TOLEDO — For the opening 2 minutes, 5 seconds on Thursday night, Toledo and Rochester’s girls basketball teams were shaking off the early season rust.

Just two free throws accounted for the only scoring and both sides combined for a handful of turnovers. It was a typical early-December type of start.

Then the Riverhawks found their footing and cruised.

Ellie Fallon made five 3-pointers and poured in a game-high 22 points to help Toledo post a wire-to-wire 54-12 victory in its non-league season and home opener over the Warriors.

“I was really pleased with how we played and I thought our intensity was good,” Riverhawks head coach Randy Wood said. “There was some sloppiness at times, but overall, pretty happy.”

Fallon hit the first field goal of the night with 5:55 remaining in the opening stanza and capped an 18-2 cushion after eight minutes with her first made trifecta. The freshman was the lone player to make more than four shots on the night.

Despite still being an underclassmen, Fallon is one of the most experienced players on the court. Toledo (1-0) has just Hope Gould and Ryah Stanley as upperclassmen, the rest are sophomores, freshmen and eighth graders.

Still, Wood knows that the offense runs through the 5-foot-9 guard.

“She had some big buckets,” he said of Fallon. “She gets a lot of deflections and steals. She’s been working on her game this summer and it is showing.”

Toledo pressed Rochester full court from the opening tip and didn’t let the foot off the gas. It caused the Warriors to have 25 first half turnovers, 15 in the first quarter.

They had at least seven turnovers in every frame. Most of them were caused by the wingspan of the Riverhawks’ perimeter defenders.

Nearly everyone that took the floor for Toledo caused a mistake. It ballooned the lead to 40 in the fourth to ignite the running clock. Stanley chipped in nine points and Kailea Lairson-Young notched six.

“They’re getting to know their spots a little quicker,” Wood said. “They were communicating.”

Rochester (0-2) was led by eight points from Lexi Dupont and two points each by Lizzie Hoover and Merecedies Dupont. One of the bright spots for the Warriors was the rebounding department.

Hoover led the contingent with nine boards and Layna Demers added seven. Those two plus three others registered at least four caroms.

It was one of the positives Coach Keeli Rivas took away from the performance.

“I look to them to do those things,” Rivas said. “The putbacks didn’t go our way. They tried.”

Rochester also is littered with youth and multi-sport athletes. Rivas admitted she’s still trying to find the right balance of coaching hard and understanding the inexperience she has in front of her.

She believes success this season will be defined by “growth.”

“Any time I can say ‘Hey, fake a pass, make a pass and we do it, that’s growth,’” Rivas added. “We’re in a (rebuilding) year and we’re going to make the best of it. There is potential there.”

Both teams will hit the road with Rochester trekking to Aberdeen on Saturday afternoon and Toledo battling it out with a District 4 opponent, Raymond/South Bend on Monday night.