Sunday, November 27
Springfield, MA
10:30 AM
Bowling Green State University
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Saint Peter's
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Bowling Green
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Photo by: BGSU Strategic Communications
Falcons Outlast Saint Peter's, 73-68, in OT
November 27, 2016 | Women's Basketball
Santoro explodes for 28 and 12 in Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge win
Sophomore Carly Santoro exploded for career-high totals in multiple categories, helping the Bowling Green State University women's basketball team to a 73-68 overtime victory over Saint Peter's University Sunday morning (Nov. 27). The game, the Falcons' final contest in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge, was held at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass.
With the victory, BGSU improves to 2-4 on the young season, and the Falcons have won two games in a row.
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Santoro scored a game- and career-high 28 points, going 10-for-18 from the floor, and she also matched her career best with 12 rebounds in the win. The sophomore also had four steals to set another career standard. She led all players in rebounds and steals as well as points.
Santoro, not surprisingly, was named the game's Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the contest.
Fellow sophomore Sydney Lambert added 15 points, including four of BG's six successful three-pointers, in the win, while junior Haley Puk had a career-high 14 points on Sunday.
Sajanna Bethea led the Peacocks with 26 points, while Janelle Mullen and Talah Hughes added 16 and 13, respectively.
BGSU held a 45-40 rebounding advantage in Sunday's game. The Falcons have outrebounded the opponent in each of the first six games this season. In addition to Santoro's game-high total of 12 boards, senior Ashley Tunstall had nine rebounds in the victory.
Tunstall had six points to go along with those nine rebounds. Fellow senior Abby Siefker, who like Tunstall battled foul trouble all game long, scored nine points and added five rebounds and three assists.
Lambert had three assists and three steals to go along with her 15 points. She was 4-of-8 from three-point range and has made 11 triples over the last three games.
The game featured five ties and 13 lead changes. After taking an 18-17 lead through one quarter of play, the Falcons hit just two field goals during the second quarter. BG trailed by 11 points at the half, and the Saint Peter's lead reached as many as 13 points early in the third period before the Brown and Orange began to battle back.
The Falcons cut the SPU lead to as few as two points late in the third, and BG scored eight points in less than a minute to take a 54-51 lead with 6:34 left in the fourth quarter. The game remained close for the remainder of regulation, and a Hughes layup with just 1.5 seconds to go tied the score and sent the teams to OT.
In the extra session, Bethea's three-pointer gave the Peacocks the lead, but the Falcons then would score the final eight points of the contest. Santoro split a pair of free throws with 2:59 to go, and Siefker grabbed an offensive rebound, was fouled and hit both shots from the stripe with 2:09 on the clock, tying the game at 68-68.
BG got several stops, and Puk hit a jumper in the lane with 44.0 seconds remaining for what would prove to be the winning points. Hughes drove the baseline, but as she went under the basket and tried to whip a pass to a teammate, Tunstall jumped the route and grabbed the ball.
Lambert was fouled with 13.3 seconds left and made her first free-throw try, but missed the second. Siefker, however, came up with the offensive rebound and flipped a pass to Santoro, who was fouled with exactly 10.0 seconds on the clock. Santoro went to the line and hit both of her tosses to give the Falcons a five-point lead and conclude the game's scoring.
The Falcons held the Peacocks scoreless for the final 4:10 of the OT period.
Hughes hit a back-door layup to begin the game's scoring, then knocked down a jumper for a 4-0 Saint Peter's lead. Lambert got BG's first points with a jumper, and moments later, Santoro fed Tunstall for a long two-pointer before hitting a three-point shot for a 7-6 BG lead. Santoro's basket came after Siefker saved an errant pass from going out of bounds.
Santoro found Lambert for a three-pointer and a 10-8 BG lead, and Puk hit a shot from just inside the arc. When Santoro stole the ball from Sammy Lochner and hit a layup, BG had a six-point advantage and the Peacocks used a timeout.
Following Santoro's bucket, however, the Falcons would go scoreless for nearly four minutes. Saint Peters proceeded to score nine-straight points, beginning with a Lochner jumper and ending with a Bethea three-pointer from the right wing with 1:10 left in the period.
