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2010 BGSU FALCONS2008-09 Back-to-Back Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions Overall: 25-22-1; Home: 10-6; Away: 12-14; Neutral: 3-1-1 MAC Record: 15-9, t-1st MAC East Home: 8-5; Away: 8-4 February Fri. 19 @ Louisville L, 13-1 Sat. 20 @ Louisville L, 5-2 Sun. 21 @ Louisville L, 8-7 (F/10) Fri. 26 @ Kentucky L, 6-4 Sat. 27 @ Kentucky L, 4-3 Bowling Green State University Baseball Sun. 28 @ Kentucky L, 10-4 March Game Notes ~ May 20-22, 2010 Sat. 6 Northeastern $ W, 13-9 Sun. 7 Rhode Island $ L, 9-8 Bowling Green Falcons (25-21-1, 15-9 MAC) Mon. 8 Butler $ W, 3-1 Tue. 9 Sacred Heart $ W, 16-10 Thur. 11 Yale (DH) $ T 7-7 (F/5) / Canc. vs. Fri. 12 North Dakota State $ Canceled Sat. 13 Indiana $ Canceled Buffalo Bulls (23-26, 9-15 MAC) Tue. 16 FINDLAY Canceled Bowling Green, Ohio (Warren E. Steller Field) Fri. 19 @ Eastern Kentucky W, 11-9 Sat. 20 @ Eastern Kentucky (DH) W, 19-10 W, 7-6 (F/7) Friday, May 14, 2010 - 3:00 p.m. ET Tue. 23 @ West Virginia ^ L, 10-7 Brennan Smith - Jr., RHP (4-4, 8.90) vs. Chaz Mye - Sr., LHP (4-6, 5.88) Wed. 24 CENTRAL MICHIGAN L, 12-7 Fri. 26 NORTHERN ILLINOIS * L, 8-5 Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 3:00 p.m. ET Sat. 27 NORTHERN ILLINOIS * W, 7-2 Kevin Leady - Sr., RHP (7-2, 4.54) vs. Pierre Miville-Deschenes - Sr., RHP (4-6, 8.49) Sun. 28 NORTHERN ILLINOIS * L, 8-5 (F/11) Tue. 30 @ Dayton L, 4-2 Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 1:00 p.m. ET April TBA vs. Josh Edwards - Jr., LHP (1-5, 7.55) Fri. 2 @ Eastern Michigan * L, 9-8 LAST TIME OUT Sat. 3 @ Eastern Michigan * W, 4-3 Bowling Green suffered its first series defeat in nearly a month of action after dropping two of three to Kent State Sun. 4 @ Eastern Michigan * L, 5-2 University this past weekend. Though the Falcons lost a one game edge in the MAC East standings, they remain Tue. 6 @ Michigan State L, 5-2 tied with KSU by their conference records (15-9). BGSU lost a ten-run lead against Kent State on Friday in a Fri. 9 BALL STATE * L, 12-6 14-12 loss to the Golden Flashes. The outcome definitely overshadowed a major single game accomplishment by Sat. 10 BALL STATE * L, 32-10 senior second baseman Logan Meisler after he hit for the cycle. Saturday the Falcons and Flashes dawned their Sun. 11 BALL STATE * W, 9-3 ‘old time’ throw back uniforms giving hommage to the days of glories past, however the triumphant team ended up Tue. 13 CLEVELAND STATE W, 6-5 (F/10) being Kent State in a 9-1 victory over the Falcons. Bowling Green salvaged the series with an 8-5 win over KSU on Wed. 14 @ Michigan L, 8-5 Sunday, avoiding the sweep and pulling even with the Flashes in the division standings. The combination of Kevin Fri. 16 @ Toledo * W, 20-15 Leady and Patrick O’Brien staved off a late KSU attack and the Falcons left Schoonover Stadium (Kent, Ohio) tied Sat. 17 @ Toledo * W, 8-7 for first place in the East. Sun. 18 @ Toledo * W, 4-2 Tue. 20 DAYTON W, 6-3 THE SERIES - FALCONS vs. BULLS Wed. 21 WESTERN MICHIGAN W, 19-4 Between all teams in the MAC, the Bulls have the youngests standing conference rivalry with BGSU beginning Fri. 23 @ Ohio * W, 21-5 only ten years ago (2000). The Falcons have dominated the series holding a 20-6 overall record over the heads of Sat. 24 @ Ohio * W, 8-2 UB. Bowling Green has swept the last two three-game series against Buffalo and have won seven of their last nine Sun. 25 @ Ohio * W, 12-5 against them. Last year the Falcons posted ten or more runs in all three games against UB and outscored them 49- Wed. 28 @ Cleveland State 3:05 p.m. 16 in the series. Fri. 30 MIAMI * W, 12-8 May FOLLOW THE FALCONS Sat. 1 MIAMI * W, 7-6 Track the Falcons as the 2010 season continues through Gameday Central, which will provide complete coverage of Sun. 2 MIAMI * L, 8-6 the BGSU baseball team all season long. Gameday Central can be found on the baseball team homepage on BGSU- Fri. 7 AKRON * W, 13-9 Falcons.com. Game audio and LIVE STATS will be provided for the weekend set. A live blog will be provided this Sat. 8 AKRON * W, 10-3 weekend as well. Sun. 9 AKRON * W, 6-4 Tue. 11 @ Notre Dame Canceled THE RACE