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Alyssa benes | THE BG NEWS
Mark cooper speeds down the ice in a break away during Saturday’s 1-0 win.
tommy burke defends the goal against the Seawolves on Friday.
steven w. echard | THE BG NEWS
steven w. echard | THE BG NEWS
dajon mingo pushes a University of Alaska Anchorage player into the net during Friday’s 6-1 victory against the Seawolves.
Taking on a new breed Falcons win first two games as WCHA member, send Seawolves back to Anchorage with 2 losses
By Corey Krupa Reporter
season. Ben Mu r phy, Chad Sumison, A ndrew Wa l lace, a nd Br yce Williamson a lso scored goa ls. Ju n ior for wa rd Da n DeSa lvo recorded two assists. He now has seven assists on the s e a s on . Defen s em a n Ralfs Freibergs and forward Dajon Mingo also recorded two assists. Cam Wojtala opened up the scoring for the Falcons w ith a power play goal with 2:05 left in the first period.
The Seawolves scored t heir f irst goa l of t he n ig ht w hen Au st i n Coldwell scored on a 5 on 3 power play to cut the lead to 2-1. However, the Seawolves could not come back as BG scored four unanswered goa ls to win 6-1. “That’s the way we’ll be successf ul. Ever yone is doing their job, winning their shifts and getting pucks to the net. That’s how we’ll score goals all year,” Wojtala said.
damarkeo lyshe dribbles the ball during an intersquad scrimmage in October.
Anthony Malinak | THE BG NEWS
T he BG men’s hockey tea m swept t he Un iversit y of A la ska A nchorage Seawolves la st we ekend . T he Fa lcons defeated t he Seawolves 6-1 on Friday night a nd fol lowed it up with a 1-0 victor y on Saturday night. On Friday, the Falcons sen ior capta i n Ca m Wojt a la sc ored his f irst t wo goa ls of t he
On Saturday, for ward Brent Tate scored the only goal in the game for the Falcons and goaltender Tomas Sholl blocked all 16 shots he faced and recorded his second shutout victory of the year. “You don’t see a lot of sweeps, no matter what leag ue you’re in,” BG coach Chr is Bergeron said. “There are a lot of splits going on and when you take two on a weekend, you’re ma k ing up ground on people.”
Even though it is early on in the season, the games will get harder later on. “The next six, eight games are the hardest stretch of our season,” Bergeron said. Tate now has three goals on the season and they have all been scored at home. With one minute remaining in regulation, BG defenseman Connor Kucera was hit hard into the boards and had to be assisted off the ice. “He seemed to be walking fine and talking to
us,” Bergeron said. Kucera w ill undergo further medical examination after the game. The Falcons are now 2-0 in WCHA conference play and have not won their first two conference games in a season since 1996-97. T he Fa lcons play t he Minnesota State Mavericks this weekend in Mankato, Minn. This will be the first road conference series of the year for BG.
Jillian Halfhill sprints past a Tiffin defender during Satuday’s exhibition match.
