Mason Places 11th as YSU Finishes Florida Trip<\/p>\n
Orlando, Fla. \u2014 Youngstown State concluded its second tournament of the 2026-27 season on Sunday by finishing eighth in a field of 23 teams at Destination Florida, held over three days at Boardwalk Bowl.<\/p>\n
The Penguins finished 9-4 overall in head-to-head matches at the event, which included a 1-2 mark on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“There are lots of positives to take away from our time in Orlando and lots of things to work on,” said YSU head coach Doug Kuberski<\/a>. “We must stay focused on getting better and better with our process. If we do that and keep making progress, I like our chances to go on a solid run in the coming months.”<\/p>\n Youngstown State was 8-2 through the first 10 matches of qualifying, and the Penguins opened Sunday by firing a set of 1,123 in a win over Southern to conclude qualifying. That was their highest set of the event, and they qualified seventh in the bracket.<\/p>\n Youngstown State endured two seven-game grinds in the best-of-seven Baker format for the bracket, falling to No. 10 Sacred Heart and No. 4 Arkansas State.<\/p>\n The Penguins trailed Sacred Heart, who served as the tournament’s host, 3-2 before shooting 246 for their best game of the bracket to extend the match to game seven. Sacred Heart won 208-194 in the tiebreaker. YSU trailed Arkansas State 3-1 before winning 177-175 and 211-198 in games five and six, and the Red Wolves won 194-174 in game seven.<\/p>\n The individual standings continued into Sunday with a sixth traditional match to finish qualifying, and sophomore Amber Mason<\/a> placed a team-high 11th with a 1,333 set. She missed the all-tournament team by one pin, and her total was the second-best six-game set in program history. Two more Penguins finished in the top 20, with Kara Beissel<\/a> placing 18th with a 1,298 set and Elizabeth Teuber<\/a> finishing 19th with a 1,289 total.<\/p>\n Youngstown State’s final tournament of the fall semester will be FDU’s Jersey Jamboree on Nov. 20-22.<\/p>\n Tournament Summary<\/p>\n Final placing: 8th of 23 teams Sunday’s Traditional Match Result<\/p>\n Match 11: Win \u2014 1,123-983 vs. Alabama State<\/p>\n Sunday’s Best-of-Seven Baker Match Results<\/p>\n Match 12: Loss \u2014 3-4 vs. No. 10 Sacred Heart Final Individual Standings<\/p>\n Six games unless noted<\/p>\n 11th \u2014 Amber Mason<\/a> \u2014 1,333 (222.17 AVG)
\nGame average: 205.0
\nHighest set: 1,123 vs. Southern<\/p>\n
\nMatch 13: Loss \u2014 3-4 vs. No. 4 Arkansas State<\/p>\n
\n18th \u2014 Kara Beissel<\/a> \u2014 1,298 (216.33 AVG)
\n19th \u2014 Elizabeth Teuber<\/a> \u2014 1,289 (214.83 AVG)
\n32nd \u2014 Liv Baskin<\/a> \u2014 1,215 (202.50 AVG)
\n84th \u2014 Amy Chrzanowski<\/a> \u2014 916 (183.20 AVG \u2014 five games)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Places 11th as YSU Finishes Florida Trip Orlando, Fla. \u2014 Youngstown State concluded its second tournament of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-444600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}