Decisive Third Quarter Sends Huskies Past Falcons

Wednesday, February 6

DeKalb, IL

6:00 PM CT (7:00 PM ET)

Bowling Green State University

7-13

Northern Illinois

13-8

Team	1	2	3	4	F
Bowling Green	24	6	10	7	47
Northern Ill.	16	18	24	30	88

Molly Dever at Toledo - Feb 2 2019 - Scott Grau

Photo by: Scott W. Grau

February 06, 2019 | Women's Basketball

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BGSU falls, 88-47, in DeKalb

By: DeKALB, Ill. (BGSU Athletic Communications)

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team led Northern Illinois for much of the first half on Wednesday night (Feb. 6), but the host Huskies took the lead just before the intermission, then blew the game wide open in the third quarter. NIU went on to post an 88-47 win in Mid-American Conference action at the Convocation Center.

NEXT HOME GAME
• The Falcons host Miami on Saturday (Feb. 9), in a 2:00 p.m. start at the Stroh Center. It will be Youth Sports Day at the Stroh, and it will also be Robyn Fralick Bobblehead Day. (NOTE: The men's basketball team hosts Toledo at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. A separate ticket is needed for each game.)

Freshman Morgan McMillen led the Falcons with 17 points, including five three-pointers. Junior Andrea Cecil added nine points, while senior Maddie Cole and sophomore Angela Perry had seven apiece. Cole led the Falcons with nine rebounds.

Myia Starks had a game-high 23 points to pace four Huskies in double digits.

The Falcons went on a 13-0 run to take a 16-5 first-quarter lead, with McMillen knocking down back-to-back triples to cap that run. Starks hit a pair of jumpers, but McMillen made her fourth long-distance shot in as many attempts for a 21-9 lead.

Northern scored the final four points of the quarter to cut BG's lead to eight, 24-16, after 10 minutes.

Freshman Molly Dever, making her first collegiate start, pounded the ball inside to Cecil, then Perry, for buckets that gave BG a 28-18 lead. The Huskies went on an 8-0 run, however, with Errin Hodges connecting from the arc to cut BG's lead to two.

Freshman Kadie Hempfling, one of three first-year Falcons in the starting lineup on Wednesday night, threaded the needle with a nifty pass that resulted in a layup for sophomore Terri Battle, but the hosts would score the last eight points of the half to take a 34-30 lead into the locker room.

The third quarter saw Dever take a Cecil pass and drill a three-pointer on the opening possession, cutting the NIU lead to a single point. Starks hit a foul-line jumper, but Cole's putback narrowed the gap to one point, 36-35, once again. From there, however, it was all Huskies.

NIU scored the next four points, and after McMillen took a Hempfling feed and drained her fifth triple of the night, the Huskies proceeded to go on an 18-0 run. By the time Cecil pulled up and knocked down a foul-line jumper, the Northern lead was 58-40. late in the third quarter.

Then, NIU scored on the first five possessions of the fourth quarter to seal the deal.

Mikayla Voigt had 16 points and Riley Blackwell 14 for the Huskies, while Abby Woollacott added 11.

For the Falcons, Hempfling pulled down eight rebounds and had a team-high six assists.

The Brown and Orange played without senior Sydney Lambert. The point guard, who had started every game of her BGSU career prior to Wednesday night, did not make the trip to DeKalb due to injury.

UP NEXT
• The Brown and Orange will return home for the next two games, beginning Saturday (Feb. 9). The Falcons will face Miami in a 2:00 p.m. start at the Stroh Center. It will be Youth Sports Day at the Stroh, and it will also be Robyn Fralick Bobblehead Day, with the first 500 fans through the gates receiving a bobblehead doll of the Falcons' first-year head coach.
• NOTE: The men's basketball team hosts Toledo at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. A separate ticket is needed for each game (i.e., a women's game ticket is not good for the men's game as well, and vice-versa).
• Then, the Falcons will face Buffalo next Wednesday night, Feb. 13, with tipoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• For more information on all things BGSU women's basketball, follow the Falcons on Twitter (@BGAthletics and @BGSUwbb), Instagram (@bgsuwbasketball) and Snapchat (BGSU Falcons) as well as on the web right here at BGSUFalcons.com.