Falcons Light Up the Stroh in 99-76 Win over Marshall

Tuesday, November 13

Bowling Green, OH

7:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

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Marshall

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Marshall

Bowling Green

November 13, 2018 | Women's Basketball

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McMillen ties BGSU three-point record in her second career game

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Freshman Morgan McMillen hit a three-pointer six seconds into her Stroh Center debut, and the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team never looked back. McMillen and the Falcons tied the school single-game long distance records en route to a 99-76 win over Marshall University Tuesday night (Nov. 13).

McMillen scored 32 points and hit a BG record-tying eight three-pointers, and the Falcons were 16-of-28 from downtown in the win, the first of the Robyn Fralick Era.

Sophomore Angela Perry had a career-high 25 points, while senior Sydney Lambert and junior Andrea Cecil scored 10 points apiece. Cecil had a double-double, with 11 rebounds, while Lambert also had six assists.

Freshman Kadie Hempfling had seven points to go along with game-high totals of 17 rebounds and eight assists.

McMillen was 11-of-14 from the field, including an 8-of-11 performance from the arc, while Perry went 10-for-14 from the floor in the win.

Four different players hit shots in the first two-plus minutes, as BGSU built a 9-0 lead and never trailed.

The Falcons, who scored at least 20 points in every quarter, outrebounded the Thundering Herd by a 50-26 count on the night.

Shayna Gore led the visitors with a game-high 34 points, while Kia Sivils and Taylor Porter had 12 and 10, respectively.

NOTE OF THE NIGHT
• The win was the Falcons' first of the season, and the program's first in the Robyn Fralick Era. Fralick, in her fourth year as a collegiate head coach, now has a record of 105-4.

FIRST-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
• The Falcons got off to a lightning-quick start. After redshirt sophomore Clare Glowniak won the opening tip, senior Sydney Lambert fired a pass to freshman Morgan McMillen for a corner three. Just six seconds in, BGSU had the lead for good.
• That lead continued to grow, as junior Andrea Cecil hit a driving layup, freshman Kadie Hempfling backed down her defender for a bucket, and Glowniak took a Lambert pass and banked home a close-range shot. BG led, 9-0, with just over two minutes gone.
• Hempfling fed Lambert for a corner three, then hit a triple of her own from the top of the arc, and the Thundering Herd used a timeout. BG led, 15-5, and the Falcons were 6-of-7 from the field and a perfect 3-for-3 from downtown.
• BG would hit the first four long-range attempts of the night, as Hempfling kicked the ball to Cecil for another trey. When Glowniak found McMillen for another long ball, the Falcons had a 21-8 lead.
• Sophomore Angela Perry rebounded her own miss and hit an 'and-one' layup, giving the Brown and Orange a 24-10 lead. Marshall, however, would score six-straight points, including a Shayna Gore trey, before a pair of McMillen free throws gave the Falcons a 26-16 advantage after 10 minutes.

SECOND-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
• Sophomore Madisen Parker's nice look inside resulted in a Perry layup that began the second-period scoring, and Hempfling drove and kicked the ball to Cecil for a left-elbow jumper that rattled home for a 30-16 lead.
• MU's Kristen Mayo hit a three-pointer that cut BG's lead to nine, but McMillen scored the game's next nine points, with three triples in roughly 84 seconds. She hit a trey from near the top of the arc, and Lambert's 'extra pass' found the freshman in the right corner for another long-range make. Then, Lambert again spotted McMillen in the right corner, and when that shot found nothing but net, BG had a 39-21 lead, and McMillen had 17 points to tie her 'career' best.
• McMillen hit a pull-up jumper, and Perry banked home a shot from the right side. When Parker found Perry for a three-pointer, the BG lead was 48-32.
• Perry hit a jumper, and Parker knocked down back-to-back triples in the final minute of the half. When the second one found the bottom of the net, BG's run was 11-0 and the Falcons' lead was 56-32. MU's Kia Sivils hit a jumper at the buzzer to cut the deficit to 22.

THIRD-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
• Gore and the Herd looked to rally in the third period. The visitors scored eight of the first 10 points of the second half, with Gore scoring the final five points in that stretch to prompt a BGSU timeout.
• Out of that break, Hempfling handed the ball off to McMillen for a triple, but Gore came right back with a trey of her own, cutting the BG lead to 61-45.
• Moments later, McMillen took Perry's pass and knocked down another three-pointer. With six minutes left in the third quarter, both McMillen and Gore had 25 points on the night.
• Hempfling hit Parker for a right-side three, and McMillen's floater was followed by a Perry layup off of Lambert's nifty bounce pass. BG's lead was 22, at 73-51.
• MU scored the last four points of the period, as buckets by Mayo and Gore cut the Falcons' lead to 76-57 after 30 minutes.

FOURTH-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
• Freshman Molly Dever threw the ball inside to Perry for a shot off glass, but MU's Princess Clemons answered with a triple, and Gore pulled up and hit another long-range try. Suddenly, BG's lead was down to 11 points, 79-68, with 7:34 to go.
• Perry scored inside, however, and when McMillen knocked down a three-ball from the top of the arc, the lead was back up to 16.
• Hempfling rebounded a teammate's miss and flipped the ball to fellow freshman Sydney Palermo for a layup, and McMillen drove the left side of the lane, stopped, spun around and popped a shot that increased the lead to 20.
• Then, Palermo grabbed a long rebound and fed Lambert for a left-wing three – BGSU's school record-tying 16th of the game. The run was 12-0, and the lead was 91-68.
• After Taylor Porter finally snapped that BG run with a jumper, Perry scored late in the shot clock, and Dever fired the ball inside to Hempfling for an easy layup and a 95-70 lead. That lead reached a game-high 27 points on a Perry layup before the Herd scored six of the game's final eight points.

A FEW FASCINATING FALCON FACTS
• The Falcons hit 16 three-pointers, tying the school single-game record. Freshman Morgan McMillen made eight of those treys, equalling the BGSU record for three-pointers made by an individual in a game.
• BGSU's team total of 99 points was the program's highest in nearly 14 years, since a 115-84 win at IPFW on Nov. 19, 2004. The Falcons' 27 assists vs. Marshall was the team's highest total since that same IPFW game. BG dished out 32 helpers vs. the Mastodons on that 2004 evening.
• Freshman Morgan McMillen's total of 32 points, not surprisingly, set a new career standard. McMillen scored 17 points in BG's season-opening game at Michigan State.
• Sophomore Angela Perry shattered her previous career scoring best. Perry, who scored nine points on two occasions as a freshman, nearly tripled that total with 25 points on Tuesday night.
• Freshman Kadie Hempfling had a game-high 17 rebounds. to go along with seven points and eight assists.
• Hempfling's assist total was the highest by a Falcon since Jillian Halfhill had nine assists in a win at Ball State in January of 2013.
• Sophomore Madisen Parker scored a career-high nine points. Parker was a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range vs. the Herd.

UP NEXT
• The Falcons' three-game homestand continues on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 20), when Robert Morris comes to town. Tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
• Then, the Brown and Orange will play the team's annual School Day game next Tuesday (Nov. 20), when BGSU Hall of Famer Kate Achter brings her Loyola Chicago (Nov. 20) team to the Stroh Center. That contest will begin at 11:00 a.m.

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