Tuesday, November 29
Bowling Green, Ohio
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
86
vs
62
Western Kentucky
Jillian Halfhill's career-high 22 points included a perfect 5-for-5 effort from three-point land (photos by Brad Phalin, BGSU Marketing & Communications)
Falcons Ride First-Half Three-for-All to 86-62 Win over WKU
November 29, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Steffen, Halfhill key BGSU's offensive explosion
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team was clicking on all cylinders early Tuesday evening (Nov. 29), rolling up 60 first-half points en route to an 86-62 win over Western Kentucky University. The non-conference game was held at the Stroh Center.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Phalin, BGSU Marketing & Communications
POSTGAME AUDIO: Curt Miller | Jillian Halfhill & Chrissy Steffen
POSTGAME VIDEO: Miller | Halfhill & Steffen
With the win, the young Falcons improve to 3-2 on the young season. BGSU has won three consecutive games after an 0-2 start. The Lady Toppers drop to 1-6 on the year.
Junior Chrissy Steffen and sophomore Jillian Halfhill keyed the offensive explosion, but head coach Curt Miller and his staff got contributions from multiple players up and down the roster.
Steffen and Halfhill were two of no fewer than five Falcons to post career-high totals in scoring. Both players had career highs for the second consecutive game, as Steffen scored 24 points vs. the Lady Toppers, while Halfhill had 22.
Halfhill, who scored 19 of her points in the first half, was a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point range, falling just one triple shy of the school single-game record for three-point field-goal percentage.
Steffen had 16 first-half points, combining with Halfhill to outscore the entire WKU team by six in the opening half. BG shot 71.9 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, going 23-of-32 to open up a 60-29 lead at the break.
In that opening half, BGSU made 10 three-pointers in 11 attempts, shooting a surreal 90.9% from long distance.
Redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers and true soph Jill Stein also scored in double figures, with 10 points apiece. Stein's total represented a career best, while Rogers' total matched her season high.
Keshia Mosley led the Toppers with a double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing 16 rebounds, including nine at the offensive end. Mosley, who did not play in the first half, did all of her damage in just 12 minutes of game time.
Falcon freshmen Deborah Hoekstra and Shanique Ogle scored their first collegiate points on Tuesday night. Hoekstra wound up with seven points in seven minutes, while Ogle hit her only shot from the floor and added a pair of rebounds in two minutes of work.
The lead changed hands several times, but BG never trailed after a three-pointer by Halfhill just 1:13 into the contest. Halfhill had opened the scoring with a pair of free throws with 18 seconds gone, but WKU sandwiched a Vanessa Obafemi triple and a pair of Jasmine Johnson tosses around a Rogers layup. Jasmine Johnson's second free throw gave WKU a 5-4 advantage with just under a minute elapsed.
Halfhill's triple, off of an assist by freshman Jasmine Matthews, started a 7-0 run that put the Falcons ahead for good. Matthews had a game-high four assists on the night, with all four coming in the first half. Three of those four assists set up three-pointers by Halfhill.
A jumper by Stein and a layup from Steffen gave the Brown and Orange an 11-5 advantage. Alexis Govan stopped the Falcons' run, but Matthews answered with a jumper, then fed Halfhill for another triple, putting the Falcons up by a 16-7 score with just over five minutes gone.
Steffen set up Rogers and Halfhill for three-pointers on back-to-back BG possessions, then hit a three-ball of her own at the 12:47 mark, upping the lead to 25-12. Steffen's hoop capped a stretch in which the Falcons made seven consecutive field-goal tries, with the last four coming from three-point land.
Senior Jessica Slagle, who assisted on Steffen's shot, took a Steffen pass and converted a layup with 11:14 left in the half, extending the advantage to 28-12. Jasmine Johnson stopped BG's 9-0 run with a putback, but Rogers stepped out and hit her second three of the first half for a 31-14 lead.
The teams traded baskets over the next few minutes, before the Lady Toppers cut BG's lead to 12 points on baskets by LaTeira Owens and Obafemi. Obafemi's jumper at the 6:56 mark made it a 37-25 game, and Miller used a timeout.
Out of that timeout, Steffen knocked down another three-pointer. Halfhill hit a layup, then was part of a crowd-pleasing hoop in transition. After a WKU miss, redshirt junior Danielle Havel grabbed the rebound and flipped the ball to Halfhill. The soph's long pass ahead found junior Allison Papenfuss ahead of the pack, and the resulting layup gave the Falcons a 44-25 lead and prompted a WKU timeout.
