Sunday, November 15
Bowling Green, Ohio
2:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
2-0
66
vs
53
Bradley
1-1
1
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3
4
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Bradley
8
16
23
6
53
Bowling Green
13
16
15
22
66
Carly Santoro scores 2 of her 10 points, all 10 of which came in the last 5-plus minutes of Sunday's win
Photo by: Larry Clapper
Santoro Shines, Falcons Surge Past Bradley, 66-53
November 15, 2015 | Women's Basketball
BG freshman scores all 10 of her points during the game-changing fourth-quarter run
Freshman Carly Santoro scored all 10 of her points in the game's final 5:19, leading a fourth-quarter uprising as the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team downed visiting Bradley University, 66-53, Sunday afternoon (Nov. 15). The non-conference game was held at the Stroh Center.
Fellow Falcon freshman Sydney Lambert led a balanced scoring attack with 14 points, while fifth-year seniors Erica Donovan and Lauren Tibbs added 13 and 12, respectively. Tibbs had a double-double, with a game-high 12 rebounds as BGSU owned a commanding 55-31 advantage on the boards, and she also had four blocked shots.
In addition to the four double-digit scorers, the Falcons got nine points from redshirt sophomore Kennedy Kirkpatrick.
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POSTGAME AUDIO: Santoro | Roos
POSTGAME VIDEO: Santoro | Roos | Highlights
PHOTO GALLERY: Photos courtesy Larry Clapper
The Braves were led by Gabby Green's 17 points, while Emily Eshoo scored 11. Both Green and Eshoo are freshmen, meaning that four of the game's six double-figure scorers were playing just their second collegiate game.
The Falcons (2-0) trailed, 50-47, when Santoro checked into the game with 5:43 remaining, but BGSU then proceeded to go on a 16-0 run, beginning with a driving layup by Lambert. Then, Santoro went to the ground to come up with a steal in BG's defensive end, ran the floor, took a pass from Lambert and drilled a three-pointer from the corner that gave the Falcons a 52-50 lead with 5:19 to go. BG would not trail again.
Santoro played a total of eight minutes in Sunday's game, and went 4-of-5 from the field, including 2-of-3 from three-point land. She also had an assist and a pair of steals. The Falcons outscored the Braves, 21-3, when Santoro was on the court.
Santoro played just two minutes over the first three-plus quarters, before checking in at the 5:43 mark of the final quarter and leading that 16-point BG run.
Lambert's driving layup in traffic began that stretch, and Santoro then took the ball away from BU's Danielle Brewer in BG's defensive end of the court. From the ground, she flipped a pass to Lambert. At the other end of the court, Santoro spotted up in the right corner, received a return pass and hit a corner three from in front of the BGSU support staff at the end of the bench.
The Braves called timeout after that Santoro triple, but out of the break, turned the ball over. Neither team scored on the next few possessions, but with just over three minutes remaining, Santoro came up with a long defensive rebound, drove the lengthe of the court and flipped a pass across the lane to Tibbs for a transition layup and a four-point lead. Then, Santoro stole the ball from Whitney Tinjum at midcourt and headed in for an uncontested layup and a 56-50 advantage.
Santoro and the Falcons increased that lead to nine points when senior Miriam Justinger found the freshman in the left corner for a three-pointer with 1:40 on the clock. BG forced a miss at the other end, and the ball went out of bounds to BG. On the ensuing inbounds play, Donovan fired an overhead pass to Santoro, who was ahead of the pack. With a Bradley defender on her heels, the Bellevue native grabbed the ball and laid it up and in for an 11-point lead. Lambert hit a pair of free throws to conclude the 16-0 run with 41 seconds to go.
BGSU outscored Bradley, 22-6, in that fourth quarter.
BGSU led for the entire first quarter, with Lambert's layup one minute into the game beginning a 6-0 run. Justinger, who found the cutting Lambert for that layup, scored the last four points of that run, with a jumper and a pair of free throws, before Tamya Sims got the visitors on the board with two charity tosses with three and a half minutes gone.
Kirkpatrick converted a nifty up-and-under layup midway through the period, but Eshoo countered with a three-pointer, BU's first basket of the game, and BG's lead was cut to 8-5 with 4:49 left in the quarter. Kirkpatrick answered with a triple of her own, as junior Ashley Tunstall kicked the ball out to the redshirt soph, who restored BG's six-point lead.
Donovan's layup was answered by an Anneke Schlueter three-ball late in the period. The Falcons shot 50 percent (5-of-10) in that opening period, while holding BU to just a 2-for-15 (13.3%) success rate, but BG's lead was just five points after one period.
