YSU women fall to Cleveland State

Youngstown State sophomore forward Brandi Brown scored 24 points and had seven rebounds, but Cleveland State shot 54.2 percent from the field and used a big second-half effort to hand the Penguins an 86-65 loss on Saturday afternoon at the Beeghly Center.

With the win, Cleveland State improves to 12-8 overall and 4-4 in the Horizon League. The Penguins are now 3-17 and 1-8.

On the heels of her peformance, Brown has now scored 707 points while grabbing 503 rebounds in her 50-game Penguins career. She is the just the third player in school history to score 700 points and grab 500 rebounds during her sophomore campaign.

Also for the Penguins, Kenya Middlebrooks scored 16 points, 15 of which came in the first half while Bojana Dimitrov had 13.

Cleveland State was led by Shalonda Winton who had a game-high 31 points on 12-of-15 shooting from the floor and 6-of-7 from the line. Destinee Blue scored 20 points and hauled down 12 rebounds while Shawnita Garland had 18 and Takima Keane chipped in a dozen.