Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, February 24
Evansville, IN
11:00 AM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Purdue Fort Wayne
Peyton Dolejs & the Falcons head to Evansville for 5 games this weekend
Photo by: Chad Huffman, BGSU Athletics
Falcons Head to Evansville for Third Tourney in as Many Weekends
February 22, 2023 | Softball
SETTING THE SCENE
• The Bowling Green State University softball team heads to Evansville, Ind., for the Falcons' third tournament in as many weekends. Head coach Candace Fenton-Bockbrader and the Falcons will play five games in the 2023 Aces Home Tournament #2.
• BGSU is slated to play a pair of Friday (Feb. 24) games, facing Purdue Fort Wayne in the morning and St. Thomas in the afternoon. On Saturday (Feb. 25), the Orange and Brown will meet the host school, Evansville, before facing the Tommies once again.
• Then, on Sunday (Feb. 26), BG's weekend concludes with another contest vs. UE. All tournament games are scheduled to be played at Tri-State Orthopaedics Field at James and Dorothy Cooper Stadium.
• The Falcons are 3-6 on the young season. BGSU opened the 2023 schedule by going 2-3 at the DePaul Dome Tournament in Rosemont Ill. Among the wins was a 3-2 victory over Detroit Mercy in the season opener (Feb. 10), the first win of Fenton-Bockbrader's collegiate head-coaching career.
• Last weekend, BGSU played four games at the T-Mobile Tournament, hosted by Florida. THe Falcons posted a run-rule win over Delaware State, and gave third-ranked Florida a scare before falling, 10-7.
A FEW NOTES FROM LAST WEEKEND
• As mentioned above, the Falcons gave No. 3-ranked Florida everything the Gators wanted and more on Saturday (Feb. 18). The Falcons twice rallied from multiple-run deficits, and BGSU took the lead in the fifth inning, but the hosts ultimately came away with a 10-7 win.
• The Falcons pounded out 12 hits against three Florida pitchers in the contest, rallying from an early deficit with a four-run third inning that briefly tied the score.
• The Gators retook the lead, but BGSU pushed three runs across the board in the fifth to go ahead by a 7-6 score. It marked the first time Florida had trailed this season.
• But, the nationally-ranked hosts countered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth, then added a run in the sixth for the final margin.
• The Gators entered Saturday's action with a 6-0 record on the young season, and Florida had outscored opponents, 74-5, in those six games. BGSU outscored those six opponents combined.
• BGSU became the first team this season to force Florida to play a seven-inning game, and, as mentioned, the Falcons were the first team to take a lead against the Gators in 2023.
• The Falcons hit .364 in the UF game, and BGSU batted .462 (6-of-13) with two outs and .563 (9-for-16) with runners on base. BG also hit .615 (8-for-13) with runners in scoring position against the Gators, and the Falcons were 4-for-5 (.800) with the bases loaded.
• Sophie Weber had a second-straight solid weekend at the plate. She batted .583 (7-for-12) in Gainesville, scoring six runs in the four contests. Weber is hitting .444 on the season, with a .593 slugging percentage.
• Weber has had four multiple-hit games in the last six contests, including three in BG's four games in Florida. She has had at least one hit in eight of the Falcons' nine games this season.
• Reagan Williamson went 3-for-3 in Friday's 11-1 win over Delaware State, tying her career best for hits in a game. She has now had five three-hit games as a Falcon. Williamson had four RBI vs. the Hornets, setting a new career high.
• For Hannah Davies, the final stats do not reflect how well she pitched against the third-ranked team in the nation on the road Saturday. Davies pitched five innings against the Gators and now has thrown more than half of the team's innings (28 of 55 1/3) in the circle this season.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• Fenton-Bockbrader and assistant coaches Erinn Gankosky and Jacob Jeffries welcomed back 13 returning letterwinners from last year's club. The 2022 Falcons went 34-21 (.618) overall and 16-11 (.593) in Mid-American Conference play, good for fourth place in the 11-team league.