After taking a timeout, the Falcons responded. Santoro hit a driving layup, and BG then forced a backcourt violation. Santoro was fouled on a drive and hit a pair of free throws to give the Brown and Orange an 18-17 lead after one period.
In that first quarter, Santoro had nine points, four rebounds and two assists.
Bethea opened the second-period scoring with a three-point play, but Lambert answered with a long-range shot for a 21-20 BG lead. After another Bethea jumper, Siefker found Tunstall for an easy layup and a 23-22 lead with 7:33 left in the half. But, the Falcons would score just three points over the remainder of the period, all from the free-throw line.
A Hughes jumper gave the Peacocks the lead at the 6:06 mark, and that shot came after Siefker and Tunstall each were whistled for their third foul and headed to the bench.
The Peacocks' run reached 8-0 after a Samantha Meier jumper and layups by Mullen and Bethea. Two free throws at the 2:54 mark made it a 10-point run and gave SPU a 32-23 lead. Freshman Clare Glowniak split a pair of shots from the stripe to stop the run, but three more charity tosses for the Peacocks made it an 11-point game. Santoro hit a pair of free throws, but Saint Peter's responded in kind, and it was 37-26 at the half.
The Falcons went 0-for-10 from the field over the final 7:33 of the period. The BG defense did, however, hold the Peacocks without a field goal over the final 4:58 of the period.
Bethea opened the third period with a jumper, and BG's deficit was 13 points, the largest of the day. But, Siefker's offensive rebound and 'and-one' putback began a 7-0 run. A steal by junior Rachel Myers led to Santoro's transition layup, and Siefker hit a layup with precious little time remaining on the shot clock. Hughes broke her team's drought with a jumper, but a Santoro baseline drive and reverse layup cut BG's deficit to six points, 41-35, with 3:58 left in the quarter, and the sophomore hit another driving layup just under a minute later.
Bethea scored, but Puk was fouled and knocked down both tosses. Again, Bethea converted, but again, Puk got to the stripe and went 2-for-2. A steal and layup by Santoro cut the Saint Peter's lead to just two points before Bethea hit a pair of free throws with seven seconds left in the quarter.
Puk hit a free throw to open the fourth-quarter scoring, and her steal led to a Santoro layup, as Lambert laid the ball off for her fellow soph on a 2-on-1 break. The Falcons trailed by a single point, but Lochner knocked down a corner three, and a Bethea free throw gave the Peacocks a 51-46 lead with 7:39 left in the period.
Lambert answered with a three-pointer, beginning a furious Falcon flurry in which BG scored eight points in just 48 seconds. The Falcons got a stop, and Lambert hit another triple, giving BG the lead for the first time since early in the second quarter. Then, Santoro and Lambert teamed up for a BG steal, with Santoro deflecting a pass, Lambert grabbing it and whipping the ball to Santoro for an easy layup and a 54-51 lead at the 6:34 mark.
After a Saint Peter's timeout, the Falcons actually came up with another steal, but Hughes came up with a steal of her own, and headed in for a layup. Midway through the period, though, Lambert stole the ball from Lochner, and Puk drained a three-point try to give the Falcons a 57-53 lead.
Mullen knocked down a long-range shot from the corner, but Siefker fed Tunstall in traffic for a layup with 3:49 remaining. Bethea's layup was answered by Santoro's long two-pointer, and the Falcons' lead was 61-58 with 3:18 on the clock. Mullen, though, hit a shot from well beyond the three-point arc to tie the game with 2:34 left.
Siefker scored inside, and the Falcons forced a missed shot at the other end. The Falcons drew a foul and missed a pair of free throws with 1:05 remaining, but Lambert rebounded the second miss. Puk was fouled on a drive and split a pair of free throws with 45.7 seconds to go.
Bethea, who was 10-for-14 from the field in the game, hit a layup with 27 seconds on the clock, but Puk was fouled and split two tosses with 17.2 remaining. Bethea, though, found Hughes for a layup with just 1.5 seconds to go, sending the teams to overtime.
Sunday morning's game marked BG's first OT contest in just under a year, since a 72-69 win over Jacksonville on Nov. 28, 2015, in Wilmington, N.C. The Falcons are now 25-19 in overtime games in program history, including a 5-11 mark at home and a 20-8 record away from home (17-6 away, 3-2 at neutral sites). BG has won five of the program's last six overtime games
The Falcons now return home for the next three games, beginning with Wednesday night's (Nov. 30) contest vs. Davis & Elkins. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
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With the victory, BGSU improves to 2-4 on the young season, and the Falcons have won two games in a row.
