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Falcons Open Home Schedule vs. Youngstown State Tuesday
November 29, 2004 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 29, 2004
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GAME #4
BGSU vs. YOUNGSTOWN STATE
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Anderson Arena (4,700)
Bowling Green, Ohio
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1)
TELEVISION: BCSN (tape delay)
SERIES: Tied, 10-10
LAST MEETING: at YSU 79, BGSU 67 - Nov. 22, 2003
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after opening the season with three consecutive road games, makes a rare appearance at Anderson Arena this week before hitting the road yet again ... the Falcons of fourth-year head coach Curt Miller are in town for Tuesday's (Nov. 30) home opener vs. Youngstown State University ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Anderson (4,700) ... following Tuesday's game, BGSU will begin a six-game road stretch with a trip to Providence, R.I., for this weekend's Brown Classic ... the Falcons will meet Lehigh in Saturday's (Dec. 4) first round, before playing either Winthrop or host Brown the following afternoon.
ROAD WARRIORS
As mentioned above, Tuesday's game vs. Youngstown State marks a rare home appearance for the Falcons ... after the YSU contest, BGSU will not play at Anderson Arena again for exactly one month (Dec. 30 vs. Bucknell) ... in fact, when the Falcons leave for Providence, R.I., on Friday morning, it will mark the start of a 17-day stretch in which the team will spend nine nights on the road ... BGSU will play in tournaments at Brown and New Mexico on back-to-back weekends, then will spend the following weekend in Western Pennsylvania to take on St. Francis (Dec. 18) and Robert Morris (Dec. 20).
YOU THE MANN
The Falcons suffered a 68-63 loss at Duquesne, but the setback was not due to lack of effort on the part of sophomore Ali Mann ... Mann, held to four points in the first half, exploded for 19 of the Falcons' 31 second-half points ... Mann made six of her 10 second-half shots from the field, including her only three-point try, and also hit on 6-of-8 free-throw tries in the final 20 minutes of the game.
FALCONS ON RADIO FOR AT LEAST 26 GAMES
A total of 25 of the Falcons' 27 regular-season games, plus all postseason action, are scheduled to be on the air in 2004-05 ... student station WBGU-FM (88.1), the flagship station for the women's basketball Falcons, is scheduled to air all but two regular-season contests -- the games at the Lobo Shootout (Dec. 10-11) ... the 2004-05 academic year marks the third season of an agreement between the BGSU department of athletics and the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization (BGRSO) to have WBGU serve as the flagship station for both hockey and women's basketball ... games produced by BGRSO can be heard on the web, both at bgrso.org and via the Real One Package available through BGSUFalcons.com.
BGSU-YSU ON BCSN
Tuesday's game vs. Youngstown State is scheduled to be televised in the Toledo area by the Buckeye Cable Sports Network (BCSN) ... the station, which is available to Buckeye Cablesystem subscribers, is scheduled to air the game on a tape-delay basis ... air times are slated for Wednesday (Dec. 1) at both 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. as well as Thursday (Dec. 2) at 8:00 p.m. ... tentative plans call for BCSN to broadcast the Falcons' Dec. 30 game vs. Bucknell as well ... for schedule information, or to learn more about BCSN, the station's web address is www.bcsn.tv.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons will take a 1-2 overall record into Tuesday's (Nov. 30) game vs. Youngstown State ... after suffering an 89-41 loss at nationally-ranked Ohio State (Nov. 12), BGSU rebounded for a 115-84 victory at IPFW a week later (Nov. 19) ... but, the Brown and Orange fell at Duquesne by a 68-63 count Saturday evening (Nov. 27) ... the OSU game was a first-round contest in the Sportsview.tv WNIT ... a trio of sophomores, Liz Honegger, Megan Thorburn and Ali Mann, currently rank one-two-three on the team in scoring ... Honegger paces the Falcons with an average of 13.7 points per game, and also has 7.7 rebounds per contest ... Thorburn has 12.3 points per game, while Mann is averaging 12.0 points and a team-high 8.0 boards per game ... Honegger (27 points) and Thorburn (26) each set career bests in scoring in the IPFW game, while Mann paced the Brown and Orange with 23 points at Duquesne ... freshman Kate Achter is averaging 6.7 points per game off the bench, while redshirt junior Casey McDowell also has 6.7 points per outing ... senior co-captain Tene Lewis has 3.3 points and a team-high 4.7 assists per contest ... Lewis and McDowell have joined Honegger, Mann and Thorburn in the starting five for each of the last two games ... all 12 healthy Falcons have seen action in each of the Falcons' three games this season.
BGSU ended the 2003-04 season with a record of 21-10, and the Falcons finished the MAC campaign with an 11-5 slate ... BG tied for second in the West Division, then posted a pair of buzzer-beating wins in the league tourney to advance to the championship game ... head coach Curt Miller welcomes back 11 letterwinners, including three starters, from that team ... the returning starters, all sophomores, are Honegger, Mann and Thorburn ... Miller's team includes three seniors in Kelly Kapferer, Lewis and Sakima Smith ... a pair of juniors, Jill Lause and McDowell, also return ... in addition to the three returning starters, the sophomore class consists of Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers and Carin Horne ... two freshmen, guards Achter and Whitney Taylor, round out the Falcon squad.