• BGSU's total of 34 victories was the program's highest in a decade, and the Falcons' overall and league-only winning percentages also were the best since 2012.
• The Falcons qualified for the 2022 MAC Tournament and advanced all the way to the championship game. Then, BG participated in national postseason play, heading to Fort Collins, Colo., and winning two games in the National Invitational Softball Championship. Those wins, over Stephen F. Austin and George Washington, were the first national postseason victories in BGSU softball history.
• In the classroom, a school-record 13 Falcons were named to the Academic All-MAC Team, while 15 team members were named Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athletes for the 2021-22 academic year.
THIS SEASON SO FAR
• The Falcons are 3-6 after two weekends of play. BGSU picked up wins over Detroit Mercy and Valparaiso at the DePaul Dome Tournament, and posted a run-rule win over Delaware State at the T-Mobile Tournament in Gainesville, Fla.
• BGSU has scored 34 runs and allowed 40. Six pitchers have seen action, with five of them allowing opponents to hit between .179 and .296 on the season.
• Hannah Davies has thrown a team-high 28 innings this year, and also leads BG pitchers in games played (five), games started (three) and complete games (two) and strikeouts (17). She has a 4.50 ERA, but that ERA drops to 2.43 when the Florida game is taken out of the mix.
• Scarlet Anderson has a 2-0 record and a 1.40 ERA in 10 innings of work. She has allowed opponents to hit just .179 against her.
• Anderson made her first BGSU appearances at the plate against UConn last weekend, and picked up her first collegiate hit.
• Sophie Weber is hitting a team-leading .444, and also paces the Falcons in at-bats (27), runs (seven), hits (12), doubles (four) and total bases (16). Weber has had at least one it in eight of the Falcons' nine games.
• Reagan Williamson is batting .364, while Wynnie Reid and Makailah Dees are hitting .278 and .269 on the season. Williamson has a team-high six RBI, while Dees is second on the club in both runs and RBI, with five of each.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
• Purdue Fort Wayne is 3-8 on the season, and the Mastodons went 3-2 at Georgia State's tournament last weekend. Grace Hollopeter leads the team with a .323 batting average and four homers, while Alyson Quinlan has a team-low 3.07 in the circle. PFW went 7-42 overall and 6-20 in Horizon League play a year ago.
• St. Thomas is 4-6 on the year, and the Tommies posted a 3-2 record at last weekend's Mardi Gras Mombo in Youngsville, La. Brooke Ellestad and Kaitlyn Raymond are hitting .379 and .333, respectively, while Isabelle True has made six starts in the circle and is 4-0 with a 2.27 ERA. Last spring, St. Thomas went 14-36 overall and 8-13 in Summit League action.
• Evansville is off to an 8-1 start to the season. The Purple Aces went 4-1 at the DePaul Dome Tournament, before posting a perfect 4-0 mark at home over the weekend. Hannah Hood is hitting .400 for the Aces, who are outscoring opponents by a 57-27 count. Megan Brenton has an ERA of 0.00 in nine innings of work, while Mikayla Jolly has pitched 18 innings and has an 0.39 ERA. Last season, UE went 24-27 overall and 9-18 in Missouri Valley Conference play.
• BGSU and Evansville are tied, 1-1, in the all-time series. The teams' lone meetings came just under 10 years ago (March 8, 2013). UE captured a 3-2 win before the visiting Falcons posted a 7-6, nine-inning victory in the back end of a doubleheader.
• BG leads Purdue Fort Wayne, 12-10, in that series. The teams last met in Fort Wayne three years ago (March 27, 2019), with the Falcons picking up wins by scores of 5-1 and 6-3.
• The Falcons have never faced St. Thomas on the softball diamond.
