Falcons Set More Records in Sunday's Win over Defiance

Sunday, December 7

Bowling Green, Ohio

1 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

5-4,0-0MAC

118

Defiance

0-1

Defiance

Bowling Green

118

Falcons Win | Sun., Dec. 7, 2025, v Defiance

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December 07, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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BGSU sets marks for points & margin of victory in 118-35 win

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team broke two Stroh Center records as well as a school record – for the second time this week – as the Falcons topped Defiance College, 118-35, Sunday afternoon (Dec. 7).

The Falcons (5-4) broke the Stroh Center record for points in a game, which had been set on Wednesday night (Dec. 3). And, the Orange and Brown set arena and school records for margin of victory – records which had also stood since Wednesday evening.

All 13 Falcons made at least one field goal and grabbed at least one rebound in the win. Junior Jaedyn Cook had 18 points, more than doubling her previous season-high total. Cook went 6-for-8 from the field and a perfect 6-for-6 from the line. She also had two rebounds, two steals and a block, amassing all of those stats in under 10 minutes of action.

Both junior Paige Kohler and redshirt junior Jasmine Fearne scored 16 points, with Fearne's total representing a career high. Fearne hit four of the Falcons' 10 three-point field goals in the win.

Junior Taya Ellis had a double-double, tying her career best with 14 points and setting a new career standard with a game-high 13 rebounds.

Senior Emily Siesel had a career-high nine points, while freshman Ky'Aira Miller and sophomore Johnea Donahue each scored nine points as well. Miller's total tied her career best, while Donahue also had seven rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots.

Shaunie Little and Lorena Caparros each scored 11 points for the Yellow Jackets.

The Falcons took a 33-10 lead after the first quarter, and BGSU was never headed. The lead was 62-21 at the half, and 95-28 after three quarters, and the margin grew to a school-record 83 points in the final minute of the game.

NOTE OF THE DAY: RECORD COLLECTION
• The Falcons set a school record, as mentioned, for margin of victory. Prior to this week, the record was 58 points, but the Falcons beat Kentucky State by 71 (103-32) before topping DC by 83.

• BGSU set a Stroh Center record for points in a game, again breaking a mark that had been set four days prior. The Falcons' total of 118 points is the third-highest in school history, trailing only a 127-point game vs. Valparaiso (Jan. 5, 1992, at Anderson Arena) and a 121-point output vs. Kent (Feb. 23, 1991, also inside "The House That Roars").

ALSO NOTEWORTHY
• The Falcons had a 27-0 run for the second-straight game. On Wednesday, BGSU scored the first 27 points of the game, posting a first-quarter shutout before Kentucky State got on the scoreboard early in the second period.

• On Sunday, after a pair of Defiance free throws made the score 56-21 with just over a minute remaining in the first half, the Falcons scored the next 27 points, capped by a Jaedyn Cook Layup with 3:29 left in the third period. That gave the Falcons an 83-21 advantage before DC's Taylor Haynes hit a jumper with 3:17 remaining in the quarter.

FIRST QUARTER
• The Falcons got out to a quick start, taking an 8-0 lead after roughly one minute of play. Jasmine Fearne knocked down a pair of three-point attempts, sandwiched around a Johnea Donahue layup. Kayla Houston got the Yellow Jackets on the scoreboard, but a Taya Ellis jumper was followed by five-straight points from Paige Kohler. When Ellis hit a pair of free throws, the Falcons had a 17-2 lead.
• A 7-0 run later in the period, capped by a Donahue steal and three-point play, put the hosts up by a 29-8 count, and after Shaunie Little knocked down a jumper, Jaedyn Cook answered with a layup and a pair of Kohler free throws gave the Orange and Brown a 33-10 lead after 10 minutes.

