{"id":217626,"date":"2026-01-03T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217626\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:50:07","slug":"no-4-nittany-lions-drop-first-game-of-2026-at-no-2-buckeyes-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/217626\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4 Nittany Lions Drop First Game of 2026 at No. 2 Buckeyes &#8211; Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS,Ohio \u2013 The No. 4 Penn State women\u2019s ice hockey team was handed its second loss of the season on Friday evening, falling to second-ranked Ohio State 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes into the game Ohio State took a 1-0 lead with an off angle shot by Sloane Matthews that got by <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/katie-desa\" title=\"Katie DeSa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie DeSa<\/a>.<br \/>\n16 seconds into the second period Joy Dunne scored to double Ohio State\u2019s lead.<br \/>\nThree minutes later, OSU caught the Nittany Lions on a change and Maxine Cimoroni scored behind PSU\u2019s defense.<br \/>\nNear the halfway mark of the second period, Ohio State\u2019s Hilda Svensson went down shorthanded in transition and beat <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/katie-desa\" title=\"Katie DeSa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie DeSa<\/a> to push the lead to 4-0.<br \/>\n23 seconds later on the power play, <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/leah-stecker\" title=\"Leah Stecker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Stecker<\/a> created a turnover in the neutral zone and found <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/maddy-christian\" title=\"Maddy Christian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddy Christian<\/a> going to the net and she scored on her backhand.<br \/>\nWith just over five minutes to go in the second, OSU picked up a rebound in their defensive zone and went on the offensive, Maxine Cimoroni took a shot through traffic that found its way past <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/katie-desa\" title=\"Katie DeSa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie DeSa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GOALTENDERS<\/p>\n<p>Senior goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/katie-desa\" title=\"Katie DeSa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie DeSa<\/a> made 28 saves and allowed five goals in the first two periods. Freshman goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/maddy-campbell\" title=\"Maddy Campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddy Campbell<\/a> started the third period, making 12 saves.<br \/>\nOhio State goaltender Hailey Macleod made 23 saves while allowing one goal.<\/p>\n<p>STATS AND NOTES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/maddy-christian\" title=\"Maddy Christian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddy Christian<\/a> has a point in her last three games after scoring the lone goal for PSU.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/leah-stecker\" title=\"Leah Stecker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Stecker<\/a> picked up her eighth assist of the season.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/sports\/womens-ice-hockey\/roster\/player\/matilde-fantin\" title=\"Matilde Fantin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matilde Fantin<\/a> picked her second point in as many games with an assist on Christian\u2019s goal.<br \/>\nPSU falls to 2-10-1 against the Buckeyes in the head-to-head record.<br \/>\nFive goals is the most Penn State has given up this season.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Penn State will stay in Columbus for the second game of their series against the Buckeyes tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 p.m. The game will be streamed on B1G+ and as well as FOX9+ in Minnesota, Chicago and Pheonix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS,Ohio \u2013 The No. 4 Penn State women\u2019s ice hockey team was handed its second loss of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-217626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}