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Friday, April 19
Kalamazoo, MI
4:00 PM
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Freshman Sidney Cook & the Falcons head to Kalamazoo for a 3-game series this weekend
Photo by: BGSU Strategic Communications
Falcons Face Broncos in Kalamazoo This Weekend
April 18, 2019 | Softball
BGSU then returns home for Tuesday twinbill vs. Wright State
COMING UP IN BGSU SOFTBALL
Date       Opponent       First Pitch*
Fri., Apr. 19  at Western Michigan   3:00 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 20Â Â at Western Mich. (DH)Â Â 1:00 p.m.
Tue., Apr. 23Â Â WRIGHT STATE (DH)Â Â Â Â 3:00 p.m.
* all times Eastern
SETTING THE SCENE
• The Bowling Green State University softball team returns to Mid-American Conference action this weekend, heading to Kalamazoo for a three-game weekend series. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons meet Western Michigan University in a Friday (April 19) single game and a Saturday (April 20) twinbill at WMU's Ebert Field. Friday's game is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m., while Saturday's DH is slated for a 1:00 p.m. start.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will return home for the next six games, beginning with a Tuesday (April 23) double-dip vs. Wright State University. Game one is scheduled to get underway at 3:00 p.m at Meserve Field. Admission is free to all BGSU home softball action.
TOUCH 'EM ALL (FOUR FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE FALCONS)
• The Falcons allowed Detroit Mercy to hit just .213 in a Tuesday (April 16) doubleheader in the Motor City. UDM had only 10 hits on the day, including a 10-inning stretch in which the Titans went just 4-for-35 (.114). But, Detroit Mercy pitching limited the Falcons to just five total hits on the afternoon, as a pair of pitcher's duels were won by the home team.
• Prior to the UDM twinbill, BGSU scored a total of 23 runs in the three-game series vs. Buffalo at Meserve Field, with double-digit hit totals in each of the three games. Over the last five contests vs. the Bulls, BG has scored a total of 41 times.
• Senior Alex Sorgi hit .563 in last week's four games, going 9-for-16 at the plate. Sorgi was 8-for-12 (.667) in the Buffalo series, with at least two hits in each game. She went 4-for-5 in Saturday's opener, including two hits in the first inning alone and a two-run walk-off single in BG's run-rule win. Sorgi increased her hitting streak to eight gamesj and her reached-base streak to 16 contests, before they were snapped at UDM.
• Sophomore Madison French, a native of Waterford, Mich., retired the only two batters she faced in a relief appearance at Detroit Mercy on Tuesday. French threw a complete-game one-hit shutout last season vs. the Titans, in her first collegiate start. UDM batters have hit just .059 (1-for-17) against French in her career.
THE 400 CLUB
• In last weekend's Buffalo series, senior Meredith Miller became just the fifth pitcher in school history to surpass the 400-strikeout mark for her career. Miller, in only her third year with the Falcons, now has 412 strikeouts in the Orange and Brown. She ranks third in school history in strikeouts per seven innings (6.05).
ON THE HORIZON
• The final month of BGSU's schedule sees/saw the Falcons face teams from either the Mid-American Conference or the Horizon League. Beginning with the March 29 doubleheader vs. Toledo, BG's final 24 contests include 18 against fellow MAC foes, along with doubleheaders at Detroit Mercy and at home vs. Wright State (April 23) and Cleveland State (April 30).
SETTING THE TABLE
• BGSU's leadoff hitter has reached base 40.9 percent of the time this season (113 times in 276 opportunities). The leadoff batter has gotten on base at least three times in 13 of the last 17 games, and in 25 of this season's 41 contests.
SISTER ACT
• Senior Alex Sorgi and her sister, sophomore Nikki Sorgi, have made a habit of getting on base this season. Alex leads the Falcons with a total of 43 hits, while Nikki is second on the club with 37 hits this year. Alex has a team-leading 12 multiple-hit games in 2019, while Nikki is tied for second with 11.
CAREER YEARS
• Junior Taylor Blevins entered the year with a total of nine hits in her first two seasons. This year, Blevins has nearly quadrupled that number, with 34 hits. She is batting .333 this season to date.
• Sophomore Payton Hamm had four hits, including one extra-base knock, a year ago, but Hamm has totals of 24 hits, including 10 of the extra-base variety, in 2019.
