Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, November 22
Columbus, OH
5:30 PM
Bowling Green State University
60
vs
74
Marist
Marist Knocks Falcons From Unbeaten Ranks, 74-60
November 22, 2013 | Women's Basketball
Rogers, Halfhill score 16 points apiece as BGSU falls for the first time in five games
FINAL STATISTICS: HTML | PDF
POSTGAME AUDIO: Jennifer Roos
With the win, Marist improves to 1-3 on the year. The Falcons drop to 4-1 on the young season.
Seniors Alexis Rogers and Jillian Halfhill scored 16 points apiece to lead BGSU, and Rogers had a double-double with a game-high 11 rebounds. Redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan scored 14 points and pulled down nine rebounds for the Brown and Orange.
In addition to the 24 points from Blais, the Red Foxes got 17 points from Emma O'Connor and 16 from Leanne Ockenden. That trio combined to go 19-for-33 from the field. As a team, Marist shot 56.0 percent from the field in the second half en route to a 47.9% rate for the game.
The contest was close throughout, and the Falcons took a 53-52 lead on Donovan's three-point play with 9:15 to go. But, Ockenden's layup on the next possession began a 7-0 run for the Red Foxes. A Donovan three-point field goal -- one of 11 for the Falcons in the game -- cut Marist's lead in half, bringing the Falcons within 59-56 with 6:47 remaining, but an O'Connor layup was followed by a Blais three-pointer that gave the Red Foxes an eight-point advantage.
Senior Jill Stein split a pair of free throws, but an Ockenden layup was followed by four-straight points from Blais, giving Marist a 70-57 lead with just over three minutes remaining. The Falcons cut the deficit to 10 points on a Rogers three-ball, but could draw no closer.
BGSU hit 11 three-pointers on Friday, with Halfhill, Donovan and Rogers combining for 10 of those successful treys. Halfhill was 4-of-6 from long distance, while Donovan was 3-for-4 and Rogers 3-of-7 from long range.
At the other end of the court, Marist hit 10 long-range shots, with Blais going 4-of-6, O'Connor 3-of-4 and Katharine Fogarty 2-for-3 off the bench.
Rogers got the Falcons off to a good start, scoring the first four points of the night. She began the game by stealing the ball from Sydney Coffey on the opening possession and heading in for an easy layup. Then, after Donovan tied Coffey up for a jump ball, Rogers grabbed a teammate's missed shot and laid the ball back up and in.
The Red Foxes responded with five-straight points, but sophomore Miriam Justinger fed Donovan for a corner three, and the redshirt soph hit another shot from beyond the arc -- again off of a Justinger assist -- for a 10-5 BG advantage. Donovan concluded her own personal 8-0 run with a layup, and the Foxes said timeout.
Marist rallied to within two points on treys by Fogarty and O'Connor, but some nifty BGSU passing resulted in junior Deborah Hoskstra finding Halfhill for a three-pointer from the left wing. When Hoesktra got a driving layup to drop while being fouled, then hit the resulting free throw to complete the three-point play, BGSU had a 19-11 lead just over midway through the opening half.
Marist cut the lead to three pointer on a Blais layup and a pair of Coffey charity tosses, but Halfhill drove across the paint and flipped the ball to Rogers for a straightaway three, giving the Falcons a 22-15 advantage. From there, however, the Red Foxes would go on a 17-4 run over the final seven-plus minutes of the half.
That run began with a Blais trey, and an O'Connor layup got the hosts within two points at the 6:08 mark. After a BG miss, Blais got to the line and hit a pair of shots to tie the score at 22-all.
Rogers hit a long two-pointer, but Fogarty's second three-pointer of the half gave Marist the lead, 25-24, with 3:56 to go. After a BG turnover, Blais hit a triple, and four free throws by the Foxes increased the lead to eight points. Halfhill's layup with 37 second left in the half broke BG's scoring drought of nearly five minutes, and cut the Falcons' deficit to six points, 32-26, at the intermission.
Halfhill and the Falcons got off to a successful start in the second half, regaining the lead with a quick 7-0 burst. Halfhill knocked the ball away from Natalie Gomez-Martinez mere seconds into the second half, and on the next possession, Stein hit a layup to cut Marist's lead to four.
The Falcons forced a miss, and Stein fed Justinger for a corner three. That shot, taken in front of the BG bench, made it a 32-31 game, and Halfhill promptly stole the ball from Gomez-Martinez again. This time, the BG senior took it all the way for a wide-open layup and a 33-32 Falcon lead with just 1:28 gone in the half.
After calling a timeout, the Red Foxes responded with seven consecutive points, capped by an O'Connor three-pointer with 16:40 to go. That's when Halfhill, perhaps celebrating Friday's premiere of a certain movie, proceeded to catch fire.
Halfhill proceeded to hit three three-pointers in as many BG possessions, scoring nine points in the span of just 53 seconds. First, she answered O'Connor's long-range shot with one of her own only 13 seconds later.
Than, after Brittni Lai split a pair of free throws, Halfhill scored six points on one BG trip down the floor. She took a pass from Hoekstra and hit a shot from the top of the arc, just as Lai pushed Rogers into Halfhill.
The foul on Lai, which came after Halfhill had released her shot, gave the ball back to the Falcons, and the Canfield native knocked down a shot from the corner for a 42-40 BGSU lead with 15:34 to go.
Blais hit a triple just under a minute later, but Rogers matched that shot, giving the Brown and Orange a two-point lead once again. After Blais tied the score with a layup, Justinger hit a bucket inside, giving the Falcons a 47-45 advantage with 12:59 remaining.
Blais got to the line and made a pair of free-throw tries, and out of the media timeout, Stein split her two tosses, putting BG up, 48-47. Coffey connected on a three-pointer, but Justinger put back a teammate's miss to tie the score at 50-50 with 9:46 left.
Ockenden scored inside, but Donovan answered with her three-point play at the 9:15 mark. That gave the Brown and Orange a 53-52 advantage, but it would be the Falcons' last lead of the night.
The Falcons remain in Columbus as the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge continues this weekend. BGSU will face Old Dominion University on Saturday (Nov. 23) in a 6:00 p.m. start, then will meet host Ohio State University on Sunday (Nov. 24) at approximately 3:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME CHALLENGE
(all games at Value City Arena; Columbus, Ohio)
Friday, Nov. 22
Marist 74, Bowling Green 60
Ohio State 75, Old Dominion 60
Saturday, Nov. 23
Bowling Green vs. Old Dominion, 6:00 p.m.
Marist at Ohio State, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 24
Marist vs. Old Dominion, 1:00 p.m.
Bowling Green at Ohio State, 3:30 p.m.
Amy Velasco, Lexi Fleming, & Coach Chmiel Postgame Interview (Mar. 5, 2025)
Thursday, March 06
Paige Kohler, Coach Chmiel, & Amy Velasco Postgame Interview (Feb. 26, 2025)
Thursday, February 27
In the Paint: Lexxus Graham-Blincoe
Wednesday, February 26
Erika Porter, Amy Velasco, & Coach Chmiel Postgame Interview (Feb. 22, 2025)
Sunday, February 23