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POSTGAME AUDIO: Coach Roos
Santoro scored a game- and career-high 28 points, going 10-for-18 from the floor, and she also matched her career best with 12 rebounds in the win. The sophomore also had four steals to set another career standard. She led all players in rebounds and steals as well as points.
Santoro, not surprisingly, was named the game's Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the contest.
Fellow sophomore Sydney Lambert added 15 points, including four of BG's six successful three-pointers, in the win, while junior Haley Puk had a career-high 14 points on Sunday.
Sajanna Bethea led the Peacocks with 26 points, while Janelle Mullen and Talah Hughes added 16 and 13, respectively.
BGSU held a 45-40 rebounding advantage in Sunday's game. The Falcons have outrebounded the opponent in each of the first six games this season. In addition to Santoro's game-high total of 12 boards, senior Ashley Tunstall had nine rebounds in the victory.
Tunstall had six points to go along with those nine rebounds. Fellow senior Abby Siefker, who like Tunstall battled foul trouble all game long, scored nine points and added five rebounds and three assists.
Lambert had three assists and three steals to go along with her 15 points. She was 4-of-8 from three-point range and has made 11 triples over the last three games.
The game featured five ties and 13 lead changes. After taking an 18-17 lead through one quarter of play, the Falcons hit just two field goals during the second quarter. BG trailed by 11 points at the half, and the Saint Peter's lead reached as many as 13 points early in the third period before the Brown and Orange began to battle back.
The Falcons cut the SPU lead to as few as two points late in the third, and BG scored eight points in less than a minute to take a 54-51 lead with 6:34 left in the fourth quarter. The game remained close for the remainder of regulation, and a Hughes layup with just 1.5 seconds to go tied the score and sent the teams to OT.
In the extra session, Bethea's three-pointer gave the Peacocks the lead, but the Falcons then would score the final eight points of the contest. Santoro split a pair of free throws with 2:59 to go, and Siefker grabbed an offensive rebound, was fouled and hit both shots from the stripe with 2:09 on the clock, tying the game at 68-68.
BG got several stops, and Puk hit a jumper in the lane with 44.0 seconds remaining for what would prove to be the winning points. Hughes drove the baseline, but as she went under the basket and tried to whip a pass to a teammate, Tunstall jumped the route and grabbed the ball.
Lambert was fouled with 13.3 seconds left and made her first free-throw try, but missed the second. Siefker, however, came up with the offensive rebound and flipped a pass to Santoro, who was fouled with exactly 10.0 seconds on the clock. Santoro went to the line and hit both of her tosses to give the Falcons a five-point lead and conclude the game's scoring.
The Falcons held the Peacocks scoreless for the final 4:10 of the OT period.
Hughes hit a back-door layup to begin the game's scoring, then knocked down a jumper for a 4-0 Saint Peter's lead. Lambert got BG's first points with a jumper, and moments later, Santoro fed Tunstall for a long two-pointer before hitting a three-point shot for a 7-6 BG lead. Santoro's basket came after Siefker saved an errant pass from going out of bounds.
Santoro found Lambert for a three-pointer and a 10-8 BG lead, and Puk hit a shot from just inside the arc. When Santoro stole the ball from Sammy Lochner and hit a layup, BG had a six-point advantage and the Peacocks used a timeout.
Following Santoro's bucket, however, the Falcons would go scoreless for nearly four minutes. Saint Peters proceeded to score nine-straight points, beginning with a Lochner jumper and ending with a Bethea three-pointer from the right wing with 1:10 left in the period.
After taking a timeout, the Falcons responded. Santoro hit a driving layup, and BG then forced a backcourt violation. Santoro was fouled on a drive and hit a pair of free throws to give the Brown and Orange an 18-17 lead after one period.
In that first quarter, Santoro had nine points, four rebounds and two assists.
Bethea opened the second-period scoring with a three-point play, but Lambert answered with a long-range shot for a 21-20 BG lead. After another Bethea jumper, Siefker found Tunstall for an easy layup and a 23-22 lead with 7:33 left in the half. But, the Falcons would score just three points over the remainder of the period, all from the free-throw line.
