The stadium is quiet. The House That Roars lies still. The Ice Arena parking lot, even on a Friday night, is largely empty.

Nonetheless, the University's athletic department is busy wrapping up spring sports, preparing for fall, and continuing the year-round recruiting process.

Linda Popovich of the Falcon volleyball squad heads the list of summer newsmakers.

Popovich, a 5-foot-4 setter, was named to the East squad of the 1987 Olympic Festival in Chapel Hill, N.C., which begins later this week.

In attempting to follow in the footsteps of former BG Olympians such as Ken Morrow and Dave Wottle, Popovich joins 47 other top American collegians under the age of 20 at the festival.

Popovich was the 1987 Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year.

The new college summer baseball league with teams based in Ohio and Indiana held its first All-Star Game on Sunday, and the contest had a distinct MAC football look to it.

Two of the pitchers selected to compete in the game were Rich Tracy of the Bowling Green Breeze and A.J. Sager of the Toledo All-American Coach.

Tracy was a redshirt quarterback for Moe Ankney's 1986 Falcon gridders, while Sager spent much of the past season as the starting signal-caller for the University of Toledo.

Speaking of football, the Falcons' fall schedule is out, and continues to use the "Moe-Town" theme created last year.

"Moe-Town's Greatest Hitters" features a tuxedoed Ankney doo-wopping with similarly-attired All-MAC defenders Joe Foley, John Hunter, Greg Johnson and Kyle Kramer.

On the recruiting trail, women's basketball coach Fran Voll recently added Wanda Lyle, a 5-4 point guard from Detroit Martin Luther King High school to the Falcon roster.

Lyle joins Ohioans Heather Finfrock of DeGraff, Traci Gorman of Van Wert, and Erin Vick of Maumee, all forwards, in the Lady Falcon class of '91.

Softball coach Gail Davenport pulled something of coup in signing All-Ohio shortstop Kim Still our of Grove City High School. Davenport expects Still to start immediately, allowing the move of All-MAC shortstop Amy Lienhardt to the outfield.

A Falcon crossed the finish line first in the 10,000 meter run at the 1987 NCAA Track Championships. Unfortunately for Bowling Green fans, it was Joe Falcon of the University of Arkansas.

The good news is that BG senior Dave Mora qualified for the event at the Penn Relays with a school-record time of 29:13, then ran to 13th place in the national meet. Mora's time of 30:28 was 1:18 behind Arkansas' Falcon. Earlier, at the MAC Track Championships, Mora's second-place finish in the 5,000 led the Falcon men to a tie for sixth place in the team competition.

The women's team fared slightly better, grabbing fifth place in the conference competition. The Lady Falcons produced one MAC champion, freshman high jumper Tracy Gaerke.

SPRING LEFTOVERS ...

The women's softball team finished the year at 21-22, 7-9 in conference play. Pitcher Viki Miwa and second baseman Michelle Claggett were named to the All-MAC first team.

The Falcon baseballers completed a 17-33 year, ninth in the MAC at 7-21. Co-captatin Chuck Steward was named as a pitcher on the All-MAC second team.

The men's tennis team (13-12, 2-4) tied for fourth in the MAC championships while their female counterparts (5-15, 0-6) ended up seventh. Neither team had an individual champion.

The men's golf squad finished fourth in the MAC tournament. Will Brown paced the Falcons with a 72-hole total of 298, good for sixth overall. Both Brown and teammate Rob Barsantee (308) were named to the All-MAC team.