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Gardner-Webb
Goldsberry is Perfect as Falcons Top Gardner-Webb
December 28, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 28, 2008
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DAYTON, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - Dayton native Lindsey Goldsberry had a triumphant return to her hometown, scoring a game-high 18 points as the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team picked up a 79-56 win over Gardner-Webb University Sunday afternoon (Dec. 28). The game, the opening contest of the Dayton Flyer Classic, was held at UD Arena.
With the win, the Falcons improve to 9-2 on the season, and BGSU has won nine consecutive games after beginning the year with a pair of losses. The Runnin' Bulldogs drop to 5-5 on the year.
Goldsberry, a co-captain and the Falcons' lone senior, had a perfect shooting day and a solid all-around game. A graduate of Chaminade-Julienne H.S., she was 6-for-6 from the field, making all four of her three-point field-goal attempts in the win. Goldsberry was perfect on two free-throw tries as well, and added two assists and two steals in 30 minutes of work, without committing a turnover.
Junior Niki McCoy had 17 points and eight rebounds in the victory, while freshman Jessica Slagle also hit double digits in scoring. Slagle had 10 points and seven rebounds off the bench.
Sophomore Lauren Prochaska had nine points and nine rebounds, while junior Tara Breske had eight points and nine boards, including six rebounds at the offensive end. Breske also had three assists to tie McCoy for team honors.
GWU had three players in double digits, led by Dominique Hudson's 13 points. Courtney Epps added 11 points and LaTroya Pope 10.
The Falcons shot 41.8 percent for the game while holding the Bulldogs to a 30.6% success rate from the field on the afternoon.
The Falcons scored on their first eight possessions of the game and were never headed. Goldsberry set the tone with a driving layup on the first possession of the afternoon.
Pontius and Prochaska followed suit with layups of their own, and Breske was fouled on the Falcons' next offensive possession, hitting both free throws. BG led, 8-2, with just over two minutes gone.
That lead ballooned to 17-4 by the 15:42 mark. First, Pontius got to the line, splitting a pair of tosses, and the sophomore then knocked down the Falcons' first of seven three-pointers on the day.
Breske fed Goldsberry for a triple, and the senior then returned the favor, finding her fellow co-captain for an easy layup and that 17-4 lead, prompting GWU to take their second timeout of the game.
The Falcons made their first six field-goal attempts of the game.
After a Hudson jumper cut the lead to 17-6, the Falcons proceeded to go on a 7-0 run. Breske and Goldsberry each hit a pair of free throws, and McCoy then found Goldsberry for a trailing three-ball. The senior's shot barely even moved the net as it went through, and the Brown and Orange had a 24-8 lead with only six-and-a-half minutes elapsed.
Three-straight points from McCoy gave the Falcons a 27-10 advantage, and BG's lead stayed in the teens for the remainder of the half. BG scored the last five points of the period, with Pontius hitting from beyond the arc, and Breske grabbed an offensive rebound and hit a putback just before the halftime buzzer, giving the Falcons a 40-21 lead at the break.
The Falcons, after scoring on the game's first eight possessions, got off to a similar start in the second stanza. BG scored the first seven times the team had the ball in the second period, opening up a big lead.
The half began with a McCoy driving layup 26 seconds in. After Hudson answered at the other end, Breske grabbed another offensive board and kicked the ball to Prochaska for a left-elbow triple.
Prochaska would score seven-straight Falcon points, hitting two free throws before converting a jumper off another Breske pass. When Pontius spotted McCoy for a backdoor layup, BG's lead was 51-30.
Then, McCoy and Goldsberry hooked up on back-to-back possessions. The junior transfer spotted the senior co-captain for an open right-side three-pointer on the break. After a miss by the Bulldogs, McCoy found Goldsberry on the other side of the court, and her left-corner triple gave the Brown and Orange a 57-30 advantage.
A McCoy jumper with exactly 15 minutes left gave the Falcons a game-high 29-point lead, at 59-30.
The Bulldogs would battle back, scoring the next eight points of the game and getting as close as 17 points on two occasions. But, the Falcons extended the lead back over 20 points.
Goldsberry took a charge, drawing an offensive foul from a GWU player as the teams headed into the final media timeout of the game. Then, McCoy finished her day with a spinning layup, as her defender fell down trying to guard her. Her basket gave the Falcons a 75-51 lead before head coach Curt Miller called timeout to take his remaining starters out of the game.
The Falcons were 7-of-23 from three-point land for the game, and BGSU held a 48-39 rebounding lead. All 13 players saw action in the win, with 10 finding the scoresheet.
BGSU will take on the host University of Dayton in Monday night's championship game. That contest is scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. tipoff.