A Hughes jumper gave the Peacocks the lead at the 6:06 mark, and that shot came after Siefker and Tunstall each were whistled for their third foul and headed to the bench.
The Peacocks' run reached 8-0 after a Samantha Meier jumper and layups by Mullen and Bethea. Two free throws at the 2:54 mark made it a 10-point run and gave SPU a 32-23 lead. Freshman Clare Glowniak split a pair of shots from the stripe to stop the run, but three more charity tosses for the Peacocks made it an 11-point game. Santoro hit a pair of free throws, but Saint Peter's responded in kind, and it was 37-26 at the half.
The Falcons went 0-for-10 from the field over the final 7:33 of the period. The BG defense did, however, hold the Peacocks without a field goal over the final 4:58 of the period.
Bethea opened the third period with a jumper, and BG's deficit was 13 points, the largest of the day. But, Siefker's offensive rebound and 'and-one' putback began a 7-0 run. A steal by junior Rachel Myers led to Santoro's transition layup, and Siefker hit a layup with precious little time remaining on the shot clock. Hughes broke her team's drought with a jumper, but a Santoro baseline drive and reverse layup cut BG's deficit to six points, 41-35, with 3:58 left in the quarter, and the sophomore hit another driving layup just under a minute later.
Bethea scored, but Puk was fouled and knocked down both tosses. Again, Bethea converted, but again, Puk got to the stripe and went 2-for-2. A steal and layup by Santoro cut the Saint Peter's lead to just two points before Bethea hit a pair of free throws with seven seconds left in the quarter.
Puk hit a free throw to open the fourth-quarter scoring, and her steal led to a Santoro layup, as Lambert laid the ball off for her fellow soph on a 2-on-1 break. The Falcons trailed by a single point, but Lochner knocked down a corner three, and a Bethea free throw gave the Peacocks a 51-46 lead with 7:39 left in the period.
Lambert answered with a three-pointer, beginning a furious Falcon flurry in which BG scored eight points in just 48 seconds. The Falcons got a stop, and Lambert hit another triple, giving BG the lead for the first time since early in the second quarter. Then, Santoro and Lambert teamed up for a BG steal, with Santoro deflecting a pass, Lambert grabbing it and whipping the ball to Santoro for an easy layup and a 54-51 lead at the 6:34 mark.
After a Saint Peter's timeout, the Falcons actually came up with another steal, but Hughes came up with a steal of her own, and headed in for a layup. Midway through the period, though, Lambert stole the ball from Lochner, and Puk drained a three-point try to give the Falcons a 57-53 lead.
Mullen knocked down a long-range shot from the corner, but Siefker fed Tunstall in traffic for a layup with 3:49 remaining. Bethea's layup was answered by Santoro's long two-pointer, and the Falcons' lead was 61-58 with 3:18 on the clock. Mullen, though, hit a shot from well beyond the three-point arc to tie the game with 2:34 left.
Siefker scored inside, and the Falcons forced a missed shot at the other end. The Falcons drew a foul and missed a pair of free throws with 1:05 remaining, but Lambert rebounded the second miss. Puk was fouled on a drive and split a pair of free throws with 45.7 seconds to go.
Bethea, who was 10-for-14 from the field in the game, hit a layup with 27 seconds on the clock, but Puk was fouled and split two tosses with 17.2 remaining. Bethea, though, found Hughes for a layup with just 1.5 seconds to go, sending the teams to overtime.
Sunday morning's game marked BG's first OT contest in just under a year, since a 72-69 win over Jacksonville on Nov. 28, 2015, in Wilmington, N.C. The Falcons are now 25-19 in overtime games in program history, including a 5-11 mark at home and a 20-8 record away from home (17-6 away, 3-2 at neutral sites). BG has won five of the program's last six overtime games
The Falcons now return home for the next three games, beginning with Wednesday night's (Nov. 30) contest vs. Davis & Elkins. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
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Team Stats
BGSU
SPUW
FG%
.369
.431
3FG%
.286
.250
FT%
.613
.684
RB
45
40
TO
18
23
STL
14
5
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
28
FGM
10
3FGM
1
FTM
7
Pts
15
FGM
5
3FGM
4
FTM
1
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Players Mentioned
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