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Falcons Rally for OT win at Toledo, 69-66
January 15, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 15, 2005
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TOLEDO, Ohio - Trailing by four points with under two minutes left in overtime, the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team rallied for a 69-66 win over the host University of Toledo Saturday night (Jan. 15). The Mid-American Conference game was held at UT's John F. Savage Hall.
With the victory, the Falcons improve to 10-5 overall and 3-1 in MAC play, and BGSU is a perfect 3-0 on the road in conference action. The Rockets drop to 6-9 and 2-2, respectively.
Falcon sophomore Ali Mann, held to three first-half points after picking up three fouls before the intermission, finished with 22 points on the night. Mann had 19 second-half points, before fouling out midway through the extra session.
Classmate Liz Honegger finished with 19 points, including a big three-point field goal with 1:17 left in OT. That shot, off a drive-and-dish by freshman Kate Achter, cut the Rockets' four-point lead to one, at 66-65.
Seconds after Honegger's triple, senior Tene Lewis came up with a steal, and the co-captain drove in for the layup which gave the Falcons the lead for good, 67-66, with 1:01 left in overtime.
Achter, a native of Oregon, Ohio, hit a big basket with 13 seconds left to provide the final margin. Senior Kelly Kapferer got her fingertips on Crystal Young's three-point field goal try at the final horn.
For the Rockets, Karin Hoogendam had 23 points and 11 rebounds, scoring 20 of her points after halftime. Danielle Bishop added 17 points and seven boards for the Rockets.
The Falcons trailed by a 26-12 count late in the first half, before going on a late run to cut the deficit to 28-23 at halftime. Honegger paced the Brown and Orange with nine first-half points.
BGSU took an early 4-0 lead on jumpers by Honegger and junior Casey McDowell, but Mann got in some early foul trouble, being whistled for a pair of fouls in the first 2:30. The Falcons led by a 6-3 count before hoops by Bishop and Savannah Werner put the hosts ahead.
The next few minutes featured two ties and two lead changes, before the Falcons went cold from the field. After a jumper by sophomore Carin Horne put the visitors within a point at the 10:58 mark, the Falcons did not score again for over seven minutes. The Rockets scored the game's next 13 points to take a 26-12 lead. Five different UT players scored during that run. Finally, a Horne steal and layup stopped as prolonged a scoring drought as the Falcons had experienced in some time.
After struggling on defense for most of the first half, the Falcons used defense to create offense over the next few minutes. Horne's layup, which came at the 3:42 mark, was the first of three consecutive layups off of steals for the Falcons.
Just 12 seconds after Horne's hoop, Honegger's steal and layup cut the lead to 10 points. Then, a Kapferer steal and bucket cut the margin to 26-18 with 1:50 left in the half.
The Falcons got within five points after Honegger took a McDowell pass and converted a three-point play with 36 seconds left in the half. Bishop stopped the 7-0 BG run with a hoop just 11.1 seconds before the half, but Kapferer answered with a pair of free throws with 2.6 seconds on the clock.
In the second half, Hoogendam scored the first two baskets to prompt Falcon coach Curt Miller into a quick timeout, as the Rockets led by nine points, 32-23.
McDowell hit a three-pointer, BG's first of the game, at the 16:49 mark. Several minutes later, the Falcons scored back-to-back hoops, as Achter found Horne for a backdoor layup, and McDowell fed Honegger for a jumper, and UT's lead was 36-32.
A pair of Mann free throws at the 14:25 mark cut the margin to two points, but the Rockets went on a 6-1 run to take a seven-point lead. Hoogendam scored UT's first eight points, and 13 of the ROckets' first 16 points, of the second half.
The Falcons battled back within four, at 44-40, but back-to-back layups increased the UT margin to eight points once again. Honegger answered with a three-pointer, but the Falcons were whistled for a technical foul, and Bishop converted a free throw for a 51-45 UT lead. But, the Falcons would rally.
After an Achter free throw put the Brown and Orange within five, Mann went to work. She hit a right-side jumper at the 5:47 mark, then scored on a rebound layup less than a minute later. Achter grabbed a defensive rebound and went coast-to-coast for a layup that put the Falcons ahead, 52-51, with 4:25 left.
Bishop responded with two free throws to give UT the lead again, but Mann put the Falcons in front with a layup with 3:44 left.
Hoogendam hit a free throw, but Mann drew a foul on the Falcon senior, converting a layup and hitting the resulting charity toss for a 57-54 BG lead. Hoogendam again split a pair of free throws with 2:46 left, then did the same at the 1:59 mark, and the visitors' lead was a single point.
McDowell responded, however, by drilling a three-pointer off a Mann touch pass with 1:48 left. Two Werner free throws cut the lead in half with 1:18 left, and the Falcons were unable to convert on the next possession.
Toledo got the ball back with just over 30 seconds left, and after a Rocket timeout, Olivia Terry hit a layup with 7.2 seconds left to tie the score, and the contest went to overtime.
In the extra session, neither team scored for nearly a minute and a half, before a Honegger putback gave BG the lead. But, a Honegger foul resulted in two Bishop free throws at the 3:09 mark, and the score was tied.
Mann was called for her fourth foul with 2:57 left, then was whiteld for her fifth at the 2:26 mark. The Falcons were without two of the team's top-three scorers, as Horne had fouled out late in regulation.
Hoogendam's two free throws put the Rockets ahead by two, and a driving, pull-up jumper by Bishop gave UT a 66-62 lead with 1:45 left.
After a Falcon timeout, though, Honegger hit her triple, and Lewis followed with her steal and layup, with the five points coming in a span of 16 seconds. The Lewis hoop represented her only points of the night.
Toledo could not score on the ensuing possession, and Achter grabbed the rebound. The Falcons worked the shot clock down near zero, and Achter hit her jumper with 13.0 seconds left. After a Rocket timeout, the hosts got the ball to Young for a last-ditch three-point try, but Kapferer's deflection ensured that the shot fell short of the mark.
The Falcons shot 44.8 percent from the field to the Rockets' 35.5% rate. BGSU went 13-for-25 (52.0%) from the floor in the second half and 4-of-7 (57.1%) in the OT period. UT outrebounded the Falcons, 43-36, for the game, but BG held a 20-18 advantage in that department after halftime.
McDowell had nine points and three assists in the win, while Achter had eight points and four helpers. Mann led the Falcons with seven rebounds, while both Honegger and Achter had six.
Horne had four steals and Lewis three, as the Falcons totalled 14 steals off of Toledo's 17 turnovers.
The Falcons, as a result of the win and Saturday's other outcomes, currently share first place in the MAC's West Division with Western Michigan University. The Brown and Orange return home for the next two games, facing Miami on Wednesday (Jan. 19) and WMU Saturday (Jan. 22). The WMU game, the first half of a hoops doubleheader, is sold out, with only student tickets remaining.
