The Bowling Green women’s basketball team was worried they would get into a scoring contest Friday night against IPFW.

The Falcons did wind up in an up-and-down game, but it worked out to their advantage as they took down the Mastadons 115-84 to collect their first win of the season.

“We knew they would run the Loyola Marymount style of offense,” BG head coach Curt Miller said.

Forward Liz Honegger led the way for the Falcons, scoring a career-high 27 points while pulling down seven rebounds. Not to be outdone was Megan Thorburn, who finished the game with her career high in scoring with 26 points.

The duo got plenty of easy baskets thanks to the fast tempo of the game.

“They were recipients of press breaks,” Miller said. “They were at the receiving end of lots of easy shots.”

Also joining the two with career highs in scoring were Whitney Taylor (13), Amber Flynn (nine) and Kate Achter (six).

But scoring wasn’t the name of the game, as the players doing the scoring needed someone to get the ball in their hands. That role was filled by point guard Tene Lewis, who finished with a career-high ten assists. Helping her breaking the press was reigning Mid-American Conference freshman of the year Ali Mann.

The Falcons’ leading returning scorer was held to just six shots and finished the game with eight points. According to Miller, it was her role as a forward that can handle the press that was detrimental to the Falcons coming away with the win.

“She sacrificed her offense on that night by breaking some of the pressure,” Miller said. “She’s a 6-1 player with good ball handling skills.”

For the Falcons, it was just good to pick up a win after falling to Ohio State in the season-opener.

“We needed to get that win to feel better about ourselves,” Miller said. “Win number one always seems like it is the hardest one to get. Now we’re ready to settle in and get to the rest of our schedule.”

For the Falcons, the rest of that schedule starts this Saturday when they travel to Pittsburgh to take on Duqesne.