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Nittany Lions square off with Scarlet Knights on Halloween

UNIVERSITY PARK -- The Penn State Nittany Lion field hockey team (7-9, 2-5 B1G) closes out the regular season with a home game this weekend. Penn State welcomes Rutgers (8-8, 3-4 B1G) to Happy Valley for a Halloween night game at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31. Penn State is coming off a split weekend on the road. The Nittany Lions downed Lock Haven 8-0 on Friday and fell at No. 5 Princeton 6-1 on Sunday. Penn State is being led by Natalie Freeman, who has 17 points off six goals and a team-high five assists. Freshman Joji Purdy has 13 points off six goals and an assist while Ella Jennes, ...

McKenna named Big 10 Third Star

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Freshman Gavin McKenna (Whitehorse, Yukon) was named the Big Ten Hockey Third Star of the Week following a pair of multi-point efforts in a series sweep against Stonehill as announced by the league office on Tuesday morning. This marks the first career weekly accolade for McKenna and is the fourth-straight week a Nittany Lion has been represented in the three stars after Charlie Cerrato (October 7), JJ Wiebusch (October 14) and Matt DiMarsico (October 21) were named the First Stars of the Week each of the first three weeks of the season. McKenna collected ...

PSU heads to “The Shoe”

Following are the highlights of Terry Smith’s Monday press conference: Saturday’s game: at Ohio State (Noon, FOX) Records: Penn State (3-4), Ohio State (7-0) Odds: Penn State is a 20.5-point underdog. Rankings: Ohio State is No. 1, while Penn State is unranked by the Associated Press. Series: Ohio State leads, 26-14 SUBHD: Preparing for No. 1 Buckeyes This year’s edition of the Penn State-Ohio State contest has lost a lot of luster in recent weeks due to the Lions starting Big Ten play 0-4. What was once thought to be one of the best games of the season and a likely ...

Lions meet up with No. 1 Buckeyes

COLUMBUS, OHIO – Penn State visits No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday for a Big Ten contest. The matchup will be featured on FOX's Big Noon Kickoff. SERIES HISTORY: Penn State meets Ohio State for the 41st time in program history. PSU trails the all-time series, 26-14. Eighteen of the previous 40 ...

PSU hockey completes sweep of Skyhawks, 4-2

UNIVERSITY PARK – Sophomore JJ Wiebusch (Verona, Wis.) scored the eventual game-winning goal as No. 5 Penn State defeated Stonehill, 4-2, in non-conference action at Pegula Ice Arena on Saturday night to complete the weekend sweep. HOW IT HAPPENED After a scoreless first period, Penn State (7-1-0) opened the scoring as freshman Jackson Smith (Calgary, Alberta) slipped the puck to his defensive partner Jarod Crespo (Seven Lakes, N.C.) and he unleashed an absolute bomb that beat Skyhawk goaltender Connor Androlewicz farside over the glove for the 1-0 edge at 6:23 of the middle ...

Lions collect four medals at U23 Championships

UNIVERSITY PARK – Seven Penn State wrestlers took part in the United World Wrestling U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, this weekend. Four of those seven Nittany Lions brought home U23 World Championships and Gold Medals while another won Bronze. The United States U23 World Team featured ten wrestlers, seven of whom were current Nittany Lions. Junior Mitchell Mesenbrink won the Gold Medal at 74 kg. Mesenbrink began the tournament with three straight technical superiority wins. He downed UWW’s Aliaksandr Hulnik 12-2, India’s Parvinder Parvinder 10-0 and Egypt’s Omar ...