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Detroit senior Sandi Brown (Toledo, OH/Start) matched her career-high of 27 points to help lead the Titans to a 70-62 victory over Youngstown State in a Horizon League match-up Thursday evening at the Beeghly Center. This is the second win for Detroit (9-16, 5-9 HL) against YSU (2-22, 0-13) this year.

Brown shot 10-of-16 from the field and made all seven attempts at the line to end with a game-high 27, while Detroit freshman Jaleesa Trussell (Racine, WI/Case) added a career-high and team second-best 16 points. Junior Chanica Hall (Minneapolis, MN/Benilde-St. Margaret's) also scored in double figures with 13, while Brown grabbed a team-high six rebounds.

Brown scored 11 points in the first half, with the first field goal coming at 13:51 to tie the game at seven, which sparked an 11-0 scoring run for the Titans. During this span, junior Brigid Mulroy (West Bloomfield, MI/Marian) collected a steal in front of the Penguins bench and handed it off to Trussell. Trussell was able to battle her way through a group of defenders and netted a field goal in the paint for two of her eight points of the opening stanza.

Youngstown State mirrored the Titans' effort as the Penguins had an 11-0 scoring run of their own to push ahead of Detroit, 18-16, with just under seven minutes remaining. Hall pulled Detroit within two at 2:51 as she drained one from long range off an assist from Brown. With seven seconds on the clock, Brown hit a midrange jumper to knot the game at 29, which was the score heading into the break.

Detroit jumped out to a 57-42 lead with just over eight minutes left in the game After Brown and Trussell scored a combined 14 unanswered points. Detroit had its largest lead of 16, twice, with the last coming at 3:16 after Brown netted a 2-pointer off an assist from Mulroy to put the score at 67-51. YSU responded with a 7-0 scoring run, but Jones and Hall added to Detroit's point total in the closing minutes of the game to help secure the victory for the Titans.

As a team, Detroit shot 46 percent from the field (26-of-57), while the Penguins had a 23-of-51 showing on the evening. The Titans outrebounded YSU, 34-27, and Detroit also had a 15-8 advantage in steals, with four going to freshman Jalesa Jones (Detroit, MI/Pershing). UDM shot a resounding 80 percent from the free throw line as the Titans only missed four of their 20 attempts.

Westley came off the bench to lead the Penguins with 16 points. YSU senior Kelsey Gurganus scored a team second-best 15 points, while senior Ashley Pendleton grabbed a game-high seven rebounds.

This game marks the fifth time this season in which Detroit has scored 70 or more points.

The Titans will continue play in Ohio as Detroit will face Cleveland State at the Wolstein Center on Feb. 21 at 3 p.m.