Falcons Head to the Steel City for a Friday Night Meet With the Pitt Panthers

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green gymnastics team heads to Pittsburgh on Friday night to face the Pitt Panthers. The dual meet will be contested at Fitzgerald Field House at 7 p.m.

MEET INFO
• Live results and live video are available via BGSUFalcons.com.
• The meet will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra, which can be viewed via the WatchESPN app.

IN THE RANKINGS
• Bowling Green is ranked No. 58 in the nation per Road to Nationals. Pit is ranked No. 45.
• Bowling Green is ranked No. 52 on beam, No. 55 on vault, No. 58 on bars and No. 60 on floor.
• Pitt is ranked No. 38 on floor and bars, No. 49 on vault and No. 58 on beam.

ALL-TIME SERIES
• BGSU is 6-9 all-time against Pitt. BGSU picked up a win in the last meeting in a neutral site meet at UNC in 2016. BGSU last traveled to Pitt in 2012, falling to the Panthers in a dual meet.
• BGSU's last road win over Pitt was in 2002.

PITT
• Pitt is 5-8 on the year and coming off a 2-1 record at West Virginia's Quad-Meet last Sunday.
• Pitt beat host WVU and MAC foe Western Michigan with a score of 195.225.
• Pitt only lost to Towson, who took the meet.

LAST WEEK
• Bowling Green faced No. 15 Ohio State and No. 23 Illinois, along with Kent State in the All-Ohio (March 1). Two days later BGSU had a dual meet at No. 23 Illinois.
• Against Illinois in the dual meet, Love Akpan had a PR on beam with a 9.825.
• BGSU tied its best team vault score on the season with a 48.850 on March 3.
• BGSU tied its second-best beam score on the season with a 48.925 and has recorded its three best team beam scores in the last three meets.

CAREER-HIGH TRACKER
• After eight weeks, 12-different Falcons have set or tied career highs.

VS. ILLINOIS STATE
• Brown (VT – 9.800)
• Thornton (VT – 9.575)
• Akpan (VT – 9.675)
• Akpan (UB – 9.725)
• Thornton (UB – 9.650)
• Parente (BB – 9.550)
• Akpan (BB – 8.400)
• Akpan (FX – 9.575)
• Thornton (FX – 8.900)

VS. NIU
• Akpan (VT – 9.800)
• Akpan (FX – 9.625)
• Brzoska (BB – 9.800)** - tied
• Thornton (BB – 9.375)
• Thornton (FX – 9.675)
• Thornton (VT – 9.650)
• Thornton (AA – 37.325)

AT BALL STATE
• Akpan (FX – 9.700)
• Brown (UB – 9.800)
• Parente (BB – 9.775)
• Thornton (FX – 9.800)
• Thornton (UB – 9.675)

AT WESTERN MICHIGAN
• Bingham (VT – 9.750)** - tied
• Bingham (UB – 9.850)** - tied
• Brzoska (BB – 9.800)** - tied
• Decious (FX – 9.825)
• Rivelli (UB – 9.925)
• Thornton (FX – 9.850)
• Thornton (UB – 9.725)
• Thornton (VT – 9.650)** - tied

VS. CMU, UW-Oshkosh
• Castiglia (BB – 9.825)** - tied
• Akpan (FX – 9.825)

VS. EMU, WVU, FISK
• Akpan (VT – 9.825)
• Brzoska (UB – 9.725)
• Thornton (UB – 9.725)** - tied
• Parente (BB – 9.825)
• Decious (FX – 9.825)** - tied
• Bannister (FX – 9.800)
• Brzoska (FX – 9.750)** - tied

AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN
• Akpan (FX – 9.850)
• Akpan (AA – 38.625)
• Akpan (BB – 9.625)** - tied
• Thornton (FX – 9.875)

AT LIU
• Weilbacher (FX – 9.925)
• Weilbacher (AA – 39.500)
• Akpan (BB – 9.800)
• Brzoska (BB 9.800)** - tied
• Castiglia (BB – 9.850)
• Dzialo (UB – 9.700)
• Thornton (VT – 9.700)
• Thornton (UB – 9.725)** - tied
• Thornton (FX – 9.875)** - tied

AT OHIO STATE, KENT STATE, ILLINOIS
• Akpan (AA – 38.725)
• Brzoska (BB – 9.825)
• Thornton (VT – 9.725)

AT ILLINOIS
• Akpan (VT – 9.825)** - tied
• Akpan (BB – 9.825)
• Parente (BB – 9.825)** - tied

NEXT UP
• The Falcons conclude MAC play on Sunday, March 17 at Kent State.

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