ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State women’s hockey team fell, 3-0, to RV Mercyhurst in Atlantic Hockey America play Saturday afternoon at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Penn State killed off an interference penalty midway through the first period to keep the game scoreless.
- Mercyhurst’s Henlee Mahoney opened the scoring with just over two minutes left in the first period. The Lakers took a 1-0 lead and an 8-7 edge in shots on goal into the first intermission.
- First-year goaltender Morgan Stickney made five saves in the opening 10 minutes of the second period to keep Penn State within a goal.
- After a stretch of 4-on-4 play, Mercyhurst’s Sophie Erlam scored on the power play at 16:36 of the second period to extend the Lakers’ lead to 2-0. Mercyhurst outshot Penn State, 9-4, in the period.
- Penn State killed off an interference penalty early in the third period, with junior captain Grace Outwater putting a shorthanded shot on goal.
- Mercyhurst goaltender Lexington Secreto stopped all three Penn State shots on goal during a five-minute Nittany Lion power play.
- Mercyhurst’s Mariia Polozkova added an empty-net power-play goal at 18:19 to seal the 3-0 win. Penn State outshot Mercyhurst, 7-4, in the final period.
GOALTENDERS
- Stickney and Secreto each made 18 saves.
STATS AND NOTES
- Mercyhurst snaps Penn State's eight game winning streak.
- Penn State was shut out for the first time since a 2-0 loss to No. 11/12 Cornell at the Ice Breaker Tournament during the 2024-25 season.
- Penn State’s previous loss to Mercyhurst was a 4-3 overtime defeat in Erie on Jan. 10, 2026. Its previous regulation loss to the Lakers was a 3-2 home defeat on Feb. 9, 2025.
- Mercyhurst outshot Penn State, 21-18. It marked the first time the Nittany Lions had been outshot since Oct. 10, when Syracuse held a 30-21 edge in shots on goal in a 4-0 Penn State win.