No. 1 seed Penn State keeps moving on in its region of the NCAA Tournament.
The Nittany Lions moved one step closer to a national championship, defeating No. 5 seed Marquette in four sets (25-15, 25-21, 24-26, 25-20) behind a gritty performance inside Rec Hall on Friday.
Two errors by the blue and white helped the Golden Eagles out to an early 5-3 lead, but Jocelyn Nathan made a quality defensive play to keep a ball alive that eventually led to a kill by Jess Mruzik, shifting momentum to Penn State.
The Nittany Lions carried that momentum into a 6-0 run behind multiple attacking errors by Marquette, who called an early timeout.