Final Stats

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The Basics:
Score: Ohio 73, Ball State 48
Location: Convocation Center â€" Athens, Ohio.
The Short Story: Senior guard Kiyanna Black led all players with 16 points as the Ohio women’s basketball team (10-3, 2-0) defeated Ball State (9-4, 1-1) in a 73-48 victory for a second straight Mid-American Conference win on Wednesday (Jan. 6) in Athens.

OHIO STARTERS: #1 Mariah Harris, #4 Kiyanna Black, #5 Quiera Lampkins, #10 Lexie Baldwin, #15 Jasmine Weatherspoon
BALL STATE STARTERS: #3 Carmen Grande, #4 Nathalie Fontaine, #5 Jill Morrison, #30 Shelby Merder, #33 Moriah Monaco

How It Happened:
- Senior guard Kiyanna Black scored Ohio’s first point from behind the arch to lead Ohio’s aggression on offense
- The Bobcats jumped out to strong start, holding a 12-6 lead at the first media timeout.
- Junior forward Quiera Lampkins led the squad with four points, two rebounds, and two assists at the first media timeout.
- The Bobcats found themselves in foul trouble at the end of the first when junior forward Jasmine Weatherspoon picked up three fouls under the basket.
- Ohio would continue to take the first quarter 18-10.
- The Cardinals would start the second quarter firing back on offense and cut Ohio’s lead down to 18-17 at 8:38.
- Senior forward Lexie Baldwin would sink a three-point basket at 8:09 to increase Ohio’s lead to 21-17 and ignite the Bobcat offense.
- Ball State would take the second quarter 15-14.
- Ohio led Ball State 39-26 at halftime. 
- Lampkins led Ohio offensively, scoring eight points, four rebounds, and four assists in the first half, going 4-of-7 from the field.
- Ohio shot 37.1 percent from the field and 26.1 percent from behind the arch in the first half. 
- The Bobcats recorded 14 points in the paint compared to 10 for Ball State in the first half.
- Ohio came out flat to start the second half, not scoring until 7:23 on a redshirt freshman Kelly Karlis forward layup.
- Yamonie Jenkins would score two three-point baskets in the third quarter to add to Ohio’s lead at 1:06.
- The Bobcats would take the third quarter 13-10.
- Ohio led the Cardinals 45-35 through three quarters.
- Back-to-back three-point baskets from Black and Weatherspoon helped to push Ohio’s lead to 61-44 at 3:27
- A Ball State technical would give Black two shots from behind the free throw line to increase the Bobcat’s lead to 63-46 at 2:51.
- Baldwin snatched two steals from the Cardinals, adding three points to the Ohio scoreboard at 1:03.
- In the last 30 seconds Baldwin would sink a three-pointer to add to Ohio’s final score.
- The Bobcats held Ball State to 23 points in the second half
- Ohio maintained its lead throughout the final quarter, cruising to a 73-48 victory. 
- Overall, Black led both squads with 16 points.
- Lampkins added 15 points, seven rebounds, one block, and eight assists.
- Baldwin recorded 14 points, nine rebounds, two blocks, and four steals
- Jenkins added 13 points, two rebounds, three assists, and three steals in her 27 minutes of play while contributing no turnovers.
- Freshman guard Dominique Doseck added six points to the Ohio scoreboard
- Boesinger contributed three rebounds, two points, one block, and two steals
- Karlis added four points and two rebounds
- Redshirt Senior Mariah Harris recorded one rebound, two assists, and one steal on the game
- Overall, Ohio was 26-of-66 (39.4%) from the field and 14-of-44 (31.8%) from beyond the arc. 
- Ohio was 70.0% (7-of-10) from the free throw line. 
- Ohio dished out 15 assists and recorded four blocks and 13 steals while forcing 26 turnovers.
- Ohio scored 24 points off of turnovers and 25 points off the bench.
- For Ball State, Nathalie Fontaine led the squad with 15 points and notched 14 rebounds. She shot 5-of-11 from the field. 
- Frannie Frazier added 9 points for the Cardinals.
- Ball State shot 16-of-49 (32.7%) from the field and 3-of-15 (20.0%) from three-point range. 
- Ball State was 13-of-18 (72.2%) from the free throw line.
- The Cardinals secured six steals and 44 rebounds. 

Beyond the Boxscore:
- Quiera Lampkins recorded a career-high eight assists.
- This win over Ball State is the 31^st all-time against Ball State
- This marked head coach Bob Boldon’s 46th win at Ohio. 
- This was Ohio’s eighth-straight win at the Convo dating back to last season.
- This was the 511 victory in program history. 
- This was Ohio’s 10^th win of the season.
- Ohio’s first back-to-back 10 plus win seasons since the 2007-08/2008-09 seasons.
- This was Ohio’s ninth-straight conference win dating back to last season.
- Ohio starts the conference play off 2-0 for the sixth time in program history.
- This win gives Ohio back-to-back wins against Ball State for the first time since 2011 and 2012.

QUOTABLE
“I think we’re lucky to have had these two at home but, you can’t afford to lose home games if you want to try and win the conference so at least these were two tough wins that we could get. This is the nature of MAC play, you have to turn around and go on the road so win or lose today, you have to practice tomorrow and get on the bus on Friday. We’ll have to play a pretty good Bowling Green team at their place, on their court. But it’s conference play, it’s exciting to see what’s going to happen over the next eight weeks.” â€" Head coach Bob Boldon on conference play

“I knew my team needed me to step up because I couldn’t be there for them last game, and we did win. I just felt like I needed to step up and do what I could and do what they needed me to do to win. Tonight we gave up 48 points and now that’s our baseline, we can’t give up more points then 48 every game. We held a good team to 48 points so that should be our goal for every game against every team. It just shows us where we are and what we still have to work on, because we do have things we still have to work on and it also shows us how good we can be.” Yamonie Jenkins on her game and the state of the team.

“We won last year, but that was last year. We have to work hard this year; it’s a process all over again. We won the MAC and it restarted a few days after and so it’s in the past and now everyone’s after us. The first game we won but there were a lot of things we did wrong, so coming from that game and learning from it coming into this game, we have to learn from this game and bring it into Bowling Green. We just have to keep working, it’s a process.” â€" Lexie Baldwin on MAC play so far.

COMING UP
The Bobcats will travel to Bowling Green, Ohio to battle with the Falcons on Saturday (Jan. 9). Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. ET. 

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