UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The No. 2 Penn State men's lacrosse team goes on the road for the first time this season when it travels to play Villanova on Saturday at 1 p.m. The game is scheduled to be played at Villanova Stadium and will mark the 13th-consecutive season the teams meet.
No. 2 Penn State at Villanova – 1 p.m.
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THE MATCHUP
• Penn State leads 18-7 in the all-time series, which began in 1990. Saturday's game will mark the 13th-consecutive that the teams play each other.
• The Lions won 17-7 at Holuba Hall last season. Grant Ament recorded 10 points on three goals and seven assists. Dylan Foulds and TJ Malone scored three goals apiece. Gerard Arceri went 14-16 on faceoffs and finished with nine ground balls.
• Penn State is 9-3 in the series in games played at Villanova. They won the last meeting at Villanova 17-12 in 2017.
WEEK 1 RECAP
• Penn State improved to 1-0 with a 16-9 win over Lafayette in a non-conference game at Panzer Stadium.
• Grant Ament tied for the 11th-most points in a single game in program history with four goals and six assists.
• Gerard Arceri went 19-21 on faceoffs and picked up 15 ground balls. He became the program's all-time leader in ground balls during the game.
• Mac O'Keefe led seven Penn State goal scorers with six. Ament had four, Jack Traynor scored two, and Kevin Hill, TJ Malone, Dylan Foulds, and Mitch Schaefer scored one apiece.
WEEK 1 LEADERS
• Penn State had some of the top individual performances in the nation during the opening weekend of play.
• Grant Ament leads the nation in assists (6) and points (10).
• Gerard Arceri leads the nation in faceoff winning percentage (.905) and ground balls (15).
• Mac O'Keefe leads the nation in goals (6) and man-up goals (3).
SCOUTING VILLANOVA
• Villanova will play its season opener on Saturday. The Wildcats were picked second in the Big East's preseason poll after going 8-7 overall and 3-2 in the conference last season.
• Connor Kirst was named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American second team. He tied for the team high with 50 points on 31 goals and 19 assists last season.
• Kirst, Patrick Kennedy, Keegan Khan and Will Vitton were named to the All-Big East Preseason Team.
AMENT POINT STREAK
• Grant Ament ranks third among active players with a 49-game point streak.
• Ament has totaled 250 points on 84 goals and 166 assists during that stretch.
• Ament has registered a point in all 49 games of his career.
O'KEEFE GOALS STREAK
• Mac O'Keefe is tied for fourth among active players with a 26-game goal-scoring streak.
• O'Keefe has 103 goals during that stretch, which is 26 more than any other player on the list.
• The last game O'Keefe didn't score a goal was in a 9-7 loss to Cornell on March 10, 2018.
WEEKLY AWARDS
• Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (1) – Grant Ament (2/4)
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week (1) – Gerard Arceri (2/4)