SECOND QUARTER
• Fearne opened the scoring for the second-straight quarter, draining her third three-point field goal of the afternoon, and Emily Siesel connected on a long-range attempt for a 39-12 lead. Kohler had fed Siesel for that triple, and Siesel returned the favor with a steal and a pass ahead to Kohler for a layup and a 43-14 advantage.
• Another Siesel trey with two and a half minutes left before the half gave the hosts a 37-point lead, and Ellis rewarded a nice cut to the basket by Joniyah Bland-Fitzpatrick with a pass that led to an open layup and a 56-19 lead.
• Donahue assisted Ky'Aira Miller for a transition layup and a 60-21 lead with 21 seconds left in the half, and Laila Harrison hit a pair of free throws with 1.0 seconds on the clock for a 62-21 lead at the intermission.

THIRD QUARTER
• After scoring the final six points of the first half, the Falcons scored the first 21 of the second. Ellis had the first five points of the second half, beginning with an and-one layup and the ensuing free throw, and Fearne then scored the next five points, including a three-pointer after an 'extra' pass from Kaia Woods.
• Cook then scored six of the next eight points, including a baby hook and a pair of charity tosses. When Siesel lobbed the ball to Bland-Fitzpatrick for a layup out of the media timeout, BGSU led by a 78-21 count.
• Lauren Gerken fed Cook for a short jumper, and a Cook steal and layup capped the Falcons' 27-point run. The Yellow Jackets snapped the run with 3:17 on the clock, as Taylor Haynes drove and hit a jumper.
• But, Cook had back-to-back three-point plays, taking a Bland-Fitzpatrick pass and scoring on a hook shot, before stealing a pass and heading in for another and-one bucket. Gerken's three-ball gave the Orange and Brown a 92-23 lead with just over two minutes left in the period, before the visitors scored five of the last eight points in the quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER
• After Lorena Caparros began the final period with a layup, the Falcons got a steal and layup from Woods followed by a Kohler jumper, before an Ellis putback moved the lead over 70 points for the first time. That Ellis hoop also gave the Falcons 101 points with 7:42 to go.
• Midway through the period, Kendal Moxey gave the Falcons a third-chance layup, and she hit another layup less than 30 seconds later. Three-pointers by Miller and Sofia Moschen made the score 111-35, and those treys began a game-ending 13-0 run that was capped by Harrison's three-point play.

NOTES & NUMBERS
• The Falcons shot 50.6 percent from the field, going 42-of-83. BGSU was 10-of-34 from the arc and 24-of-29 (82.8%) from the stripe.
• BG had a 61-40 rebounding advantage on Sunday.
• The Falcons' total of 42 field goals made is tied for seventh in school history, and BG's 61 rebounds is tied for fifth on that school single-game list.
• BGSU blocked nine shots for the second-straight game, which is tied for third on that Falcons single-game chart.
• The Falcons' total of 62 points in the opening half is tied for third on that list. The only higher-scoring halves in program history came against Kent State (66 points on Jan. 11, 1989) and Valparaiso (66 points on Jan. 5, 1992)
• Kohler scored 10 points in the first quarter alone Sunday, while Donahue had seven points and six rebounds in that period. Ellis also had seven first-period rebounds, to go along with four points and two blocked shots.
• Siesel had eight points and a pair of steals in the second quarter.
• Cook scored an otherworldly 14 points in the third period, going 5-for-5 from the floor and 4-for-4 from the free-throw line. She had those 14 points, along with two steals and a blocked shot, in just 4:36 of action.
• In Sunday's second game at the Stroh, the BGSU men's basketball team posted a 131-50 win over Aquinas, resulting in the following fun Falcon facts... The BG women had the third-highest point total in program history, but did not score the most points by a BG basketball team on Sunday. And, the Falcon men won by 81 points, but did not post the largest margin of victory by a BG basketball team on Sunday.

UP NEXT
• The Falcons' season-long six-game homestand continues next Sunday afternoon (Dec. 14), when Lourdes comes to the Stroh Center for a 2:00 p.m. matchup.
• BGSU then will host Le Moyne (Dec. 16) and Kent State (Dec. 20), with the KSU game marking the Falcons' Mid-American Conference opener.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...
• For more information on all things BGSU women's basketball, follow the Falcons on Facebook (@BGWBB), Twitter/X (@BGSU_Athletics and @BGSUWBB) and Instagram (@bgsuwbb), as well as on the web at BGSUFalcons.com.