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Friday, March 8
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Logan Everett & the Falcons head to Georgia this weekend before opening the home schedule on Wednesday
Falcons Head to Georgia
March 07, 2019 | Softball
BGSU's five games at the UGA Classic include a pair vs. the No. 8 Bulldogs
THIS WEEK IN BGSU SOFTBALL
UGA Classic – Athens, Ga.
Date      Opponent       First Pitch*
Fri., March 8  vs. Elon         3:00 p.m.
Fri., March 8  at #8 Georgia      5:30 p.m.
Sat., March 9  vs. Western Illinois  10:30 a.m.
Sat., March 9  at #8 Georgia      1:00 p.m.
Sun., March 10 vs. Western Illinois  10:30 a.m.
Wed., March 13Â OAKLAND (DH)Â Â Â Â Â Â 3:00 p.m.
* all times Eastern
SETTING THE SCENE
• The Bowling Green State University softball team travels to Athens, Ga., this weekend. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons are scheduled to play five games in the UGA Classic, hosted by the University of Georgia, from Friday through Sunday (March 8-10).
• The Falcons' five games will include two against the nationally-ranked Bulldogs.
• BGSU begins tourney action on Friday vs. Elon, before taking on the No. 8 Bulldogs later that day. Saturday sees the Falcons meet Western Illinois and Georgia, before the team's tourney action wraps up with a Sunday morning contest vs. WIU.
• Then, BGSU is slated to begin the home schedule with a doubleheader vs. Oakland University on Wednesday (March 13). First pitch of game one is set for 3:00 p.m. at Meserve Field. The Oakland DH was a recent addition to the 2019 schedule.
THE 2019 FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 4-6 on the season. After dropping three games at the weather-altered Upstate Classic in Spartanburg, S.C., to begin the season, BGSU went 4-1 at the GWU Tournament in Boiling Springs, N.C., the following weekend (Feb. 22-24).
• That weekend saw the Falcons pick up two wins over host Gardner-Webb and one each against Saint Francis (Pa.) and East Tennessee State, before falling to SFU.
• Last weekend, BG played only two of five scheduled games at the Gaucho Classic in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Falcons dropped a narrow 1-0 decision to LIU Brooklyn, before falling to California by an 11-3 outcome.
• Head coach Sarah Willis is in her fourth season at the helm of the Falcons. She and her staff welcomed back 14 letterwinners, including six positional starters, from a year ago. Those six players include four – sophomore infielders Sammy Dees and Sarah Gonzalez and senior outfielders Kali Holcomb and Alex Sorgi – who started all 52 of the team's games in 2018.
• The returning hitters combined for 66.2 percent of the team's at-bats, 61.8% of the hits, 72.8% of the runs scored and 64.8% of the RBI in 2018.
• Four of the five pitchers who saw action last season returned, and that quartet combined to pitch 99.2% of the team's innings a year ago. The group also combined for 100% of the pitching staff's wins and strikeouts.
• Those hurlers include a trio of seniors in Meredith Miller, Brooke Parker and Kiley Sosby. Miller led the staff in numerous categories, including wins (14), earned-run average (2.94), complete games (16) and strikeouts (151). Parker had 10 victories and a team-high three saves, while Sosby allowed opponents to hit just .191 against her in 2018.
• Additionally, Willis and Company also welcomed a total of eight newcomers to the 2019 roster.
• Dees, Gonzalez and Alex Sorgi have started all 10 games this year to date, while Holcomb and fellow senior Kellie Natham have made nine starts each, sophomore Payton Hamm eight and soph Nikki Sorgi seven.
• Nikki Sorgi is batting a team-high .400 on the season. She has 10 hits in nine games, and has already topped her total for all of last season. Sorgi leads the Falcons in hits and RBI (nine), and is tied for the BG lead in runs scored (six).
• Freshman Marissa Mullen is batting .308 and has a BG-best on-base percentage of .571. She has walked five times and has been hit by pitch a team-high three times in 21 total plate appearances.
• Dees is hitting .296, with her eight hits including five doubles. Alex Sorgi and  Gonzalez are batting .267 and .259, respectively. Sorgi has walked a team-high seven times and is tied for the BG lead with six runs scored. Gonzalez has five doubles and seven RBI on the year.
• Gonzalez was named MAC Player of the Week after hitting .412 at the GWU Tournament. The sophomore's seven hits that weekend included five doubles and a grand slam.Â
• Senior Madi McCoy and freshman Emily Kepple are hitting .500 and .300, respectively. McCoy is 3-for-6 and Kepple 3-for-10 on the season.
