The Penn State baseball team picked a great time to turn things around.

The Nittany Lions took two of three games from Indiana in Bloomington this weekend, getting off to a solid start in Big Ten play and upping their record to 8-15 on the season.

Penn State defeated the Hoosiers 14-4 on Friday, then split a twinbill, losing 6-3, and winning 7-1 in games played on Saturday afternoon.

Senior Dan McCall turned in his second strong outing in as many starts Friday, limiting the Hoosiers (15-9-1, 1-2 Big Ten) to seven hits and three runs over his 6 2/3 in-nings.

McCall struck out seven and walked three as he picked up his first decision of the season.

The Lions provided their lefty with plenty of offensive support, banging out 14 hits and knocking in nine runs before the Hoosiers could score their first run, allowing McCall to cruise.

"I thought we were too tentative offensively early in the game," Indiana head baseball coach Bob Morgan said in a press release.

"They are a good team and they took advantage of us. That's the bottom line."

Penn State took a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning in Saturday's game one but couldn't hold on, as Indiana third baseman Vasili Spanos drilled a game-winning grand slam off Lions reliever Mike Watson.

"They set the table for me and I came through," said Spanos in the release.

Freshman David Aardsma (2-4), who allowed the first two Hoosier runners to reach base to brgin the seventh, took the loss, while Indiana's Adam Pegg picked up his second victory of the the young season.

Junior Justin Nash bounced back from an uncharacteristically wild performance against the Delaware Blue Hens last weekend to pitch all seven innings of game two for the Lions, earning his first complete game.

Nash scattered one run and seven hits while striking out six in Penn State's first complete game of the season.

Center fielder Zach Smithlin scored what would turn out to be the winning run on a wild pitch in the third.

Smithlin had an impressive series, going 5-for-12 with two walks during the weekend.

The Hoosiers, who came into Friday riding a five-game winning streak, were handcuffed by Penn State pitching for the majority of the series, and couldn't feed off of the emotion Spanos' blast to start game two.

"We carried the intensity over to the second game, but we squelched some opportunities," Morgan said.

Spanos finished the weekend 5-for-12 and knocked in six of the Hoosiers' 11 runs.

Penn State sophomore Doug Rodio was 4-for-8 with three RBI.

The Lions will try to keep rolling tomorrow, when they open their home season in a 3 p.m. battle with Bucknell.