Bowling Green State University
OHIO
Second-Half Uprising Leads to BGSU Win, 77-63, Over Ohio
January 18, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 18, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team scored 54 second-half points, erasing a three-point halftime deficit en route to a 77-63 win over Ohio University Wednesday night (Jan. 18). The Mid-American Conference game was held at BGSU's Anderson Arena.
With the victory, the Falcons improve to 13-2 overall and 4-0 in MAC play. The Bobcats fall to 5-10 and 2-2, respectively.
The win was the Falcons' 12th consecutive home victory. BG is 5-0 at Anderson this season.
Junior Ali Mann, saddled with foul trouble in the first half, scored 14 of her team-best 17 points in the second 20 minutes. Mann led four Falcon double-digit scorers in the win.
Junior Carin Horne had 16 points, while sophomore Kate Achter had 14 points and a game-high nine assists. Achter had four steals in the game, and just one turnover. Junior Liz Honegger scored 13 points and had a team-high seven rebounds for the Brown and Orange.
Ohio got a game-high 18 points from Rachel Frederick, who tied for game honors with seven boards. Quintana Ward also hit double figures in the scoring column for the visitors, with 16 points.
The visitors shot at least 50 percent in each half, and had a 52.3% rate for the game. But, Ohio committed 27 turnovers, tying s season high for a BGSU opponent. BGSU had just nine turnovers on the night. The Falcons, after shooting only 27.8% in the first half, went 17-for-30 (56.7%) from the floor in the final 20 minutes. For the game, the Falcons had a 40.9% field-goal pct.
The Falcons got off to a fast start, but Ohio bounced back in a big way, taking a lead and all of the momentum into the lockerroom at halftime. BGSU scored the game's first seven points, and the hosts took a 14-2 lead with 12:33 gone.
Honegger hit a pair of layups after Horne had opened the game with a three-point field goal, staking the Brown and Orange to that 7-0 lead. Vicky Hashivon got the Bobcats on the board at the 16:21 mark, but an Achter jumper restored the seven-point edge for the hosts.
After Achter fed freshman Lindsey Goldsberry for a layup, OU coach Lynn Bria took a timeout. A minute later, however, a Goldsberry steal led to a three-pointer by senior Casey McDowell, off of Mann's drive and dish, but a 14-2 Falcon advantage.
From there, however, it was nearly all Ohio, as the Bobcats outscored the Falcons by a 24-9 count over the remainder of the half.
A McDowell layup midway through the period gave BG a nine-point lead, 16-7, but the 'Cats got back-to-back hoops to cut the lead to five points.
Mann hit a three-pointer with 6:51 left before halftime, and the Falcons held a 19-11 advantage. After a pair of Frederick free throws, freshman Jessica McKenzie got an offensive rebound and putback for a 21-13 lead at the 4:48 mark. But, the visitors then went on a 7-0 run.
That run was capped by a Ward triple at the 2:42 mark, cutting BG's lead to a single point, 21-20. Achter hit a jumper to put BG up by three, but, less than a minute later, OU's Lauren Revesz hit a triple to tie the score for the first time. With 33 seconds left in the half, Ward drilled a straightaway three from NBA range to give the Bobcats a 26-23 lead at the half.
In that first half, the Bobcats led despite committing 14 turnovers. OU's 10-of-20 field-goal rate in the opening half included a 3-for-4 effort from three-point land.
Mann picked up three first-half fouls, while Horne played just seven minutes due to a pair of early fouls. The two players combined for just six points in the opening half.
In the second half, Ohio got a player into some foul trouble, as Simone Redd picked up her third foul just seven seconds into the period. Redd, OU's leading scorer on the season, missed all 10 of her shots from the field and scored just one point vs. the Falcons.
The play was back and forth in the opening minutes of the second half, before BG went on a game-changing run. Junior Megan Thorburn opened the second-half scoring with a three ball, tying the score at 26. But, Ward hit her third triple of the night. Achter split a pair of free throws, but Ciara Iglehart scored to give the visitors a four-point lead, OU's biggest of the game.
Horne quickly converted a right-side jumper at the other end, and a Mann conversion of an Achter pass tied the score, 31-31, at the 16:20 mark.
Frederick's three-pointer gave the visitors a lead out of the first media timeout of the half, but a Mann triple tied the game once again. Mann and Horne each got to the line and convereted a pair of free throws over the next few minutes, and Achter's jumper, with her toe on the three-point line, gave BG a six-point lead. Then, Honegger took an Achter pass and hit a right-elbow three-pointer. That capped a 12-0 BG run and gave the Falcons a 43-34 lead with 12:06 left.
Hashivon snapped an Ohio scoreless streak of 4:05 with a three-pointer, but Honegger hit another triple from nearly the same spot as her previous trey, and the lead was nine points again.
McKenzie then scored the game's next five points, putting the hosts up by 14. She first took a Horne pass and hit a layup, then lost her defender and scored off a pass from classmate Jasmine McCall. McKenzie was fouled on the play, and completed the three-point opportunity to give BG a 51-37 edge with 9:35 left in the contest.
After trailing by a 34-31 count earlier in the half, the Falcons went on a 20-3 run. Ohio never got closer than nine points over the remainder of the evening.
BG's biggest lead was 17 points, after a Horne three-pointer with 1:31 left in the game. The Falcons went 6-of-11 (54.5%) from beyond the arc after shooting just 18.8% (3-for-16) from three-point range in the first half.
For their part, the Bobcats went 8-of-13 from three-point land on the night, for a success rate of 61.5%. Ward led the way, going 3-for-3, but she fouled out in the final minute of play.
In addition to the four double-digit scorers, the Falcons got a season-best seven points from McKenzie. McDowell had five points and three assists, and tied Achter for game honors with four steals, as BG had 15 thefts as a team.
Mann had four assists and two blocked shots, while Honegger also had a pair of rejections and added threee steals on the night.
BGSU is home again Saturday (Jan. 21), facing Miami University in a 1:00 p.m. start at Anderson.
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