YSU women lose big in opener

By Pete Mollica

KENT — Youngstown State women’s coach Cindy Martin knows her team is not going to win a lot of games with its shooting. The Penguins must play good defense and not turn the ball over to have a chance this season.

Saturday afternoon the Penguins opened the 2008-09 season, its first with Martin on the bench, and did nothing Martin said they needed to do to win.

The result, as expected, was a lopsided 95-58 loss to Kent State, which was also opening its season before just over 700 fans at the M.A.C. Center.

Read the story in Sunday’s Vindicator.