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@BGSUSoftball Notes | Putting the Wraps on the 2019 Season
May 09, 2019 | Softball
• The Bowling Green State University softball team has seen the 2019 season come to an end. Head coach Sarah Willis and the Falcons finished the year with an overall record of 22-29, and BG went 7-14 in Mid-American Conference action.
• The Falcons went 8-6 at home, 10-14 on the road and 4-9 in neutral-site games this spring. BGSU ended the season by winning five of the final seven games.
TOUCH 'EM ALL (FOUR FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE FALCONS)
• Senior Meredith Miller ended her BGSU career with a complete-game victory, scattering five hits in a 2-1 win on the road against Kent State. Miller won four consecutive decisions to end the year, winding up with a record of 16-15.
• Fellow senior Alex Sorgi stole 30 bases in 2019, the third-highest single-season total in program history. Only BGSU Hall-of-Famer Amy Lienhardt has ever stolen more bases in a season.
• The Falcons hit .270 as a team this spring. BG has now batted .270 or higher in each of the last two years after doing so just five times in the previous 39 seasons.
• BGSU scored 225 runs in 2019, just five runs shy of the school record (set in 2012). BG's 4.41 runs per game this season is the third-highest average in program history and the highest since 2007. And, the team's total of 201 RBI fell just one shy of that school record.
IN THE NEST: ALEX AND NIKKI SORGI
MILLER TIME
• Senior Meredith Miller, as mentioned, won four-straight decisions to end her collegiate career, finishing the season with a record of 16-15. In those outings  – vs. Wright State, Akron, Cleveland State and Kent State – she walked just five batters and struck out 33 in 30.0 innings of work.
• Miller finished the campaign with 187 strikeouts. That is the third-highest single-season total in school history.
• In just three seasons as a Falcon, the Sugar Land, Texas, native became only the fifth hurler in school history to strike out over 450 career batters. She ended her BG tenure with a total of 456 strikeouts. The four players ahead of Miller on that career chart all pitched four seasons for the Falcons.
SORGI NAMED TO ALL-MAC SECOND TEAM
• On Tuesday (May 7), senior Alex Sorgi was named to the All-MAC Second Team. The centerfielder started all 51 games in 2019, and was in the starting lineup for all 159 of the Falcons' games over the last three years.
• Sorgi hit .322 in 2019, good for second on the team, and led the club in at-bats (174), runs (34), hits (56), triples (three), total bases (66), walks (21) and stolen bases. She paced the entire MAC in the latter category, and her 30 stolen bases represents the third-highest single-season total in school history.
• Sorgi batted .365 in MAC games only, leading the Falcons by a wide margin in that category. She had a team-leading on-base percentage of .440 in conference contests, and also paced the Orange and Brown in at-bats (74), runs (15), hits (27), walks (10) and steals (12) vs. league foes.
• Sorgi again led the entire MAC in the latter category, going 12 for 13 on the basepaths against MAC opposition.
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THE REAL McCOY
• Junior Madi McCoy recorded her first two-homer game as a Falcon in BG's final home game, vs. Cleveland State, and her total of five runs batted in vs. the Vikings also represented a season best.
• McCoy finished the year with team-leading totals of nine homers and 31 RBI, amassing those numbers despite being sidelined for several weeks in early April due to injury. McCoy batted a team-leading .324 on the season.
• McCoy's two-homer game was the third by a Falcon this year. Senior Kellie Natham homered twice, including a two-run walk-off blast, against Oakland on March 13, while junior Evelyn Loyola homered in back-to-back innings in BGSU's 21-0 dismantling of St. Bonaventure three days later (March 16).
FALCONS IN THE RECORD BOOKS
• Senior Alex Sorgi is just one of several Falcons ranked on numerous career lists. Sorgi finished her career ranked second in school history with 73 career stolen bases, trailing only BG Hall-of-Famer Amy Lienhardt (121 steals from 1985-88).
• Sorgi ended her career ranked 12th or higher on a total of five school lists. She is tied for fifth in BGSU history with 117 runs scored, and deadlocked for eighth in career walks (62). Sorgi wound up ninth in batting average (.314) and 12th in career hits (169) at BGSU.
• Sarah Gonzalez ended her sophomore season in the top 10 on a pair of lists. Gonzalez is currently 10th in BGSU history in slugging percentage, at .447, and she is tied for 10th on the school list with four career sacrifice flies.
• Two other Falcons, seniors Kali Holcomb and Kellie Natham, also are on that career chart for sac flies. Holcomb is tied for fourth with seven in her BG career, while Natham is deadlocked for seventh with six. Both Holcomb and Natham played just two years for the Orange and Brown.
