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The women played a very good game against Akron and won 73-58, their biggest margin of the MAC season.

The victory broke a four-game losing streak and brings the Flashes to 4-4 in the conference and 11-8 overall. They're tied for sixth in the league with Northern Illinois. Akron is 3-5 and 12-7.

Megan Carter had 26 points for KSU, her high for the year and the fifth time in six games she's scored more than 20. KSU ran its offense through her rather than point guard Asiah Dingle, whom teams had been focusing on to stop her drives to the basket. Dingle had 13 points.

Freshman Lindsey Thall blocked eight shots, one off Andrea Caesar's school record, and scored 11 points. Thall, who is 6-2, isn't much of a jumper but has great timing. She leads the MAC in blocks.

Senior guard Alexa Golden had an outstanding line -- 15 points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals and a blocked shot. She did much of the defensive work on Akron's Megan Sefcik, who was 10th in the country in three-point baskets per game (3.44). Sefcik went zero for eight from that distance and scored 10 points, seven points below her average.

It was one of Kent's best games of the year, offensively and defensively. The Flashes made 11 of 22 three-point shots, second highest of the year. In two games last week, they made a combined seven of 45.

Full story is on the blog at http://wbbflashes.com, with quotes from Starkey on how the team used the bye week to regroup, from Carter on shooting, and from Thall on rebounding.