The visitors scored eight of the first 10 points of the second quarter, beginning with a three-point play by Green just 11 seconds in. A layup by sophomore Rachel Myers proved to be BG's only points of the first five minutes, and a Brewer three, followed by a Green jumper, gave the Braves a 16-15 lead.
Tibbs, however, scored six-straight points, with four coming from the free-throw line. Her other points during that 61-second span came on an offensive rebound and short floater, and her second set of free throws gave the Falcons a 21-16 lead. The Braves sandwiched a pair of three-pointers around a Kirkpatrick layup, with the second triple cutting BG's lead to a single point.
BG went on another 6-0 run, with Donovan making four charity tosses and Lambert hitting a pull-up jumper in transition. Eshoo's jumper closed the first-half scoring, and BGSU took a 29-24 lead into the break.
Tinjum's three-pointer began the third-quarter scoring, and a Green triple just under two minutes into the period gave the Braves a 32-31 lead. Tibbs gave BG the lead with a putback, and Donovan drained two more free throws, but Green, who was 4-for-8 from three-point land on the day, connected from long range once again, and a Leti Lerma jumper put the visitors on top, 37-35.
Justinger found Tibbs for another layup to tie the score, but Green hit from downtown once again. BU's lead grew as large as five points on another Lerma jumper with just over a minute left in the period. Lambert rattled home a three-pointer, though, and Kirkpatrick hit a pair of shots from the stripe with 17.0 seconds left, but Tinjum knocked down a triple try in the final seconds of the period, giving BU a 47-44 lead after three quarters.
Lambert dribbled around the top of the arc and hit a three on BG's first possession of the quarter, but an old-fashioned three-point play by Sims restored the visitors' three-point lead at the 8:43 mark. Neither team would score again until Lambert's layup that began the 16-point run.
BGSU shot 36.8% on the day, while holding BU to just a 27.3% success rate. Ten of the Braves' 18 successful field goals came from beyond the arc, as BU was 10-for-32 from long range. The Falcons were 5-of-20 from long distance, with Lambert and Santoro hitting two apiece.
BG went a scorching 19-for-20 from the free-throw line. The Falcons made 18 consecutive shots from the stripe before missing with 20.8 seconds to go. BU was 7-of-11 from the line.
The home team also enjoyed advantages of 32-12 in points in the paint, and 15-2 in second-chance points. In addition to the 12 rebounds by Tibbs, the Falcons got seven boards from Donovan and six from both Justinger and junior Abby Siefker.
The Falcons now prepare for the first road game of the season. BGSU heads to the Queen City to take on the University of Cincinnati on Saturday (Nov. 21) afternoon, with tipoff at 2:00 p.m.
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Fellow Falcon freshman Sydney Lambert led a balanced scoring attack with 14 points, while fifth-year seniors Erica Donovan and Lauren Tibbs added 13 and 12, respectively. Tibbs had a double-double, with a game-high 12 rebounds as BGSU owned a commanding 55-31 advantage on the boards, and she also had four blocked shots.
In addition to the four double-digit scorers, the Falcons got nine points from redshirt sophomore Kennedy Kirkpatrick.
LINKS
FINAL STATISTICS: HTML | PDF
POSTGAME AUDIO: Santoro | Roos
POSTGAME VIDEO: Santoro | Roos | Highlights
PHOTO GALLERY: Photos courtesy Larry Clapper
The Braves were led by Gabby Green's 17 points, while Emily Eshoo scored 11. Both Green and Eshoo are freshmen, meaning that four of the game's six double-figure scorers were playing just their second collegiate game.
The Falcons (2-0) trailed, 50-47, when Santoro checked into the game with 5:43 remaining, but BGSU then proceeded to go on a 16-0 run, beginning with a driving layup by Lambert. Then, Santoro went to the ground to come up with a steal in BG's defensive end, ran the floor, took a pass from Lambert and drilled a three-pointer from the corner that gave the Falcons a 52-50 lead with 5:19 to go. BG would not trail again.
Santoro played a total of eight minutes in Sunday's game, and went 4-of-5 from the field, including 2-of-3 from three-point land. She also had an assist and a pair of steals. The Falcons outscored the Braves, 21-3, when Santoro was on the court.
Santoro played just two minutes over the first three-plus quarters, before checking in at the 5:43 mark of the final quarter and leading that 16-point BG run.
Lambert's driving layup in traffic began that stretch, and Santoro then took the ball away from BU's Danielle Brewer in BG's defensive end of the court. From the ground, she flipped a pass to Lambert. At the other end of the court, Santoro spotted up in the right corner, received a return pass and hit a corner three from in front of the BGSU support staff at the end of the bench.
