What was touted as being the battle for number one turned into a blowout last night as the women’s basketball team rolled over Ball State in Muncie, winning 69-49.

The win moves BG to 15-6 on the season and 8-2 in the Mid-American Conference while dropping the Cardinals to 11-11 and 7-4 in conference play.

The Falcons held a 36-23 lead at the half, enough to feel confident, but still not enough to get comfortable.

In order to feel more comfortable, BG used the opening 5:50 of the second half to go on a 15-0 run and put the game out of reach for the Cardinals.

“We just didn’t get it done tonight,” Ball State guard Kate Endress said. “Bowling Green is much too good of a team to come not ready to play.”

Forward Liz Honegger led the way for the Falcons with a game-high 27 points, tying her career best. Ali Mann joined Honegger in the double digit scoring column with 14.

BG would extend its lead to 30 in the second half before allowing Ball State to go on a 17-7 run in the game’s final eight minutes. Endress scored 17 for Ball State in a losing cause while teammate Tina Bolte tallied 10.

BG head coach Curt Miller was certain that shutting down the outside shooting of the Cardinals was going to be a key to the game and the team did just that, holding Ball State to an icy 26.6 percent shooting.

“I would have liked to have seen what kind of game it would have been had we come ready to play offensively,” Ball State head coach Tracy Roller said. “I thought we did a good job defensively in holding them under their season average, but we just weren’t ready to play offensively.”

The Falcons will next take the court this Saturday, when they head into Rhodes Arena to take on Akron.