UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The No. 19 Penn State Nittany Lions (11-4, 3-3 Big Ten) take on the No. 7 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (12-3, 5-2 Big Ten) at Panzer Stadium for the last regular season home game of the 2026 campaign on Thursday, April 16 at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network with Jason Knapp on play-by-play and Abby Bosco as the color commentator.
Thursday’s game will serve as Penn State’s “White Out” game. Students can enter to win an iPad after entering the venue and the first 150 students will also get a free t-shirt. All fans will receive a rally towel.
LAST TIME OUT
Penn State fell to Northwestern, 12-17, on Sunday afternoon at Panzer Stadium in front of a record-breaking crowd of 1,115 souls.
The pair of Kelly MacKinney and Delaney Radin powered the Penn State offensive performance. The pairing each picked up the hat trick in the performance; Radin collected three assists to go along with her scoring performance. Tewaaraton Watch List honoree Erika Ho tallied two goals and an assist. Emma Kelly, Rocquette Allen, Anna Salerno and Payton Wainman all scored a goal in the action. Allen picked up two assists, while Salerno and Wainman each picked up an assist apiece. Defensively, Maddie Greco, Maggie Driver and Tinson each tallied a pair of caused turnovers while Salerno and Spilker both picked up two ground balls. In the cage, Manning had 12 saves on 42 shots faced.
MILESTONE WATCH
- Radin is currently at 47 assists and needs 5 more assists to secure the program record for the most assists in a single-season. The record as it stands now is 51 assists originally set by Megan Smith in 1990 in 18 games. She is tied for ninth with Eloise Clevenger (Maryland, 2023) on the Big Ten (Big Ten Era only) single-season assists record at 47.
- Radin has been averaging 3.13 assists per game during her spectacular junior season. If the season ended today, it would be a Penn State record for assists per game. The junior has 90 points in her career, 10 away from the century mark, and is the first Penn State to score 70-plus points in a season since Maria Auth did so in 2018
- MacKinney is seventh on the Penn State career assists leaderboard with 92. If the junior attacker hits 100 assists she will become the fifth Penn State player ever to hit the century mark and the first since Maggie McCormick (2012-2015). Every other Penn State player has needed 60 games to hit the mark while MacKinney is playing in her 51st career game against Johns Hopkins. The Bridgewater Raritan product surpassed 150 career points against Oregon.
- Ho is only four points away from securing 100 in her career.
B1G TIME ACCOLADES
After the dismantling of Ohio State, a trio of Nittany Lions earned conference and national recognition in the form of weekly awards. The Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) and the Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday afternoon that MacKinney was named the IWLCA and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. This was her second Big Ten weekly award of her career along with her first national weekly honor. The IWLCA accolade is the first time that Penn State has earned the IWLCA Offensive Player of the Week since Kristin O’Neill was named to the award after helping take down No. 1 Northwestern in 2024. In the ranked matchup against No. 25 Ohio State, MacKinney had a career day on offense. She set new career-highs with seven goals and nine points along with a pair of assists.
In addition to MacKinney, Manning earned the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and Allen was selected as the Big Ten Freshman of the Week. The award is Manning’s fourth Big Ten weekly accolade of her career, the first since 2024 when she was selected as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Manning played lights out against No. 25 Ohio State and earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors for it. The Pennsylvanian goalie faced a career-high 39 shots against the Buckeyes and tallied 14 saves, a new career-best against a conference opponent. Her 14 saves were one of the most by Big Ten goalie during the week and had a 60.9% save percentage. Manning was excellent against free position attempts, being credited for a save and only allowing one past her on five opportunities. Additionally, the junior picked up a pair of ground balls in the effort.
The Big Ten Conference office announced on April 6th that Allen earned her fifth Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor. With her fifth accolade, Allen joins Madison Taylor, Izzy Scane, Megan Whittle, Madison Carter, Kali Hartshorn and Kristin O’Neill as the only Big Ten players to be named Freshman of the Week five or more times in a single season. All of them ended up winning Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Allen was the first Penn State women’s lacrosse player this season to earn a Big Ten Weekly Award and the first freshman to earn an award since Brooke Long was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week in April of last year
In the most recent Tewaaraton Watch List additions, Radin was one of 13 players nationally to be named to the prestigious award’s watch list, joining Erika Ho as the only other Penn State player on the list. Additionally, Radin was recently named as an Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America Honorable Mention and also earned her first Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honor, her first collegiate accolade.
