For the second time in two weeks, No. 7 Penn State women's lacrosse defeated seven-time national champions and ninth-ranked Northwestern, as a trio of Nittany Lions scored a hat trick to defeat the Wildcats 13-10 at High Points Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, N.J.
The loss concludes Penn State's first season in the Big Ten with a 5-9 record, including back-to-back wins over conference foes Rutgers and Michigan to qualify for the tournament.
Just a few months after Pat Chambers lost his only recruit of Penn State basketball's 2016 class, forcing him to start from square one, he finally has another first member in Nazeer Bostick, a three-star shooting guard from Philadelphia.
Aaron Russell had a match-high 19 kills in a semifinal-sweep of the Princeton Tigers.
Penn State men's lacrosse, seeded No. 4 in the inaugural Big Ten tournament, will meet No. 1 seed Johns Hopkins in the semifinal game on Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m. in College Park.
One at-bat was all Ryky Smith needed. The senior from York came in as a pinch runner and executed a perfect hit-and-run play in the bottom of the ninth to score Jim Haley from third and end the game in walk-off fashion, 8-7 in front of more than 1,000 fans at Medlar Field Wednesday night.