This Week In Falcon Athletics (Feb. 15-21)

Each week, the BGSU Strategic Communications Department breaks down the week ahead in athletics and recaps the week gone by. Listed below are all games over the course of the next seven days with links and information for fans. Following that info are recaps, scores and links from games over the past week.

THE WEEK AHEAD

MEN'S BASKETBALL (11-9, 7-7 MAC)
Tuesday, Feb. 16 at Ball State, 7:00 pm | ESPN3 | Radio | @BGSUMHoops
Bowling Green's lone scheduled game this week is slated for Tuesday (Feb. 16) at Ball State. The league game from Worthen Arena in Muncie, Indiana will stream live on ESPN3 at 7 p.m. BGSU will look to continue its momentum from last Saturday's (Feb. 13) 88-81 victory at the University of Toledo. Bowling Green was led by its three seniors – Daeqwon Plowden (22 points and nine rebounds), Justin Turner (21 points and five rebounds) and Trey Diggs (17 points and four rebounds) -- who combined for 60 points, 18 rebounds and five assists. The Falcons have now beaten Toledo in three of the last four Battle of I-75 meetings. Turner enters Tuesday's contest just two points shy of becoming the 17th player in Mid-American Conference history to score 2,000 collegiate points.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (15-4, 11-3 MAC)
Wednesday, Feb. 17 vs. Central Michigan, 7:00 pm | ESPN+ | Radio | Live Stats | @BGSUWbb
The first-place Falcons, after a big win last week, prepare for another important February MAC matchup. BGSU hosts four-time defending conference champion Central Michigan on Wednesday night. Last Wednesday evening, Angela Perry grabbed an offensive rebound and hit a layup with 2.0 seconds to go in overtime, and Nyla Hampton blocked a Kent State shot at the buzzer as the Falcons downed the then first-place Golden Flashes, 80-79. The win put the Orange and Brown atop the MAC, but it's crowded at the top, as six teams have a conference winning percentage between .667 and .786. Beginning with Saturday's CMU game, four of the Falcons' next five contests are against teams in that logjam at the top of the table. Wednesday's game will be streamed by ESPN3 or ESPN+, with an audio broadcast available via the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization.

WOMEN'S SOCCER (0-0, 0-0 MAC)
~~Thursday, Feb. 18 vs. Saginaw Valley State (exhibition), 2:00 pm~~ (Moved to Feb. 22) | @BGSUWSoc
The women's soccer Falcons, the two-time defending Mid-American Conference champions, are scheduled to meet Saginaw Valley State in a closed scrimmage on Thursday afternoon. Head coach Jimmy Walker and the Falcons have seen a number of planned scrimmages postponed or canceled, and the team has not played since a 5-0 victory over Toledo on Feb. 3. SVSU finished 12-7-0 overall and 7-2-0 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2019, and the Cardinals advanced to the championship match of the GLIAC Tournament. In addition to SVSU, Walker and the Falcons are slated to face Butler in a scrimmage on Feb. 26, before beginning the regular-season schedule on March 4 at Akron. BGSU scored a school-record 46 goals during that 2019 season, en route to winning the MAC's regular-season and tournament titles for the second-straight year. The Falcons have an overall record of 41-18-7 over the last three seasons.

VOLLEYBALL (8-0, 8-0 MAC)
Thursday, Feb. 18 vs. Ohio, 6:00 pm | ESPN3/+ | Radio | Live Stats | @BGSUVolleyball
Friday, Feb. 19 vs. Ohio, 5:00 pm | ESPN3/+ | Radio | Live Stats | @BGSUVolleyball
The BGSU volleyball team will return to the Stroh Center this week to host Ohio on Thursday and Friday (Feb. 18-19) in the team's next set of MAC matches. The Falcons will enter riding an 8-0 start to the season, the best start in MAC play since the 2012 campaign that also went 8-0. As for the start of the season, the Orange and Brown are chasing the 2011 season that posted a program-best 12-0 start. Bowling Green has also been able to capture six sweeps over the first eight matches, giving the Falcons as many sweeps as any other team in the MAC has wins, seeing both Kent State and Western Michigan with six wins this year.

