YOUNGSTOWN — One blue recycling container, another clear storage bin surrounded by some white towels. Youngstown State University Associate Director of Athletics Rick Love then put some cardboard over both containers. Occasional drips emanated from the Beeghly Center ceiling, beginning ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Darius Quisenberry made a 3-pointer with about 9 minutes remaining. Youngstown State was so close to the dominant team in the Horizon League, Northern Kentucky. As it has been for too many games this season, any shot of momentum became fleeting in the final 10 minutes. This ...
YOUNGSTOWN — McKenah Peters was wincing in front of the Youngstown State bench. It looked as if the sophomore wing had twisted her ankle. YSU’s best defender looked as if she would be limited to less than one quarter against the Horizon League’s top team — Wright State. No, not this ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Wright State and Youngstown State have struggled to close out games this season. Thursday, not so much for the Raiders. Ursuline High School graduate Mark Hughes’ 3-pointer with less than 7 minutes remaining gave Wright State the lead, one the Raiders never surrendered during ...
YOUNGSTOWN – Deadline pressure. Term paper due the next day. Getting everything together after Friday night high school football. The adrenaline which flows through you is much more effective than a cup of coffee spiked with a Red Bull. That sense of urgency has to be there the next ...
There was a lot of hype when Bo Pelini was hired at Youngstown State, and rightfully so. Many in the media, locally and nationally, felt the Penguins, as the saying goes, might have outkicked their coverage with the hiring — meaning not many expected a coach of his caliber to come to ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Five straight wins; sitting atop the Horizon League. Everything was going well for Youngstown State. It’s women’s basketball team was the talk of the league. But losses at Milwaukee and at Green Bay have changed things. Milwaukee, the Horizon’s best 3-point shooting ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Freshman Darius Quisenberry had 22 points, four 3-pointers and eight assists and Youngstown State beat IUPUI 82-76 on Saturday. Quisenberry scored 20-plus for the fourth time this season. He banked in a 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to give YSU a 74-61 lead with six ...
YOUNGSTOWN — It doesn’t look like Youngstown State University football coach Bo Pelini is going anywhere. In fact, he’s bringing another Youngstown native home to join him. Despite speculation that Pelini might leave when his four-year contract expires on Feb. 28, YSU athletic director ...
From staff, wire reports CHICAGO — Tarkus Ferguson scored 23 points shooting 7 of 10 from 3-point range and Illinois-Chicago snapped a two-game skid and beat Youngstown State 78-63 Thursday night. Godwin Boahen scored 21 points with four 3s, Rob Howard shot 5 of 8 from the field and the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — One and done, it cannot happen. We’re not talking about a song relegated to a replay list on Sirius XM Radio. This is about a defensive mentality. It needs to be as habitual as me grabbing a coffee pod, plopping it my single-serve Keurig, add water and wait for the morning java ...
By JOHN VARGO Tribune Chronicle YOUNGSTOWN — Naz Bohannon knew something was wrong a couple of months ago. The Youngstown State sophomore went to a local urgent care facility and realized something more than an annoying cold was bothering him. Bohannon, a 6-foot-6 Lorain native, was ...
YOUNGSTOWN – Mary Dunn comes off the bench this season, relieving Lordstown native Sarah Cash. It's a role she doesn't mind and has embraced. Dunn was named Horizon League Player of the Week for averaging 21.5 points and 10 rebounds in wins over alphabet-soup teams UIC and ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Robert Smolinski looked out at his North Royalton driveway years ago and decided he had to intervene. He had to help his third-grade daughter Alison. She was shooting the ball with two hands, heaving it toward the basket with all the power her little frame could muster. Alison ...
YOUNGSTOWN — IUPUI’s Sydney Hall had one mission during Saturday’s game — stay with Alison Smolinski. The Jaguars were well aware of the Youngstown State University senior wing. Smolinski has such a quick release; catch, shoot, make. She’s one of the best women’s basketball ...
MILWAUKEE — Garrett Covington scored 15 points and Youngstown State held Milwaukee to just 14 first-half points as the Penguins rolled to a 76-51 Horizon League rout on Saturday. Youngstown State used 16 players in the road game with 11 contributing points. At the midway point of the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Alison Smolinski couldn’t miss from 3-point range early on in Thursday’s game. Each pass to Mary Dunn or Sarah Cash seemingly went for an uncontested lay-up from a well-timed lob by the Youngstown State University guards. Cash only played eight minutes in the first quarter ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Nikki Arbanas was in the crowd, watching her former team. The Hickory, Pa., native is Youngstown State’s all-time leader in 3-point baskets with 209. Senior Alison Smolinski was one 3-pointer away from joining Arbanas and Indiya Benjamin as the team’s only players to make ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — JayQuan McCloud scored 24 points and Kameron Hankerson had 19, both career highs, and Green Bay beat Youngstown State 99-93 in overtime on Thursday night. PJ Pipes added a career-high 16 points, making 8 of 8 at the line including the tying points in regulation and the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Jerrod Calhoun hasn’t minced words since he’s taken over theYoungstown State University men’s basketball program. He wants to win, something that has happened as many times as you can count on one hand in the past three decades. Losing has permeated around this program ...