ERIE, Pa. — In six years of playing college basketball, Casey Santoro has played in 125 games. Her experience, steadiness and veteran presence on the floor are the reasons why Youngstown State’s coaching staff wanted the point guard to join the program during the offseason.

Each of those qualities were on full display on Thursday night, as Santoro led the Penguins with 21 points, tying a career-high in 39 minutes of a 64-50 road victory at Mercyhurst.

“We knew with such a young group that we were going to need stability at that point guard position. She brings that,” head coach Melissa Jackson said. “She brings great experience. I thought she did that for us in the Bucknell game. Even though she didn’t score (much), she was stabilizing us. Today, we needed her to score. We needed her to

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