Tuesday, December 21
Bowling Green, Ohio
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
82
vs
59
Canisius
Freshman Jill Stein drives the baseline in Tuesday's win over Canisius (Brad Phalin photo)
Falcons Down Canisius, 82-59, to End Pre-Holiday Schedule
December 21, 2010 | Women's Basketball
All 15 players on Miller's roster see action as BGSU moves to 11-1
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team got off to a torrid shooting start, leading from start to finish in an 82-59 win over Canisius College Tuesday night (Dec. 21). The non-conference game was held at venerable Anderson Arena.
FINAL STATISTICS - HTML
BOXSCORE - PDF
PHOTO GALLERY - courtesy Brad Phalin, BGSU Photo Services
CURT MILLER POSTGAME AUDIO
LAUREN PROCHASKA & CHRISSY STEFFEN POSTGAME AUDIO
With the win, the Falcons improve to 11-1 on the year. BGSU, off to the best start in school history, has won 11 consecutive games. The Golden Griffins drop to 3-7 on the season.
Senior Tracy Pontius had 16 points to lead a balanced scoring attack. Classmate Jen Uhl scored 14 points, while sophomore Chrissy Steffen had 12.
Pontius, in just 23 minutes of action, also had six assists, five rebounds and four steals. She tied for the team rebounding lead, and led all players in both assists and steals.
Courtney VandeBovenkamp led all players with 19 points off the bench for the Griffs, while Jen Morabito scored 18.
Senior Lauren Prochaska scored nine points for the Falcons, attempting just four shots from the field on the night. She missed her final free-throw attempt of the game, ending her streak of consecutive free throws made at 70, an NCAA Division-I record.
No BGSU player saw more than 26 minutes of action, and all 15 Falcons on head coach Curt Miller's active roster played at least four minutes in the win.
The Falcons held a 45-31 advantage on the boards, with Prochaska and redshirt sophomore Danielle Havel tying Pontius for the team lead with five.
The Falcons went 5-for-5 from the floor to start the game, with three of those shots coming from three-point land, as BG opened up a 13-4 lead.
BGSU went 9-of-12 from the field to begin Tuesday's contest, and the Falcons grabbed the offensive rebound after all three of those misses.
The Falcons led from start to finish. After an exchange of turnovers to begin the game, fifth-year senior Maggie Hennegan saw Uhl cutting along the baseline, firing a short pass that resulted in a left-side layup and a 2-0 lead.
After a CC miss, Pontius found Steffen in front of the Canisius bench for a three-pointer, and the Falcons had a 5-0 lead with less than 90 seconds gone.
Jamie Ruttle got the visitors on the board with a jumper, but Pontius found Uhl for a turnaround jumper and a 7-2 lead.
The Falcons sandwiched a pair of triples around a bucket by the visitors. Prochaska took a pass from sophomore Allison Papenfuss, then fed Pontius for a trey and the aforementioned 13-4 lead with less than four minutes gone.
The visitors responded by scoring the next four points, but another Prochaska triple began a 10-0 run for the home team. Pontius scored four-straight points during that run, with a pair of free throws followed by a steal and a breakaway layup. Then, Steffen drained a triple try from the right wing, and the Falcons had a 23-8 lead with 13:21 left before halftime.
At that point in the game, the Falcons were shooting 80 percent (8-of-10) from the field, including a 5-for-6 (83.3%) performance from three-point land.
Jen Lennox stopped BG's run with a jumper, and the teams traded points over the next five-plus minutes. During that stretch, Uhl got an offensive rebound and hit a floater in the lane, and fellow senior Chelsea Albert scored on a nifty up-and-under move, giving the Falcons a 27-12 lead.
Junior Jessica Slagle faked a three-point try, took two more dribbles and pulled up for a long two-pointer, and BG was up by a 29-14 count. The Griffs, however, answered each hoop by the Brown and Orange during that time.
Finally, Prochaska knocked down a pair of free throws coming out of the eight-minute media timeout, and Uhl's jumper gave the Falcons a 17-point lead, 33-16. Several minutes later, another shot by Uhl gave the hosts a 19-point lead, the largest of the half, with 5:53 left before the break.
With 2:26 left in the first half, Prochaska was fouled as she grabbed a defensive rebound, the Griffs' 10th foul of the period. Prochaska went to the line and rattled her first shot home, but the second shot was short, ending her record streak at 70 consecutive makes.
