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BASKETBALL

Andrews ties record as men fall at Green Bay

Green Bay, Wis.

Freshman Jordan Andrews scored 19 points with six 3-pointers and tied the freshman 3-point record with 46, but the Youngstown State men’s basketball team dropped a 107-90 decision to Green Bay on Saturday afternoon.

Andrews, who tied the mark set by Vytas Sulskis in 2007-08, connected on 6-of-7 from 3-point range while sophomore Cameron Morse led the Penguins (10-18, 5-10 Horizon League) with 20 points and tied a career high with eight assists.

Sidney Umude came off the bench to score 15 points while Jorden Kaufman had 12 points and Matt Donlan added 10.

Leading Green Bay, which improves to 17-11 overall and 9-6 in the Horizon League, was Carrington Love with a game-high 39 points and made eight 3-pointers. Charles Cooper scored 18 points, Jordan Fouse had 17, Jamar Hurdle scored 12 and Kenneth Lowe added 10.

The Penguins shot an impressive76.7 percent (23-of-30) in the first half and made nine 3-pointers. At one point, the Penguins made 14 straight field goals over a nearly 10 minute span that turned a one-point deficit at the 16:40 into a lead of as many as 18-points

After the teams fought through four ties in the first six and a half minutes, the Penguins went on a 24-6 run to take an 18-point lead, 41-23, with 8:15 left. Andrews made three of his six triples during that stretch.

The Phoenix cut the deficit to 11 at the 4:35 mark, but a 3-pointer by Donlan and jumpers by Francisco Santiago and Kaufman pushed the lead back to 18, 53-35, with 3:15 to go.

The Phoenix were able to trim the Penguins lead to, 57-45, at halftime.

In the second half, Green Bay shot 62.5 percent from the field and made seven of its 13 3-pointers. The Phoneix also scored 15 points off of nine Penguins turnovers in the second half.

Kaufman opened the second half with a jumper to put YSU up, 59-45, but the Phoenix scored 15 straight points to take a 60-59 lead with 16:48 left. The Penguins committed five turnovers and missed four shots during the Green Bay run.

Over the next five minutes, the teams traded the lead five times and had two ties before the Phoenix began to extend their lead.

For the game, the Penguins shot 54.8 percent from the field, 63.2 percent from 3-point range making 12-of-19, and 83.3 percent from the free throw line.

Green Bay, however, scored 27 points off of 15 YSU turnovers and had 16 second-chance points.

The Penguins play their final regular-season road game against Milwaukee, Monday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m.

BASEBALL

Rohan’s RBI single gives Penguins split of twinbill

BOWLING GREEN, KY.

Gerrad Rohan’s two-out single in the top of the 10th inning lifted the Youngstown State baseball team to an 8-7 victory in game one of a doubleheader at Western Kentucky on Saturday afternoon at Nick Denes Field. The Hilltoppers won game two 11-1.

Rohan’s single ended a back-and-forth final five innings, and it gave the Penguins their first win of 2016. YSU rallied with three runs in the seventh inning and another in the eighth go up 7-5, but Western Kentucky tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the eighth.

In the 10th, Billy Salem singled to right with two outs and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Rohan thenngled to right center to bring in Salem with the winning run.

Rohan finished 3-for-6 with two runs scored and two RBIs, and Salem had a pair of hits and scored twice. Lorenzo Arcuri reached base three times and scored twice.

Arcuri walked and scored on Rohan’s fielder’s choice in the first to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead, but Paul Murray’s two-run double in the bottom of the inning put WKU up. Both teams scored in the fourth, and Arcuri’s sacrifice fly in the sixth tied the score at 3-3.

WKU went back on top with two runs in the sixth, but YSU scored three times in the seventh to go ahead 6-5. Salem walked and Rohan followed with a single, and Dominic Brown’s sacrifice bunt advanced them. Nico Padovan plated both runs with a single to center, and he proceeded to steal second and score the go-ahead run on an Andrew Kendrick single. A Salem RBI groundout plated Arcuri in the eight to put the Penguins ahead 7-5.

The first three Hilltoppers reached in the eighth, and Kaleb Duckworth’s RBI single got WKU within one. After YSU’s Kevin Yarabinec induced a big double play, Harrison Scanlon tied the game with a single to center.

Padovan was thrown out at the plate to end the top of the ninth, and Yarabinec responded to retire WKU in order in the bottom of the inning to give the Penguins a chance in extra innings. After Rohan’s go-ahead single, Yarabinec held the Hilltoppers scoreless in the bottom half to earn the win.

Yarabinec allowed two runs on five hits in 3.1 innings, and Joel Hake pitched 1.1 innings off scoreless relief. WKU had seven pitchers take the mound.

In game two, Western Kentucky scored three runs in the third inning, and it added two in the fourth and single tallies in the fifth and sixth innings to go up 7-0.

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