Four Falcons Earn Honors From MAC

March 7, 2005

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - For the second time in as many years, the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has had three players named to the All-Mid-American Conference Team. Sophomores Liz Honegger, Ali Mann and Carin Horne have been named to the all-conference team, the league office announced Monday morning (March 7). Honegger and Mann picked up second-team honors, while Horne earned honorable mention.

Additionally, Kate Achter was selected to the MAC's All-Freshman Team. The All-MAC and All-Freshman teams are the results of voting by the league's 13 head coaches.

Mann earns all-league honors for the second-straight year, being named to the second team this season after earning honorable mention as a freshman. Honegger, Horne and Achter all garner all-league accolades for the first time in their respective BGSU careers.

Ali Mann earned all-league honors for the second-straight year (photo by Mike Metzger/BG News)

Honegger, a native of Lafayette, Ind. (Jefferson HS), leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding, with 14.5 points and 8.0 boards per game. She also paces the team in blocks (1.8) and three-point field goals (48), and is tied for the BG lead in steals (2.0). She averaged 14.3 points and 7.4 rebounds in MAC games, and tied her own school record with 27 blocks in league play. Overall, she has 49 rejections this season, just one away from the school record that she matched last year as a freshman. Her team-high seven double-doubles include two in the last three games. Honegger ranks among the MAC leaders in a whopping 10 categories.

Carin Horne earned honorable mention (photo by Larry Clapper)

Mann, who hails from Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea HS), is averaging 14.0 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, ranking her second on the team on both lists. Mann, listed on six MAC statistical categories, led the Brown and Orange with 15.0 points and 7.8 rebounds in MAC games. Mann has scored in double digits in 21 games this year, including in each of the final eight regular-season contests. She suffered a sprained ankle in the Falcons' final home game, vs. Toledo (Feb. 26), and was questionable for the Northern Illinois game three days later. Mann not only played in the game, she tied for the team lead with 20 points as the Falcons picked up a win to clinch the league regular-season crown.

Horne, a product of Lima, Ohio (Lima Senior), ranks third on the team with 11.6 points, and also has 4.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals. Horne is second on the team with 40 three-pointers made, ranks third in steals and is tied for third in rebounds. Horne has scored in double digits 15 times this season, including in 10 of the 16 MAC games. She averaged 12.3 points and 4.9 boards in league play.

Kate Achter was named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team

Achter, a native of Oregon, Ohio (Clay HS), averages 10.3 points, 4.1 boards and a team-leading 3.9 assists per game. She is fourth on the Falcons in scoring and is tied for third in rebounding. Achter took over the point-guard duties after the graduation of four-year BG starter Lindsay Austin, and has helped BG to the league's regular-season crown. She leads all MAC freshmen in assists, assist/turnover ratio and free-throw percentage. In MAC play, Achter averaged 10.3 points, 4.2 boards and a team-leading 3.4 assists. Her 12 double-digit scoring games this season include double-figure performances in each of the last three games.

The 2004-05 season, as mentioned, marks the second-straight year that BGSU has had three players selected to the all-league team. Prior to last year, BG had not had more than one all-conference pick since 1997-98.

Achter is the ninth player in school history, and the second in as many years, to be named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team. Mann earned that honor a year ago.

The Falcons are 20-7 overall, and BGSU won the MAC regular-season championship with a league record of 13-3. BG, the number-one seed for the Kraft MAC Tournament, will meet eighth-seeded Miami in Wednesday (March 9) action at Gund Arena in downtown Cleveland. The quarterfinal game is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.

The complete All-MAC and All-Freshman teams are listed below...

ALL-MAC TEAMS
First Team
  Name, School           Pos.  Yr.  Hometown (High School/College)
$&Ryan Coleman, EMU       G    Sr.  Detroit, Mich. (CMA)
  Melissa DeGrate, KSU    G    Sr.  Amarillo, Texas (Amarillo/South Plains Coll.)
$&#8800;Kate Endress, BSU       F    Sr.  Evansville, Ind. (Memorial)
 &cent;Carrie Moore, WMU       G    So.  Lathrup Village, Mich. (Detroit Country Day)
 $Lindsay Shearer, KSU    F    Jr.  Minerva, Ohio (Minerva)

Second Team
  Name, School           Pos.  Yr.  Hometown (High School/College)
  Liz Honegger, BGSU      C    So.  Lafayette, Ind. (Jefferson)
  Kelly Koerber, WMU      F    Sr.  Flint, Mich. (Powers Catholic)
 %Ali Mann, BGSU          F    So.  Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea)
 *Cindi Merrill, Miami    G    Jr.  Noblesville, Ind. (Noblesville)
%^Sikeetha Shepard-Hall,  G    Jr.  Houston, Texas (Lutheran North)
     Marshall

Third Team
  Name, School           Pos.  Yr.  Hometown (High School/College)
  Danielle Bishop, UT     G    So.  Laingsburg, Mich. (Laingsburg Christian)
  Erika Ford, EMU         G    Sr.  Flushing, Mich. (Flushing)
 %Karin Hoogendam, UT     C    Sr.  St. Catharines, Ontario (Governor Simcoe)
^*Nikki Knapp, EMU        F    Jr.  Blue Springs, Mo. (North)
 &cent;Stephanie Raymond, NIU  G    So.  Rockford, Ill. (Lutheran)

Honorable Mention
  Name, School           Pos.  Yr.  Hometown (High School/College)
  Crystal Champion, Mar.  F    So.  Washington, D.C. (H.D. Woodson)
  Carin Horne, BGSU       F    So.  Lima, Ohio (Lima Senior)
 &cent;Amanda Jackson, Miami   G    So.  Springfield, Ohio (South)
  Simone Redd, Ohio       G    Fr.  Warrensville Hts., Ohio (Regina)
  Malika Willoughby, KSU  G    Jr.  Milwaukee, Wis. (Washington/UWM)

All-Freshman Team
Name, School                Pos.  Hometown (High School)
Kate Achter, Bowling Green   G    Oregon, Ohio (Clay)
Julie DeMuth, Ball State     G    Merrillville, Ind. (Decatur Central)
Simone Redd, Ohio            G    Warrensville Heights, Ohio (Regina)
Olivia Terry, Toledo         G    Richmond, Ky. (Madison Central)
Heather Turner, Buffalo      F    West Seneca, N.Y. (Mount Mercy Academy)

$First-team all-MAC in 2003-04
*Second-team all-MAC in 2003-04
%Honorable mention all-MAC in 2003-04
&cent;All-freshman in 2003-04
&Second-team all-MAC in 2002-03
^All-freshman in 2002-03
&#8800;All-freshman in 2001-02

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