Victoria cella | THE BG NEWS
BG wins against Malone Pioneers Women’s basketball team defeats Tiffin Men’s basketball team shows strengths in 87-60 victory against Malone University in final preseason game By Brett Creamer Reporter
T he Fa lcons showed the fans what they are capable of bringing to t he cour t t his season in an 87-60 victor y over Malone. First is a physica l presence dow n low in t he paint. The Fa lcons outscored Ma lone 50 -16 in points in t he pa int. They were led by 6’10” sen ior Ca meron Black, who had 12 point in 26 minutes and fell just one rebound shy of a double double. Richaun Holmes looked sha r p on bot h sides of the ba ll. During the game, Holmes had 16 points, 5 rebounds and had three blocks. Fi v e Fa lc on s w er e i n double d ig it s i n t he s c or i ng c olu m n . A nt hony He n d e r s o n led t he scor ing w it h 17 points on 7-14 shoot ing. Hender son spi ked of f h is n ig ht when Jehvon Cla rke t hrew Henderson
a n a l le y oop, w h ich doubled Ma lone’s score 60-30. “It’s all about staying confident,” Henderson said. Spencer Pa rker a lso prov ided a spark off of the bench w ith 11 points and 7 rebounds. The Fa lcons were solid at a l l ends of t he cour t on Saturday. BG forced Ma lone to ta ke toug h shot s, w h ich resu lted t hem to 4-28 shooting on t he 3-point line. Bowling Green shot 53 perc ent on t he f loor a nd had 23 a ssist s to 14 t u r nover s. Jehvon Cla rke had 10 assists to just 1 tur nover. “Je hv on was t he eng i ne ; he had good v ision and pace,” coach Louis Orr said. Freshmen JD Tisda le, Ga r rett Mayleben, a nd sophomore transfer Josh Gomez had t hei r f i rst action in a Fa lcon unifor m on Saturday. The dept h of t he Fa lcons
helped wea r dow n t he Pioneers. T he Fa lcons out rebou nded Ma lone 49 -29, a nd a l lowe d just 6 -second cha nce poi nts. BG wa s voca l a nd sw itched of ten on screens, wh ich helped set t he defensive tone early. Ma lone st r ug g led to get any thing going, but senior g uard Isia h Elliott was a one-ma n show. Elliott led the Pioneers in points, rebounds, and assists. Despite Elliott’s ef for t s, Ma lone shot just 28 percent from the f loor. Ma lone had 15 t u r novers, wh ich lead to 22 fast brea k points for t he Fa lcons. In t he f i rst ha l f Ma lone was held w ithout a f ield goa l for 11 m i nutes, where Bowling Green went on a 23-3 run. The Fa lcons’ reg ula r season w ill begin t his upcoming Saturday at 2 p.m. against Earlham College.
Falcons conquer Dragons 91-48 in final preseason match
By Tara Jones Reporter
The BG women’s basketball team defeated Tiffin University 91-48 in exhibition play on Saturday. Eleven different Falcons saw action in the exhibition. All 11 players scored at least three points, with nine players scoring six or more points. The win came from both the inside and the outside for Bowling Green. The Falcons out scored the Dragons 34-18 in the paint and went 14-26 from the three-point line. Tiffin had a narrow 42-37 advantage on the glass over the Falcons. BG went on an early run thanks to its three-point shooting and never trailed during the game. Tiffin cut the lead down to 14 going into halftime as they scored 11 of the final 14 points of the first half. The Falcons put the game away in the second half, scoring the first three possessions to open to the half and with a 13-0 run midway through. The Falcons shot 50.8
percent from the field and shot 21-32 in the second half. From behind the arc, the Falcons went 53.8 percent on the day, including a 7-10 [70 percent] second half effort. Eight different BG players sunk at least one three-pointer. BG senior forward Jill Stein said it was not her team’s plan to come out shooting the way they did, but that is the direction the game went. “Good shooting is contagious, so once we got going it kind of just came into the flow and that came to be a big part of the game plan,” Stein said. “We just went with it. It wasn’t necessarily what we were looking to do, but we shot really, really well today, so that was encouraging.” Head coach Jennifer Roos said rebounding has been an “Achilles’ heel” for this team. She added it was “difficult” to be out-rebounded by a team that was smaller inside. Roos said her team’s transition was a big part of today’s game.
“I thought today’s big key, if you had to ask me, [was] transition points,” Roos said. “We had 30 total, only nine in the first half, and we were able to get out and run a lot more in the second half.” Both Stein and Roos said that the Falcons will have to focus on defense with the new rule changes such as the hand-check rule being added to the women’s game. Stein said her team will have to be much more disciplined defensively to avoid picking up fouls with the new rules. Roos added that they also need to be less “timid” on defense despite the rule changes as well. “This is a game we will learn a lot from, more so defensively than offensively,” Roos said. The Falcons head to New York to open regularseason play next weekend in the Iona Tip-off Tournament. They will face Michigan on Friday, Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. and either Arizona or Iona on Nov. 9.