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Youngstown State beats Cleveland State 73-67
IAA Fan:
CLEVELAND (AP)—Damian Eargle scored 20 points and pulled down 10 boards, leading Youngstown State to a 73-67 win over Cleveland State Saturday.
DuShawn Brooks added 17 points and Ashen Ward 15 for the Penguins (7-6, 2-1 Horizon League), who used a run out of halftime to beat the Vikings. Youngstown State has now won two straight after a season high four-game losing slide.
Trailing 31-29 at the break, Eargle dropped in a layup followed by a pair of free throws to help spark a 16-9 run out of halftime to take a lead the Penguins wouldn’t relinquish. The Vikings pulled within one, 59-58, with 4:31 left to play, but an Eargle jumper 36 seconds later sparked a 14-9 run the rest of the way to secure the win.
Jeremy Montgomery led Cleveland State (12-3, 2-1) with a game-high 21 points. The Vikings came in with seven wins in their last eight.
Youngstown State Penguins
Name Min FG 3Pt FT Off Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
A. Ward 31 4-7 3-5 4-4 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 15
K. Perry 36 3-5 0-1 2-3 0 1 5 3 2 0 0 8
B. Allen 37 3-9 2-5 1-2 0 3 4 2 2 0 1 9
D. Brooks 39 5-8 3-5 4-7 2 7 4 2 0 0 2 17
D. Eargle 25 8-11 0-0 4-5 3 10 0 5 2 1 4 20
F. Larson 9 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
N. Perry 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
D. Cole 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
S. Amiker Jr. 10 1-1 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2
J. Chojnacki 6 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals 25-43 8-16 15-23 5 28 17 15 8 1 9 73
Percentages .581 .500 .652 Team Rebounds: 1
Cleveland State Vikings
Name Min FG 3Pt FT Off Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
D. Brown 35 7-13 2-2 4-4 2 3 0 1 1 0 3 20
T. Harmon 22 2-7 0-3 0-0 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 4
J. Montgomery 37 7-10 6-8 1-2 0 5 3 4 2 0 3 21
T. Kamczyc 35 3-7 1-5 0-0 1 4 6 2 1 0 2 7
A. Pogue 19 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2
S. Douglas 10 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
L. Ndaye 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A. Grady 22 2-7 0-1 3-4 3 5 1 1 0 0 3 7
C. Lee 13 2-5 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 5
I. Nwamu 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 24-52 10-21 9-12 6 22 13 12 4 0 18 67
Percentages .462 .476 .750 Team Rebounds: 2
Game Info
Technical Fouls:
None
Arena:
Wolstein Center, Cleveland, OH
Attendance:
3,513
Officials:
Bill Jacobson, Chris Beaver, Bryan Anslinger
IAA Fan:
CSU Senior Forward D'Aundray Brown
"They have good guard play and good bigs down low. We took them for granted and came out on the wrong end today."
goodnews:
I am on the west coast and it is now 11:50 in Ytown and the local paper has yet to post an article online about the Penguins victory over a team with an RPI of 44 and arguably their biggest rival (Cleveland State) in the Horizon League. You gotta feel bad for the players and coaches.
ysuindy:
We are able to listen to the game on our way home from a week in Ytown. Fortunately the game ended before the 570 signal faded around Mansfield.
Great win. I think just about every YSU fan would have signed up for a 2-1 start in the Horizon League given 3 road games to start the league season, including 2 of the top 3 teams in most pre-season prognostications (CSU and UDM) and a place we never win (Wright State).
Yes the non-conference games frustrated me, most fans and I am sure the coaches and players, but the HL games are what counts.
Great, great win. Eargle tremendous, nice for Ward to get a win in Cleveland.
December 31 and every team has at least one loss in the HL.
Big week coming up against two of the bottom dwellers in the league, UIC and Loyola. Nothing is ever easy with this team and one needs to look for no further than what CSU did today to see the danger of overlooking an opponent.
Practice hard and smart this week.
ysuindy:
By David S. Glasier
DGlasier@News-Herald.com
@nhglasier
Youngstown State senior guard Ashen Ward and his teammates believed.
They believed the four straight losses they carried into Saturday's game at Cleveland State didn't accurately portray their talent or the progress they are making under veteran coach Jerry Slocum.
Ward and the Penguins believed they could come into the Wolstein Center and spring an upset on the Vikings, who were 13-2 overall and 2-0 in the Horizon League.
Ward and company turned belief into action, outplaying the Vikings from beginning to end en route to a 73-67 victory.
"This is a huge win for us, sitting on four losses and knowing we're so much better than that,'' Ward said.
The former Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School standout scored nine of his 15 points in the final three minutes of the game as the Penguins refused to wilt under the pressure.
YSU improved to 7-6 overall and 2-1 in league play.
"Nobody was afraid," Ward said. "We were ready for the challenge, and we took it. I'm not surprised we won.''
Ward, sturdily built at 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds, made two important baskets in crunch time to give the Penguins much-needed breathing room.
With three minutes remaining and YSU clinging to a 61-59 lead, Ward drained a 3-pointer to make it 64-59. One minutes later, Ward drove through the heart of CSU's usually stingy defense to cash in a layup that extended Youngstown's lead to 66-60.
"When the game is on the line, Ashen makes plays,'' Slocum said.
CSU coach Gary Waters gave Ward and his teammates all the credit in the world for securing the victory, shooting 58 percent from the field and scoring 73 points against a CSU squad that came into game yielding a league-low 57.8 points per contest.
"Youngstown outplayed us. They deserved to win,'' Waters said.
The Vikings slipped to 12-3 and 2-1 in the league.
"It's a crushing loss because it's at home,'' Waters said.
The Penguins got 20 points and a game-high 10 rebounds from junior forward Damian Eargle. The former Warren Harding star was 8 of 11 from the field. On defense, he limited CSU senior center Aaron Pogue to two points and two rebounds.
YSU senior forward DuShawn Brooks also was a thorn in CSU's side with 17 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
The Vikings were a two-man show Saturday, getting a game-high 21 points from senior guard Jeremy Montgomery and 20 points from senior forward D'Aundray Brown.
CSU got off to a sluggish start, falling behind by as many as 12 points midway through the first half. Brown and Montgomery caught fire, though, helping CSU overcome a 19-7 deficit with a 21-8 run over the next nine minutes.
Montgomery accounted for 12 of those points when he drained four straight shots from beyond the 3-point line. The last of those four treys, from 25 feet, was a "heat-check'' special.
CSU had a 31-29 halftime lead.
The Vikings suffered a blow when senior guard Trey Harmon was knocked to the floor at the 15:27 mark of the second half while chasing a long rebound. Harmon lay prone for a few minutes before heading to the locker room with a trainer.
The 6-foot-1 senior from California, averaging 11.4 points, suffered a concussion and did not return. Waters said he'll play it safe with Harmon, given the fact the player has been sidelined in the past with concussion symptoms.
Montgomery acknowledged that the Vikings got caught looking past the Penguins.
"We took them for granted and came up on the wrong side,'' Montgomery said.
CSU swings back into action Thursday, hosting Horizon League foe Illinois-Chicago.
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2011/12/31/sports/nh4920151.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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