• In the circle, Miller has appeared in nine of the team's 10 games, making seven starts. She is 3-3 with a 2.93 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 43 innings of work.
• Miller allowed no runs and just one hit through seven innings of back-to-back games at the GWU tourney. The first, vs. GWU, wound up going to extra innings, and she struck out 17 in that eight-inning victory.
• Her next outing saw her throw just 77 pitches in a complete-game, one-hit shutout of ETSU. Then, last weekend, she fired a complete-game two hitter vs. LIU Brooklyn, but the Blackbirds picked up a 1-0 win on an unearned run scored without benefit of a hit.
• Parker has appeared in seven contests, making three starts, and is 1-3 with a 5.34 ERA in 19 2/3 innings. She struck out a career-high 10 batters in the Falcons' second game vs. GWU.
• As a team, the Falcons are hitting .239 on the young season, to the opponents' .249.
THE OPPONENTS
• Elon has a 10-6-1 record, and the Phoenix will host Duke on Wednesday prior to heading to the UGA Classic.
• Elon enters the Duke matchup having won three-straight games.
• Morgan Reich is batting a team-high .357 this season, while Ashtyn Foddrell is hitting .350. They are two of four Elon starters hitting over .300 to date.
• In the circle, Abby Barker is 6-2 with a 2.27 ERA. She was named the Colonial Athletic Association Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday, after going 2-0 last weekend.
• Coach Kathy Bocock welcomed back 11 letterwinners from last year's team that went 24-28 overall and 7-14 in the CAA.
• Georgia is 18-2 on the season, heading into a Wednesday game at Georgia Tech.
• The Bulldogs are ranked No. 8 in the nation in both the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 and USA Today/NFCA Division I Coaches polls.
• Georgia leads the nation in scoring (8.6 runs per game) and ranks third in slugging percentage (.628).
• Justice Milz is hitting .442, while Alyssa DiCarlo is batting .431 with nine home runs and 27 RBI. Milz, DiCarlo and Lacey Fincher (.405) all have scored at least 20 runs.
• In the circle, Lauren Mathis is 4-1 with an ERA of just 0.84, while Alley Cutting is 6-0 with an 0.94 ERA.
• The team's two losses have come to Indiana and Virginia Tech.
• Coach Lu Harris-Champer welcomed back 13 letterwinners, including seven positional starters, from last year's club that went 48-13 overall and 16-8 in the Southeastern Conference. The Bulldogs advanced to the Women's College World Series in 2018.
• Western Illinois enters the weekend with a 4-7 record, and the Fighting Leathernecks are looking to snap a four-game losing streak.
• Sydney Hollings is hitting .290, with a .613 slugging percentage. Eight of her nine hits have been for extra bases.
• Jasmine Lara and Payton Abbott are batting .289 and .286, respectively.
• In the circle, Emily Ira and Abby Carlin each have started four games. Ira is 2-2 with a 2.51 ERA and an opponent batting average of .216. Carlin is 1-3 with a 3.25 ERA.
• Coach Beth Golitko welcomed back 14 players, including eight starters, from a 2018 team that went 17-31 overall and 9-6 in the Summit League.
• Oakland has a 4-7 record, and the Golden Grizzlies are idle until Wednesday's doubleheader at BGSU.
• The Golden Grizzlies dropped a one-run decision to La Salle on Sunday at the Elon Invitational, snapping a three-game winning streak.
• Brittney Miller is hitting .576 on the season, with an on-base percentage of .595 and a slugging pct. of .727.
In the circle, Lauryn DeBono is 2-0 with a 2.30 ERA and a save.
• Coach Lauren Karn and the Grizzlies went 23-27 last season. Oakland was picked to finish third in the Horizon League in the preseason coaches' poll.
THE SERIES
• BGSU trails Elon, 2-1, in the all-time series between the schools. BGSU dropped a 2008 game to the Phoenix, and the teams split a pair of games at the Elon Softball Classic last season.
• Georgia won the only prior meeting with the Falcons, 19-4 in the 2010 season. The Bulldogs were ranked sixth in the nation at the time.
• BGSU trails Western Illinois, 4-1, in that series. BG's lone win came in 1986, and WIU picked up three victories in the 1990's and another in 2016.
• The Falcons lead Oakland, 11-2-1, in that series, and BG has won nine-straight meetings with the Golden Grizzlies, including a doubleheader sweep in 2012, in the teams' last meetings. BG is 7-0-1 at home, 3-2 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site meetings vs. the Grizzlies.
DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the Oakland DH, BGSU will head to Kentucky for four games in the Morehead State Classic on March 16-17. The Falcons will play two games each against St. Bonaventure and host MSU.
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UGA Classic – Athens, Ga.
Date      Opponent       First Pitch*
Fri., March 8  vs. Elon         3:00 p.m.
Fri., March 8  at #8 Georgia      5:30 p.m.
Sat., March 9  vs. Western Illinois  10:30 a.m.
Sat., March 9  at #8 Georgia      1:00 p.m.
Sun., March 10 vs. Western Illinois  10:30 a.m.
Wed., March 13Â OAKLAND (DH)Â Â Â Â Â Â 3:00 p.m.
* all times Eastern
SETTING THE SCENE
• The Bowling Green State University softball team travels to Athens, Ga., this weekend. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons are scheduled to play five games in the UGA Classic, hosted by the University of Georgia, from Friday through Sunday (March 8-10).
• The Falcons' five games will include two against the nationally-ranked Bulldogs.
• BGSU begins tourney action on Friday vs. Elon, before taking on the No. 8 Bulldogs later that day. Saturday sees the Falcons meet Western Illinois and Georgia, before the team's tourney action wraps up with a Sunday morning contest vs. WIU.
• Then, BGSU is slated to begin the home schedule with a doubleheader vs. Oakland University on Wednesday (March 13). First pitch of game one is set for 3:00 p.m. at Meserve Field. The Oakland DH was a recent addition to the 2019 schedule.
THE 2019 FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 4-6 on the season. After dropping three games at the weather-altered Upstate Classic in Spartanburg, S.C., to begin the season, BGSU went 4-1 at the GWU Tournament in Boiling Springs, N.C., the following weekend (Feb. 22-24).
• That weekend saw the Falcons pick up two wins over host Gardner-Webb and one each against Saint Francis (Pa.) and East Tennessee State, before falling to SFU.
• Last weekend, BG played only two of five scheduled games at the Gaucho Classic in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Falcons dropped a narrow 1-0 decision to LIU Brooklyn, before falling to California by an 11-3 outcome.
• Head coach Sarah Willis is in her fourth season at the helm of the Falcons. She and her staff welcomed back 14 letterwinners, including six positional starters, from a year ago. Those six players include four – sophomore infielders Sammy Dees and Sarah Gonzalez and senior outfielders Kali Holcomb and Alex Sorgi – who started all 52 of the team's games in 2018.
• The returning hitters combined for 66.2 percent of the team's at-bats, 61.8% of the hits, 72.8% of the runs scored and 64.8% of the RBI in 2018.
• Four of the five pitchers who saw action last season returned, and that quartet combined to pitch 99.2% of the team's innings a year ago. The group also combined for 100% of the pitching staff's wins and strikeouts.
• Those hurlers include a trio of seniors in Meredith Miller, Brooke Parker and Kiley Sosby. Miller led the staff in numerous categories, including wins (14), earned-run average (2.94), complete games (16) and strikeouts (151). Parker had 10 victories and a team-high three saves, while Sosby allowed opponents to hit just .191 against her in 2018.
• Additionally, Willis and Company also welcomed a total of eight newcomers to the 2019 roster.
• Dees, Gonzalez and Alex Sorgi have started all 10 games this year to date, while Holcomb and fellow senior Kellie Natham have made nine starts each, sophomore Payton Hamm eight and soph Nikki Sorgi seven.
• Nikki Sorgi is batting a team-high .400 on the season. She has 10 hits in nine games, and has already topped her total for all of last season. Sorgi leads the Falcons in hits and RBI (nine), and is tied for the BG lead in runs scored (six).
• Freshman Marissa Mullen is batting .308 and has a BG-best on-base percentage of .571. She has walked five times and has been hit by pitch a team-high three times in 21 total plate appearances.
• Dees is hitting .296, with her eight hits including five doubles. Alex Sorgi and  Gonzalez are batting .267 and .259, respectively. Sorgi has walked a team-high seven times and is tied for the BG lead with six runs scored. Gonzalez has five doubles and seven RBI on the year.
• Gonzalez was named MAC Player of the Week after hitting .412 at the GWU Tournament. The sophomore's seven hits that weekend included five doubles and a grand slam.Â
• Senior Madi McCoy and freshman Emily Kepple are hitting .500 and .300, respectively. McCoy is 3-for-6 and Kepple 3-for-10 on the season.
• In the circle, Miller has appeared in nine of the team's 10 games, making seven starts. She is 3-3 with a 2.93 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 43 innings of work.
