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Rockets Run Away From Falcons, 82-51
January 30, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 30, 2002
TOLEDO, Ohio - Host Toledo, leading by five points at the half, shot .643 from the floor in the final 20 minutes to run away from the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team Wednesday night (Jan. 30). The Rockets posted an 82-51 win in Mid-American Conference action at John F. Savage Hall.
Toledo won for the eighth consecutive game, improving to 12-7 overall and 7-1 in MAC action.
The Falcons, now 6-14 and 3-6, respectively, were led by sophomore Lindsay Austin. The point guard had 13 points, five rebounds and three assists to pace the team in each category. Classmate Stefanie Wenzel added 12 points.
Tia Davis led four UT double-digit scorers with 21 points, while Courtney Risinger had 16. The two players combined for 31 of the Rockets' 52 second-half points.
BGSU had a 7-4 lead after an Austin layup, but Toledo forced three turnovers and reeled off the next 13 points.
Junior Megan Jerome and senior Dana Western-Schuka then teamed up for the next six points of the game, as Western-Schuka fed Jerome for a three-pointer, and Jerome returned the favor 24 seconds later. Western-Schuka's trey cut the score to 17-13 with 12:58 left.
UT went up by as many as 12 points on two occasions in the first half, but Austin converted a driving layup, drew a foul and made the free throw to cap an 8-2 BG run to end the half. That run cut the Rocket lead to 30-25 at the intermission.
UT opened the second stanza with a 23-9 run over the first six-and-a-half-minutes to push its lead to 53-34, and the Rockets never looked back.
The lead grew to as many as 35 points late in the contest as UT went 18-of-28 from the field in the second half.
For the game, the Falcons shot .380 (19-of-50) from the field and went 5-of-18 (.278) from three-point land.
Toledo shot .537, a season best for a BGSU opponent, from the field, including a 6-of-10 (.600) rate from long range. Risinger was 4-of-4 from three-point land.
The Falcons committed 27 turnovers, a season high, and BG did not block a shot for the first time this year.
BGSU will continue a two-game road set with a Saturday (Feb. 2) game at Buffalo. That contest will begin at 7:00 p.m. The Falcons then return home for a Tuesday (Feb. 5) game vs. Ohio, beginning at 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena.
