Washington, Falcons Strike Early in 2-0 Win at Miami

Friday, September 21

Oxford, OH

4:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

3-3-2, 1-0-0MAC

Miami

2-5-1, 0-1-0MAC

Bowling Green

Miami

Maureen Kennedy defends during the first half of Friday's win (photo by Sarah Morgan, MU Athletic Communications)

September 21, 2018 | Women's Soccer

Box Score Final Statistics (PDF)

Cox goal clinches BG's road victory in the MAC opener

By: OXFORD, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Junior Chelsee Washington scored less than two minutes into the match as the Bowling Green State University women's soccer team picked up a 2-0 road win over the University of Miami Friday afternoon (Sept. 21). The match, the Mid-American Conference opener for both teams, was held at a breezy Miami Soccer Field.

Redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox doubled BG's lead in the 71st minute.

Washington had three points on the day, with a goal and an assist, and she hit the crossbar with another shot. She has 10 points on the season, including nine over her last three games.

Washington's match-opening goal came just 1:50 into the contest on a free kick from just outside the 18-yard box, and Washington and junior Maureen Kennedy assisted on the Cox goal.

The latter goal came when Kennedy put her corner kick into the center of the box. Washington headed it down, directly onto the foot of Cox for a one-time finish.

Junior Kathleen Duwve made one save as she and the BGSU defense picked up the shutout.

The Falcons had advantages of 18-7 in total shot attempts, 8-1 in shots on goal and 9-3 in corner kicks in Friday afternoon's win.

NOTE OF THE DAY
• BGSU has now scored two or more goals in 16 of the 29 matches since Matt Fannon became head coach prior to the 2017 season.

• In the Fannon Era, BGSU is a perfect 16-0-0 when scoring at least two goals, and the Falcons are 0-10-3 when being held to fewer than two goals.

FIRST-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 2' | GOAL | Senior Erica Hubert stole the ball at midfield, tipping a Miami pass toward fellow senior Marissa Swindell. Swindell made a run downfield, and was tripped from behind just outside the 18-yard box. A yellow card was assessed to the RedHawk player, and a free kick was awarded to BG. Junior Chelsee Washington proceeded to drive that kick into the upper half of the net. MU goalkeeper Pat Koutoulas got her hands on the blast, but could not keep the ball from hitting the back of the net.
• 11' | Washington found Swindell on the right side of the box, and Swindell's low cross just missed connecting with Hubert along the six-yard line.
• 13' | Swindell's throw-in was headed by redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox in the penalty area. The ball fell to senior Jennifer Reyes, but her hard shot sailed high.
• 16' | Hubert made one of her patented runs across the top of the box, heading from right to left. She uncorked a hard, low shot, but it went just wide of the right goalpost.
• 17' | CROSSBAR | Junior Maureen Kennedy's corner kick sailed into the center of the box, and – as was the case for most of the day – Washington outleaped her defender to get a head on the ball. Her shot rang off of the crossbar, and senior Alexis Fricke's quick follow-up try was blocked out of play.
• 27' | Miami won a corner kick, but that ball was cleared out of the box by the BG defense. Hubert picked up the ball, blew past a would-be defender and headed all the way downfield. She sent a ball in the direction of junior Kristin Tveit, but the cross was blocked out of play for a corner kick, and that corner was off line.
• 27' | Tveit stole the ensuing MU goal kick and hit a dangerous shot from distance, but Koutoulas was able to make the save near the upper right corner of the net.
• 28' | After a brief moment of confusion among the BG defense, Lyda Bogdanovitch got her boot on the ball as she charged toward the top of the 18-yard box. Junior goalkeeper Kathleen Duwve, who had come off of her line, made the point-blank stop, holding onto the ball as Bogdanovitch crashed into her and a foul was called on the RedHawks.
• 30' | After another Miami foul in the other half of the pitch, Kennedy drilled the ensuing free kick just over the bar.
• 42' | Senior Elisa Baeron got her head on a Kennedy corner, but the shot sailed wide of the right post.
• 45' | Washington, facing away from goal with a defender marking her, slid a pass to Kennedy who rifled a shot from distance. But, that shot sailed just over the crossbar with 52 seconds left in the half.
• 45' | BG got the ball back and had another scoring chance before the intermission. Tveit slid a pass out wide to redshirt sophomore Rachel Muller. Muller's right-side cross actually glanced off the crossbar on the way through the box, and the RedHawks were able to clear the ball out of their end as the final seconds ticked away.

