Saturday, January 7
Bowling Green, Ohio
12:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
62
vs
58
Akron
Alexis Rogers had a double-double in the second half alone en route to career-best point and rebounding totals (photo by Brandon Heiss)
Rogers Leads BGSU to Come-From-Behind Win over Akron
January 07, 2012 | Women's Basketball
Redshirt sophomore has monster game in 62-58 victory
Redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers had a monster second half, leading the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team to a 62-58 win over the University of Akron Saturday afternoon (Jan. 7). The Mid-American Conference game was held at the Stroh Center.
FINAL STATS: HTML | PDF
PHOTO GALLERY: Brandon Heiss, BGSU Marketing & Communications
POSTGAME AUDIO: Rogers & Slagle | Curt Miller
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for video of the postgame interviews
With the victory, the Falcons improve to 12-3 overall and 2-0 in MAC play. The Zips drop to 6-10 and 0-2, respectively.
Rogers had 26 points and 14 rebounds, posting career-high totals in both categories, vs. the Zips. She had a double-double in the second half alone, with 19 points and 10 boards after the intermission.
Rogers had game-high totals in both points and rebounds. Senior Jessica Slagle joined her in double digits in the scoring column, with 14 points on the day. Slagle led all players in assists (five), steals (four - tied junior Chrissy Steffen for game honors) and blocked shots (two).
Redshirt junior Danielle Havel had 10 boards as BGSU recorded a 53-41 advantage on the glass. The Falcons outrebounded the opponent for the 10th consecutive contest.
BGSU needed every one of those rebounds, as the Brown and Orange struggled to shoot the ball for most of the afternoon. BG shot just 20.0 percent from the field in the opening half, before going 14-of-32 (43.8%) in the second period to end the game with a 32.3 success rate. Rogers made 12 of her team's 20 field goals on the day.
The Falcons also struggled from three-point range and at the free-throw line, going 3-of-18 (16.7%) from the arc and 19-for-37 (51.4%) from the stripe.
BG had 18 offensive rebounds and a 15-4 advantage in second-chance points.
Sina King led the Zips with 17 points, while Jasmine Mushington had 15 on the day.
The Falcons now lead the all-time series with Akron by a 47-2 count. Saturday marked the teams' first meeting in the Stroh Center, but BGSU is now a perfect 25-0 in home games vs. the Zips. BG now holds an 18-game series winning streak.
The Falcons spotted a Zips a 2-0 lead, then scored the next three points, taking the lead on a Rogers layup with 1:22 gone. Back-to-back layups by Natasha Williams and Mushington, however, gave UA a 6-3 advantage and resulted in a BGSU timeout.
Another layup, this time from Kacie Cassell, gave the visitors an 8-4 lead heading into the day's first media timeout. The Falcons got three points from Rogers, who split a pair of charity tosses before hitting a layup, but four-straight UA points gave the Zips a 12-7 lead with 11:42 left in the half.
Slagle lobbed a pass to a wide-open Logan Pastor for an easy layup midway through the half. That basket came with 10:04 left in the period, to be exact, and featured the first assist by either team on the day.
But -- after a Steffen free throw, UA reeled off an 11-0 run. A Mushington jumper was followed by a Carly Young putback, and King then scored five-straight points. The sophomore hit a three-pointer from the right elbow, prompting BGSU's second timeout of the day. Out of that timeout, however, King came up with a steal and an easy layup, and the Zips' lead was 21-10.
BG scored the next three points, including Pastor's drive-and-dish to Rogers for a layup, but a three-point play by King started a 7-0 run for the Zips. King scored the first five of those points, and Mushington's free throws at the 3:21 mark gave the Zips a game-high 15-point lead, 28-13.
The Falcons ended the first half on a 9-2 run, which featured six points from Slagle. The senior started that run by getting herself to the line and hitting a pair of free throws, and she then knocked down a pull-up jumper with 2:23 left in the half.
That 9-2 run was capped by a three-pointer from freshman Jasmine Matthews with 10.9 seconds left. That shot cut BG's deficit to single digits, 30-22, at the intermission.
The Falcons were within eight points despite that 20% field-goal rate in the opening half. Matthews' shot was BG's first successful three-pointer in 10 tries on the day, and the home team had gone just 4-of-12 from the free-throw line before Slagle made five in a row to end the half.
Slowly but steadily, the Falcons chipped away at the Zips' lead in the second half. Trailing by a 36-25 count, BG scored seven-straight points, including five by Rogers. Her layup with 15:49 remaining cut the margin to five points.
Several minutes later, an 8-0 BG run gave the hosts the lead. After Matthews made a pair of tosses, a Rogers putback cut Akron's advantage to one basket, 39-37. BG forced a UA miss, and Slagle fired a long pass ahead to junior Allison Papenfuss. Papenfuss grabbed the pass under the basket, stopped on a dime as a UA defender went flying past her, and laid the ball off glass and in. The game was tied, 39-39, with 12:53 left, and the noise level increased dramaticallly inside the Stroh Center as the Zips used a timeout.
