Falcons Race Past Seton Hill, 92-62

Sunday, November 5

Bowling Green, OH

2:00 PM ET

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Freshman Sierra Thompson was a perfect 7-for-7 from the field (photo by Larry Clapper)

November 05, 2017 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Five double-digit scorers lead the way in BG's Sunday exhibition

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team broke open a tight game with a late second-quarter run on Sunday afternoon (Nov. 5), and the Falcons put on a third-quarter shooting clinic to seize control en route to a 92-62 win over Seton Hill University. The game, the Falcons' lone exhibition contest of the 2017-18 season, was held at the Stroh Center.

Five Falcons scored in double digits, and nine different BGSU players scored at least six points in the win. The Falcons shot a blistering 76.5 percent from the floor in the third quarter to extend a nine-point halftime lead to a 29-point advantage late in that period.

Junior Sydney Lambert and freshman Sierra Thompson each had 17 points to tie for game honors, while freshman Kennedy Williams added 11 points and junior Carly Santoro and sophomore Jane Uecker 10 apiece.

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THE TURNING POINT

Seton Hill rallied from an early nine-point deficit to tie the game on three occasions, including on a Halie Torris jumper with four minutes left before the half. But, a free throw by junior Maddie Cole began a 12-1 run for the Brown and Orange, capped by freshman Madisen Parker's corner three with just 3.9 seconds left in the half.
Then, in the third quarter, the Falcons scored the first eight points to take a 17-point lead, and after Torris hit a jumper, the hosts continued to pull away with some torrid shooting. BG made five-straight field-goal attempts to begin the period, and after a rare third-quarter miss, the hosts hit six consecutive shots, capped by a Sierra Thompson layup that gave BG a 68-40 advantage.

FIRST-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

Junior Sydney Lambert his a three-pointer on the first possession of the game, and a layup by senior Haley Puk was followed by a pair of free throws by junior Carly Santoro.
Jenna Kaufman, Seton Hill's leading scorer a year ago, hit a shot to get her team on the board, but Santoro hit two more charity tosses, and sophomore Jane Uecker's layup off of her own steal gave the Falcons an 11-2 lead and forced the Griffins to call a timeout with 6:35 left in the quarter.
SHU scored the next four points, including a Courtney Cecere triple, before sophomore Andrea Cecil fed Uecker for a layup and a 13-6 lead.
But, an 8-0 run enabled the visitors to tie the contest, 14-14, before sophomore Caterrion Thompson found freshman Madisen Parker for a left-wing three.
The teams traded points over the remaining two-plus minutes of the period, with Lindsey Mifsud's late free throws cutting BG's lead to 23-22 after 10 minutes.

SECOND-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

As she had done in the first quarter, Lambert opened the second-period scoring. She made a pair of layups to give BG a 27-22 lead.
But, Halie Torris hit a jumper, and after the teams went scoreless for two and a half minutes, a Cecere trey tied the score. A pull-up jumper by senior Rachel Myers gave the Falcons the lead once again, but Torris knocked down another J to tie the score at 29-all with four minutes left before the half.
But, junior Maddie Cole's free throw was followed by a Lambert jumper with the shot clock winding down, giving the hosts a 32-29 lead.
Katie Nolan split a pair of free-throw tries, but a Santoro layup began a 9-0 run for the Falcons. Lambert hit a right-wing triple, and after Cecil blocked a Seton Hill shot and Uecker corralled the rebound, Lambert whipped the ball to an open Parker in the left corner for a three-pointer in the final seconds of the half.
A pair of Cheyenne Trest free throws in the last second cut the BG lead to single digits, 41-32, at the intermission.