SECOND-HALF HIGHLIGHTS
• 49' | The RedHawks had a scoring chance, but Bianca Medancic's curving shot sailed wide of the far post.
• 51' | Hubert played a ball out wide to Swindell. Swindell's right-side cross was deflected, but Hubert, while falling to the ground, somehow still got her head on the ball at the far post. But, her effort was saved.
• 53' | Swindell's long throw-in glanced off the head of a Miami player in the box, but Koutoulas grabbed the deflection on the goal line.
• 55' | After BG lost the ball, Swindell tracked back to break up a Miami foray into the BGSU end of the field. The Falcon senior got her foot on the ball just as the RedHawk striker was preparing to shoot, and the ball rolled harmlessly to Duwve.
• 59' | Kennedy's serve into the box wound up in the path of Washington, who volleyed the ball out of the air, but the shot was blocked over the line for a BG corner.
• 61' | Washington got her head on a Hubert corner kick on the far side of the six-yard box, and her shot went inches wide of the post.
• 71' | GOAL | Kennedy's corner kick was headed down by Washington. The ball was nodded directly into the path of Cox, who tapped it into the net from close range.
• 77' | Washington galloped down the middle of the pitch and slid a pass toward Tveit on the left side, but the play was whistled dead due to an offside call.
• 79' | Duwve jumped higher than a host of players in the penalty area to punch a corner kick out of danger.
• 84' | Hubert and freshman Lynsey Spotts worked a nifty combination play. Spotts laid the ball into the path of the onrushing Hubert, who fired a hard shot from the top of the 18. But, the shot was parried away by the MU goalkeeper.
• 87' | A Miami corner kick was headed toward goal by Lydia Brosnahan, but the shot was blocked by senior Elisa Baeron in the box.
• 89' | Koutoulas made back-to-back saves on shots by Hubert and Sarah Allen. Hubert brought the ball along the end line, cut it back and fired a shot that was parried by the MU 'keeper. Allen hit a quick rebound shot, but it was also knocked away by Koutoulas.
• 90' | Baeron blocked another Miami shot in the box with just 40 seconds to go, as the Falcons fought off the final RedHawk threat of the day.

FALCON NOTES
• Junior Chelsee Washington now has 10 points on the season, tying her with senior Erica Hubert for the team lead. Washington has scored nine points over the last three games, and eight points in the last two contests. She had a career-best five-point game on Sunday (Sept. 16) vs. Youngstown State.
• Washington entered Sunday's YSU match with a total of four career goals, but she has found the back of the net three times in the last two contests.
• Washington now has career totals of 23 points on seven goals and nine assists in 48 matches as a Falcon.
• Junior Maureen Kennedy now has 17 career assists, and has moved into a tie for sixth place on the BGSU chart. She has tied Britt Anderson (2002-05) and Samantha Meister (also 2002-05), and is just one assists shy of fifth-place Leah Eggleton (18 assists from – you guessed it – 2002-05).
• Redshirt sophomore Nikki Cox's goal on Friday was her third of the season, tying her with Washington for second on the Falcons (Hubert has a BG-best four goals this fall). Cox, in her first year with the Falcons, now has 10 goals and 22 points in her collegiate career. She scored seven goals and added a pair of assists while at UNC Wilmington, prior to transferring to BGSU.
• Junior Kathleen Duwve's shutout was her second of the season and the sixth complete-match shutout of her BG career. She now has a goals-against average of just 0.73 this season, and a career GAA of 1.10.
• The Falcons' win snapped an eight-match winless streak against Miami. BGSU was 0-5-3 vs. the RedHawks since a 4-0 home victory in October of 2008.
• BGSU's victory was the first road win over Miami since Oct. 21, 2007. The Falcons are now 9-13-3 vs. MU all-time, including records of 5-5-1 at home, 4-7-2 on the road and 0-1-0 in neutral-site contests.

MIND-BLOWING NOTE OF THE DAY (WARNING: IT'S GUARANTEED TO BLOW YOUR MIND)
• Chelsee Washington's goal on Friday, just 1:50 into the match, was the fourth-earliest goal in school history. The BGSU record for earliest goal in a match was...

   • set in another 2-0 win;
   • in Southwest Ohio;
   • exactly 10 years ago

• Corbie Yee scored just 19 seconds against Xavier on Sept. 21, 2008.

WHAT'S NEXT?
• The Falcons return to the road for a Sunday (Sept. 23) matchup with Ball State. BGSU meets the Cardinals in a 2:00 p.m. start at the Briner Sports Complex in Muncie, Ind. That match is scheduled to air on ESPN+.
• Then, the Falcons return home to meet Northern Illinois (Sept. 28) and Western Michigan (Sept. 30) next weekend.
• Admission is free to all BGSU regular-season home soccer action.

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