🦁 The Official Daily Newsletter For Penn State Athletics
Good morning, Nittany Lions! Welcome to the 200 Saves Club, Aby Deverka!
What else are we serving up in today’s Brew?
🏀 Hoops tips off
🏒 Strong as stone
🦁 And much, much more!
📈 STOCK UP
🔺 Hot Start! Penn State men’s basketball is 1-0, winning 97-57 over Canisius on Monday night at the Bryce Jordan Center for the program’s ninth straight season-opening win!
Fifth-year forward Roko Prkačin shined in his collegiate debut with a 28-point performance. The Croatian was nearly perfect as he shot 12-of-14 from the field and 4-for-5 from the free throw line. He tacked on six boards with four of them being on the offensive end in an eye-opening debut.
🔺 Season Opened. Penn State women’s basketball played the first game of the Tanisha Wright era on Monday, falling to Cleveland State in its regular season opener, 62-61.
Guard Ava Black powered Penn State offensively and on the glass, producing her first career double double. The New Hampshire native posted 17 points and 10 rebounds to go with five assists, all of which are career bests.
🏀 RECAP: Lady Lions Fall in Season Opener
🔺 Comeback Cat! Penn State linebacker Tony Rojas has been named to the Comeback Player of the Year Midseason Watch List!
🔺 Strong As Stone! Penn State women’s hockey’s Abby Stonehouse has been named the Atlantic Hockey America Forward of the Week!
Stonehouse scored four goals in Penn State’s series sweep at RIT this past weekend, highlighted by her first career hat trick in Saturday’s 6-0 victory. Her three goals tied the program’s single-game record.
🔺 Shutout Performance! Penn State field hockey’s Aby Deverka has earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors for the second time this season after shutting out two-time defending national champion Northwestern and ending the top-ranked Wildcats’ 35-game conference winning streak!
🏑 READ MORE: Deverka Earns Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week
🦁 ONE BIG THING
🔺 Heavy Medal! Highlighted by a trio of gold medal results at 79kg, 86kg and 97kg, Penn State affiliated wrestlers went a perfect six-for-six in medal finishes at the 2026 United World Wrestling Senior World Championships from Barys Arena in Astana Kazakhstan!
📆 UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Wednesday, November 4
🏑 Field Hockey vs. Iowa @ 5 p.m. (B1G Quarterfinal — Columbus, Ohio)
⚽ Men’s Soccer at Maryland @ 8 p.m.
Thursday, November 5
🎾 Women’s Tennis at ITA Sectional Championships (Philadelphia, Pa.)
🎾 Men’s Tennis at ITA Sectional Championships (Charlottesville, Va.)
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Chattanooga @ 6 p.m. | BTN
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