• Soph Nikki Sorgi had nine hits in 2018, and has 37 this season to date. She has 13 extra-base hits in 2019, 12 more than her total for all of last season.
THE 2019 FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 16-25 overall and 4-10 in the MAC heading into the weekend series at WMU. BGSU scored 23 runs in last weekend's three games vs. Buffalo, and the Falcons are batting .278 to the opponents' .261 on the year.
• BGSU is 4-5 at home, 8-11 on the road and 4-9 at neutral sites to date.
• Four Falcon starters are hitting over .300, with four more regulars batting over .250. Junior Madi McCoy leads the way with a .380 average, and she paces the club with seven home runs, 23 RBI and a .704 slugging percentage.
• Sophomore Nikki Sorgi and junior Taylor Blevins are hitting .336 and .333, respectively.  Sorgi is second on the team with 13 extra-base hits, while Blevins is batting .353 in MAC games.
• Senior Alex Sorgi is hitting .314, while sophomores Payton Hamm and Sarah Gonzalez are batting .273 and .267, respectively. Sorgi has 43 hits to pace the Falcons, and the senior also has BG-best totals of 20 walks, 29 runs and 21 stolen bases. She is hitting a team-leading .375 in MAC games.
• Hamm is one of four Falcons with at least 10 extra-base hits, and she is hitting .360 in the month of April. Gonzalez leads the team with a total of 14 extra-base knocks.
• In the circle, seniors Meredith Miller and Brooke Parker have combined to start 40 of BG's 41 games. Miller has made 23 starts, and is 12-13 with a 3.17 earned-run average. She has 11 complete games, one shutout and 143 strikeouts in 148 innings of work, and has allowed opponents to hit just .233 against her.
• Parker is 4-10 with an ERA of 4.23 and one save. She has seven complete games, along with an opponent batting average of .285, and has struck out 70 hitters.
• A total of 20 different Falcons have made at least one start this season. Only Gonzalez and Alex Sorgi have started all 41 games.
THE OPPONENTS
• Western Michigan is 13-20 overall, and the Broncos are 5-6 in MAC play. WMU captured one of three games vs. Ball State last weekend, and Western defeated Purdue Fort Wayne before losing to Valparaiso in midweek play.
• Sydney Stefanick is hitting .408 with team-leading totals of eight doubles, 10 home runs and 36 RBI, while Kaylen Glenfield is batting .360 on the year.
• Three pitchers – Stefanick, Jordan Kurth and Reily Galloway – each have started between 10 and 12 games this spring. Stefanick has a team-low 3.42 ERA and a team-high 68 strikeouts.
• Head coach Kathy Leitke's team went 29-25 overall and 14-10 in conference play a year ago. The Broncos were picked to finish fourth in the MAC in the 2019 preseason coaches' poll.
•  Wright State is 18-26 on the season, and the Raiders are 5-10 in Horizon League play. WSU hosts Oakland in a three-game weekend series prior to coming to BGSU.
• Last weekend, the Raiders captured two of three games at Youngstown State.Â
• Rebekah Lenos is hitting a team-leading .347, while Madison Hartman is batting .315 on the season. The Raiders are hitting .260 as a team.
• Makenna Durieux and Olivia Otani have combined to start 41 of the team's 44 games in the circle. Durieux is 5-8 with a 3.99 ERA, while Otani has a 6-12 record and a 4.02 ERA this spring.
• Coach Laura Matthews and the Raiders finished 21-32 last year, going 12-10 in Horizon League play.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons trail Western Michigan, 52-33, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Broncos swept a three-game series in Bowling Green late last March. Prior to last year's meetings at Meserve, the Falcons and Broncos had not met since a 2015 DH in Kalamazoo. BGSU is 15-19 at home, 14-30 on the road and 4-3 at neutral sites vs. the Broncos over the years.
• BGSU leads Wright State, 13-5, in that series, but the Raiders captured a 6-4 win over the Orange and Brown late last season, and won a narrow 5-4 decision in Dayton a month ago (March 20, 2019). Sophomore Payton Hamm tied the school single-game record with two triples in this year's first meeting.
DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the Wright State DH, the Falcons will continue a six-game homestand with a doubleheader against Akron on Saturday, April 27, beginning at 1:00 p.m.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will host Cleveland State for a pair of games on Tuesday, April 30, before wrapping up the regular season with a doubleheader at Kent State on Saturday, May 4.
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Date       Opponent       First Pitch*
Fri., Apr. 19  at Western Michigan   3:00 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 20Â Â at Western Mich. (DH)Â Â 1:00 p.m.
Tue., Apr. 23Â Â WRIGHT STATE (DH)Â Â Â Â 3:00 p.m.
* all times Eastern
SETTING THE SCENE
• The Bowling Green State University softball team returns to Mid-American Conference action this weekend, heading to Kalamazoo for a three-game weekend series. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons meet Western Michigan University in a Friday (April 19) single game and a Saturday (April 20) twinbill at WMU's Ebert Field. Friday's game is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m., while Saturday's DH is slated for a 1:00 p.m. start.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will return home for the next six games, beginning with a Tuesday (April 23) double-dip vs. Wright State University. Game one is scheduled to get underway at 3:00 p.m at Meserve Field. Admission is free to all BGSU home softball action.
TOUCH 'EM ALL (FOUR FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE FALCONS)
• The Falcons allowed Detroit Mercy to hit just .213 in a Tuesday (April 16) doubleheader in the Motor City. UDM had only 10 hits on the day, including a 10-inning stretch in which the Titans went just 4-for-35 (.114). But, Detroit Mercy pitching limited the Falcons to just five total hits on the afternoon, as a pair of pitcher's duels were won by the home team.
• Prior to the UDM twinbill, BGSU scored a total of 23 runs in the three-game series vs. Buffalo at Meserve Field, with double-digit hit totals in each of the three games. Over the last five contests vs. the Bulls, BG has scored a total of 41 times.
• Senior Alex Sorgi hit .563 in last week's four games, going 9-for-16 at the plate. Sorgi was 8-for-12 (.667) in the Buffalo series, with at least two hits in each game. She went 4-for-5 in Saturday's opener, including two hits in the first inning alone and a two-run walk-off single in BG's run-rule win. Sorgi increased her hitting streak to eight gamesj and her reached-base streak to 16 contests, before they were snapped at UDM.
• Sophomore Madison French, a native of Waterford, Mich., retired the only two batters she faced in a relief appearance at Detroit Mercy on Tuesday. French threw a complete-game one-hit shutout last season vs. the Titans, in her first collegiate start. UDM batters have hit just .059 (1-for-17) against French in her career.
THE 400 CLUB
• In last weekend's Buffalo series, senior Meredith Miller became just the fifth pitcher in school history to surpass the 400-strikeout mark for her career. Miller, in only her third year with the Falcons, now has 412 strikeouts in the Orange and Brown. She ranks third in school history in strikeouts per seven innings (6.05).
ON THE HORIZON
• The final month of BGSU's schedule sees/saw the Falcons face teams from either the Mid-American Conference or the Horizon League. Beginning with the March 29 doubleheader vs. Toledo, BG's final 24 contests include 18 against fellow MAC foes, along with doubleheaders at Detroit Mercy and at home vs. Wright State (April 23) and Cleveland State (April 30).
SETTING THE TABLE
• BGSU's leadoff hitter has reached base 40.9 percent of the time this season (113 times in 276 opportunities). The leadoff batter has gotten on base at least three times in 13 of the last 17 games, and in 25 of this season's 41 contests.
SISTER ACT
• Senior Alex Sorgi and her sister, sophomore Nikki Sorgi, have made a habit of getting on base this season. Alex leads the Falcons with a total of 43 hits, while Nikki is second on the club with 37 hits this year. Alex has a team-leading 12 multiple-hit games in 2019, while Nikki is tied for second with 11.
CAREER YEARS
• Junior Taylor Blevins entered the year with a total of nine hits in her first two seasons. This year, Blevins has nearly quadrupled that number, with 34 hits. She is batting .333 this season to date.
• Sophomore Payton Hamm had four hits, including one extra-base knock, a year ago, but Hamm has totals of 24 hits, including 10 of the extra-base variety, in 2019.
• Soph Nikki Sorgi had nine hits in 2018, and has 37 this season to date. She has 13 extra-base hits in 2019, 12 more than her total for all of last season.
