| Lady Pens Defeat UWM 75-68 |
| Saturday, February 26 2005 |
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| MILWAUKEE - Teri Huff scored 19 points and grabbed 10 boards but it was a pair of Youngstown State senior post players as Youngstown State ruined Senior Day for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a 75-68 defeat of the Panthers in Horizon League women's basketball action here Saturday (Feb. 26). Barb Fabianova scored 20 points and Jen Perugini had 17 and 10 boards to lead the Penguins to the season sweep of UWM. Milwaukee finishes the regular season 14-13 overall and second place in the league with a 11-5 record while YSU improves to 12-15 and 6-10. "It was the last regular season home game and it would have been great to get a win but we just didn't get it done," UWM head coach Sandy Botham said. "I am please with our effort and our passion but we just didn't defend when we needed to. Youngstown State made all the big plays down the stretch." Youngstown State came out firing and led for nearly the entire game. The Penguins went up 11-6 at the 13:38 mark before UWM tied it up at 11 on two Anne Witte free throws. The two teams battled for much of the half and Milwaukee grabbed its only lead of the game, 27-26, on two Huff charity tosses with 4:20 left in the half. However those were the last UWM points of the half and YSU finished the frame on an 8-0 run to take a 34-27 lead. Fabianova drained four three-pointers in the first half for 14 points as YSU went 6-11 for three in the first half. UWM shot just 29.0% in the half and just 2-11 from downtown. Both teams turned the ball over 10 times in the frame. The Penguins remined in control through the early portion of the first half, keeping their lead in the four to nine point range. UWM did make a push late in the second half and cut the lead to one, 56-55, following two straight Megan Rogers baskets with six minutes to go. Milwaukee continued to score on its next three possessions but could never grab the lead as YSU answered every Milwaukee push. Youngstown State was then able to put the game away with five straight points with less than two minutes to play. Perugini proved too much for UWM in the second half as the senior scored 14 points and grabbed six second half rebounds. Milwaukee shot 50.0% for the half but ended up getting outscored 23-8 from the free throw line in the game. Molly O'Brien added 15 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and five steals for UWM while Megan Rogers scored 13 points off the bench. Senior Cathy Hanek joined Perugini and Fabianova in double figures with 12 points. Milwaukee finished the regular season in a second place tie with Wright State but will gain the No. 2 seed thanks to a season sweep of the Raiders. UWM will host No. 7 seed Detroit in Thursday's (Mar. 3) |
| Penguins Stave Off Late Detroit Rally for 71-68 Win |
| Friday, February 25 2005 |
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| Youngstown, Ohio -- Youngstown State staved off a feverish Detroit rally late in the second half and held on to a 71-68 Senior Night victory on Thursday evening at the Beeghly Center. Youngstown State improves to 11-15 overall and 5-10 in the Horizon League while Detroit falls to 8-19 overall and 5-11 in the Horizon League. The Penguins, which led by as many as 18 points in the second half, owned a 14-point advantage, 63-49, at the 3:41 mark after a Barb Fabianova 3-pointer. Fabianova finished with 15 points and six assists. Then the Titans began heating up. After two free throws by UDM's Kelly Jaskot cut the deficit to 12 points, 63-51, junior Lindsey Pasquinzo scored 15 of the Titans' next 17 points, all on 3-pointers, and brought Detroit to within two points, 67-65, with 20 seconds remaining. YSU sophomore Kristy Gaudiose rebuilt the Penguins' lead to four points, 69-65, with two free throws and blocked Jaskot's 3-point attempt with 12 seconds left. Freshman Lauren Branson grabbed the rebound and was fouled. Branson converted two free throws with six seconds remaining to give the Penguins a 71-65 advantage. Pasquinzo, who scored a career-high 25 points, connected on her final 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds remaining for the game's final tally. The Penguins owned a 32-24 lead at the intermission and used a 15-5 run over the first eight minutes of the second half to extend their lead to a game-high 18 points, 47-29, with 12:04 remaining. Fabianova hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Jen Perugini, who led the Penguins with 17 points and 11 rebounds, converted a 3-point play and hit another jumper to spark the YSU run. Detroit made a run of its own, trimming the Penguins lead to five points, 50-45, at the 7:55 mark after a 3-pointer by Caitie Goddard. Youngstown State answered with a 13-4 run over the next four minutes, sandwiched by 3-pointers from senior Cathy