FOR FIRST PLACE... Fri. 14 @ Kent State * L, 14-12 Sat. 15 @ Kent State * L, 9-1 West Division Overall MAC East Division Overall MAC Sun. 16 @ Kent State * W, 8-5 W L T Pct W L T Pct GB W L T Pct W L T Pct GB Tue. 18 YOUNGSTOWN STATE Canceled Ball State * 27 24 0 .529 18 6 0 .750 - Kent State * 31 22 0 .584 15 9 0 .625 - Thur. 20 BUFFALO * 3:00 p.m. Toledo * 31 19 0 .620 17 7 0 .708 1 Bowling Green * 25 21 1 .542 15 9 0 .625 - Fri. 21 BUFFALO * 1:00 p.m. C. Michigan * 30 19 0 .612 17 7 0 .708 1 Ohio * 20 30 0 .400 13 11 0 .541 2 Sat. 22 BUFFALO * 1:00 p.m. E. Michigan 25 27 0 .480 13 11 0 .541 5 Miami 25 26 0 .490 10 14 0 .416 5 W-Sat. 26-29 MAC Tournament TBD N. Illinois 20 31 0 .392 9 15 0 .375 9 Buffalo 23 26 0 .469 9 15 0 .375 6 (VA Memorial Stadium -- Chillicothe, Ohio) W. Michigan (x) 12 38 0 .240 5 19 0 .208 13 Akron (x) 20 31 0 .392 3 21 0 .125 12 $ denotes Spring Break trip * denotes Mid-American Conferene game * records and standings as of 5/19/10 * have clinched a place in the MAC Tournament ^ denotes game played at VA Memorial Stadium (Chillicothe, Ohio) Source: MACsports.com x have been eliminated from MAC Tournament eligibility ALL CAPS games at home Note: If the tournament started today, Miami and EMU would be the last teams to All times Eastern Standard time and subject to change enter the tournament. 2010 Bowling Green State University Baseball Notes 1 BGSU Notes 2008-09 Back-to-Back Mid-American Conference Regular Season Champions Head Coach - Danny Schmitz To fully appreciate how far the Bowling Green State PROBABLE BGSU STARTERS University baseball program has come under the guid- statistics based on 2010 season ance of head coach Danny Schmitz, you only have to consider what his teams have accomplished. Over the last 15 years, the program has averaged C: Ryan Schlater (Jr.) - season - 46 GP, 42 GS, .311 (51-164), 32 RBI, 12 2B, 4-6 SB almost 30 wins per season, won seven regular-season 1B: Clay Duncan (Sr.) - Since becoming regular starter - .429 / 4 2B / 4 RBI / .619 slg% (6g) and/or division titles in the Mid-American Conference, won two MAC Tournament titles - and the NCAA Tour- 2B: Logan Meisler (Sr.) - Hit for cycle on 5/14 vs. KSU; tied all-time triples in a season (6) nament bid that goes with that, and his teams have 3B: Derek Spencer (Sr.) - 2nd all-time BG in career RBI (180); 3rd straight season w/ 10+ HR qualified for the conference tournament eight times. Prior to Schmitz’s arrival, the program had one MAC SS: Jon Berti (So.) - Leads team in AB (187), hits (76), OB% (.469) and SB (23-28, .821) title, in 1972, on its resume. CF: T.J. Blanton (Sr.) - Has cracked all-time top-10 for TB in season (121) Before hitting the halfway point of the 2009 season, LF: Dennis Vaughn (Sr.) - Last 6 games, has highest BA (.440), most hits (11), RBI (9), & runs (7) Schmitz reached a milestone RF: Mark Galvin (Sr.) - 46 GP, 41 GS, .335 (54-161), 11 XBH, 21 RBI, 6-7 SB that only 68 active baseball coaches on the Division I level DH: Matt Pitzulo (Fr.) - Had 3 doubles vs. Kent State this weekend have reached in their ten- SP: Brennan Smith (Jr.) - Has tied career-high 10 K twice this season ures. Having needed only 11 wins to accomplished the feat, SP: Kevin Leady (Sr.) - First non-Sunday start this season; won last start (7.0, 5R, 6H, 3K) last year’s Falcons helped loft Schmitz to 500 career wins and beyond when Bowling ** every current BGSU position player that starts is batting .299 or better coming into this series** Green defeated the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. on March 31, 2009 in an 8-3 decision. With the Falcons’ MEISLER REGISTERS CYCLE East division with Kent State University. Outlying the 28 wins a year ago, Schmitz now has 517 career wins on his resume. In the series opener between Kent State and Bowling “could be’s” and “what if ’s” as the season comes to a Schmitz, the 10th skipper in the 90-year history of the Green, senior second baseman Logan Meisler went close, let’s take a look at some possible scenarios for this sport at BGSU, and just the fifth since 1928, has left 4-for-5 and made the most of his plate appearances by weekend and next.