It was an all-around masterclass from head coach Jeff Kampersal’s Nittany Lions in Saturday’s home-ice 7-1 routing of Lindenwood and it all started on the faceoff dot.
Penn State won 52 of 71 circle battles, equating to a 73.2% success rate. Centers Tessa Janecke, Brianna Brooks and Tiffany Hill, put on a clinic in the weekend matinee.
Whitby, Ontario, native and graduate student Brooks won 20 of 26 faceoffs, cleaning up at 76.9%. In Friday’s game and the first of the two-part series, she was 12 for 18, 66.7%. Winning any more than half is impressive, Brooks passed that with an average of 72.