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Falcons Top Marshall, 76-52
January 26, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 26, 2002
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team led from start to finish Saturday afternoon (Jan. 26), recording a 76-52 victory over Marshall University in Mid-American Conference action. The game was played at BGSU's Anderson Arena.
The Falcons, now 6-13 overall and 3-5 in MAC play, got 19 points and a career-high 11 rebounds from sophomore Stefanie Wenzel, who posted the first double-double of her collegiate career. Junior Kim Griech had 14 points in the game, all in the first half.
Senior Dana Western-Schuka rounded out BGSU's double-figure scorers with 11 points. All 11 of BGSU's players in uniform scored at least one points in the game.
Marshall (5-13, 1-6 MAC) was led by junior-college transfer Ida Dotson. The junior scored 18 of MU's 26 first-half points, including 16 of the Thundering Herd's first 19. She finished with a game-high 22 points. Andrea Fitzgerald scored 14 points off the bench for the visitors.
The Falcons scored the first five points of the game, all in the first 52 seconds of the contest, but MU closed to within 8-6. The Herd still trailed by just three points, at 13-10, over eight minutes into the contest. Then, however, a bucket by sophomore Pam Brown was followed by a Western-Schuka three-pointer, one of her three on the day. Those two hoops began a 13-0 run, tying BG's longest run of the season.
MU came back to score the next seven points -- six by Dotson -- to get within nine points. With the margin still at nine points at the four-minute media timeout, the Falcons began a 14-5 run to end the half. Griech, Wenzel and Western-Schuka hit three-pointers on back-to-back-to-back possessions, and Wenzel beat the buzzer with a rebound and putback to give BG an 18-point lead, their biggest to that juncture, at the half.
Sophomore Kelly Kapferer opened the second half with a bucket just 12 seconds in, and a triple by Western-Schuka on the next BG possession opened the lead to 49-26 with under a minute gone in the half. MU never got closer than 19 points thereafter.
The Falcons, who had outrebounded the opponent in just two previous games this season, held a 45-36 advantage on the boards. In addition to Wenzel's 11, the Falcons got seven from Kapferer and six from Brown.
Kapferer had nine points in the game, while Brown had eight in just 16 minutes. Austin had six points, seven assists and five rebounds.
The Falcons shot .469 (15-of-32) in the first half and .444 for the game. BGSU limited Marshall to a .311 field-goal percentage, including just a 9-of-35 (.257) success rate in the second half.
The Falcons went 8-of-24 from three-point land, led by Western-Schuka's three triples. Griech and Wenzel each had two three-pointers in the game. Marshall made three triples in eight tries.
BGSU will hit the road for the next two games, including a Wednesday (Jan. 30) contest at arch-rival Toledo. That game will begin at 7:00 p.m. Then, the Falcons head to Buffalo for a Feb. 2 contest, before returning home to face Ohio three days later.
