Matchmaking Bronze and Gold together

I have been playing LoL for over a year now and have really just started playing ranked games about 2 months ago. Today I finally got into Bronze 1 despite how difficult it can be with trolls and bad players and counters ect. My next game although was definitely a disappointment. As soon as laning started, bot lane quickly fed till Caitlyn was at 5 kills before 10 minutes. In mid lane i ended up dying 3 times because I'm a careful player, but there was nothing anyone could do. The game ended at about 2 to 22 in kills. I talked to the other team afterwards in my confusion and found out most of them were in high level gold ranks. Remember I am a fresh Bronze 1 player and still don't have that great of map awareness yet let alone be able to beat someone almost 10 ranks above me. Is there something wrong with the matchmaking, was this just a glitch that we got paired up, or could these people possibly been hackers, or can this be changed by RIOT so Bronze 1 players don't get matched with Gold 3 players (to use me as an example). Please fix this because this was a blow to the head for me.