Then, after another Akron miss, Rogers corralled a teammate's errant shot and banked the ball home for a BG lead at the 12:20 mark. The game was tied two more times over the next few minutes, the last coming on Slagle's layup with 10:06 remaining.
That Slagle shot began an 8-0 run that gave BG the lead for good. After another Rogers layup and a Havel free throw, Steffen took Slagle's kickout pass and knocked down a three-pointer for a 49-43 lead with under eight minutes remaining. Steffen had missed her first nne shot attempts of the game before hitting that three-ball.
UA got back to within one point on several occasions, the first coming on Taylor Ruper's trey with 5:16 left. After yet another Rogers layup, Mushington answered with a transition layup to cut BG's lead to 53-52.
Rogers, however, hit a jumper off of Slagle's right-side entry pass at the 3:41 mark, beginning a 6-0 run. The other four points during that span came at the free-throw line, as both Steffen and Slagle went 2-for-2 in that time. Slagle's final toss in that stretch put the Falcons up by seven, 59-52, with 2:17 left.
Back came the Zips, however, as Mushington and King each hit a pair of throws to cut the lead to three points with 1:42 left. UA forced a BG miss, and Williams drew a foul with 1:20 on the clock. But, Williams missed both of her free-throw tries, and Havel rebounded for the Falcons.
BG turned the ball over, though, and Mushington got herself to the line with 48.4 seconds left. She made the first free throw, but missed the second, and BG's lead was two points. Havel again came up with the rebound after that second miss, and the Falcons used the entirety of the shot clock on the ensuing possession.
That possession resulted in Havel's pass to Rogers for a layup with the shot clock winding down and the game clock at 20 seconds, and BG's lead was four points. Slagle came up with a steal and dribbled several more seconds off the clock before being fouled with 8.6 seconds left. She split her free-throw tries, giving the Falcons a five-point lead, and the Zips could only get one point closer, as Ti'eshia Stubbs made a free throw with 3.3 seconds left for the final point of the day.
Slagle went 8-of-11 from the free-throw line in the win, while Matthews was 3-for-4. The rest of the team combined to make eight free throws in 22 tries.
Matthews scored nine points for the Falcons, and was the only player on either team to make as many as two three-pointers in the game. Steffen had seven points and eight rebounds, in addition to her four steals. BG had 10 steals as a team.
Young had seven points for the Zips, while Williams added six.
The Falcons will conclude a three-game homestand with Thursday's (Jan. 12) game vs. Ohio University. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh.
FINAL STATS: HTML | PDF
PHOTO GALLERY: Brandon Heiss, BGSU Marketing & Communications
POSTGAME AUDIO: Rogers & Slagle | Curt Miller
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for video of the postgame interviews
With the victory, the Falcons improve to 12-3 overall and 2-0 in MAC play. The Zips drop to 6-10 and 0-2, respectively.
Rogers had 26 points and 14 rebounds, posting career-high totals in both categories, vs. the Zips. She had a double-double in the second half alone, with 19 points and 10 boards after the intermission.
Rogers had game-high totals in both points and rebounds. Senior Jessica Slagle joined her in double digits in the scoring column, with 14 points on the day. Slagle led all players in assists (five), steals (four - tied junior Chrissy Steffen for game honors) and blocked shots (two).
Redshirt junior Danielle Havel had 10 boards as BGSU recorded a 53-41 advantage on the glass. The Falcons outrebounded the opponent for the 10th consecutive contest.
BGSU needed every one of those rebounds, as the Brown and Orange struggled to shoot the ball for most of the afternoon. BG shot just 20.0 percent from the field in the opening half, before going 14-of-32 (43.8%) in the second period to end the game with a 32.3 success rate. Rogers made 12 of her team's 20 field goals on the day.
The Falcons also struggled from three-point range and at the free-throw line, going 3-of-18 (16.7%) from the arc and 19-for-37 (51.4%) from the stripe.
BG had 18 offensive rebounds and a 15-4 advantage in second-chance points.
Sina King led the Zips with 17 points, while Jasmine Mushington had 15 on the day.
The Falcons now lead the all-time series with Akron by a 47-2 count. Saturday marked the teams' first meeting in the Stroh Center, but BGSU is now a perfect 25-0 in home games vs. the Zips. BG now holds an 18-game series winning streak.
The Falcons spotted a Zips a 2-0 lead, then scored the next three points, taking the lead on a Rogers layup with 1:22 gone. Back-to-back layups by Natasha Williams and Mushington, however, gave UA a 6-3 advantage and resulted in a BGSU timeout.