A Pontius layup with just under a minute remaining gave the Falcons a 46-30 lead at the half. BGSU shot 55.2% from the floor in the opening 20 minutes, including a 6-of-13 (46.2%) rate from three-point land.
In the second half, the Falcons scored 11 of the first 14 points to increase the lead to 24 points. Hennegan scored on the first possession of the half, and Steffen's fourth three-pointer of the game gave the Brown and Orange a 51-31 lead with a minute gone in the half.
Morabito hit a layup, but Pontius snared a defensive rebound, took off downcourt and fed Uhl for an easy 2-on-1 layup. Then, Uhl got an offensive rebound, was fouled and hit a pair of free throws, and Prochaska hit Pontius for another layup and a 57-33 advantage, prompting a Canisius timeout.
The visitors got a layup from VandeBovenkamp, but Papenfuss split a pair of charity tosses to begin a 9-0 run. Pontius drained a three-pointer, freshman Jill Stein knocked down a jumper and Papenfuss followed up her own miss with an 'and-one' layup. When the free throw dropped through the net, the Falcons had a 66-35 lead. That 31-point margin, with 12:52 left, was the largest of the game.
When Steffen checked out of the game with 11:29 on the clock, the five Falcon starters were officially done for the night. The Griffs got no closer than 22 points the rest of the way.
BGSU forced Canisius into 16 turnovers, including 10 in the first half, and the Falcons had a 20-6 advantage in points off turnovers on the night. BG also enjoyed a 38-18 margin in points in the paint and a 20-10 advantage in second-chance points.
The Falcons, who entered the game leading the nation in free-throw percentage, shot just 56.5% from the stripe on the night. For their part, the BG starters were 9-of-11 from the line.
Stein scored seven points, the highest total of her young career, off the bench, while Papenfuss added six points and freshman Jillian Halfhill five. Halfhill's point total was a career best.
The Falcons now break for the holidays, before closing the non-conference portion of the schedule with a game at Butler on Wednesday, Dec. 29.
FALCON NOTES
* As mentioned, Lauren Prochaska's streak of consecutive free throws made ended at 70, a new NCAA Division-I record ... the old mark was 66, set by Richmond's Ginny Doyle in 1991-92.
* Senior Chelsea Albert saw an impressive streak come to an end as well ... Albert made 10 consecutive field goals before missing her second shot of the night vs. Canisius ... Albert has made 10 of her 13 shots from the floor (76.9%) this year to date.
* BGSU has won 20 consecutive home games, one of the longest streaks in the nation ... and, the Falcons have won 36-straight regular-season games at Anderson Arena ... BG's last loss at "The House That Roars" came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 WNIT, and the team's last regular-season home setback came vs. Western Michigan in January of 2008.
* Overall, the Falcons have won 39 of the last 40 home games ... 34 of those 39 wins have come by double digits.
* The Falcons, who entered the game ranked seventh in the country in fewest turnovers per game (13.5), turned the ball over 12 times on Tuesday night ... in each of BGSU's 11 wins, the Falcons have committed fewer turnovers than the opposition.
* Senior Jen Uhl had 14 points vs. Canisius, her fifth double-digit scoring total in the last six games ... after scoring a total of 19 points over BG's first six games, Uhl has scored 84 points in the last six.
* Sophomore Chrissy Steffen's total of four three-point field goals made set a new career best ... Steffen had hit three triples on three prior occasions, all coming this season.
* Steffen had hit three treys in the Falcons' win at Austin Peay (Dec. 11), giving her seven triples over the last two games.
* Canisius went just 3-of-16 from three-point land on Tuesday, but that rate was more than enough to extend an NCAA record ... the Golden Griffins own the NCAA Division-I record for consecutive games with a made three-pointer, having now hit a triple in 495 consecutive games.
* A large contingent of former BGSU greats from the Curt Miller Era were in attendance at Tuesday's game ... the group of BG standouts seated at the north end of Anderson Arena included (in alphabetical order) Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper, Lindsey Goldsberry, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann, Casey McDowell and Whitney Taylor ... all but McDowell played for the 2006-07 'Sweet Sixteen' team ... another player from that team, Megan Thorburn, was in town as well ... Thorburn, now an assistant coach at Ohio University, arrived in BG after her team's home game earlier on Tuesday ... Thorburn was not in the crowd with her former teammates, due to MAC regulations re: scouting.
* In all, the nine players who sat in the front row of the north-end bleachers combined to score a total of 7,112 points at BGSU ... including Thorburn, the 10 players in town Tuesday combined for 7,715 points during their BG playing days.