SCOUTING YOUNGSTOWN STATE
Youngstown State will bring a 2-2 record to Anderson Arena ... the Penguins of second-year head coach Tisha Hill have a 2-0 road record, with wins at Saint Louis and Florida Atlantic ... the team has lost to Ohio and James Madison, with the latter setback coming at last weekend's FAU tourney ... Hill and the Penguins already are halfway to the team's win total for all of last season ... senior forward Jen Perugini has had a monster start to her season, and is averaging 19.8 points and 13.0 rebounds ... she has led the team in both of those categories in each of the first four games ... another senior forward, Barb Fabianova, has 14.5 points, 5.8 boards and a YSU-best 4.3 assists per game ... senior guard Cathy Hanek has 7.0 points ... senior center Tara Fleming (3.5 ppg, 2.8 rpg) and sophomore guard Ashlee Russo (3.3 ppg, 2.5 apg) round out the starting five for Hill, who has a record of 6-26 in her second year ... last winter, the Penguins went 4-24 overall, and finished ninth in the Horizon League with a 2-14 conference mark ... the school's athletics web site is www.ysusports.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Youngstown State are tied, 10-10, in the all-time series between the teams ... BGSU holds a 6-5 advantage in home games vs. the Penguins ... the Falcons won seven consecutive meetings from 1991-98, but since that time, YSU has captured three of the last five games, including the last two ... last season, the host Penguins downed BG by a 79-67 count (Nov. 22, 2003) ... exactly one year earlier, in the last meeting at Anderson, YSU broke a last-minute tie for a 70-64 win (Nov. 22, 2002).
BGSU/YOUNGSTOWN STATE FACTS
The Falcons and Penguins are meeting for the 12th consecutive season ... Tuesday's game marks the first time since the 1998-99 season that BGSU's season opener was not against the Penguins ... BG had opened the season against YSU for five consecutive years and six times in seven seasons prior to 2004-05.
BGSU/YOUNGSTOWN STATE TIES
YSU assistant coach Kara Wile, in her second season with the Penguins, coached at Indiana State University during the 2001-02 campaign ... BGSU redshirt junior Casey McDowell was a true freshman on that '01-02 Sycamore squad ... McDowell played in 28 games, starting 20, before transferring to BG.
BGSU/YOUNGSTOWN STATE TIES II (and III)
YSU Director of Marketing Brian Corvino is a 1998 BGSU graduate ... he returned to Youngstown after spending several years as BGSU's director of athletic promotions, where he worked with, among other teams, the Falcon women's basketball squad ... the YSU coaching staff features several veterans of the Mid-American Conference ... head coach Tisha Hill came to YSU after spending two seasons (2001-03) as an assistant coach at Ball State ... assistant coach Stacy Krueger is in her first season on Hill's staff, after serving as director of basketball operations at Northern Illinois for two seasons.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons, playing from behind for the entire second half, never could get over the hump in a 68-63 loss at Duquesne Saturday night (Nov. 27) ... sophomore Ali Mann had a game-high 23 points, including 19 in the second half ... Mann was the only BG player in double digits in the game ... the first half featured five ties and five lead changes ... BG led, 23-15, after a Liz Honegger layup with 8:20 left in the half ... but, the Dukes erased the Falcons' largest lead of the game, scoring the next 11 points, and DU took a 34-32 lead into the half ... a Mann jumper tied the score with 30 seconds gone in the second half, but an Aiga Bautre jumper gave the hosts the lead for good with 19 minutes remaining ... DU led by 10 points on several occasions, but a 10-2 BG run put the Falcons within 52-50 with 8:37 remaining ... BGSU would be within two points on no fewer than five more occasions, but never could get the tying or go-ahead basket ... the Falcons shot 30.9 percent from the field and went 5-for-22 (22.7%) from three-point land ... the hosts shot 39.3% from the floor and held a 52-38 rebounding advantage ... Loui Hall had 20 points to lead DU, while both Nicole Sinclair and Maria Stankevich had double-doubles.
MANN SCORES 20 AGAIN
Sophomore Ali Mann had a game-high 23 points at Duquesne ... she has now scored 20 or more points seven times in her career, the most of any current Falcon ... Mann has hit double digits in scoring 20 times in 34 career games.
HONEGGER HITS DOUBLE DIGITS IN REBOUNDS
Sophomore Liz Honegger grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds in the Duquesne contest ... the double-digit rebounding game was her first of the season and the ninth of her career, the most among active Falcons (classmate Ali Mann has eight).
TAKING CARE OF THE BALL
The Falcons' total of eight turnovers at Duquesne was BG's lowest in over a decade, since committing only seven in a win over Toledo on Jan. 13, 1993 ... believe it or not, that BG team had only seven turnovers in back-to-back games, having done the same thing in a win at Eastern Michigan on Jan. 9, 1993.
BLOCKING IT OUT
Liz Honegger, just a sophomore, is only eight blocked shots away from moving into the top-five on that BGSU career list ... Honegger has 54 blocks in her Falcon tenure ... Michelle Terry (1994-97) holds down fifth place on the career list with 62 blocked shots.
175 GAMES AND COUNTING
The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the past six-plus years ... in fact, BGSU has drained a triple in each of the last 175 games, a school record by far ... the last time the Falcons were held without a trey was on March 1, 1998 ... the previous school record had been 29-straight games on two occasions -- most recently, in the 1993-94 (last five games) and 1994-95 (first 24 games) seasons.