SWIMMING & DIVING (1-2, 1-2 MAC)
Friday, Feb. 19-Sunday, Feb. 21 at UB Diving Invite, 11:00 am | Day 1 Stream | Day 2 Stream | Day 3 Stream | Live Results for all 3 days | @FalconSwimDive
Fresh off of a 157-142 victory over rival Toledo, the BGSU swim/dive team heads to Buffalo for the three-day UB Diving Invitational. The 1-meter diving competition takes place Friday, followed by 3-meter diving Saturday and platform diving Sunday. Against Toledo, freshman Zoe Smith won the 1-meter diving competition and was followed in second place by freshman teammate Grace Ellis. Another freshman, Rayah Blood, has been the team's top 3-meter diver.

SOFTBALL (3-1)
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 19-21 at Winthrop Kickoff Tournament | @BGSUSoftball
(NOTES: this weekend's schedule has changed several times; check the BGSU softball schedule page for the latest updates)
The softball Falcons travel to Rock Hill, S.C., for five games in the Winthrop Kickoff Tournament this weekend. As of Thursday evening (Feb. 18), there will be no live stream for any of the five games, but live stats will be available. Payton Gottshall and the Falcons are coming off of an epic weekend in downtown Cleveland, where BGSU won three of four games against Cleveland State to open the season. All Gottshall did was strike out a school-record 20 batters and throw a one-hit shutout in the season opener on Friday, before firing a perfect game the following day. The perfect game was just the second in school history and the first since 1993. In case that wasn't enough, she returned to the circle to pitch 7 1/3 innings of relief in Saturday's second game, as BG rallied from a 7-1 deficit for an 8-7, extra-inning win. She had an ERA of 0.00 on the weekend, allowing just five hits in 21 1/3 innings, and she struck out an eye-popping 51 CSU hitters while issuing exactly zero walks. At the plate, Evelyn Loyola and Payton Hamm combined to go 9-for-18 on the weekend. Loyola had an on-base percentage of .733, as she walked six times in addition to going 5-for-9 at the plate, and she had a slugging pct. of .889 thanks in large part to a three-run homer that accounted for all of the scoring in the opening game. Hamm was 4-for-9 with a pair of doubles, and Greta L'Esperance had six hits and tied Loyola for the team lead with eight total bases.

GYMNASTICS (0-5, 0-3 MAC)
Friday, Feb. 19 vs. Ball State, 5:00 pm | Live Stream (Coming Soon) | Live Stats | @FalconGymn
BGSU will be home for the third straight weekend, hosting Ball State Friday at 5:00 pm. The Falcons set season best scores on balance beam and floor this past weekend and continue to improve their lineups throughout. Ball State enters the meet as the fourth-ranked team in the Mid-American Conference and is No. 1 in the MAC in uneven bars. The Cardinals' Claudia Goyco ranks fourth in the MAC on the floor. For the Falcons, Elena Lawson is fifth in the MAC on vault.

TRACK & FIELD (1-0)
Friday, Feb. 19 at Al Campbell Invitational (Hosted by Akron), All Day | @BG_XCTrack
Bowling Green closes out the regular season at the Al Campbell Invitational Friday before the Mid-American Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships take place the following weekend. The Falcons continue to position themselves for the MAC Championships and rank among the top five in the league in an event nine separate times. In the 200, Ryen Draper is second in the league and the Falcons have three among the top nine. BGSU also has three among the top eight in the shot put, with Zaresha Neal leading the way at No. 3. BGSU also has two student-athletes ranked among the top 10 in the conference in both the 60 and the mile.

TENNIS (1-1)
Saturday, Feb. 20 at Xavier, 4:30 pm | @BGSUTennis
The Bowling Green tennis program will continue their season this weekend, traveling to face Xavier on Saturday (Feb. 20) for a 4:30 p.m. start time. The Falcons will enter the match 1-1 after beginning their season this past weekend. After coming up short against Notre Dame, the Orange and Brown rebounded to sweep Bellarmine for the team's first win of the season. Over the two matches the Falcons saw both Selina Karg and Hannah Neuman pick up their first collegiate wins of their career.

