Bowling Green State University
OAKLAND
Horne, Falcons on Fire in 89-58 Win over Oakland
November 29, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 29, 2006
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Senior Carin Horne surpassed a career milestone, and helped her Bowling Green State University women's basketball teammates roll up 52 first-half points en route to an 89-58 win over Oakland University Wednesday night (Nov. 29). The non-conference game was held at Anderson Arena.
With the win, the Falcons improve to 5-1 on the season, while the Golden Grizzlies drop to 2-4.
Horne scored a game-high 25 points, surpassing the 1,000-point milestone for her career in the process. Horne becomes the 21st player in school history -- and the third on the current roster -- to reach the millennium mark.
Seniors Liz Honegger and Ali Mann, BGSU's two other 1,000-point scorers, joined Horne in double digits on Wednesday night. Honegger's 16 points included a 4-for-5 effort from three-point range, while Mann had 11 points for her sixth twin-figure effort in as many games this season.
Horne, by the way, was 5-for-8 from three-point land as the Falcons were 12-of-27 from beyond the arc.
Charlese Greer led OU with 16 points off the bench, while Nicole Piggott had 10 points for the visitors.
Honegger got the Falcon offense started, scoring the game's first seven points. The senior worked inside on BG's first possession of the night, drew a foul and hit both free throws. Honegger again went to the line before the game was two minutes old, knocking down two more charity tosses.
When junior Kate Achter found the Lafayette, Ind., native all alone for a three-pointer on the fast break, the score was Honegger 7, Oakland 0, with 2:20 gone in the contest.
Bonnie Baker got the visitors on the scoreboard with two charity tosses of her own, but the Brown and Orange then would go on a 10-0 run. Horne grabbed a defensive rebound and fired a long pass to Achter for a breakaway layup. Then, Horne stripped OU's Riikka Terava of the ball and was immediately fouled, heading to the line and upping BG's lead by two.
After a Honegger steal, Achter found senior Megan Thorburn for a layup on the break, putting all five starters into the scoring column by the 16:29 mark. Then, another Achter pass was converted into a Mann layup, and the lead was 15-2 at the first media timeout of the night.
Senior Amber Flynn made that lead 17-2, before the Grizzlies finally made a field goal. Greer converted a layup at the 12:43 mark, ending an 0-for-10 drought over the game's first seven-plus minutes.
OU would cut the Falcon lead to 19-7, but Mann and Horne would alternate hoops, with Horne's second hoop in that stretch coming from long range to complete a 9-0 run. BG's advantage was 28-7 midway through the half.
The teams basically traded hoops over the next few minutes until, leading 32-15, the Falcons went on a 7-0 run to extend the lead to greater than 20 points for good.
That 7-0 run -- layups by Achter and sophomore Lindsey Goldsberry followed by a Horne three-pointer -- began a stretch in which the Falcons were positively deadly from the field. BGSU made the last eight field-goal attempts of the half, including three treys, to take a 52-20 lead at the intermission.
Horne, after missing her first four shot attempts of the game, would not miss again over the remainder of the half. She made her last seven field-goal tries of the opening 20 minutes, and had a hand in BGSU's final nine points before halftime, with three hoops and an assist.
Horne had 19 points in that opening half, more than any other player on either team would have in the entire game.
In that first half, the Falcons shot over 60 percent from the floor, making 20 of their 33 shots. That included a 5-for-11 rate from three-point range.
BGSU had a 21-0 advantage in points off turnovers in the first half, and the Falcons also held whopping first-half margins in fast-break points (21-2) and points in the paint (24-8).
Mann's three-point field goal opened the second-half scoring and concluded an 11-0 run, giving the Brown and Orange a 55-20 lead.
Pretty much the only suspense remaining was whether Horne would get her 1,000th career point. And, the senior indeed surpassed the millennium mark with 16:28 left in the game, taking a pass from Achter and burying a three-pointer from the left corner.
Horne's shot -- her eighth consecutive make -- gave the Falcons a 61-29 lead. A Honegger triple with just over 10 minutes left moved BG's lead over 30 points for good, and the margin grew as high as 37 points, 80-43, on yet another Honegger trey. That trey capped a 13-0 run, BGSU's third double-digit run of the game.
For the game, the Falcons shot 51.6% from the field and 44.4% (as mentioned, 12-for-27) from beyond the arc. Oakland, after going just 6-for-25 from the floor in the opening half, shot at a 53.6% clip in the second 20 minutes to finish the game with a 39.6% success rate.
Horne, in addition to her 25 points, led the Falcons in rebounds (7) and steals (3), and tied her career high with four assists. Her five three-point field goals made also tied a career best.
Achter had nine points, a game-best eight assists and six rebounds in 25 minutes of action, while Flynn had eight points and a game-high three blocked shots in only 17 minutes. Sophomore Jasmine McCall scored seven points in 12 minutes of work.
Goldsberry had five points, five rebounds and four helpers. In fact, all 12 active Falcons played at least eight minutes in the game, with 10 finding the scoresheet.
The Golden Grizzlies got eight points from Baker and seven from Hanna Reising. Baker had a team-high five rebounds. The Falcons had a 37-28 edge on the boards.
BGSU concludes a three-game homestand next Wednesday (Dec. 6), taking on Indiana University in a 7:00 p.m. start at Anderson.
NOTES
* The Falcons were playing as a nationally-ranked team for the first time this season, having been ranked #24 in Tuesday's (Nov. 28) USA Today ESPN Coaches poll.
* BGSU has won 20-straight home games, a streak that is now the second-longest in the nation, behind only LSU ... Hartford saw a 20-game home winning streak come to an end Wednesday night with a home loss to Seton Hall.
* The Falcons are 2-0 in home games this year ... all five of BGSU's non-conference home games are against teams that advanced to national postseason play and/or won 20 games last season.
* Senior Carin Horne, as mentioned, is the 21st player in school history to score 1,000 career points ... she moved past Lindsay Austin (1,000 pts. from 2000-04) and now ranks 20th in BGSU annals.
* Senior Liz Honegger has made 16 three-point field goals in 26 attempts (61.5%) this year to date ... Honegger is now just six successful triples shy of the school record ... Honegger is fourth in school history with 167 successful 3s ... she trails record-holder Sara Puthoff (173), Francine Miller (171) and Kim Griech (168).
* The Falcons shot better than 50 percent from the field for the third consecutive game, and BGSU has shot over 60% in the first half in all three of those contests.
* BGSU had a 10-0 first-half run, an 11-0 run spanning the end of the opening half and the start of the second, and a 13-0 run midway through the second stanza vs. Oakland ... the Falcons have had at least one run of 10 points or more during each of the season's first six games ... the Falcons have had 10 double-digit scoring runs in those six contests, after having a total of 15 during all of last season.
