Green Bay, Wis. – Youngstown State scored nine runs over the final three innings and junior Sophie Howell turned in another impressive outing as the Penguins defeated Green Bay, 9-1, in an elimination game on Thursday afternoon at King Park.

The Penguins improve to 26-26 overall and advance to face No. 2 Robert Morris in a third elimination game on Friday, May 12. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. Eastern. Green Bay ends the season with 22-31 overall record.

Howell, who improves to 16-11, fired her third compete game of the tournament allowing just one run on four hits and posting nine strikeouts.

Sophomore Taylor Truran went 2-for-3 with two runs batted in and Jillian Jakse also had two hits and drove in a run. Junior Sara Fessler hit a two-run home run, her fifth of the season, and Hailey Niederkohr and Megan Turner each drove in a run.

The Penguins, who went hitless through the first three innings, scored five runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and two more in the seventh after trailing 1-0 after the first inning.

Niederkohr's bases-loaded walk in the top of the fifth tied the game at 1-1 before Fessler and Turner scored on a fielding error gave the Penguins a two-run lead.

A squeeze bunt by Jakse plated Niederkohr and Truran singled to right field to score Rinaldi for the Penguins' fifth run of the inning.

Elyssa Imler reached on an error to lead off the sixth and Fessler belted a towering two-run home run to left field to extend the lead to 7-1.

Jakse singled to lead off the seventh inning and advance to third after a throwing error on a line out by Avrey Schumacher.

Truran singled down the left-field line to plate Jakse and Turner's single to right field plated pinch-runner with the Penguins final run.