Normally it’s an orange out for fans at University athletic events but for the BG women’s soccer team, it’s all about pink this weekend.

The Falcon squad will wear pink warm-up T-shirts Sunday to raise awareness for the battle against breast cancer.

The same T-shirts will be made available for purchase after the game, with $1 from every sale being donated to the local branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.

Fans also encouraged to wear pink to the game to show their support.

BG hosts Akron at 1 p.m. and that will be the second of two divisional games this weekend within the Mid-American Conference.

The Falcons (4-8-1) kick off the weekend this afternoon, hosting Ohio.

While homecoming may have been last week for the University, it feels more like this weekend for the team after spending the last three weekends on the road.

And they are hoping being at home will help their record. Right now BG is 3-1 at home, and only 1-6-1 on the road.

‘Being at home does change things,’ said coach Andy Richards. ‘The comfort level is very different.’

BG has a 3-1 record at home, but their 1-6-1 road record and a loss on a neutral field would keep them from making the playoffs if the season ended now.

‘We’ve got seven games left, and we need to try and win five of them,’ Richards said. ‘We haven’t been a bad team, we just haven’t been getting in done.’

This weekend should prove to be a good test for Richards’ team. The Bobcats come into the contest 5-5-1 and the Zips at 3-5-2. It’s a pivotal slate of games for the Falcons, who are 11th in the MAC standings.

But it’s not too late in the season to turn it around. The Falcons have a talented team, and a lot of willpower to rebound.

Richards kept the team in the locker room to try after Tuesday’s practice to try to boost some competitive spirit and come up with a new game plan for the rest of the year.

‘We re-identified some season goals. It’s now a seven game season and not a 20 game season,’ he said.