Mastodons Look to Rebound against Penguins

PRE-GAME NOTES

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodons look to rebound from its season-opening loss on Sunday afternoon against the Penguins of Youngstown State University at 2:00 p.m. at the Gates Sports Center.

Opponent: Youngstown State (0-1)
When: Sunday, November 13, 2 p.m.
Where: Fort Wayne, Ind.; Gates Sports Center (1,900)
Radio: IPFW Internet Radio (Mike Maahs, play-by-play)
Live Stats: IPFW Sidearm Live Stats
Streaming Video: Mastodon All-Access

SCOUTING THE PENGUINS
Youngstown State comes into the Sunday match-up after falling in its season opener to West Virginia 69-37.

Brandi Brown scored a team-high 12 points, as three other players, Heidi Schlegel, Melissa Thompson, and Monica Touvelle, each had five tallies.

Brown pulled down eight rebounds, while Macey Nortey and Touvelle each had two assists.

LAST TIME OUT
Despite a game-high 20 points from senior Anne Boese, the IPFW Mastodons dropped its 2011-12 season opener to the Cincinnati Bearcats by a 74-42 final score at Fifth Third Arena.

Boese made 8-of-19 shots from the field, and 4-of-10 from long range en route to her 20 points. Amanda Hyde added seven points, with Stefanie Mauk chipping in six. Hyde and Sarah Haluska each pulled down a team-best five rebounds, with Rachel Mauk dishing out three assists. Hillary Moore, in her first collegiate regular-season game, had four points and a team-best three steals.

Cincinnati scored on each of their first four possessions, jumping ahead to a 9-0 lead, and never trailing in the contest. IPFW trailed by eight following a Hyde lay-in, but an 8-0 UC run put the margin at 16, and it never reached single digits over the rest of the contest.

BU
•   IPFW is 2-3 all-time against Youngstown State, and 18-36 against teams from the Horizon League
•   Last season IPFW played in its first post-season basketball tournament as part of NCAA Division I when they competed in the Women's Basketball Invitational, falling to Cleveland State
•   IPFW head coach Chris Paul is the winningest coach in program history at 72-99
•   The Mastodons have made a three-point basket in 377 consecutive games, the sixth longest active streak in the NCAA
•   IPFW senior Stephanie Rosado was named to the Summit League Preseason First Team
•   IPFW's 20 wins last season set a program Division I record, and was the first time since 1995-96 that the 'Dons have reached 20 wins in a season
•   Last season's second seed in the conference tournament was the highest since joining the Summit League
•   Senior Anne Boese currently ranks eighth in Summit League history with 226 career three-point baskets made, and trails the all-time conference leader (Brenna Doty of Buffalo) by 36.

Purdue University Fort Wayne Athletics

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