After an Owens layup stopped BG's 7-0 run, the Falcons proceeded to score the next eight points. Halfhill hit yet another three-pointer for a 20-point lead. Matthews, who had assisted on that basket, came up with a steal and led a fast break the other way. Matthews fed Halfhill, who was heading down the center of the court, and the soph flipped the ball to Steffen, streaking in from the right side.
With 2:47 left in the half, Halfhill grabbed a rebound at the defensive end of the court and went coast-to-coast for a three-point play and a 52-27 BGSU lead. Jasmine Johnson hit a layup, but BGSU would end the half with another 8-0 run.
That run began when Matthews took a pass from Stein and hit a shot from beyond the arc with 1:37 left in the period. Then, Steffen scored five points in a 13-second span, knocking down BGSU's 10th trey of the half with 24 seconds left, then picking Chaney Means' pocket and streaking in for a layup with 11 ticks on the clock. Just for good measure, Steffen stole a Teranie Thomas pass with two seconds remaining before halftime.
In that first half, as mentioned, Halfhill had 19 points and Steffen 16. Halfhill went 6-of-7 from the field and 4-for-4 from the arc in the opening period. She would attempt just one shot -- a successful three-pointer, of course -- in the second half.
Steffen was 6-of-9 from the floor, including a 3-of-4 performance from three-point land, in the opening half. She wound up going 10-of-16 from the field on the night.
Rogers made both of her first-half three-point tries, while Matthews was successful on her only long-range attempt of that opening half.
The second half started much more slowly than the first, as the Falcons made just one of the first six shot attempts. Still, BG led by 30 at the first media timeout of the period.
With the Falcons still up by 30, Halfhill fed Steffen for a layup that began yet another 8-0 run. Halfhill knocked down a trey, and Hoekstra's driving layup resulted in a three-point play and a 38-point lead, the largest of the game, with 11:16 remaining.
The Toppers responded with a 7-0 run, with all seven points coming from Mosley and Ileana Johnson, before BG began trading buckets with the Toppers. Steffen converted a driving layup, and Ogle grabbed a rebound and laid the ball up and in with 7:38 remaining.
Freshman Logan Pastor lobbed the ball inside to Stein for layups on back-to-back possessions, and the freshman then hit a shot of her own, with a pull-up jumper that gave BG an 84-48 advantage with six minutes left. The Toppers ended the game on a 14-2 run, cutting that 36-point lead to 24.
The Falcons shot 53.8% from the field for the game, going 11-of-19 from three-point range. BGSU held the visitors to a field-goal percentage of 37.3% and forced the Toppers into 22 turnovers.
BGSU had 17 assists and 13 turnovers in the win, and the Falcons had a 25-10 advantage in points off turnovers. WKU had a 49-30 rebounding advantage for the game, but most of that damage was done in the second period, after the outcome had been decided. The Falcons had a slim 15-14 rebounding edge in the first half.
BGSU returns to the Stroh Center this weekend, hosting Butler University in Saturday (Dec. 3) action. Tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
FALCON NOTES
* Junior Chrissy Steffen and sophomore Jillian Halfhill, as mentioned, each set career scoring bests for the second consecutive game ... Steffen, who had 23 points in last Tuesday's (Nov. 22) win at Detroit, scored a game-high 24 vs. WKU ... Halfhill, who had 12 points in the Motor City, scored 22 vs. the Lady Toppers.
* Halfhill's 5-for-5 performance from three-point range fell just one shy of matching the school single-game record ... Susie Cassell holds the BGSU mark for three-point field-goal percentage in a game, having gone 6-for-6 against Illinois State on Dec. 30, 1992.
* Halfhill's long-range display on Tuesday night matched her career total entering the game ... she had hit five career three-pointers prior to the WKU game, before going 5-of-5 from long distance vs. the Toppers.
* BGSU entered Tuesday's game averaging 54.8 points per game on the season ... the Falcons topped that total on a three-pointer by freshman Jasmine Matthews with 1:37 left in the first half vs. WKU.
* BG scored 60 points in a half for the first time in over seven years, since the second game of the 2004-05 season ... the Falcons had 60 second-half points in a 115-84 win at IPFW (Nov. 19, 2004).
* The Falcons are now 1-0 when BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey sits on the bench ... Dr. Mazey was a guest coach on Tuesday night, as part of a series of events leading up to her inauguration on Friday (Dec. 2).
