Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Staff report
Stony Brook, N.Y.
The Youngstown State women’s basketball team shot 26 percent and trailed the entire way in Tuesday’s 54-47 loss at Stony Brook.
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.
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.
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 at 2 p.m. against Cleveland State.