Falcons Journey to Toledo Thursday Night time

SETTING THE SCENE / FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• The Bowling Green State University ladies’s soccer workforce, off to the perfect begin in program historical past, begins the October portion of the schedule with a pair of quick highway journeys. Head coach Chris Fox and the Falcons face the University of Toledo in a Mid-American Conference matchup on Thursday night time (Oct. 2). First contact is about for 7:00 p.m. at Paul Hotmer Field.

• Then, the Orange and Brown will head to Ypsilanti for a Sunday afternoon (Oct. 5) assembly with Eastern Michigan University. That recreation will start at 1:00 p.m. at Scicluna Field.

A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER

• BGSU went 4-0-2 within the month of September. It marks this system’s first undefeated month for the reason that 2005 workforce rolled via October with an 8-0-0 document.

WHERE TO WATCH

• Thursday’s Toledo tilt can be televised on BCSN within the Toledo space, and likewise can be streamed through the BCSN+ app in addition to ESPN+. 

• Sunday’s EMU assembly can be streamed through ESPN+.

STATS & SOCIAL MEDIA

• Links to dwell stats (in addition to to any accessible audio/video) for all 2025 matches can all the time be discovered on the net at BGSUFalcons.com – each on the ladies’s soccer schedule web page and in the fitting column on the principle web page – on match day.

 

THE STARTING XI

I – The Falcons are 7-1-3 (.773), which is the perfect begin in class historical past. Prior to this fall, the perfect 11-game share was .636, by 5 totally different groups together with the 2001, ’08, ’17, ’18 and ’24 squads. The 2025 season is the twenty ninth within the historical past of this system, which started in 1997.

II – Head coach Chris Fox and Company will put a nine-match unbeaten streak – the third-longest such streak in program historical past – on the road in Thursday’s match. BGSU is 6-0-3 since a 1-0 loss to Illinois on Aug. 17.

III – The Falcons are 2-0-2 in Mid-American Conference play, together with a 2-1 win over Kent State (Sept. 14) and 1-1 attracts in opposition to Ohio (Sept. 18) and defending MAC champion Western Michigan (Sept. 21). BGSU is considered one of simply two groups with out a loss in league motion.

IV – Most lately, the Falcons posted a convincing 4-0 victory over Central Michigan on Sunday (Sept. 28). Junior Lizzie Bultynck had a five-point recreation, together with a pair of targets lower than two minutes aside, whereas classmate Emma Stransky and redshirt sophomore Audrey Oliver every scored as effectively.

V – BGSU misplaced 4 matches in MAC play final yr, falling to Ohio, WMU, KSU and CMU. Those had been the Falcons’ first 4 opponents in league motion this season. BG picked up eight factors within the 4 matches vs. that group, after getting zero factors in opposition to that quartet in 2024.

VI – Stransky leads the Falcons in scoring, with six targets and 12 factors on the yr. She scored the game-winning objective in three of BGSU’s September wins, vs. Duquesne, KSU and CMU. Junior Gabby Lamparty and sixth-year collegian Ellie Pool every have seven factors, whereas Bultynck and fellow juniors Ella Kane and Isabella Mazzaferro every have 5. All 5 of these participant have two targets up to now. Another junior, Emme Butera, has a team-high 4 assists.

VII – Sophomore Payton O’Malley has began all 11 matches in objective this season, and has 39 saves, a goals-against common of 0.64 and a save share of .848. She leads the MAC in save pct. and is second in GAA.

VIII – A complete of 26 totally different gamers have seen motion this season up to now, with 20 Falcons having made at the very least one begin. Four gamers – Butera, Lamparty, O’Malley and Pool – every have began all 11 video games.

IX – The Falcons have matched the win whole for all of final season. BGSU completed the 2024 marketing campaign with an general document of 7-7-4 and a MAC ledger of 4-4-3. The Falcons completed sixth within the 12-team league. BG went 4-1-3 at residence and 3-6-1 on the highway in 2024. Fox and his workers – first-year assistant coaches Steven Samuel and Kyle Pettican – have a complete of 20 returning student-athletes, together with seven starters from a yr in the past. Six of the top-nine scorers from ’24 returned.

X – Toledo is 3-3-4 general, and the Rockets are 0-2-2 in MAC play. UT has tied Northern Illinois and CMU whereas falling to Eastern Michigan and WMU in convention motion. Morgan Spitler leads the membership with 4 targets and eight factors, whereas Kaema Amachree has a pair of targets this fall. Agnes Stenlund has began all 10 video games in objective and has 41 saves, two shutouts and a 1.21 GAA. Last season, coach Mark Batman’s Rockets went 6-7-5 general and 3-4-4 in MAC play.

XI – The Falcons path Toledo, 15-12-5, within the all-time sequence, however BGSU is unbeaten within the final six conferences (5-0-1). Last season, the Falcons rallied from a halftime deficit for a 2-1 victory at Cochrane Stadium (Sept. 22, 2024). Two years in the past, within the groups’ final assembly within the Glass City, the Orange and Brown picked up a 2-0 victory (Sept. 21, 2023. BGSU is 4-7-4 in residence video games, 8-7-0 in highway video games and 0-1-1 in neutral-site matches vs. the Rockets via the years.

BGSU WSOC FEATURES & LINKS

Oct. 1 – BG Falcon Media – Global Game, Local Impact: How International Recruiting Shapes BGSU Women’s Soccer

Sept. 30 – BG Falcon Media – Tailgates, Team Spirit & Big Saves: The O’Malley Effect at BG

Sept. 29 – Inside The Game – ITG Interview: Chris Fox

Sept. 28 – BG Falcon Media – Adapting Across Cultures: Evie Underhill’s Journey to BGSU

Sept. 8 – BG Falcon Media – Zig Zone One on One: Taylor Green

Aug. 15 – BG Falcon Media – Searles’ Spotlight: Fourth-Year Falcon Earns First Collegiate Start

Aug. 9 – BCSN – Pool Returns to the Pitch for Final Season as a Falcon

FOR MORE INFORMATION…

• For extra info on the ladies’s soccer program, observe the Falcons on Twitter/X (@BGSU_Athletics and @BGSU_WSoccer), Instagram (bgsu_wsoccer) and Facebook (bgsuwsoc), and on the net at BGSUFalcons.com.