* BGSU shot better than 50 percent from the field for the first time this season ... the Falcons now have a record of 55-0 in the Curt Miller Era when making at least half of their field-goal attempts.
* The Falcons are 192-10 in the Miller Era, including a 64-0 record over the last three-plus seasons, when having a better FG pct. than the opponent.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Phalin, BGSU Marketing & Communications
POSTGAME AUDIO: Curt Miller | Jillian Halfhill & Chrissy Steffen
POSTGAME VIDEO: Miller | Halfhill & Steffen
With the win, the young Falcons improve to 3-2 on the young season. BGSU has won three consecutive games after an 0-2 start. The Lady Toppers drop to 1-6 on the year.
Junior Chrissy Steffen and sophomore Jillian Halfhill keyed the offensive explosion, but head coach Curt Miller and his staff got contributions from multiple players up and down the roster.
Steffen and Halfhill were two of no fewer than five Falcons to post career-high totals in scoring. Both players had career highs for the second consecutive game, as Steffen scored 24 points vs. the Lady Toppers, while Halfhill had 22.
Halfhill, who scored 19 of her points in the first half, was a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point range, falling just one triple shy of the school single-game record for three-point field-goal percentage.
Steffen had 16 first-half points, combining with Halfhill to outscore the entire WKU team by six in the opening half. BG shot 71.9 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, going 23-of-32 to open up a 60-29 lead at the break.
In that opening half, BGSU made 10 three-pointers in 11 attempts, shooting a surreal 90.9% from long distance.
Redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers and true soph Jill Stein also scored in double figures, with 10 points apiece. Stein's total represented a career best, while Rogers' total matched her season high.
Keshia Mosley led the Toppers with a double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing 16 rebounds, including nine at the offensive end. Mosley, who did not play in the first half, did all of her damage in just 12 minutes of game time.
Falcon freshmen Deborah Hoekstra and Shanique Ogle scored their first collegiate points on Tuesday night. Hoekstra wound up with seven points in seven minutes, while Ogle hit her only shot from the floor and added a pair of rebounds in two minutes of work.
The lead changed hands several times, but BG never trailed after a three-pointer by Halfhill just 1:13 into the contest. Halfhill had opened the scoring with a pair of free throws with 18 seconds gone, but WKU sandwiched a Vanessa Obafemi triple and a pair of Jasmine Johnson tosses around a Rogers layup. Jasmine Johnson's second free throw gave WKU a 5-4 advantage with just under a minute elapsed.
Halfhill's triple, off of an assist by freshman Jasmine Matthews, started a 7-0 run that put the Falcons ahead for good. Matthews had a game-high four assists on the night, with all four coming in the first half. Three of those four assists set up three-pointers by Halfhill.
A jumper by Stein and a layup from Steffen gave the Brown and Orange an 11-5 advantage. Alexis Govan stopped the Falcons' run, but Matthews answered with a jumper, then fed Halfhill for another triple, putting the Falcons up by a 16-7 score with just over five minutes gone.
Steffen set up Rogers and Halfhill for three-pointers on back-to-back BG possessions, then hit a three-ball of her own at the 12:47 mark, upping the lead to 25-12. Steffen's hoop capped a stretch in which the Falcons made seven consecutive field-goal tries, with the last four coming from three-point land.
Senior Jessica Slagle, who assisted on Steffen's shot, took a Steffen pass and converted a layup with 11:14 left in the half, extending the advantage to 28-12. Jasmine Johnson stopped BG's 9-0 run with a putback, but Rogers stepped out and hit her second three of the first half for a 31-14 lead.
The teams traded baskets over the next few minutes, before the Lady Toppers cut BG's lead to 12 points on baskets by LaTeira Owens and Obafemi. Obafemi's jumper at the 6:56 mark made it a 37-25 game, and Miller used a timeout.
Out of that timeout, Steffen knocked down another three-pointer. Halfhill hit a layup, then was part of a crowd-pleasing hoop in transition. After a WKU miss, redshirt junior Danielle Havel grabbed the rebound and flipped the ball to Halfhill. The soph's long pass ahead found junior Allison Papenfuss ahead of the pack, and the resulting layup gave the Falcons a 44-25 lead and prompted a WKU timeout.
After an Owens layup stopped BG's 7-0 run, the Falcons proceeded to score the next eight points. Halfhill hit yet another three-pointer for a 20-point lead. Matthews, who had assisted on that basket, came up with a steal and led a fast break the other way. Matthews fed Halfhill, who was heading down the center of the court, and the soph flipped the ball to Steffen, streaking in from the right side.
