HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Northern Kentucky’s Molly Glick hit a deep 3-pointer at the buzzer to hold off a rallying Youngstown State women’s basketball team Friday, 65-62. YSU (20-7, 12-4 Horizon League) trailed by 13 points with 11 minutes remaining, tying Northern Kentucky (8-17, 7-8) ...
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Northern Kentucky outscored Youngstown State, 13-5, over the last 3:37 en route to a 76-69 win over the Penguins Thursday night at BB&T Arena, ending YSU’s six-game winning streak. Sophomore Naz Bohannon scored a career-high 17 points and grabbed eight ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The crowd started to fill the Beeghly Center earlier than usual on Saturday afternoon. The Youngstown State University pep band was more than doubled in size with area high school band members a part of the merriment in the loudest area inside the nearly 50-year-old venue, the ...
YOUNGSTOWN – Melinda Trimmer stood in the middle of Dom Rosselli Court, some time after the all the pageantry of a 67-47 win over Milwaukee. Her team was signing autographs at the nearby media table for the remainder of the Sunday afternoon crowd. Trimmer's boyfriend, Beau Taylor, a West ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Billy Hahn, a former West Virginia assistant basketball coach, had a big impact on the Mountaineers and then WVU director of basketball operations Jerrod Calhoun. Calhoun, now the Youngstown State University men’s basketball coach, has a team on a six-game winning streak ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Melinda Trimmer dribbled around the perimeter toward the Green Bay bench. She looked for an opening as time ticked down on the game clock. Seconds remained in the first half. Trimmer found Chelsea Olson on the wing, who promptly fired the ball toward Sarah Cash in the post. The ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Darius Quisenberry had the ball on the right wing, opposite of the Youngstown State bench. He began to dribble drive toward the basket, but two IUPUI players collapsed on him as he neared the hoop. Quisenberry, whose team trailed by one with less than 10 seconds left, threw a ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Naz Bohannon stood at the foul line. A deep breath was followed by sharp concentration as he trusted his repetition. The Lorain native arched his shot and saw the orange sphere touch no rim and graze the white twine netting on the way down to the playing surface. Paul ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State University football team will open the 2020 season on Sept. 5 against Akron at InfoCision Stadium, the schools announced on Wednesday. The programs, separated by less than 50 miles, haven’t played since November 1995. The series between the Penguins and ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Noe Anabir receives the basketball as a couple of the opposition collapse on his 6-foot-8 frame. Youngstown State’s only senior men’s basketball player knows his ability to post up for a quick two points, boxing out another forward. He quickly elevates. No issues ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich — Matt Manley exited the hotel elevator with two sizable packed implements which his team uses for practice. His hands are rarely empty. Tommy Donadio joins him outside the bus, the two bundled up as much as they could, fighting the below-zero temperatures which plagued the ...
CHICAGO — The Youngstown State women’s basketball team led by double digits for more than 33 minutes and coach John Barnes earned his 100th victory as a Penguin in an 83-59 triumph over UIC on Sunday afternoon. Alison Smolinski made four 3-pointers in the first eight minutes to help the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The play was one of many in the first half and came as Youngstown State was making a run after an early deficit to Green Bay, leading by 10 at the time. Green Bay missed a jumper from about four feet away. It was rebounded by Naz Bohannon, one of nine rebounds he had on ...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Cell phones were placed on one table, laid face down. All eyes were up front, focused on the projection through a MacBook held by Youngstown State’s assistant to the head coach Danny Reese, a Cardinal Mooney High School graduate. He sits in a red, padded chair amid ...
NEW YORK CITY — Chad Zallow had the lead for the first half of Saturday’s Fred Schmertz 60m hurdles at the 112th Millrose Games. Then, 2016 Rio Olympian edged out former Syracuse athlete Freddie Crittenden by .003 seconds to take the title on Saturday. Zallow stayed ahead of the rest of ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Todd Burkey stood in a corner, watching and observing during Thursday’s game. His focus was vastly different than those in the Beeghly Center stands watching and complaining about a missed call, errant shot or successful play. They all saw the last-second bounce pass from ...
Chad Zallow has earned plenty of frequent flier miles to New York City. The John F. Kennedy High School graduate has visited the city many times, usually after his business is done there. The Youngstown State University senior hurdler and sprinter reserves his energy in his hotel room, ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Darius Quisenberry took the inbounds pass in front of the Milwaukee bench. The fate of this Youngstown State University men’s basketball team would be in its freshman point guard’s hands. The Penguins would have it no other way as the ball entered play with 5.5 seconds ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Amara Chikwe’s felt her knee give way a couple months before her senior year of high school as she played in her last AAU Tournament. The Westland, Michigan native (located halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor) tried to save a ball from going out of bounds. She didn’t ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Like millions of other football fans, Warren G. Harding senior Troy Jakubec watched the Super Bowl, but unlike most of those fans, he noticed something interesting about the New England Patriots. They had two players from Youngstown State on their roster. Sure, Jakubec made his ...