UP NEXT
• Following this weekend's action in Evansville, the Falcons will head to Auburn, Ala., to play five games in the Jane B. Moore Memorial Tournament (March 3-5). BGSU is slated to play two games each against Tennessee Tech and the host school, Auburn, along with one contest vs. South Alabama.
• The Bowling Green State University softball team heads to Evansville, Ind., for the Falcons' third tournament in as many weekends. Head coach Candace Fenton-Bockbrader and the Falcons will play five games in the 2023 Aces Home Tournament #2.
• BGSU is slated to play a pair of Friday (Feb. 24) games, facing Purdue Fort Wayne in the morning and St. Thomas in the afternoon. On Saturday (Feb. 25), the Orange and Brown will meet the host school, Evansville, before facing the Tommies once again.
• Then, on Sunday (Feb. 26), BG's weekend concludes with another contest vs. UE. All tournament games are scheduled to be played at Tri-State Orthopaedics Field at James and Dorothy Cooper Stadium.
• The Falcons are 3-6 on the young season. BGSU opened the 2023 schedule by going 2-3 at the DePaul Dome Tournament in Rosemont Ill. Among the wins was a 3-2 victory over Detroit Mercy in the season opener (Feb. 10), the first win of Fenton-Bockbrader's collegiate head-coaching career.
• Last weekend, BGSU played four games at the T-Mobile Tournament, hosted by Florida. THe Falcons posted a run-rule win over Delaware State, and gave third-ranked Florida a scare before falling, 10-7.
A FEW NOTES FROM LAST WEEKEND
• As mentioned above, the Falcons gave No. 3-ranked Florida everything the Gators wanted and more on Saturday (Feb. 18). The Falcons twice rallied from multiple-run deficits, and BGSU took the lead in the fifth inning, but the hosts ultimately came away with a 10-7 win.
• The Falcons pounded out 12 hits against three Florida pitchers in the contest, rallying from an early deficit with a four-run third inning that briefly tied the score.
• The Gators retook the lead, but BGSU pushed three runs across the board in the fifth to go ahead by a 7-6 score. It marked the first time Florida had trailed this season.
• But, the nationally-ranked hosts countered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth, then added a run in the sixth for the final margin.
• The Gators entered Saturday's action with a 6-0 record on the young season, and Florida had outscored opponents, 74-5, in those six games. BGSU outscored those six opponents combined.
• BGSU became the first team this season to force Florida to play a seven-inning game, and, as mentioned, the Falcons were the first team to take a lead against the Gators in 2023.
• The Falcons hit .364 in the UF game, and BGSU batted .462 (6-of-13) with two outs and .563 (9-for-16) with runners on base. BG also hit .615 (8-for-13) with runners in scoring position against the Gators, and the Falcons were 4-for-5 (.800) with the bases loaded.
• Sophie Weber had a second-straight solid weekend at the plate. She batted .583 (7-for-12) in Gainesville, scoring six runs in the four contests. Weber is hitting .444 on the season, with a .593 slugging percentage.
• Weber has had four multiple-hit games in the last six contests, including three in BG's four games in Florida. She has had at least one hit in eight of the Falcons' nine games this season.
• Reagan Williamson went 3-for-3 in Friday's 11-1 win over Delaware State, tying her career best for hits in a game. She has now had five three-hit games as a Falcon. Williamson had four RBI vs. the Hornets, setting a new career high.
• For Hannah Davies, the final stats do not reflect how well she pitched against the third-ranked team in the nation on the road Saturday. Davies pitched five innings against the Gators and now has thrown more than half of the team's innings (28 of 55 1/3) in the circle this season.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• Fenton-Bockbrader and assistant coaches Erinn Gankosky and Jacob Jeffries welcomed back 13 returning letterwinners from last year's club. The 2022 Falcons went 34-21 (.618) overall and 16-11 (.593) in Mid-American Conference play, good for fourth place in the 11-team league.
• BGSU's total of 34 victories was the program's highest in a decade, and the Falcons' overall and league-only winning percentages also were the best since 2012.