• In the circle, all three BGSU seniors are ranked on at least one career list. Meredith Miller's name appears on nine of the 11 career pitching lists kept by BGSU. She finishes her career ranked third in school history in strikeouts per seven innings (6.15), and is fifth with a total of 456 career strikeouts.
• Miller is sixth in complete games (48), tied for sixth in wins (43), eighth in both games started (81) and innings pitched (518 2/3), tied for 11th in shutouts (nine), 12th in appearances in the circle (99) and 13th in winning percentage (.518).
• Senior Brooke Parker is listed on no fewer than seven career charts. Parker finished her career tied for sixth in school history with six career saves. She is ranked ninth in appearances (106), 10th in innings pitched (439 1/3), tied for 10th in games started (63), deadlocked for 11th in strikeouts (224), 13th in strikeouts per seven innings (3.57) and tied for 13th in complete games (31).
• Fellow senior Kiley Sosby finished her career ranked 16th in career strikeouts, with 181. Sosby struck out 6.97 batters per seven innings, an average which would have ranked second on the BGSU list, but she fell shy of the minimum of 200 career innings needed to qualify. Sosby whiffed those 181 batters in 181 2/3 career innings.
SOPHOMORES STEP UP
• Several BGSU sophomores made major contributions in 2019 after seeing limited playing time in 2018. Payton Hamm had four hits as a freshman, but batted .299 with 35 total hits and 18 RBI this spring. Hamm had a slugging percentage of .453 in '19, ranking third on the Falcons in that category.
• Nikki Sorgi, after totaling nine hits in 2018, finished second on the Falcons with a total of 42 hits this season. She tied for second on the club in both RBI, with 25, and slugging pct. (.459).
• Hamm and Nikki Sorgi combined for two extra-base hits (one double apiece) in 2018, but had a total of 26 extra-base knocks this year. They combined for 21 starts in '18 and 89 in '19.
• Another sophomore, Sarah Gonzalez, saw plenty of playing time in both seasons, having started all 103 of BGSU's games since her arrival on campus. She held down the third-base spot for the first year and a half, then moved to shortstop due to injuries to several teammates this spring.
• Gonzalez hit .261 this season, leading the Falcons with 12 doubles and tying for the team lead with 16 extra-base hits. She ends her sophomore season ranked 10th in school history in career slugging pct. (.447).
• Still another soph, Sammy Dees, started every game in 2018, and had five doubles in 13 games this season before being sidelined due to injury. Dees had hit .289 with a .428 slugging pct. in 65 career contests.
A FEW FINAL FALCON NOTES
• The Falcons, as mentioned, hit .270 as a team in 2019. Junior Madi McCoy led the team with a .324 batting average, with senior Alex Sorgi right behind at .322. Both junior Taylor Blevins and sophomore Nikki Sorgi batted .311 on the year and soph Payton Hamm .299. Alex Sorgi was one of just two Falcons to start all 51 games.
• Senior Kellie Natham and sophomore Sarah Gonzalez tied for the team lead with 16 extra-base hits apiece. Gonzalez, who started every game in 2019, had a team-high 12 doubles, while Natham was second on the club with five home runs.
• McCoy, who homered twice in the final home game of the year, had team-best totals of nine dingers and 31 RBI. Alex Sorgi paced the club in runs (34), walks (21) and stolen bases (30).
• In the circle, seniors Meredith Miller and Brooke Parker combined to start 50 of the Falcons' 51 contests. Miller went 16-15 with a 2.91 ERA and 187 strikeouts, while Parker had a deceptive 6-12 record along with a 3.69 ERA on the year.
• Alex Sorgi led the club with a .365 batting average in MAC games, en route to earning All-MAC Second-Team honors. Hamm and Blevins hit .314 and .306, respectively, vs. conference competition.
• Blevins hit a BG-best .400 at Meserve Field, while Alex Sorgi hit .347 at home. Seniors Kali Holcomb and Natham hit .313 and .302, respectively, at Meserve. Natham had team-high totals of nine extra-base hits and 13 RBI at home.
• Alex Sorgi recorded a team-high 16 multiple-hit games, while Hamm had 12, Blevins and Nikki Sorgi 11 each and McCoy 10. McCoy led BG with nine multiple-RBI contests.
LOOKING AHEAD
• The 2019 roster featured seven seniors, along with five juniors, five sophomores and four freshmen.
FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• For more information on all things BGSU softball, follow the Falcons on Twitter (@BGAthletics and @BGSUSoftball) and Instagram (@bgsu_softball) as well as on the web right here at BGSUFalcons.com.
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• The Falcons went 8-6 at home, 10-14 on the road and 4-9 in neutral-site games this spring. BGSU ended the season by winning five of the final seven games.
TOUCH 'EM ALL (FOUR FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE FALCONS)
• Senior Meredith Miller ended her BGSU career with a complete-game victory, scattering five hits in a 2-1 win on the road against Kent State. Miller won four consecutive decisions to end the year, winding up with a record of 16-15.
• Fellow senior Alex Sorgi stole 30 bases in 2019, the third-highest single-season total in program history. Only BGSU Hall-of-Famer Amy Lienhardt has ever stolen more bases in a season.
• The Falcons hit .270 as a team this spring. BG has now batted .270 or higher in each of the last two years after doing so just five times in the previous 39 seasons.
• BGSU scored 225 runs in 2019, just five runs shy of the school record (set in 2012). BG's 4.41 runs per game this season is the third-highest average in program history and the highest since 2007. And, the team's total of 201 RBI fell just one shy of that school record.
IN THE NEST: ALEX AND NIKKI SORGI
MILLER TIME
• Senior Meredith Miller, as mentioned, won four-straight decisions to end her collegiate career, finishing the season with a record of 16-15. In those outings  – vs. Wright State, Akron, Cleveland State and Kent State – she walked just five batters and struck out 33 in 30.0 innings of work.
• Miller finished the campaign with 187 strikeouts. That is the third-highest single-season total in school history.
• In just three seasons as a Falcon, the Sugar Land, Texas, native became only the fifth hurler in school history to strike out over 450 career batters. She ended her BG tenure with a total of 456 strikeouts. The four players ahead of Miller on that career chart all pitched four seasons for the Falcons.
SORGI NAMED TO ALL-MAC SECOND TEAM
• On Tuesday (May 7), senior Alex Sorgi was named to the All-MAC Second Team. The centerfielder started all 51 games in 2019, and was in the starting lineup for all 159 of the Falcons' games over the last three years.
• Sorgi hit .322 in 2019, good for second on the team, and led the club in at-bats (174), runs (34), hits (56), triples (three), total bases (66), walks (21) and stolen bases. She paced the entire MAC in the latter category, and her 30 stolen bases represents the third-highest single-season total in school history.
• Sorgi batted .365 in MAC games only, leading the Falcons by a wide margin in that category. She had a team-leading on-base percentage of .440 in conference contests, and also paced the Orange and Brown in at-bats (74), runs (15), hits (27), walks (10) and steals (12) vs. league foes.
• Sorgi again led the entire MAC in the latter category, going 12 for 13 on the basepaths against MAC opposition.
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THE REAL McCOY
• Junior Madi McCoy recorded her first two-homer game as a Falcon in BG's final home game, vs. Cleveland State, and her total of five runs batted in vs. the Vikings also represented a season best.
• McCoy finished the year with team-leading totals of nine homers and 31 RBI, amassing those numbers despite being sidelined for several weeks in early April due to injury. McCoy batted a team-leading .324 on the season.
• McCoy's two-homer game was the third by a Falcon this year. Senior Kellie Natham homered twice, including a two-run walk-off blast, against Oakland on March 13, while junior Evelyn Loyola homered in back-to-back innings in BGSU's 21-0 dismantling of St. Bonaventure three days later (March 16).
FALCONS IN THE RECORD BOOKS
• Senior Alex Sorgi is just one of several Falcons ranked on numerous career lists. Sorgi finished her career ranked second in school history with 73 career stolen bases, trailing only BG Hall-of-Famer Amy Lienhardt (121 steals from 1985-88).
• Sorgi ended her career ranked 12th or higher on a total of five school lists. She is tied for fifth in BGSU history with 117 runs scored, and deadlocked for eighth in career walks (62). Sorgi wound up ninth in batting average (.314) and 12th in career hits (169) at BGSU.
• Sarah Gonzalez ended her sophomore season in the top 10 on a pair of lists. Gonzalez is currently 10th in BGSU history in slugging percentage, at .447, and she is tied for 10th on the school list with four career sacrifice flies.
• Two other Falcons, seniors Kali Holcomb and Kellie Natham, also are on that career chart for sac flies. Holcomb is tied for fourth with seven in her BG career, while Natham is deadlocked for seventh with six. Both Holcomb and Natham played just two years for the Orange and Brown.
