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Balanced offense sparks Lady Lions

From Mirror reports QUEENS, N.Y. — The Penn State women’s basketball team improved to 4-0 Thursday night with a 69-53 comeback win at St. John’s. A combination of three Lady Lions in double figures, including Ali Brigham’s 14 points, six rebounds, two assists, two blocks and two steals, produced a second-half offensive resurgence. Makenna Marisa cracked two-digit scoring for the fourth consecutive game, scoring 15 points with 13 of them coming in the second half. Chanaya Pinto rounded out the trio of PSU players with her 12 points. The second half proved to be ...

JC women end PSU Altoona’s season

HUNTINGDON — The Penn State Altoona women’s volleyball team, making its third-ever NCAA postseason appearance in program history Thursday night, lost to No. 1 seed Juniata College in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament regional at Memorial Gymnasium. Juniata (30-0) posted a sweep to advance to the next round, winning in three sets 25-10, 25-13, and 25-19. Penn State Altoona (16-11) is eliminated from the postseason with its loss. Lacee Barnhart had a team-high seven kills for Penn State Altoona, and she also finished with 10 digs. Lia Simanski added six kills ...

Fast start sparks Nittany Lions past Flash

By Jarrod Prugar For the Mirror UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State scored the first seven points in the game and never looked back as the Nittany Lions took down Saint Francis, 83-53, Tuesday night at the Bryce Jordan Center. It was the third straight win for Penn State which outscored the Red Flash, 46-18, in the first half of play. The Nittany Lions were able to find the scoreboard early and often as nine players found the scoreboard before the break. “Everywhere I’ve been I’ve always talked about let’s build an army,” Penn State coach Mike Rhoades said. “Let’s flat ...

Frustration continues vs the big boys

UNIVERSITY PARK ­— This was an eerily-similar rerun of the Ohio State game. The Nittany Lions mustered almost nothing offensively against the Buckeyes, and that was exactly the case on an otherwise glorious football Saturday as they lost to Michigan, 24-15, at Beaver Stadium. So Penn ...

Highs & Lows

By Neil Rudel nrudel@altoonamirror.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Following are the highlights and lowlights from Penn State’s 24-15 loss to Michigan on Saturday at Beaver Stadium: Play of the game: There probably wasn’t one single game-defining play. But down 17-9, facing second-and-4 from PSU 34 with 12 minutes left, Drew Allar, off a flea flicker, was sacked and called for intentional grounding. That cost the Lions 10 yards and a loss of down and epitomized Penn State’s passing-game futility. Offensive player of the game: Blake Corum rushed 26 times for 145 yards and two ...

Michigan savors win after ‘crazy’ day

By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com UNIVERSITY PARK — To say it was a tumultuous 24 hours for the Michigan football program would be an understatement. Head coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended by the Big Ten for the rest of the regular season on Friday due to the swirling sign-stealing scandal. The university filed a temporary restraining order, and there were some that thought an emergency hearing would happen on Saturday morning. It didn’t, and it is now scheduled for this Friday. That left the temporary job to offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore, and his players ...