Box Score Stony Brook, N.Y. -- The Youngstown State
women's basketball team shot 26 percent and trailed the entire way
in a 54-47 loss at Stony Brook on Tuesday evening at Pritchard
Gymnasium.
The Penguins, who had shot 40 percent in six straight games, saw
their road winning streak stopped at five. YSU dropped to 6-5 while
Stony Brook won for the second straight game to improve to
3-10.
Brandi
Brown had 12 points and 18 rebounds for YSU, and Kenya
Middlebrooks added 11. Macey Nortey added eight points, four
assists and six steals for the Penguins. Dani Klupenger scored
eight of her 11 points in the first half for Stony Brook.
The Penguins were outscored 17-3 off turnovers despite
committing two fewer miscues.
Up 26-23 at halftime, Stony Brook scored the first four points
of the second half to go up 30-23. A Brown triple cut the score
back to 32-29 at the 13:19 mark, but the Seawolves got the margin
back to six at 37-31 with 10:49 remaining.
The lead ranged from three to five for more than three minutes
until a Middlebrooks trey made the score 43-41 at the 7:01 mark. Heidi
Schlegel's bucket with 4:14 remaining kept the margin at two,
45-43, but that was the Penguins' last bucket of the game.
Neither team scored for almost two minutes, and the Seawolves
went up 50-45 on a Jessica Previlon bucket off an offensive rebound
with 2:32 left. Two Sam Landers free throws pushed the lead to
52-45 with 15 seconds remaining, and Schlegel and Tamiel Murray
traded a pair of free throws for the final margin.
Youngstown State battled through a sloppy first half to trail
just 26-23 at halftime. The Penguins shot just 25 percent, but
Stony Brook managed 35.7 percent. The Penguins were 3-for-17 from
3-point range and 4-for-11 inside the arc.
Stony Brook led the entire first half and was deadlocked with
YSU at 3-3 and 7-7. A Brown lay-up with 11:46 left made the score
11-9, but the Penguins went without a field goal for four minutes
as the Seawolves built a 20-11 lead.
A Liz
Hornberger triple sparked a six-point run for the Penguins as
Stony Brook went without a field goal for more than five minutes.
Klupenger's trey put the Seawolves ahead 23-17, and a Middlebrooks
triple cut the margin to 23-21 at the 1:22 mark. Klupenger answered
with another trey for the Seawolves, and Brown made two free throws
with 31 ticks left to make the score 26-23 at the break.
Middlebrooks had eight points in the opening period, and Brown
had 12 of the Penguins' 18 rebounds. Klupenger had eight points,
and Previlon had seven for the Seawolves.
Youngstown State will begin its 11th season of Horizon League
play on Saturday against Cleveland State. Tipoff at Beeghly Center
against the Vikings is set for 2:05 p.m.