Another layup, this time from Kacie Cassell, gave the visitors an 8-4 lead heading into the day's first media timeout. The Falcons got three points from Rogers, who split a pair of charity tosses before hitting a layup, but four-straight UA points gave the Zips a 12-7 lead with 11:42 left in the half.
Slagle lobbed a pass to a wide-open Logan Pastor for an easy layup midway through the half. That basket came with 10:04 left in the period, to be exact, and featured the first assist by either team on the day.
But -- after a Steffen free throw, UA reeled off an 11-0 run. A Mushington jumper was followed by a Carly Young putback, and King then scored five-straight points. The sophomore hit a three-pointer from the right elbow, prompting BGSU's second timeout of the day. Out of that timeout, however, King came up with a steal and an easy layup, and the Zips' lead was 21-10.
BG scored the next three points, including Pastor's drive-and-dish to Rogers for a layup, but a three-point play by King started a 7-0 run for the Zips. King scored the first five of those points, and Mushington's free throws at the 3:21 mark gave the Zips a game-high 15-point lead, 28-13.
The Falcons ended the first half on a 9-2 run, which featured six points from Slagle. The senior started that run by getting herself to the line and hitting a pair of free throws, and she then knocked down a pull-up jumper with 2:23 left in the half.
That 9-2 run was capped by a three-pointer from freshman Jasmine Matthews with 10.9 seconds left. That shot cut BG's deficit to single digits, 30-22, at the intermission.
The Falcons were within eight points despite that 20% field-goal rate in the opening half. Matthews' shot was BG's first successful three-pointer in 10 tries on the day, and the home team had gone just 4-of-12 from the free-throw line before Slagle made five in a row to end the half.
Slowly but steadily, the Falcons chipped away at the Zips' lead in the second half. Trailing by a 36-25 count, BG scored seven-straight points, including five by Rogers. Her layup with 15:49 remaining cut the margin to five points.
Several minutes later, an 8-0 BG run gave the hosts the lead. After Matthews made a pair of tosses, a Rogers putback cut Akron's advantage to one basket, 39-37. BG forced a UA miss, and Slagle fired a long pass ahead to junior Allison Papenfuss. Papenfuss grabbed the pass under the basket, stopped on a dime as a UA defender went flying past her, and laid the ball off glass and in. The game was tied, 39-39, with 12:53 left, and the noise level increased dramaticallly inside the Stroh Center as the Zips used a timeout.
Then, after another Akron miss, Rogers corralled a teammate's errant shot and banked the ball home for a BG lead at the 12:20 mark. The game was tied two more times over the next few minutes, the last coming on Slagle's layup with 10:06 remaining.
That Slagle shot began an 8-0 run that gave BG the lead for good. After another Rogers layup and a Havel free throw, Steffen took Slagle's kickout pass and knocked down a three-pointer for a 49-43 lead with under eight minutes remaining. Steffen had missed her first nne shot attempts of the game before hitting that three-ball.
UA got back to within one point on several occasions, the first coming on Taylor Ruper's trey with 5:16 left. After yet another Rogers layup, Mushington answered with a transition layup to cut BG's lead to 53-52.
Rogers, however, hit a jumper off of Slagle's right-side entry pass at the 3:41 mark, beginning a 6-0 run. The other four points during that span came at the free-throw line, as both Steffen and Slagle went 2-for-2 in that time. Slagle's final toss in that stretch put the Falcons up by seven, 59-52, with 2:17 left.
Back came the Zips, however, as Mushington and King each hit a pair of throws to cut the lead to three points with 1:42 left. UA forced a BG miss, and Williams drew a foul with 1:20 on the clock. But, Williams missed both of her free-throw tries, and Havel rebounded for the Falcons.
BG turned the ball over, though, and Mushington got herself to the line with 48.4 seconds left. She made the first free throw, but missed the second, and BG's lead was two points. Havel again came up with the rebound after that second miss, and the Falcons used the entirety of the shot clock on the ensuing possession.
That possession resulted in Havel's pass to Rogers for a layup with the shot clock winding down and the game clock at 20 seconds, and BG's lead was four points. Slagle came up with a steal and dribbled several more seconds off the clock before being fouled with 8.6 seconds left. She split her free-throw tries, giving the Falcons a five-point lead, and the Zips could only get one point closer, as Ti'eshia Stubbs made a free throw with 3.3 seconds left for the final point of the day.
Slagle went 8-of-11 from the free-throw line in the win, while Matthews was 3-for-4. The rest of the team combined to make eight free throws in 22 tries.
Matthews scored nine points for the Falcons, and was the only player on either team to make as many as two three-pointers in the game. Steffen had seven points and eight rebounds, in addition to her four steals. BG had 10 steals as a team.
Young had seven points for the Zips, while Williams added six.
The Falcons will conclude a three-game homestand with Thursday's (Jan. 12) game vs. Ohio University. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh.
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