* There were at least five 1,000-point scorers in the building on Tuesday ... Mann scored 1,825 points at BGSU, while Honegger and Horne scored 1,522 and 1,341 points, respectively ... two other thousand-point scorers were on the court ... Prochaska now has 1,931 points in her BG career, while Pontius has scored 1,161 points.
FINAL STATISTICS - HTML
BOXSCORE - PDF
PHOTO GALLERY - courtesy Brad Phalin, BGSU Photo Services
CURT MILLER POSTGAME AUDIO
LAUREN PROCHASKA & CHRISSY STEFFEN POSTGAME AUDIO
With the win, the Falcons improve to 11-1 on the year. BGSU, off to the best start in school history, has won 11 consecutive games. The Golden Griffins drop to 3-7 on the season.
Senior Tracy Pontius had 16 points to lead a balanced scoring attack. Classmate Jen Uhl scored 14 points, while sophomore Chrissy Steffen had 12.
Pontius, in just 23 minutes of action, also had six assists, five rebounds and four steals. She tied for the team rebounding lead, and led all players in both assists and steals.
Courtney VandeBovenkamp led all players with 19 points off the bench for the Griffs, while Jen Morabito scored 18.
Senior Lauren Prochaska scored nine points for the Falcons, attempting just four shots from the field on the night. She missed her final free-throw attempt of the game, ending her streak of consecutive free throws made at 70, an NCAA Division-I record.
No BGSU player saw more than 26 minutes of action, and all 15 Falcons on head coach Curt Miller's active roster played at least four minutes in the win.
The Falcons held a 45-31 advantage on the boards, with Prochaska and redshirt sophomore Danielle Havel tying Pontius for the team lead with five.
The Falcons went 5-for-5 from the floor to start the game, with three of those shots coming from three-point land, as BG opened up a 13-4 lead.
BGSU went 9-of-12 from the field to begin Tuesday's contest, and the Falcons grabbed the offensive rebound after all three of those misses.
The Falcons led from start to finish. After an exchange of turnovers to begin the game, fifth-year senior Maggie Hennegan saw Uhl cutting along the baseline, firing a short pass that resulted in a left-side layup and a 2-0 lead.
After a CC miss, Pontius found Steffen in front of the Canisius bench for a three-pointer, and the Falcons had a 5-0 lead with less than 90 seconds gone.
Jamie Ruttle got the visitors on the board with a jumper, but Pontius found Uhl for a turnaround jumper and a 7-2 lead.
The Falcons sandwiched a pair of triples around a bucket by the visitors. Prochaska took a pass from sophomore Allison Papenfuss, then fed Pontius for a trey and the aforementioned 13-4 lead with less than four minutes gone.
The visitors responded by scoring the next four points, but another Prochaska triple began a 10-0 run for the home team. Pontius scored four-straight points during that run, with a pair of free throws followed by a steal and a breakaway layup. Then, Steffen drained a triple try from the right wing, and the Falcons had a 23-8 lead with 13:21 left before halftime.
At that point in the game, the Falcons were shooting 80 percent (8-of-10) from the field, including a 5-for-6 (83.3%) performance from three-point land.
Jen Lennox stopped BG's run with a jumper, and the teams traded points over the next five-plus minutes. During that stretch, Uhl got an offensive rebound and hit a floater in the lane, and fellow senior Chelsea Albert scored on a nifty up-and-under move, giving the Falcons a 27-12 lead.
Junior Jessica Slagle faked a three-point try, took two more dribbles and pulled up for a long two-pointer, and BG was up by a 29-14 count. The Griffs, however, answered each hoop by the Brown and Orange during that time.
Finally, Prochaska knocked down a pair of free throws coming out of the eight-minute media timeout, and Uhl's jumper gave the Falcons a 17-point lead, 33-16. Several minutes later, another shot by Uhl gave the hosts a 19-point lead, the largest of the half, with 5:53 left before the break.
With 2:26 left in the first half, Prochaska was fouled as she grabbed a defensive rebound, the Griffs' 10th foul of the period. Prochaska went to the line and rattled her first shot home, but the second shot was short, ending her record streak at 70 consecutive makes.
A Pontius layup with just under a minute remaining gave the Falcons a 46-30 lead at the half. BGSU shot 55.2% from the floor in the opening 20 minutes, including a 6-of-13 (46.2%) rate from three-point land.
In the second half, the Falcons scored 11 of the first 14 points to increase the lead to 24 points. Hennegan scored on the first possession of the half, and Steffen's fourth three-pointer of the game gave the Brown and Orange a 51-31 lead with a minute gone in the half.