With 2:47 left in the half, Halfhill grabbed a rebound at the defensive end of the court and went coast-to-coast for a three-point play and a 52-27 BGSU lead. Jasmine Johnson hit a layup, but BGSU would end the half with another 8-0 run.
That run began when Matthews took a pass from Stein and hit a shot from beyond the arc with 1:37 left in the period. Then, Steffen scored five points in a 13-second span, knocking down BGSU's 10th trey of the half with 24 seconds left, then picking Chaney Means' pocket and streaking in for a layup with 11 ticks on the clock. Just for good measure, Steffen stole a Teranie Thomas pass with two seconds remaining before halftime.
In that first half, as mentioned, Halfhill had 19 points and Steffen 16. Halfhill went 6-of-7 from the field and 4-for-4 from the arc in the opening period. She would attempt just one shot -- a successful three-pointer, of course -- in the second half.
Steffen was 6-of-9 from the floor, including a 3-of-4 performance from three-point land, in the opening half. She wound up going 10-of-16 from the field on the night.
Rogers made both of her first-half three-point tries, while Matthews was successful on her only long-range attempt of that opening half.
The second half started much more slowly than the first, as the Falcons made just one of the first six shot attempts. Still, BG led by 30 at the first media timeout of the period.
With the Falcons still up by 30, Halfhill fed Steffen for a layup that began yet another 8-0 run. Halfhill knocked down a trey, and Hoekstra's driving layup resulted in a three-point play and a 38-point lead, the largest of the game, with 11:16 remaining.
The Toppers responded with a 7-0 run, with all seven points coming from Mosley and Ileana Johnson, before BG began trading buckets with the Toppers. Steffen converted a driving layup, and Ogle grabbed a rebound and laid the ball up and in with 7:38 remaining.
Freshman Logan Pastor lobbed the ball inside to Stein for layups on back-to-back possessions, and the freshman then hit a shot of her own, with a pull-up jumper that gave BG an 84-48 advantage with six minutes left. The Toppers ended the game on a 14-2 run, cutting that 36-point lead to 24.
The Falcons shot 53.8% from the field for the game, going 11-of-19 from three-point range. BGSU held the visitors to a field-goal percentage of 37.3% and forced the Toppers into 22 turnovers.
BGSU had 17 assists and 13 turnovers in the win, and the Falcons had a 25-10 advantage in points off turnovers. WKU had a 49-30 rebounding advantage for the game, but most of that damage was done in the second period, after the outcome had been decided. The Falcons had a slim 15-14 rebounding edge in the first half.
BGSU returns to the Stroh Center this weekend, hosting Butler University in Saturday (Dec. 3) action. Tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
FALCON NOTES
* Junior Chrissy Steffen and sophomore Jillian Halfhill, as mentioned, each set career scoring bests for the second consecutive game ... Steffen, who had 23 points in last Tuesday's (Nov. 22) win at Detroit, scored a game-high 24 vs. WKU ... Halfhill, who had 12 points in the Motor City, scored 22 vs. the Lady Toppers.
* Halfhill's 5-for-5 performance from three-point range fell just one shy of matching the school single-game record ... Susie Cassell holds the BGSU mark for three-point field-goal percentage in a game, having gone 6-for-6 against Illinois State on Dec. 30, 1992.
* Halfhill's long-range display on Tuesday night matched her career total entering the game ... she had hit five career three-pointers prior to the WKU game, before going 5-of-5 from long distance vs. the Toppers.
* BGSU entered Tuesday's game averaging 54.8 points per game on the season ... the Falcons topped that total on a three-pointer by freshman Jasmine Matthews with 1:37 left in the first half vs. WKU.
* BG scored 60 points in a half for the first time in over seven years, since the second game of the 2004-05 season ... the Falcons had 60 second-half points in a 115-84 win at IPFW (Nov. 19, 2004).
* The Falcons are now 1-0 when BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey sits on the bench ... Dr. Mazey was a guest coach on Tuesday night, as part of a series of events leading up to her inauguration on Friday (Dec. 2).
* BGSU shot better than 50 percent from the field for the first time this season ... the Falcons now have a record of 55-0 in the Curt Miller Era when making at least half of their field-goal attempts.
* The Falcons are 192-10 in the Miller Era, including a 64-0 record over the last three-plus seasons, when having a better FG pct. than the opponent.
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