Hanek - who scored 11 points - and Fabianova, to put the Penguins ahead by 14, 63-49. In the first half, Youngstown State shot 47.8 percent from the field and held the Titans to just 33.3 percent shooting. The Penguins, which led from the 17:36 mark of the first half to the end, used a 18-6 run midway through the first half a extended a two-point advantage, 10-8, at the 14:03 mark into a 14-point cushion, 28-14, with 5:03 left in the stanza. A 3-point play and a jumper by junior Michelle Holmes, who posted 11 points, and two 3's from Fabianova and a third from Ashlee Russo keyed the Penguins' run. The Titans, however, cut the gap to just eight points at the half by outscoring the Penguins, 10-4 over the final five minutes. Youngstown State closes out the regular season against UW-Milwaukee on Saturday, Feb. 26. Tipoff is set for 3 p.m. (EDT) in Milwaukee, Wis. |
| 10 3's Carry YSU to 60-56 Upset at No. 23 UW-Green Bay |
| Saturday, February 19 2005 |
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| Green Bay, Wis. -- The Youngstown State women's basketball team drilled 10 3-pointers en route to beating No. 23 UW-Green Bay 60-56 on Saturday afternoon at the Phoenix Sports Center. Jen Perugini scored 12 points while Barb Fabianova and Cathy Hanek each finished with 11. Fabianova and Hanek made six of YSU's 3-pointers as UWGB went just 4-of-18 from behind that arc. |
| Perugini Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First-Team |
| Thursday, February 17 2005 |
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| Youngstown -- Youngstown State senior Jen Perugini was selected to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV First Team, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Thursday. Perugini, who hails from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., sports a 3.66 cumulative grade-point average with a major in physical education. The 6-foot-2 forward also leads the Horizon League and ranks 11th nationally with 10.9 rebounds per game and ranks second in scoring with 14.4 points per game. She is the only player in the Horizon League averaging a double-double. This season, Perugini, who has recorded 11 double-doubles, became the 16th player in school history to score 1,000 career points and currently ranks 13th with 1,144 points. She is also just the second player in school history to collect 1,000 points, 800 rebounds and 100 blocked shots in a career. |
| Second-Half Cold Spell Dooms YSU to 72-61 Defeat Against Butler |
| Saturday, February 12 2005 |
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| Youngstown -- Butler's defense held Youngstown State to 20 percent shooting in the second half and without a field goal for a nine-minute span as the Bulldogs won 72-61 in a Horizon League bout Saturday afternoon at the Beeghly Center. YSU falls to 9-15 overall and 3-10 in the Horizon League while Butler improves to 11-12 overall and 5-7 in the Horizon League. YSU's Jen Perugini hit her first seven shots and recorded her 11th double-double of the season with a game-high 20 points and 15 rebounds, but the Penguin forward was held to just three points in the second half and did not score in the final 19:38. Both teams shot better than 55 percent in the first half as the Penguins shot 59.3 percent (16-for-27) and the Bulldogs shot 55.6 percent (15-for-27), but both were held under 26 percent in the second half. After a first half that saw six lead changes and four ties, Youngstown State got within four five times in the first 10 minutes of the second half but could not break through. The Bulldogs led 51-46 with 17:12 remaining, but YSU scored four straight points to get within one with 15:19 remaining. YSU trimmed three-point leads down to one two more times, but Butler pulled away midway through the second half by going on a 9-0 run to go up 65-55 with 5:43 remaining. Michelle Holmes hit two free throws to bring the Penguins to within 67-59 with 3:10 remaining, but Butler scored the next five points to pull ahead 72-59 with 50 seconds left. My'Kea Cohill hit a jumper with 45 seconds remaining for the final tally. Jackie Closser and Ellen Hamilton scored 15 points apiece to lead four Bulldogs in double figures while Stephanie Boeke had 14 points off the bench Courtney Urquhart added 12. Butler scored the game's opening four points and took its largest lead of the half when a Hamilton 3 put the Bulldogs up 14-9 with 15:30 remaining. YSU then went on a 7-1 run to take its first lead of the game, 16-15, on a Kristy Gaudiose 3-pointer at the 13:15 mark. Butler reclaimed the lead on its next possession on a Closser jumper, but the Penguins held the Bulldogs within three until back-to-back Perugini jumpers put YSU up 27-24 with a jumper with 8:07 remaining. Butler climbed back ahead 31-29 on another 3 from Hamilton and never trailed again. YSU got within one four more times in the half, including at 42-41 on a Cathy Hanek jumper with 1:56 remaining, but a Jessica Monaco 3 put the Bulldogs up 45-41 at the intermission. YSU will travel to take on the UW-Green Bay Phoenix on Feb. 19 at 3 p.m EDT. |
