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Carly Santoro drives past an EKU defender for 2 of her 30 points in BGSU's season-opening win
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Carly Santoro Named MAC Player of the Week
November 14, 2017 | Women's Basketball
Junior honored after 30-point explosion vs. EKU in season opener
Bowling Green State University women's basketball standout Carly Santoro has been named Mid-American Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 14). Santoro earns the honor for the first time this season and the second time in her BGSU career.
Additionally, Santoro was named the conference's P-O-W by the College Sports Madness web site. She is the first Falcon to capture this honor since December of 2014.
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MAC Office Release
College Sports Madness Nov. 13 Award Winners
Santoro, a native of Bellevue, Ohio (Bellevue H.S.), exploded for 30 points and 10 rebounds in the Falcons' 77-60 win over Eastern Kentucky on Friday evening (Nov. 10), in the 2017-18 regular-season opener. The 30-point game was the second of Santoro's career.
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BGSU trailed, 15-10, after the first quarter, but Santoro scored 17 points in the second quarter alone to spark a 33-point BG uprising that gave the Falcons the lead for good. She had 13 of those 17 points in a span of under four minutes early in that second period. Santoro scored 17 of BG's first 26 points in the period, including 11-straight BG points during one two-plus minute stretch.
It marked Santoro's sixth career double-double, and her fifth game of 20 or more points at BG, and she surpassed the 500-point mark for her career in the win over the Colonels. The junior also had two assists and two steals, and she went 8-for-13 from the field (including 3-of-6 from three-point range) and 11-of-14 from the free-throw line.
Santoro earned the league Player-of-the-Week honor for the East Division, Central Michigan's Reyna Frost was named the MAC's West Division P-O-W.
Head coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons improved to 2-0 on the young season with an 85-81 win on Monday morning (Nov. 13) at Detroit Mercy. BGSU now prepares for a Thursday morning (Nov. 16) matchup with Robert Morris. That contest begins at 10:00 a.m. at the North Athletic Complex in Moon Township, Pa.
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Additionally, Santoro was named the conference's P-O-W by the College Sports Madness web site. She is the first Falcon to capture this honor since December of 2014.
LINKS
MAC Office Release
College Sports Madness Nov. 13 Award Winners
Santoro, a native of Bellevue, Ohio (Bellevue H.S.), exploded for 30 points and 10 rebounds in the Falcons' 77-60 win over Eastern Kentucky on Friday evening (Nov. 10), in the 2017-18 regular-season opener. The 30-point game was the second of Santoro's career.
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BGSU trailed, 15-10, after the first quarter, but Santoro scored 17 points in the second quarter alone to spark a 33-point BG uprising that gave the Falcons the lead for good. She had 13 of those 17 points in a span of under four minutes early in that second period. Santoro scored 17 of BG's first 26 points in the period, including 11-straight BG points during one two-plus minute stretch.
It marked Santoro's sixth career double-double, and her fifth game of 20 or more points at BG, and she surpassed the 500-point mark for her career in the win over the Colonels. The junior also had two assists and two steals, and she went 8-for-13 from the field (including 3-of-6 from three-point range) and 11-of-14 from the free-throw line.
Santoro earned the league Player-of-the-Week honor for the East Division, Central Michigan's Reyna Frost was named the MAC's West Division P-O-W.
Head coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons improved to 2-0 on the young season with an 85-81 win on Monday morning (Nov. 13) at Detroit Mercy. BGSU now prepares for a Thursday morning (Nov. 16) matchup with Robert Morris. That contest begins at 10:00 a.m. at the North Athletic Complex in Moon Township, Pa.
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