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TOLEDO (Quarterfinal)
Horne, Falcons Advance Past Toledo, 71-62
March 06, 2007 | Women's Basketball
March 6, 2007
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - Senior Carin Horne scored a game-high 22 points to pace three double-digit scorers, as the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team downed the University of Toledo, 71-62, Tuesday (March 6). The game, a quarterfinal-round contest in the Kraft Mid-American Conference Tournament, was held at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.
With the win, the Falcons improve to 27-3 on the season, and BGSU advances to Friday's (March 9) semifinal round. BG will play in the second game of the day, facing Eastern Michigan in a contest scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.
Toledo bows out of the tournament with a record of 11-19.
Junior Kate Achter scored 15 points and senior Ali Mann added 10 for the Brown and Orange. Mann had a game-high nine rebounds, and also dished out four assists to tie Achter for game honors.
Danielle Bishop scored 19 points for the Rockets, while Savannah Werner added 16 points and Diana Reindl 10.
The Rockets scored the first four points of the game, before Mann grabbed a teammate's miss, worked inside and scored. Horne hit a three-pointer to cut BG's deficit to 6-5, then drilled another trey to tie the contest at 8-8, but a pair of layups gave UT a four-point lead four minutes into the game.
Baskets by Mann and senior Amber Flynn tied the game at 12-all, and sophomore Lindsey Goldsberry's pass would result in an 'and-one' layup by Horne at the 12:16 mark. Horne's free throw was good, and BG had a 15-14 lead.
Reindl split a pair of charity tosses to tie the game for the fourth and final time, but Horne drove and kicked the ball to Goldsberry for a right-side three-pointer, and the Falcons had the lead for good at the 11:38 mark. Then, senior Liz Honegger's inbounds pass to a wide-open Horne resulted in a trey from nearly the same spot as Goldsberry's shot, and BG had a 21-15 advantage.
The Rockets kept battling, however. Werner banked home a three-point try to cut BG's lead to 23-20, but Flynn's baseline drive and layup gave the Falcons a five-point margin with seven-and-a-half minutes left before intermission.
Several minutes later, a series of passes led to senior Megan Thorburn's three-ball from the left corner, giving the Brown and Orange a 30-23 lead. Then, Achter pushed the tempo after a BG defensive rebound, as the junior raced downcourt and fired the ball to Honegger for a layup and a 32-23 advantage.
Mann's entry pass to Achter resulted in a basket off glass, a UT foul and a fired-up group of Falcons. Achter's free throw was good, and the junior added another driving shot off glass to complete BG's 10-0 run. The Falcons' lead was 37-23 with under two minutes left in the half.
UT scored the next four points, on a pair of hoops by Nacole Stocks, but Honegger followed her own miss, grabbed a rebound on the baseline and fired a pass to Goldsberry for a three-pointer and a 40-27 lead. The Falcons were called for a foul in the waning seconds of the half, and Werner's two free throws resulted in an 11-point BG lead at the break.
Another Thorburn three-pointer gave BG a 43-29 lead one minute into the second half, and the lead remained in double digits for the next several minutes. But, an 8-0 UT run, culminating with Bishop's up-and-under layup, cut the margin to just five points, 45-40, at the first media timeout of the half.
Out of that timeout, however, Mann split a pair of charity tosses, and Horne sliced through four UT players to grab an offensive rebound and lay the ball into the hoop. After several scoreless minutes of play, Achter got to the line and hit both of her free-throw tries, and Horne's drive to the hoop resulted in a foul, two successful tosses and a 52-40 lead at the 12:04 mark.
The Rockets got as close as six points on two occasions, the last at 56-50 with under eight minutes remaining. But, after a UT missed shot and a lengthy scramble for the rebound, Honegger grabbed the ball and fired a soccer throw-in style pass to Mann, who was ahead of the pack. Mann's layup began an 8-0 run for the Brown and Orange.
Achter hit a foul-line jumper, and Horne deked several would-be defenders for a right-baseline drive and left-handed reverse layup. A minute later, Horne stole the ball and worked a give-and-go with Achter. Horne took the return pass and hit another layup for a 64-50 Falcon lead with 5:14 remaining.
Reindl scored the game's next four points, all at the free-throw line, but Mann spotted a cutting Horne underneath the basket for a layup at the 4:17 mark. Mann made three free throws at the line to complete a 5-0 run that pushed the lead back out to 15 points, and UT could get no closer than the final nine-point margin.
The Falcons shot 51.6 percent from the field in the first half en route to 46.4% for the game. BG held UT to a 42.0% success rate, including just 37.0% in the second half.
The Falcons held a 33-31 advantage in rebounding, led by Mann's total of nine boards. Honegger had eight points and six rebounds in the game, while Thorburn and Goldsberry scored six points each.
Goldsberry and Horne each had four steals in the victory, as BG had a team total of 10. For the Rockets, Reindl had a team-high eight rebounds, while Bishop had seven boards and a game-high six steals.
The Falcons held a 32-26 advantage in points in the paint, and BG had 13 second-chance points to the Rockets' two. UT did have a 25-17 margin in points off turnovers.
BGSU will take on Eastern Michigan in Friday's second game. The first game will pit Ball State vs. Northern Illinois.
NOTES
* The Falcons have met Toledo more than any other opponent in the MAC Tournament, and BGSU holds a 6-3 lead in league tourney meetings vs. the Rockets ... Tuesday's win, however, was BG's first-ever quarterfinal-round victory over the Midnight Blue and Gold ... the Falcons are now 1-1 in the quarterfinals vs. UT, and 2-1 against the Rockets in games played at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena.
* Overall, the Falcons now hold a 37-25 series lead against Toledo ... BGSU's senior class never lost to the Rockets in their four years, going a perfect 8-0 during that time ... BG's series winning streak now stands at nine games against UT.
* Earlier in the day, the latest USA Today/ESPN poll was released, and the Falcons remained 18th in the nation ... a link to that poll exists on the women's basketball home page here at BGSUFalcons.com.
