It took them two days and four games, but the Lady Lions finally did it.

After dropping a doubleheader Friday and losing the opener of Saturday's twinbill, the softball team (5-12) rebounded in its second game against Indiana to notch its first Big Ten victory.

"We should have won the first game," Coach Sue Rankin said. "Both teams played great ball but we had a couple of close plays at the plate and we just couldn't get a run across.

"The third game is the kind you want to forget," Rankin added. "But after losing 9-0, they came back to take the next, 3-0. They really showed poise and determination coming back like that."

Indiana pulled out 3-2 and 3-1 victories on Friday and scorched Penn State for a 9-0 victory Saturday afternoon. The Lady Lions blanked the Hoosiers, 3-0, in the nightcap.

The Lady Lions, held to only two hits through the fourth inning of Saturday's second game, broke the deadlock after Dana Burns led off the fifth with a double. Burns went three-for-three in the game.

Pinch-runner Rebecca Starrett was sacrificed to third by Rebecca Wisnoff and scored on Leigh Bakun's single to left.

Penn State added two more runs in the seventh after Dawn Hoover slapped a lead-off infield single and stole second.

Burns singled to center to advance Hoover to third and Wisnoff followed with a slap-hit fielder's choice that scored Hoover and sent Burns to third. Deb Williams pinch-ran for Burns and scored on a passed ball.

Bakun went all seven innings and shut the Hoosiers out on four hits and no walks or strikeouts. She boosted her record to 5-3.

In Friday's second game Bakun threw six innings, gave up six hits and three runs, two of which were earned.

Penn State's second starting pitcher, Dawn Hoover, was again victimized by the team's inability to put together a big inning. The Lady Lions had two hits in only two of the eight innings in which Hoover threw.

Hoover gave up nine runs, four of them unearned, and 10 hits in her two appearances.

"For our first Big Ten game I think we did really well," co-captain Joyce Tinner said. "Leigh came through for us and we put the hits together for her. When Dawn throws, the hits are scattered. Leigh's been throwing well and hopefully Dawn will go on a streak soon."