| Penguins Fall to Raiders, 61-51 |
| Thursday, February 10 2005 |
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| Youngstown -- Youngstown State senior Jen Perugini recorded her 10th double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds and junior Michelle Holmes posted a career-high 13 points but the Penguins (9-14, 3-9 Horizon League) dropped a 61-51 decision to Wright State on Wednesday evening at the Beeghly Center. Trailing by as many as 16 points, 51-35, with 6:08 left in the second half, Youngstown State outscored the Raiders, 13-2, to slice its deficit to four, 53-49, with 1:41 remaining. Freshman My'Kea Cohill keyed the run with six points and an assist. The Raiders sealed the game by scoring the next six points to extend their lead to 10 points, 59-49, with 43 seconds left. YSU battled back from an early 16-4 deficit with a 17-3 run to take its first lead of the game with 3:09 remaining. Jen Perugini hit a jumper at the 19:20 mark of the first half to tie the score at two, but Wright State scored seven straight points as part of a 14-2 run over the next four minutes to take a 12-point lead at 16-4. Rhea Mays hit a jumper with 19:02 remaining and Jeanette Woodberry followed with seven straight points for the Raiders. After an Angie Ott jumper with 15:16 remaining, the Raiders missed 13 straight shots and were held to one free throw in a 13-1 run an eight minute span to knot the game at 17-17 with 7:23 to go. YSU junior Aliyah Sabree's layup at the 3:09 mark gave the Penguins their only of the game, 21-19. Wright State, though, posted the final eight points of the half and led 27-21 at the intermission. Youngstown State won the rebounding batted, 40-33, including 14 offensive boards but was only able to convert them into six second-chance points. YSU shot just 33.3 percent from the floor and did not make a 3-point basket for the first time since Feb. 4, 1995. The Penguins host Butler, Saturday, at 2 p.m. in the Beeghly Center. |
| Cold-Shooting Night Dooms Penguins to 64-58 Defeat |
| Thursday, February 3 2005 |
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| Cleveland, Ohio -- Youngstown State shot 26.7 percent from the floor in both halves and let a dramatic 13-4 run to start the second half go to waste as the Penguins fell to Cleveland State 64-58 on Wednesday evening at the Wolstein Center. Kristy Gaudiose led the Penguins with a game-high 17 points while Jen Perugini added 14 points and 10 rebounds. With the loss, the Penguins dropped to 9-12 overall and 3-7 in the Horizon League while the Vikings moved to 3-17 overall and 2-7 in league contests. Lauren Branson added eight assists and five steals for the Penguins. CSU's Jill Barnbrook hit a jumper at the 18:58 mark of the second half to put the Vikings up 31-21, but YSU answered with a momentum-shifting 13-2 run to take its first lead since the 13:52 mark of the first half. Gaudiose scored nine straight points in the run in 1:19 on one three, three jumpers and two free throws. Tara Fleming and Jessica Schloemp added layups to make the score 34-33 with 15:24 remaining. Betsy Bowser then hit a 3 after a timeout to give the Vikings a 36-34, and the Penguins never led again. From that point, the Penguins hit a cold spell where they went three for their next 28 shots as Cleveland State led by as many as 10 points. The Penguins had a chance late as they took advantage of CSU miscues from the charity stripe to climb to within five with 31 seconds left, but the Vikings hit five of their six final free throws to hold on for the victory. Cleveland State took a 29-21 advantage at the intermission by holding a 40.6 percent to 26.7 percent edge in shooting percentage. CSU jumped out to an 8-4 after Erin Martin hit a 3 with 17:08 to go, but a 7-2 run over the next 3 1/2 minutes gave the Penguins their first lead of the game at 11-10 with 13:52 remaining. Two Michelle Holmes free throws with 16:47 on the clock started the rally and a Gaudiose layup tied the score at eight with 15:52 to go. A Martin layup put the Vikings back up two, but Gaudiose hit a 3 to make the score 11-10. From that point, Cleveland State outscored YSU 19-10 the rest of the half, holding the Penguins scoreless for 5 1/2 minutes after Gaudiose's trey. The Vikings scored six straight points as part of an 8-1 run to go up 18-12 with 8:07 remaining. The Penguins got within four after a Tara Fleming jumper with 6:33 remaining, but CSU answered with an 11-5 run to take a 29-19 lead with 28 seconds remaining. A Perugini jumper with nine ticks left brought the Penguins to within eight before the break. The Penguins will travel to Loyola to take on the Ramblers on Saturday at 2 p.m. EST. |