THE FRESHMAN PHENOM
In the game against the then-No. 3 and now No. 1 team in the country, Allen put on her best performance of the year. She netted five goals against what was the third-best scoring defense in the Big Ten while adding an assist. Against the formidable Maryland defense and the best goalkeeper in the nation, the freshman shot a spectacular 71.4% while being shadowed by the Terrapins’ top defender. Three of Allen’s five total goals, all three of which were unassisted, came in the last 20 minutes of the contest as the attacker was the driving force behind a ferocious comeback attempt by the Nittany Lions in the second half. Her five goal and six point effort tied her career-high in both categories and was the most goals allowed and the second-most points against the Terrapins by any player this year.
In addition to her heroics, Allen scored what may be the goal of the year. During the fourth quarter comeback attempt, as she was falling with her back to the net, the freshman shot a no-look, behind the back goal for her fourth of the afternoon. The goal would eventually be featured as the number two play of the day on the SportsCenter Top 10.
Against a tough Ohio State defense, Allen netted a pair of goals to push her season total to 32, the second-highest by any Big Ten freshman and by any Penn State player. Her greatest contribution to the offense against the No. 25 Buckeyes was her ability to pass Penn State players open. Allen registered a career-high four assists on the afternoon with three of those contributing to Kelly MacKinney’s seven goal outing. The first assist by the freshman from Lone Tree, Colo., went to Delaney Radin in her seven-point game. The six points Allen tallied against the Buckeyes matched her effort against then-No. 3 Maryland last week and is the fourth time she has recorded six points during her freshman campaign.
Her 38 goals are the second-most for Penn State and her 55 total points are the third-most by any Nittany Lion. She has the most points and second-most goals by any freshman in the Big Ten.
THE ASSIST QUEENS
In her electric start to the 2026 season, Radin has already set new single-season career-high for goals, assists, points, shots, shots on goal, free position shots and free position goals that she’s had in a single-season. Her 47 assists on the year have more than doubled her career assist total and her career point total with 71 points this season. The New York attacker has the most assists in the Big Ten, the seventh-most in Division I, while securing the fifth-most points by any Big Ten player and just is ranked inside the top-15 points in the NCAA.
Radin had a historic game dishing out the ball against Colgate. The junior attacker led the offensive effort with an astounding nine points and tied the program record with eight assists, a record originally set by Marsha Florio against Princeton in 1985. Her eight assists tied the NCAA single-game-high this season with Allison Reilly of Army West Point and Alexis Morton of Richmond. Radin has the two-highest single-game assist totals in the Big Ten this season alongside the first game of the year against Richmond, in which she had six assists.
MacKinney has followed closely behind the Florida transfer and had a more balanced approach to her success this season with 57% of her 66 points, the most by any Nittany Lion, coming from goals while also setting a new single-season high in goals and points for herself. Even though she’s been able to cash in more than in years past, MacKinney still remains a passing threat and sees the field extremely well. The junior has set new personal single-game highs in goals, points and free position goals. Twice this season, against Colgate and in the team’s Big Ten opener at Southern California, MacKinney has tallied four goals and four assists in a single game. Against Ohio State, she set new career-highs for herself with seven goals and nine points. The New Jersey attacker has the seventh-most assists in Penn State history with 92 and joined the 100-point club against Bucknell. She also has the second-best shooting percentage in the country at 63.9%.
The combination of Radin and MacKinney have been one of the best duos in the nation. Through 15 games, the duo has combined for 77 assists and 140 points, the most assists by any pairing in the country and one of the highest point totals, along with 63 goals.
THE CAGE REPORT
Manning has been on a tear recently as the Nittany Lions’ primary goalkeeper, recently surpassing 300 career saves after her performance against No. 6 Michigan and is on the verge of 350 career saves.
Against No. 6 Michigan, Manning registered 11 saves and against No. 19 Princeton, she notched a career-high 15 saves. The 15 saves she recorded is tied for the fourth-most in the Big Ten this season and the most by any Nittany Lion since Ashley Bowan’s performance against Johns Hopkins in 2023.
As of April 12th, Manning checks in with the 11th-best save percentage in the country, second in the Big Ten. The junior Big Ten Player to Watch is ranked second and third in the conference in total saves and saves per game, respectively.
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