MEN'S SOCCER (0-0, 0-0 MAC)
Saturday, Feb. 20 at Dayton, 6:00 pm (Moved to Friday, Feb. 19, 2:30 pm [Mason, Ohio]) | @BGSUMensSoccer
Once again this weekend, the Falcons will look to get the regular-season portion of the schedule underway, as BGSU is scheduled to play a Friday match at Dayton. BG outscored Xavier and Tiffin by a combined 9-0 in a pair of scrimmages, including a 7-0 win over the Dragons on Tuesday (Feb. 9), but Saturday's (Feb. 13) regular-season opener at Kentucky was postponed due to weather. By the time the UD match rolls around, it will have been more than 15 months since the Falcons wrapped up the 2019 season in the MAC Tournament's championship match. BG closed the 2019 campaign with an overall record of 13-7-1, advancing to the tourney final with wins over Northern Illinois and top-seeded Akron. UD, like BGSU, won 13 matches in 2019, going 13-8-0. And, like the Falcons, the Flyers advanced to the championship match of the conference tournament before falling by a 1-0 score. More recently, Dayton picked up a 2-1 exhibition win at Akron on Friday afternoon (Feb. 12). BGSU has added a neutral-site match against Syracuse for Tuesday, Feb. 23 (in Buffalo, N.Y.) before the Falcons meet Marshall on the road on Feb. 27. BG's home opener is scheduled for Sunday, March 14, vs. SIUE.

#13 HOCKEY (16-8-0, 5-5-0-0 WCHA)
Saturday, Feb. 20 at Northern Michigan, 6:07 pm ET | FloHockey | Radio | Live Stats | @BGFalconHockey
Sunday, Feb. 21 at Northern Michigan, 4:07 pm ET | FloHockey | Radio | Live Stats | @BGFalconHockey
The Bowling Green hockey team will take to the road this upcoming weekend for a two-game slate against Northern Michigan. The series will mark the final two-game road series of the regular season for the Falcons with just a home-and-home against Alabama Huntsville remaining on the schedule after this weekend. For the Falcons, they will enter the series holding on to second place in the WCHA with Northern Michigan being just behind them in third with only three points separating the two teams. The Falcons and Wildcats met earlier this season in a non-conference series that saw BGSU sweep NMU at the Slater Family Ice Arena.

WEEKLY RECAP

WOMEN'S GOLF
9th-of-11 at Mid-American Challenge | Recap | Scores

MEN'S SOCCER
W, 7-0 vs. Tiffin, Scrimmage

MEN'S BASKETBALL (11-9, 7-7 MAC)
L, 71-67 vs. Kent State | Recap | Box Score
W, 88-81 at Toledo | Recap | Box Score

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (15-4, 11-3 MAC)
W, 80-79 (OT) at Kent State | Recap | Box Score

VOLLEYBALL (8-0, 8-0 MAC)
W, 3-0 at Ball State | Recap | Box Score
W, 3-0 at Ball State | Recap | Box Score

TRACK AND FIELD (1-0)
The Big Meet (at Grand Valley State University) | Recap | Day One Results | Day Two Results

TENNIS (1-1)
L, 5-1 at Notre Dame | Recap | Box Score
W, 7-0 vs. Bellarmine | Recap

SOFTBALL (3-1)
W, 3-0 at Cleveland State | Recap | Box Score
L, 3-1 at Cleveland State | Recap | Box Score
W, 2-0 at Cleveland State | Recap | Box Score
W, 8-7 (9 inn.) at Cleveland State | Recap | Box Score

#13 HOCKEY (16-8-0, 5-5-0-0 WCHA)
L, 2-1 (OT) vs. Lake Superior State | Recap | Box Score
L, 5-2 vs. Lake Superior State | Recap | Box Score

SWIMMING & DIVING (1-2, 1-2 MAC)
W, 157-142 at Toledo | Recap | Box Score

GYMNASTICS (0-5, 0-3 MAC)
L, 194.200-190.375 vs. Western Michigan | Recap | Box Score

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Grace Ellis

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Nyla Hampton

Selina Karg

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Evelyn Loyola

Zaresha Neal

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Angela Perry

Daeqwon Plowden

Zoe Smith

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