The Falcon women’s basketball team fell to the first place Ball State Cardinals by a score of 82-41 Wednesday night.
The team’s scoring was slowed, as freshman guards Kennedy Williams and Madisen Parker led the Falcons with seven points apiece. Ten different Falcon women scored, but none could reach double-digits in scoring
Moriah Monaco led the game and Ball State in scoring with 23 total points and added 10 rebounds. Carmen Grande provided 12 points and 9 assists, while Frannie Frazier also contributed 10 points. Their stand out performances assisted Ball State to the victory.
Shooting 13% from the field in the first half, the Falcon offense struggled and didn’t leave much room for a comeback as the team was down an uneven 45-13 at half. The team finished up with shooting 19.7% from the field for the game compared to Ball State’s 41.7%.
“Ball State was red hot and we were the complete polar opposite. I don’t believe we’ll play like this again, but unfortunately we did play like this tonight.” Falcons head coach Jennifer Roos said. “Sometimes stars are aligned for one team and not aligned for the other. Credit to Ball State for coming out attacking, they changed some things up defensively. We struggled to shoot the ball, our entire roster.”
The Falcons hung in the game early on for the most of the first quarter only being separated by single digits. But an 11 minute scoreless drought, that stretched from the ending minutes of the first quarter all the way to the ending minutes of the second quarter, resulted in Ball State scoring 21 straight points and a 32 point deficit at half. That one-sided run proved to be the difference maker throughout the contest.
“A ton of people got minutes but our percentages throughout the game were not typical of what we can shoot.” Roos said. “Things just snowballed in the wrong direction early for us. But to our
kids credit, they didn’t stop. They had some good point totals in the third and fourth quarters. Proud of that effort for everybody that was out there.”
The team will next play on Saturday afternoon at home against the Toledo Rockets in the Battle of I-75.
