Nittany Lions boot No. 22 Boilermakers

From CDT staff reports

UNIVERSITY PARK — It took until her last home game of her last season in a Penn State uniform, but Tara Davies finally scored her first collegiate goal.

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Penn State's Danielle Toney celebrates her goal with Alli Rago (17) against Purdue in the first half on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. CDT/Craig Houtz

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The senior defender celebrated in style, too, with a somersault to punctuate Senior Day at Jeffrey Field as the No. 25 Nittany Lions dropped No. 22 Purdue 4-0 Sunday.

Danielle Toney scored twice and senior Melissa Hayes added the other goal — also her first of the season — as Penn State (11-5-2, 7-1-1 Big Ten) moved closer to its 12th straight conference title. The Nittany Lions, who are unbeaten in their last eight games and close the regular season next Sunday at Michigan, are tied atop the standings with Ohio State.

Christine Nairn picked up three assists, the most by a Nittany Lion since Hayes collected three against Bucknell in 2007. Jess Rosenbuth and Nikki Watts also collected assists to help in the scoring for Penn State, which leads the Big Ten with 27 goals in conference play.

The total was the most goals surrendered by the Boilermakers (10-5-3, 3-3-2) this season.

Alyssa Naeher made two saves in Penn State’s ninth shutout of the season.

MEN'S GOLF

Penn State third in Florida tourney

FT. MYERS, Fla. — Behind a pair of golfers in the top 10, Penn State is in third place after the first two rounds of the Renaissance Invitational.

Kevin Foley carded the fourth-best round of the tournament with a 6-under 66 in the second round to go with an opening 71, giving him a 7-under 137 total for seventh place. Right behind is Ernie Marin’s 69-69-138 total for eighth. The Nittany Lions have a 558 team total, eight strokes behind leader Campbell University. Indiana is second at 551 behind individual leader Alex Martin’s 69-64-133.

Rounding out Penn State’s card are Tommy McDonaagh (22nd, 143), Matthew Porter (28th, 144) and TJ Howe (50th, 151).

MEN'S TENNIS

Penn State&'s Lee moves to semifinals

EAST LANSING — Jason Lee is the lone Penn State player alive heading into the final day of the Big Ten Indoors Tournament.

Lee advanced to today’s singles semifinals after winning twice Sunday. He began with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Wisconsin’s Luke Rassow-Kantor in the round of 16. He then picked up a 7-6 (4), 7-5 win over Wisconsin’s Chris Freeman in the quarterfinals. Lee, who holds a team-best 8-2 record in singles action this fall, will face Indiana’s Josh MacTaggart in the semifinals.

In other singles action, Eddie Bourchier defeated Northwestern’s Eric Spec-tor 6-3, 6-4 before falling to Indiana’s Santiago Gruter 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals. Ryan Gormley fell 6-4, 6-3 to Michigan’s Chris Madden in the round of 16.