Feb. 7, 2008

Women's Basketball: Cold Shooting Dooms Guins in Loss to Green Bay

    Youngstown --  The Youngstown State women's basketball team suffered a tough shooting performance en route to dropping a 75-47 decision to Green Bay on Thursday night at the Beeghly Center.

    The Penguins (10-11 overall and 5-5 in the Horizon League) were within four points midway through the first half, but made only one field goal the remaining 9:40 of the first stanza and trailed by 14 at the break.

    YSU trailed 18-14 after Velissa Vaughn's hoop with 9:40 left. However, UWGB (17-4 and 9-1) scored the next seven points to go in front 25-14.

    The Guins trailed 37-23 at halftime. For the first half, YSU made 6-of-26 field goal attempts (23.1 percent), while converting 3-of-15 from 3-point range.

    Toni Roscoe's 3-pointer was the only bucket for the Penguins the final nine-plus minutes. Roscoe's basket with 4:15 left made the score 27-19 in favor of the Phoenix.

    Green Bay shot 48.3 percent making 14-of-28 attempts. Both teams were perfect from free-throw as YSU made 8-of-8 and the Phoenix were 7-fo-7.

    In the second half, Green Bay shot an impressive 53.8 percent from the floor while the Penguins shot just 38.5 percent from the field.

    Junior Ashley Pendleton led the Penguins with eight points - all in the second half - on 4-of-6 shooting and grabbed seven rebounds.

    The Guins return to action on Saturday at 4:35 p.m. when they play host to Milwaukee.