The Braves called timeout after that Santoro triple, but out of the break, turned the ball over. Neither team scored on the next few possessions, but with just over three minutes remaining, Santoro came up with a long defensive rebound, drove the lengthe of the court and flipped a pass across the lane to Tibbs for a transition layup and a four-point lead. Then, Santoro stole the ball from Whitney Tinjum at midcourt and headed in for an uncontested layup and a 56-50 advantage.
Santoro and the Falcons increased that lead to nine points when senior Miriam Justinger found the freshman in the left corner for a three-pointer with 1:40 on the clock. BG forced a miss at the other end, and the ball went out of bounds to BG. On the ensuing inbounds play, Donovan fired an overhead pass to Santoro, who was ahead of the pack. With a Bradley defender on her heels, the Bellevue native grabbed the ball and laid it up and in for an 11-point lead. Lambert hit a pair of free throws to conclude the 16-0 run with 41 seconds to go.
BGSU outscored Bradley, 22-6, in that fourth quarter.
BGSU led for the entire first quarter, with Lambert's layup one minute into the game beginning a 6-0 run. Justinger, who found the cutting Lambert for that layup, scored the last four points of that run, with a jumper and a pair of free throws, before Tamya Sims got the visitors on the board with two charity tosses with three and a half minutes gone.
Kirkpatrick converted a nifty up-and-under layup midway through the period, but Eshoo countered with a three-pointer, BU's first basket of the game, and BG's lead was cut to 8-5 with 4:49 left in the quarter. Kirkpatrick answered with a triple of her own, as junior Ashley Tunstall kicked the ball out to the redshirt soph, who restored BG's six-point lead.
Donovan's layup was answered by an Anneke Schlueter three-ball late in the period. The Falcons shot 50 percent (5-of-10) in that opening period, while holding BU to just a 2-for-15 (13.3%) success rate, but BG's lead was just five points after one period.
The visitors scored eight of the first 10 points of the second quarter, beginning with a three-point play by Green just 11 seconds in. A layup by sophomore Rachel Myers proved to be BG's only points of the first five minutes, and a Brewer three, followed by a Green jumper, gave the Braves a 16-15 lead.
Tibbs, however, scored six-straight points, with four coming from the free-throw line. Her other points during that 61-second span came on an offensive rebound and short floater, and her second set of free throws gave the Falcons a 21-16 lead. The Braves sandwiched a pair of three-pointers around a Kirkpatrick layup, with the second triple cutting BG's lead to a single point.
BG went on another 6-0 run, with Donovan making four charity tosses and Lambert hitting a pull-up jumper in transition. Eshoo's jumper closed the first-half scoring, and BGSU took a 29-24 lead into the break.
Tinjum's three-pointer began the third-quarter scoring, and a Green triple just under two minutes into the period gave the Braves a 32-31 lead. Tibbs gave BG the lead with a putback, and Donovan drained two more free throws, but Green, who was 4-for-8 from three-point land on the day, connected from long range once again, and a Leti Lerma jumper put the visitors on top, 37-35.
Justinger found Tibbs for another layup to tie the score, but Green hit from downtown once again. BU's lead grew as large as five points on another Lerma jumper with just over a minute left in the period. Lambert rattled home a three-pointer, though, and Kirkpatrick hit a pair of shots from the stripe with 17.0 seconds left, but Tinjum knocked down a triple try in the final seconds of the period, giving BU a 47-44 lead after three quarters.
Lambert dribbled around the top of the arc and hit a three on BG's first possession of the quarter, but an old-fashioned three-point play by Sims restored the visitors' three-point lead at the 8:43 mark. Neither team would score again until Lambert's layup that began the 16-point run.
BGSU shot 36.8% on the day, while holding BU to just a 27.3% success rate. Ten of the Braves' 18 successful field goals came from beyond the arc, as BU was 10-for-32 from long range. The Falcons were 5-of-20 from long distance, with Lambert and Santoro hitting two apiece.
BG went a scorching 19-for-20 from the free-throw line. The Falcons made 18 consecutive shots from the stripe before missing with 20.8 seconds to go. BU was 7-of-11 from the line.
The home team also enjoyed advantages of 32-12 in points in the paint, and 15-2 in second-chance points. In addition to the 12 rebounds by Tibbs, the Falcons got seven boards from Donovan and six from both Justinger and junior Abby Siefker.
The Falcons now prepare for the first road game of the season. BGSU heads to the Queen City to take on the University of Cincinnati on Saturday (Nov. 21) afternoon, with tipoff at 2:00 p.m.
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Team Stats
BU
BGSU
FG%
.273
.368
3FG%
.313
.250
FT%
.636
.950
RB
31
55
TO
10
15
STL
6
3
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
14
FGM
5
3FGM
2
FTM
2
Pts
13
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
7
Pts
12
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
0
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