Morabito hit a layup, but Pontius snared a defensive rebound, took off downcourt and fed Uhl for an easy 2-on-1 layup. Then, Uhl got an offensive rebound, was fouled and hit a pair of free throws, and Prochaska hit Pontius for another layup and a 57-33 advantage, prompting a Canisius timeout.
The visitors got a layup from VandeBovenkamp, but Papenfuss split a pair of charity tosses to begin a 9-0 run. Pontius drained a three-pointer, freshman Jill Stein knocked down a jumper and Papenfuss followed up her own miss with an 'and-one' layup. When the free throw dropped through the net, the Falcons had a 66-35 lead. That 31-point margin, with 12:52 left, was the largest of the game.
When Steffen checked out of the game with 11:29 on the clock, the five Falcon starters were officially done for the night. The Griffs got no closer than 22 points the rest of the way.
BGSU forced Canisius into 16 turnovers, including 10 in the first half, and the Falcons had a 20-6 advantage in points off turnovers on the night. BG also enjoyed a 38-18 margin in points in the paint and a 20-10 advantage in second-chance points.
The Falcons, who entered the game leading the nation in free-throw percentage, shot just 56.5% from the stripe on the night. For their part, the BG starters were 9-of-11 from the line.
Stein scored seven points, the highest total of her young career, off the bench, while Papenfuss added six points and freshman Jillian Halfhill five. Halfhill's point total was a career best.
The Falcons now break for the holidays, before closing the non-conference portion of the schedule with a game at Butler on Wednesday, Dec. 29.
FALCON NOTES
* As mentioned, Lauren Prochaska's streak of consecutive free throws made ended at 70, a new NCAA Division-I record ... the old mark was 66, set by Richmond's Ginny Doyle in 1991-92.
* Senior Chelsea Albert saw an impressive streak come to an end as well ... Albert made 10 consecutive field goals before missing her second shot of the night vs. Canisius ... Albert has made 10 of her 13 shots from the floor (76.9%) this year to date.
* BGSU has won 20 consecutive home games, one of the longest streaks in the nation ... and, the Falcons have won 36-straight regular-season games at Anderson Arena ... BG's last loss at "The House That Roars" came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 WNIT, and the team's last regular-season home setback came vs. Western Michigan in January of 2008.
* Overall, the Falcons have won 39 of the last 40 home games ... 34 of those 39 wins have come by double digits.
* The Falcons, who entered the game ranked seventh in the country in fewest turnovers per game (13.5), turned the ball over 12 times on Tuesday night ... in each of BGSU's 11 wins, the Falcons have committed fewer turnovers than the opposition.
* Senior Jen Uhl had 14 points vs. Canisius, her fifth double-digit scoring total in the last six games ... after scoring a total of 19 points over BG's first six games, Uhl has scored 84 points in the last six.
* Sophomore Chrissy Steffen's total of four three-point field goals made set a new career best ... Steffen had hit three triples on three prior occasions, all coming this season.
* Steffen had hit three treys in the Falcons' win at Austin Peay (Dec. 11), giving her seven triples over the last two games.
* Canisius went just 3-of-16 from three-point land on Tuesday, but that rate was more than enough to extend an NCAA record ... the Golden Griffins own the NCAA Division-I record for consecutive games with a made three-pointer, having now hit a triple in 495 consecutive games.
* A large contingent of former BGSU greats from the Curt Miller Era were in attendance at Tuesday's game ... the group of BG standouts seated at the north end of Anderson Arena included (in alphabetical order) Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper, Lindsey Goldsberry, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann, Casey McDowell and Whitney Taylor ... all but McDowell played for the 2006-07 'Sweet Sixteen' team ... another player from that team, Megan Thorburn, was in town as well ... Thorburn, now an assistant coach at Ohio University, arrived in BG after her team's home game earlier on Tuesday ... Thorburn was not in the crowd with her former teammates, due to MAC regulations re: scouting.
* In all, the nine players who sat in the front row of the north-end bleachers combined to score a total of 7,112 points at BGSU ... including Thorburn, the 10 players in town Tuesday combined for 7,715 points during their BG playing days.
* There were at least five 1,000-point scorers in the building on Tuesday ... Mann scored 1,825 points at BGSU, while Honegger and Horne scored 1,522 and 1,341 points, respectively ... two other thousand-point scorers were on the court ... Prochaska now has 1,931 points in her BG career, while Pontius has scored 1,161 points.
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