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Late Rally Lifts Premier All-Stars, 87-83
November 12, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 12, 2002
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Premier All-Stars, propelled by an 11-0 run late in the second half, rallied for an 87-83 victory over the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team in an exhibition game at Anderson Arena Tuesday night (Nov. 12).
Jamie Lewis and Lisa Cline combined for 44 points for the All-Stars. BGSU junior Stefanie Wenzel had a game-high 26 points, while freshman Jill Lause had 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting off the bench. Senior Karen Stocz had 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds.
The All-Stars led for most of the first half, taking a nine-point advantage on two occasions before the Falcons came back. After a Crystal Carpenter three-point field goal gave the visitors a 28-19 lead, Lause scored the Falcons' next six points, and Stocz hit a pair of shots to cut the lead to three points. Then, a trey by senior Kim Griech tied matters at 32-32 with 3:41 left before the half.
Trisha Bader-Binford, a member of the WNBA's Cleveland Rockers, hit a triple of her own, but Griech drained a pair of free throws and Lause hit a bucket to give BG a one-point lead. The Falcons ended the half on a 6-0 run, with freshman Molly Martin scoring a basket and classmate Marisa Smith following two free throws with a hoop in the final seconds. BGSU took a five-point lead into the lockerroom, 44-39.
The Falcons built the lead to seven points early in the second half, but the All-Stars went on an 8-0 run to go ahead, 50-49, with 15:20 left. BGSU would regain the lead on a Wenzel trey nearly three minutes later, but the All-Stars battled back, taking the lead for good on a Carpenter field goal with 4:02 to go. That field goal was part of the 11-0 run that eventually put the visitors up by eight points, 82-74, with 1:44 remaining.
Lewis, a former Ohio State standout, led the All-Stars with 23 points, while Cline, who set the Ohio high school scoring record at Millersburg West Holmes H.S. in the mid-1980s, had 21. Carpenter had 18 points and Bader-Binford 12.
For the Brown and Orange, Wenzel had 19 of her 26 points in the second half. She was 3-of-4 from three-point land in the game. Lause made six of eight field-goal attempts and had eight rebounds in 24 minutes of action, while Stocz was 5-for-6 from the floor on the night.
The four Falcon freshmen -- Lause, Martin, Smith and Britt Anderson -- were on the floor together for a span of approximately 3:25 in the second half. The frosh combined to shoot .667 (12-of-18) from the field, as Martin was 3-for-3 and Smith 3-for-6. Smith had nine points in just 14 minutes of action, while Martin had seven points and four assists in 14 minutes.
Anderson, just four days removed from starting a Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinal match with the BGSU women's soccer team, did not score, but had four rebounds, an assist and a steal in her six minutes of action.
The Falcons shot .458 from the floor to the visitors' .484. Both teams went 7-of-22 from three-point range, and the Brown and Orange held a 43-32 rebounding advantage.
BGSU now has a week and a half to prepare for the regular-season opener, which is slated for Friday, Nov. 22 against Youngstown State. That game will begin at 7:00 p.m. at Anderson Arena.
