By Arielle Sargent, GoPSUSports.com
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - In an EIVA regular season weekend as critical as Penn State head coach
Mark Pavlik can remember, the No. 13 Nittany Lions put on a gritty performance to emerge with a four set win against NJIT Saturday evening at Rec Hall.
"I think this capped off a pretty successful weekend for us," Pavlik said. "If we would have stumbled and gone the other way, it would have really tightened things up and its given us some breathing room right now."
Following a thrilling five-set victory against Princeton Friday night, the pair of wins widened the Penn State lead in the EIVA standings, with the Nittany Lions currently owning a two-match advantage in a title race that could shake out any number of ways with four of a remaining seven league teams all with six conference wins.