THIRD-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

BG scored the first eight points of the period, capped by a Lambert triple after a defensive rebound and a coast-to-coast drive. The Falcons led, 49-32.
After Torris hit a shot for the visitors, Uecker scored inside, and Lambert found a cutting Cecil for a short jumper and a 53-34 advantage.
The lead surpassed 20 points for the first time midway through the quarter, when Puk made a nifty shot fake, took a dribble and hit a silky-smooth baseline jumper for a 57-36 margin.
Caterrion Thompson's long pass to freshman Sierra Thompson resulted in a three-point play that bridged the third-quarter media timeout. When Sierra Thompson hit the free throw out of that break, the Falcons had a 62-38 lead.
Nolan hit a layup for the Griffins, but Sierra Thompson drove and dished to Uecker for an easy layup, and the freshman then hit a layup of her own, and followed that with a steal at midcourt, an uncontested layup and a 68-40 lead.
Parker pounded the ball inside to Uecker for a layup, and a steal and wide-open layup by Williams gave the Falcons a 72-43 lead before the visitors scored the last seven points of the quarter.

FOURTH-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS

The BG lead fluctuated between 20 and 23 points for the first half of the fourth quarter. Parker found Sierra Thompson for a layup and a 77-55 lead, and Thompson cleaned up a teammate's miss with an offensive board and lightning-quick putback on BG's next possession.
Another Sierra Thompson layup gave the Falcons an 81-59 advantage midway through the period, and the freshman took a pass from Caterrion Thompson and converted a transition layup.
Then, back-to-back Williams three-pointers capped a 10-0 BG run that extended the home team's lead to 30 points. SHU's Sydney Rabold hit a three-pointer of her own, but Williams connected on her third long-range shot in a span of under two minutes to cap the game's scoring.

STATISTICS

The Falcons shot an even 54 percent from the field, while limiting Seton Hill to a 31.4% success rate.
Both teams made eight three-pointers, but BG did so in 22 tries (36.4%) while it took the Griffins 39 attempts (20.5%) to get there.
The Orange and Brown had a 50-33 rebounding advantage, and BG also enjoyed sizable margins in points in the paint (40-16), fast-break points (18-5) and bench scoring (43-27).
Junior Sydney Lambert and freshman Sierra Thompson each scored 17 points in the win. Thompson was a perfect 7-for-7 from the field, and scored her 17 points in just 15 minutes.
Another freshman, Kennedy Williams, had 11 points. Williams and Lambert each went 3-of-5 from three-point land.
Junior Carly Santoro had a double-double, with 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, while sophomore Jane Uecker also scored 10 points. Uecker, who was 5-for-7 from the floor, had a well-rounded stat line that included six rebounds and BG-high totals of two steals and two blocked shots.
Caterrion Thompson had a well-rounded stat line of her own. The sophomore had six points, seven rebounds and a game-high six assists in 23 minutes.
Senior Haley Puk (a perfect 2-for-2 from both the field and the line) had six points as well, as did sophomore Andrea Cecil and freshman Madisen Parker.
Jenna Kaufman led the visitors with 17 points, while Halie Torris and Courtney Cecere scored 11 apiece and Sydney Rabold added 10. Kaufman and Torris were a combined 11-for-32 from the field, including an aggregate 2-of-18 from three-point land.

YOU LOOK FAMILIAR

Former Falcon Miriam Justinger was recognized on the court prior to tipoff of Sunday's game. Justinger, who scored over 1,000 points in her four-year BGSU career, is in her second year as a graduate assistant coach at Seton Hill.

FRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG (A FEW MORE FALCON NOTES)

BGSU's starters on Sunday were senior Haley Puk, juniors Sydney Lambert and Carly Santoro and sophomores Andrea Cecil and Jane Uecker.
The Falcons hit 13-of-17 shots in the third quarter, a success rate of 76.5 percent. BG hit 13 third-period shots after going 13-for-30 in the first two quarters combined.
BGSU shot 50% in the fourth quarter, as the Falcons were 21-for-33 (63.6%) in the second half.
A total of 13 players saw action for head coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons, with no one playing more than 25 minutes.

UP NEXT

The regular season begins on Friday (Nov. 10), as the Falcons host Eastern Kentucky. Tipoff time is 5:30 p.m. at the Stroh Center.
Then, the Falcons will play a pair of morning matchups on the road, facing Detroit Mercy on Monday, Nov. 13, in the Motor City, before venturing to Western Pennsylvania to face Robert Morris three days later (Nov. 16). The Detroit contest begins at 11:00 a.m., while the RMU game starts at 10:00 a.m.

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