Today in Penn State sports: Sept. 3, 2017
Everything you missed in Penn State sports — and isn’t elsewhere in the CDT — from Sept. 3, 2017:
Field hockey
Lions shut out Wake Forest
UNIVERSITY PARK Penn State goalkeeper Jenny Rizzo stopped nine shots and six different Nittany Lions scored Sunday, as the team cruised past Wake Forest to a 6-0 victory.
Gini Bramley scored 17 minutes into the contest to put the first goal on the board. Turned out that’s all Penn State would need.
Penn State out-shot Wake Forest by a 21-13 margin. And, in the first half, the Lions allowed just a single shot to take a 2-0 lead into halftime.
Junior Moira Putsch paced all players with three assists.
The Nittany Lions (4-0) will next take on Princeton on the road at noon Sunday.
Men’s soccer
PSU ties after 2OT
LOS ANGELES After two scoreless overtimes, the Penn State men’s soccer team settled for a 1-1 tie Sunday against Loyola Marymount.
The Nittany Lions managed just five shots — two on goal — during the entire game. Loyola Marymount registered 29 shots —10 on goal — by comparison.
Penn State’s Aaron Molloy struck first, just 12:44 into the game, but Loyola Marymount put the game in a deadlock at 42:32.
Penn State goalie Evan Finney finished with nine saves in the tie.
This story was originally published September 3, 2017 at 11:17 PM with the headline "Today in Penn State sports: Sept. 3, 2017."