kick was knocked out of the box, senior Jennifer Reyes played the ball to Reuber on the right side, and the freshman crossed it back in. Washington, in a bid for a first-half hat trick, got her head on the ball and put it on goal, but McEachern was in position to make the stop.
• 40' | With just under six minutes left in the half, senior Laura Bozzelli hit a hard shot from the top of the box. The shot was blocked and caromed toward the right side of the six-yard box, near the end line. Redshirt sophomore Rachel Muller quickly pounced on the rebound and, from a difficult angle, put a shot on frame that forced McEachern into an acrobatic, leaping save.

SECOND-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 50' | BG possessed the ball for the lion's share of the match, and Swindell and sophomore Nikhita Jacob combined to move the ball toward the left side of the field. Kennedy played a long ball forward for Hubert. Hubert headed into the box and hit a wicked volley, but the hard shot whizzed over the goal.
• 56' | GOAL | Washington knocked the ball toward the center of the pitch, and after the Penguins were unsuccessful in a bid to clear it, Hubert picked it up, took two touches and hit a turnaround blast from outside of the box. The shot found the upper half of the net, and the Falcons had a three-goal lead.
• 58' | Hubert saw her one-timer knocked away, and then after a Kennedy corner kick sailed toward the far side of a crowded penalty area, Washington hit a bullet, but YSU 'keeper Zeeyana Jivraj, who had drifted toward the ball while the corner kick was in flight, somehow was able to make a point-blank save.
• 60' | GOAL | Kennedy took a pass from Jacob and played a gorgeous left-to-right diagonal ball into the box. The ball cleared the YSU back line and landed on the boot of Swindell. The senior quickly sent the ball back the other way and into the lower-left-hand corner of the goal. Kennedy and Jacob picked up assists on the play.
• 62' | A pass by Jacob found an open Reyes in the penalty area, but the senior's blast hit the crossbar, and her rebound try sailed high.
• 69' | Freshman Sarah Allen made a long run past four or five would-be defenders, eventually winning a corner kick. BG had back-to-back corners, and on the second, freshman Lynsey Spotts outleaped numerous players to get a head on the ball, but her shot went over the bar.
• 74' | Allen's cross found Bozzelli in the box, and the senior hit a quick, off-balance shot that went just wide of the right post.
• 77' | GOAL | Hubert used her considerable speed to save a ball just before it went over the end line. She served it into the box, and Bozzelli tapped it to Muller on the right side of the box. Muller lofted a perfectly-placed shot over the YSU defense and just under the crossbar for a 5-0 BG lead.
• 79' | A hard shot off the boot of freshman Ruby Linton was saved.
• 82' | Bozzelli stole the ball on the right side of the YSU 18-yard box, and slid it toward Swindell in the center of the box. The ball eventually found its way to senior Elisa Baeron just outside the 18, but her hard shot went over the bar.
• 82' | GOAL | Less than a minute later, after the YSU goal kick, Swindell stole the ball and quickly got it to Hubert in the box. The senior striker beat Jivraj, who had no chance on the play, to cap the scoring.
• 89' | With just over a minute to go, freshman Zoe Hudson's cross into the box was headed on target by Cox, but Jivraj made the stop.

STATISTICS
• The Falcons, as mentioned, fired a whopping 40 shots in the match. the fourth-highest total in school history. BGSU held the Penguins to only one shot attempt in the entire 90 minutes.
• After outshooting the visitors, 16-1, in the first half, BG owned a 24-0 advantage in the second half.
• The Falcons had 19 shots on goal, tied for the fourth-highest total in school history.
• Youngstown State's totals of one shot attempt and zero shots on goal tied the BGSU records for fewest shots and SOG allowed by an opponent.
• For just the third time in the history of the program, but the second time in under a year, BG held the opponent without a shot on goal. The Falcons held Miami without a shot on goal in October of 2004, and the Falcons limited Akron to zero shots on target last Oct. 15.
• As mentioned, a total of 27 different Falcons saw action in the match.
• Senior Erica Hubert and junior Chelsee Washington each had five points on two goals and an assist.
• Senior Marissa Swindell had a goal and an assist, while redshirt sophomore Rachel Muller also had a goal.
• Junior Maureen Kennedy had two assists, and sophomore Nikhita Jacob also recorded an assist.
• Hubert had nine shot attempts, including six on goal, while Washington's six shots included four on target.
• YSU goalkeeper Kate McEachern played the first half and made seven saves, while Zeeyana Jivraj worked the second half and had six stops.
• BGSU used three goalkeepers – Kathleen Duwve, Victoria Cope and Monica Florez – in the match, and none of the three was required to make a save.
• BGSU had a 13-0 lead in corner kicks on the afternoon.

FALCON NOTES
• As mentioned, Sunday was Senior Day for the women's soccer program. The Falcons' nine seniors – Morgan Abbitt, Elisa Baeron, Laura Bozzelli, Victoria Cope, Alexis Fricke, Erica Hubert, Jennifer Reyes, Marissa Swindell and Morgann Williams – were recognized in ceremonies prior to the match.
• BGSU now leads YSU, 7-0-0, in the all-time series between the schools, and the Falcons have outscored the Penguins, 31-4, in those seven contests.
• Hubert's two goals on Sunday give her a career total of 31. She ranks second in school history on that list, trailing only Kristy Coppes (52 goals from 2001-04).
• Hubert now has 69 career points. With seven points in the Falcons' last two games, she has moved up two spots into third place on that BG career list. Hubert trails only Coppes (111 points) and Samantha Meister (73 points from 2002-05).
• Hubert now has 22 goals and 50 points at Cochrane Stadium, trailing only Coppes (28 goals and 60 points in home games) on those BG lists.
•Washington's five-point game was a career best. She now has seven points this season, having matched her total for all of last year.
• Washington's two goals came just 3:22 apart, tying her for eighth on the BGSU list for fastest two goals by an individual.
• Washington now has 20 career points on six goals and eight assists.
• Junior Maureen Kennedy now has 16 career assists, and has moved into a tie for eighth place on that BGSU chart. She has tied Beth Wechsler (1998-2001) and Ashley Wentzel (2002-05), and is just two assists shy of fifth place.

WHAT'S NEXT?
• The Falcons begin the Mid-American Conference play on the road next weekend, facing Miami on Friday (Sept. 21) and Ball State Sunday. (Sept. 23).
• Then, BGSU returns home to meet Northern Illinois (Sept. 28) and Western Michigan (Sept. 30) the following weekend.
• Admission is free to all BGSU regular-season home soccer action.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• For more information on the women's soccer program, follow the Falcons on Twitter (@BGAthletics and @BGSUWSoccer), Instagram (bgsuwsoccer) and Facebook (bgsuwsoccer) as well as on the web right here at BGSUFalcons.com.