Fairborn, Ohio -- Wright State scored 18 straight points early in the second half and eliminated the Youngstown State women's basketball team from the 2010 Speedway Horizon League Women's Basketball Championship with a 61-43 win on Monday at the Nutter Center.

Wright State moves on to play the second-seeded Butler Bulldogs in a quarterfinal round game on Wednesday while Youngstown State ends the season with an 0-30 record.

Wright State junior guard LaShawna Thomas scored a game-high 20 points and went over 1,000 career points in the contest.

Kenya Middlebrooks led YSU with eight points, and Rachael Manuel and Bojana Dimitrov had seven apiece. Manuel added three blocks and four rebounds in her final game in a Youngstown State uniform. Both she and fellow senior Kaitlyn March had the best individual season of their respective careers.

Brandi Brown scored five points and grabbed four rebounds to wrap up one of the most impressive freshman campaigns in school history. She finished the season with 342 points and 318 rebounds.

The Penguins were down 29-21 at halftime, and Brown scored the first bucket of the second half to cut the margin to six. YSU, though, went without a point for nearly eight minutes as Wright State pulled away. The Raiders went ahead by double digits for the first time on Erica Richardson's bucket with 16:36 left, and a Tanni Scott bucket in the lane capped an 18-0 run that put the Raiders ahead 47-23 with 11:52 remaining.

Youngstown State kept fighting, and a Maryum Jenkins triple cut the margin to 18 with 6:41 left as YSU put on a full-court trap. The Penguins forced 28 turnovers, but they were only able to turn those into 12 points.

Thomas scored the first six points for Wright State in the first half as both teams were careless with the ball early. Through four-and-a-half minutes, the Raiders had six turnovers, and the Penguins had four. The first half went back-and-forth with three ties and eight lead changes in the first nine minutes before Wright State took a 29-21 lead at halftime.

The Penguins got the line eight times in the first 8:30, and they were able to take a 13-12 lead on two Macey Nortey free throws with 12:38 remaining. The Penguins went scoreless for more than five minutes, and Thomas scored four straight points as Wright State went ahead 16-13 with 8:57 left. Nortey ended the drought with two more free throws, but Wright State answered with an 8-2 run to go ahead 24-17 with 3:22 left.

YSU was able to stay in the game in the first half by forcing turnovers and going 10-for-15 from the free throw line. The Raiders had 14 turnovers in the opening period, 13 of which came in the first 15 minutes.

Thomas scored 12 of her points in the first period, going 5-for-7 from the field and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line. Middlebrooks had eight points on two buckets and four free throws in the first period.