The streak is over.

Not the four-game winning streak. Not the 13 straight home wins. Not the 11 consecutive Big Ten victories — all of those strings are still intact.

But until the seventh minute of yesterday's 2-1 victory against Purdue, the Penn State women's soccer team had not allowed a goal in the friendly confines of Jeffrey Field since last November 14 in an NCAA tournament game against Maryland.

When Boilermakers forward Courtney Coppedge collected a loose ball in front of the Penn State goal and slammed it into the back of the net, it was the first goal allowed by the Nittany Lions at home in 531 minutes and forty seconds — roughly the time it takes to watch all five Rocky movies, minus Rocky V, which doesn't really count, anyway.

"The string was spoiled a little too easy," Penn State women's soccer coach Pat Farmer said.

Senior tri-captain Luanne Strom went so far as to call the goal "a slap in the face".

However, the Lions offense has proven all year that it takes more than a solitary score to undo the team. It proved it again yesterday, as freshman Joanna Lohman scored the game-winner with just more than nine minutes left, lifting the Nittany Lions to 2-0 in the Big Ten and 8-2-1 overall.

Penn State's usually high-octane scoring machine sputtered a bit yesterday, as the Purdue defense, led by third-string goalie Sharon Sadowski, allowed the Lions 19 shots but just two goals. Sadowski, who recorded four saves, entered the game in the first half after Elizabeth Boldt left the game following a collision eerily similar to the one that sidelined Penn State keeper Emily Oleksiuk last week. Sadowski was also aided by two defensive saves, as the young Purdue squad (7-3, 2-2) gave Penn State nearly all it could handle.

"We're trying to get to where they (the Lions) are right now," Purdue women's soccer coach Robert Klatte said.

Right now, Penn State is a team on the move. They defeated Indiana Friday 4-0, as Christie Welsh recorded the fifth hat trick of her illustrious career and senior goalkeeper Megan Smart shutout the Hoosiers in her first start as a Lion.

"This was my one chance," Smart said. "I needed to make my impression, I needed to step up and play the way I knew I could, so that's what I tried to do."

Smart was rarely tested, as the Penn State defense turned in another dominating performance, but her teammates and coach showed that they have great faith in the transfer from Maryland-Baltimore County, who has been a hot topic since the injury to Oleksiuk.

"Every game, she's in it, 100 percent, whether she's in the game or not," Welsh said.

"I thought her performance was terrific," Farmer said. "I want people to see that she can play."

Smart is determined to prove that Penn State will be able to overcome Oleksiuk's injury. For Indiana head coach Joe Kelley, the whole season has been about overcoming injuries. Defender Kendal Willis and forward Kate Kastl went down during Friday's loss to the Lions, adding more frustration to what has already been a trying start to conference play for Indiana (5-3, 0-3).

"We're young to begin with, and to lose an upperclassman like Kendal makes a difference," Kelley said.

It made a difference Friday, as Indiana played the Lions tough until the 75th minute, when Welsh scored two goals in sixteen seconds, the fastest time between two scores in the history of the program, and the rout was on.

When a team is that impatient (sixteen seconds) when it comes to scoring goals and that stubborn (531 minutes) when it comes to allowing them, teams around the Big Ten have reason for concern.