THE 2019 FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 16-25 overall and 4-10 in the MAC heading into the weekend series at WMU. BGSU scored 23 runs in last weekend's three games vs. Buffalo, and the Falcons are batting .278 to the opponents' .261 on the year.
• BGSU is 4-5 at home, 8-11 on the road and 4-9 at neutral sites to date.
• Four Falcon starters are hitting over .300, with four more regulars batting over .250. Junior Madi McCoy leads the way with a .380 average, and she paces the club with seven home runs, 23 RBI and a .704 slugging percentage.
• Sophomore Nikki Sorgi and junior Taylor Blevins are hitting .336 and .333, respectively.  Sorgi is second on the team with 13 extra-base hits, while Blevins is batting .353 in MAC games.
• Senior Alex Sorgi is hitting .314, while sophomores Payton Hamm and Sarah Gonzalez are batting .273 and .267, respectively. Sorgi has 43 hits to pace the Falcons, and the senior also has BG-best totals of 20 walks, 29 runs and 21 stolen bases. She is hitting a team-leading .375 in MAC games.
• Hamm is one of four Falcons with at least 10 extra-base hits, and she is hitting .360 in the month of April. Gonzalez leads the team with a total of 14 extra-base knocks.
• In the circle, seniors Meredith Miller and Brooke Parker have combined to start 40 of BG's 41 games. Miller has made 23 starts, and is 12-13 with a 3.17 earned-run average. She has 11 complete games, one shutout and 143 strikeouts in 148 innings of work, and has allowed opponents to hit just .233 against her.
• Parker is 4-10 with an ERA of 4.23 and one save. She has seven complete games, along with an opponent batting average of .285, and has struck out 70 hitters.
• A total of 20 different Falcons have made at least one start this season. Only Gonzalez and Alex Sorgi have started all 41 games.
THE OPPONENTS
• Western Michigan is 13-20 overall, and the Broncos are 5-6 in MAC play. WMU captured one of three games vs. Ball State last weekend, and Western defeated Purdue Fort Wayne before losing to Valparaiso in midweek play.
• Sydney Stefanick is hitting .408 with team-leading totals of eight doubles, 10 home runs and 36 RBI, while Kaylen Glenfield is batting .360 on the year.
• Three pitchers – Stefanick, Jordan Kurth and Reily Galloway – each have started between 10 and 12 games this spring. Stefanick has a team-low 3.42 ERA and a team-high 68 strikeouts.
• Head coach Kathy Leitke's team went 29-25 overall and 14-10 in conference play a year ago. The Broncos were picked to finish fourth in the MAC in the 2019 preseason coaches' poll.
•  Wright State is 18-26 on the season, and the Raiders are 5-10 in Horizon League play. WSU hosts Oakland in a three-game weekend series prior to coming to BGSU.
• Last weekend, the Raiders captured two of three games at Youngstown State.Â
• Rebekah Lenos is hitting a team-leading .347, while Madison Hartman is batting .315 on the season. The Raiders are hitting .260 as a team.
• Makenna Durieux and Olivia Otani have combined to start 41 of the team's 44 games in the circle. Durieux is 5-8 with a 3.99 ERA, while Otani has a 6-12 record and a 4.02 ERA this spring.
• Coach Laura Matthews and the Raiders finished 21-32 last year, going 12-10 in Horizon League play.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons trail Western Michigan, 52-33, in the all-time series between the teams, and the Broncos swept a three-game series in Bowling Green late last March. Prior to last year's meetings at Meserve, the Falcons and Broncos had not met since a 2015 DH in Kalamazoo. BGSU is 15-19 at home, 14-30 on the road and 4-3 at neutral sites vs. the Broncos over the years.
• BGSU leads Wright State, 13-5, in that series, but the Raiders captured a 6-4 win over the Orange and Brown late last season, and won a narrow 5-4 decision in Dayton a month ago (March 20, 2019). Sophomore Payton Hamm tied the school single-game record with two triples in this year's first meeting.
DOWN THE ROAD...
• Following the Wright State DH, the Falcons will continue a six-game homestand with a doubleheader against Akron on Saturday, April 27, beginning at 1:00 p.m.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will host Cleveland State for a pair of games on Tuesday, April 30, before wrapping up the regular season with a doubleheader at Kent State on Saturday, May 4.
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