Horizon League Women's Basketball Scoreboard (Dec. 3)
Youngstown State 58, IUPUI 57
Saint Louis 58, UIC 49
Youngstown State 58, IUPUI 57
The Youngstown State women's basketball team battled through 37 turnovers by shooting 50 percent and held on to beat IUPUI 58-57 on Monday evening at The Jungle.
Brandi Brown scored 25 points and grabbed 16 rebounds, and her 11th bucket of the night gave the Penguins their 58-57 lead with 1:27 left. That was the game's final score, but there was plenty of drama in the final 87 seconds.
Kerah Nelson missed two free throws for IUPUI with 29 seconds left, but the Jaguars got the offensive rebound. Heidi Schlegel forced a tie-up to give YSU possession, but Schlegel missed the front end of a one-and-one with 13 seconds remaining. IUPUI called timeout to draw up a play for Nelson, but the fifth-year senior missed the go-ahead attempt in traffic.
Liz Hornberger scored all of her 11 points in the first half, including eight in just over two minutes. She played all 40 minutes. Schlegel added 11 points off the bench in 28 minutes. Brown was 11-for-16 from the field, and YSU made 23-of-46 from the field. The Penguins were an efficient 6-for-11 from 3-point range.
The Penguins are 6-1 for the first time since the 1997-98 season and improved to 4-1 on the road.
YSU out-rebounded the Jaguars 47-22, which helped offset the Penguins' turnovers. Still, the Jaguars attempted 17 more field goals and six more free throws than the Penguins. YSU was averaging 14.8 turnovers per game and had a high of 19 through the first six games.
Saint Louis 58, UIC 49
UIC battled hard, but could never get over the hump in falling on the road to Saint Louis 58-49 on Monday night.
The first half was a back-and-forth affair for the first 12 minutes as the Flames trailed 20-19 with 7:05 remaining before halftime. The Billikens though ended the half on a 14-5 run to take a 34-24 lead into the break.
UIC opened the second half on a 9-1 run to cut Saint Louis’ double-digit halftime lead to just a single possession in less than three minutes. Emily Kobel’s three at the 17:05 mark – one of five three-pointers for Kobel – brought the Flames within two at 35-33. The Billikens responded to UIC’s threat by going on an 11-4 run to extend its lead to nine, but the Flames would come back again cutting Saint Louis’ lead to 46-42 with 5:49 remaining in the game. After a couple of empty trips by both teams, the Billikens’ Courtney Webb made a three-pointer to extend SLU’s lead to seven with 3:26 remaining. The Flames would never be able to get closer than six points the rest of the way.
Kobel led the Flames in scoring with 17 points, shooting 6-of-13 from the field, including 5-of-11 from three-point range. Katie Hannemann and Rachel Story also reached double-figures for the Flames with 10 points each. Hannemann also had a team-high eight rebounds for UIC.