• The Falcons qualified for the 2022 MAC Tournament and advanced all the way to the championship game. Then, BG participated in national postseason play, heading to Fort Collins, Colo., and winning two games in the National Invitational Softball Championship. Those wins, over Stephen F. Austin and George Washington, were the first national postseason victories in BGSU softball history.
• In the classroom, a school-record 13 Falcons were named to the Academic All-MAC Team, while 15 team members were named Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athletes for the 2021-22 academic year.
THIS SEASON SO FAR
• The Falcons are 3-6 after two weekends of play. BGSU picked up wins over Detroit Mercy and Valparaiso at the DePaul Dome Tournament, and posted a run-rule win over Delaware State at the T-Mobile Tournament in Gainesville, Fla.
• BGSU has scored 34 runs and allowed 40. Six pitchers have seen action, with five of them allowing opponents to hit between .179 and .296 on the season.
• Hannah Davies has thrown a team-high 28 innings this year, and also leads BG pitchers in games played (five), games started (three) and complete games (two) and strikeouts (17). She has a 4.50 ERA, but that ERA drops to 2.43 when the Florida game is taken out of the mix.
• Scarlet Anderson has a 2-0 record and a 1.40 ERA in 10 innings of work. She has allowed opponents to hit just .179 against her.
• Anderson made her first BGSU appearances at the plate against UConn last weekend, and picked up her first collegiate hit.
• Sophie Weber is hitting a team-leading .444, and also paces the Falcons in at-bats (27), runs (seven), hits (12), doubles (four) and total bases (16). Weber has had at least one it in eight of the Falcons' nine games.
• Reagan Williamson is batting .364, while Wynnie Reid and Makailah Dees are hitting .278 and .269 on the season. Williamson has a team-high six RBI, while Dees is second on the club in both runs and RBI, with five of each.
THE OPPONENTS / THE SERIES
• Purdue Fort Wayne is 3-8 on the season, and the Mastodons went 3-2 at Georgia State's tournament last weekend. Grace Hollopeter leads the team with a .323 batting average and four homers, while Alyson Quinlan has a team-low 3.07 in the circle. PFW went 7-42 overall and 6-20 in Horizon League play a year ago.
• St. Thomas is 4-6 on the year, and the Tommies posted a 3-2 record at last weekend's Mardi Gras Mombo in Youngsville, La. Brooke Ellestad and Kaitlyn Raymond are hitting .379 and .333, respectively, while Isabelle True has made six starts in the circle and is 4-0 with a 2.27 ERA. Last spring, St. Thomas went 14-36 overall and 8-13 in Summit League action.
• Evansville is off to an 8-1 start to the season. The Purple Aces went 4-1 at the DePaul Dome Tournament, before posting a perfect 4-0 mark at home over the weekend. Hannah Hood is hitting .400 for the Aces, who are outscoring opponents by a 57-27 count. Megan Brenton has an ERA of 0.00 in nine innings of work, while Mikayla Jolly has pitched 18 innings and has an 0.39 ERA. Last season, UE went 24-27 overall and 9-18 in Missouri Valley Conference play.
• BGSU and Evansville are tied, 1-1, in the all-time series. The teams' lone meetings came just under 10 years ago (March 8, 2013). UE captured a 3-2 win before the visiting Falcons posted a 7-6, nine-inning victory in the back end of a doubleheader.
• BG leads Purdue Fort Wayne, 12-10, in that series. The teams last met in Fort Wayne three years ago (March 27, 2019), with the Falcons picking up wins by scores of 5-1 and 6-3.
• The Falcons have never faced St. Thomas on the softball diamond.
UP NEXT
• Following this weekend's action in Evansville, the Falcons will head to Auburn, Ala., to play five games in the Jane B. Moore Memorial Tournament (March 3-5). BGSU is slated to play two games each against Tennessee Tech and the host school, Auburn, along with one contest vs. South Alabama.
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