• Miller allowed no runs and just one hit through seven innings of back-to-back games at the GWU tourney. The first, vs. GWU, wound up going to extra innings, and she struck out 17 in that eight-inning victory.
• Her next outing saw her throw just 77 pitches in a complete-game, one-hit shutout of ETSU. Then, last weekend, she fired a complete-game two hitter vs. LIU Brooklyn, but the Blackbirds picked up a 1-0 win on an unearned run scored without benefit of a hit.
• Parker has appeared in seven contests, making three starts, and is 1-3 with a 5.34 ERA in 19 2/3 innings. She struck out a career-high 10 batters in the Falcons' second game vs. GWU.
• As a team, the Falcons are hitting .239 on the young season, to the opponents' .249.
THE OPPONENTS
• Elon has a 10-6-1 record, and the Phoenix will host Duke on Wednesday prior to heading to the UGA Classic.
• Elon enters the Duke matchup having won three-straight games.
• Morgan Reich is batting a team-high .357 this season, while Ashtyn Foddrell is hitting .350. They are two of four Elon starters hitting over .300 to date.
• In the circle, Abby Barker is 6-2 with a 2.27 ERA. She was named the Colonial Athletic Association Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday, after going 2-0 last weekend.
• Coach Kathy Bocock welcomed back 11 letterwinners from last year's team that went 24-28 overall and 7-14 in the CAA.
• Georgia is 18-2 on the season, heading into a Wednesday game at Georgia Tech.
• The Bulldogs are ranked No. 8 in the nation in both the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 and USA Today/NFCA Division I Coaches polls.
• Georgia leads the nation in scoring (8.6 runs per game) and ranks third in slugging percentage (.628).
• Justice Milz is hitting .442, while Alyssa DiCarlo is batting .431 with nine home runs and 27 RBI. Milz, DiCarlo and Lacey Fincher (.405) all have scored at least 20 runs.
• In the circle, Lauren Mathis is 4-1 with an ERA of just 0.84, while Alley Cutting is 6-0 with an 0.94 ERA.
• The team's two losses have come to Indiana and Virginia Tech.
• Coach Lu Harris-Champer welcomed back 13 letterwinners, including seven positional starters, from last year's club that went 48-13 overall and 16-8 in the Southeastern Conference. The Bulldogs advanced to the Women's College World Series in 2018.
• Western Illinois enters the weekend with a 4-7 record, and the Fighting Leathernecks are looking to snap a four-game losing streak.
• Sydney Hollings is hitting .290, with a .613 slugging percentage. Eight of her nine hits have been for extra bases.
• Jasmine Lara and Payton Abbott are batting .289 and .286, respectively.
• In the circle, Emily Ira and Abby Carlin each have started four games. Ira is 2-2 with a 2.51 ERA and an opponent batting average of .216. Carlin is 1-3 with a 3.25 ERA.
• Coach Beth Golitko welcomed back 14 players, including eight starters, from a 2018 team that went 17-31 overall and 9-6 in the Summit League.
• Oakland has a 4-7 record, and the Golden Grizzlies are idle until Wednesday's doubleheader at BGSU.
• The Golden Grizzlies dropped a one-run decision to La Salle on Sunday at the Elon Invitational, snapping a three-game winning streak.
• Brittney Miller is hitting .576 on the season, with an on-base percentage of .595 and a slugging pct. of .727.
In the circle, Lauryn DeBono is 2-0 with a 2.30 ERA and a save.
• Coach Lauren Karn and the Grizzlies went 23-27 last season. Oakland was picked to finish third in the Horizon League in the preseason coaches' poll.
THE SERIES
• BGSU trails Elon, 2-1, in the all-time series between the schools. BGSU dropped a 2008 game to the Phoenix, and the teams split a pair of games at the Elon Softball Classic last season.
• Georgia won the only prior meeting with the Falcons, 19-4 in the 2010 season. The Bulldogs were ranked sixth in the nation at the time.
• BGSU trails Western Illinois, 4-1, in that series. BG's lone win came in 1986, and WIU picked up three victories in the 1990's and another in 2016.
• The Falcons lead Oakland, 11-2-1, in that series, and BG has won nine-straight meetings with the Golden Grizzlies, including a doubleheader sweep in 2012, in the teams' last meetings. BG is 7-0-1 at home, 3-2 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site meetings vs. the Grizzlies.
DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the Oakland DH, BGSU will head to Kentucky for four games in the Morehead State Classic on March 16-17. The Falcons will play two games each against St. Bonaventure and host MSU.
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