• In the circle, all three BGSU seniors are ranked on at least one career list. Meredith Miller's name appears on nine of the 11 career pitching lists kept by BGSU. She finishes her career ranked third in school history in strikeouts per seven innings (6.15), and is fifth with a total of 456 career strikeouts.
• Miller is sixth in complete games (48), tied for sixth in wins (43), eighth in both games started (81) and innings pitched (518 2/3), tied for 11th in shutouts (nine), 12th in appearances in the circle (99) and 13th in winning percentage (.518).
• Senior Brooke Parker is listed on no fewer than seven career charts. Parker finished her career tied for sixth in school history with six career saves. She is ranked ninth in appearances (106), 10th in innings pitched (439 1/3), tied for 10th in games started (63), deadlocked for 11th in strikeouts (224), 13th in strikeouts per seven innings (3.57) and tied for 13th in complete games (31).
• Fellow senior Kiley Sosby finished her career ranked 16th in career strikeouts, with 181. Sosby struck out 6.97 batters per seven innings, an average which would have ranked second on the BGSU list, but she fell shy of the minimum of 200 career innings needed to qualify. Sosby whiffed those 181 batters in 181 2/3 career innings.
SOPHOMORES STEP UP
• Several BGSU sophomores made major contributions in 2019 after seeing limited playing time in 2018. Payton Hamm had four hits as a freshman, but batted .299 with 35 total hits and 18 RBI this spring. Hamm had a slugging percentage of .453 in '19, ranking third on the Falcons in that category.
• Nikki Sorgi, after totaling nine hits in 2018, finished second on the Falcons with a total of 42 hits this season. She tied for second on the club in both RBI, with 25, and slugging pct. (.459).
• Hamm and Nikki Sorgi combined for two extra-base hits (one double apiece) in 2018, but had a total of 26 extra-base knocks this year. They combined for 21 starts in '18 and 89 in '19.
• Another sophomore, Sarah Gonzalez, saw plenty of playing time in both seasons, having started all 103 of BGSU's games since her arrival on campus. She held down the third-base spot for the first year and a half, then moved to shortstop due to injuries to several teammates this spring.
• Gonzalez hit .261 this season, leading the Falcons with 12 doubles and tying for the team lead with 16 extra-base hits. She ends her sophomore season ranked 10th in school history in career slugging pct. (.447).
• Still another soph, Sammy Dees, started every game in 2018, and had five doubles in 13 games this season before being sidelined due to injury. Dees had hit .289 with a .428 slugging pct. in 65 career contests.
A FEW FINAL FALCON NOTES
• The Falcons, as mentioned, hit .270 as a team in 2019. Junior Madi McCoy led the team with a .324 batting average, with senior Alex Sorgi right behind at .322. Both junior Taylor Blevins and sophomore Nikki Sorgi batted .311 on the year and soph Payton Hamm .299. Alex Sorgi was one of just two Falcons to start all 51 games.
• Senior Kellie Natham and sophomore Sarah Gonzalez tied for the team lead with 16 extra-base hits apiece. Gonzalez, who started every game in 2019, had a team-high 12 doubles, while Natham was second on the club with five home runs.
• McCoy, who homered twice in the final home game of the year, had team-best totals of nine dingers and 31 RBI. Alex Sorgi paced the club in runs (34), walks (21) and stolen bases (30).
• In the circle, seniors Meredith Miller and Brooke Parker combined to start 50 of the Falcons' 51 contests. Miller went 16-15 with a 2.91 ERA and 187 strikeouts, while Parker had a deceptive 6-12 record along with a 3.69 ERA on the year.
• Alex Sorgi led the club with a .365 batting average in MAC games, en route to earning All-MAC Second-Team honors. Hamm and Blevins hit .314 and .306, respectively, vs. conference competition.
• Blevins hit a BG-best .400 at Meserve Field, while Alex Sorgi hit .347 at home. Seniors Kali Holcomb and Natham hit .313 and .302, respectively, at Meserve. Natham had team-high totals of nine extra-base hits and 13 RBI at home.
• Alex Sorgi recorded a team-high 16 multiple-hit games, while Hamm had 12, Blevins and Nikki Sorgi 11 each and McCoy 10. McCoy led BG with nine multiple-RBI contests.
LOOKING AHEAD
• The 2019 roster featured seven seniors, along with five juniors, five sophomores and four freshmen.
FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• For more information on all things BGSU softball, follow the Falcons on Twitter (@BGAthletics and @BGSUSoftball) and Instagram (@bgsu_softball) as well as on the web right here at BGSUFalcons.com.
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