Everyone knows that if a team can't score it can't win. Last night proved that if a team can't shoot it can't score.

The No. 23 Penn State men's soccer team (11-3-1) totally dominated Lehigh last night at Jeffrey field, defeating the Mountain Hawks 1-0. A one-goal victory may not sound like domination, but it was a stat other than the score that told the story of this game.

The Nittany Lions were able to get off a total of 14 shots against a Lehigh defense that was constantly putting two or three players on the ball handler.

How many shots did the Mountain Hawks have?

Two.

"They didn't really have anything against us today," junior' co-captain Jorma Makipaa said. "The only way they were going to beat us was if we beat ourselves.

Controlling a game with their defense is nothing new to the Lions. In the last five games the Lions have had four shutouts and have only given up one goal in that span. In fact, last night's shutout was the ninth of the season for the Lions, and it is something that they have come to expect.

"The attitude we go out there with is to go get the shutout," Makipaa said. "That's our primary goal."

What the Lions may not have expected was that their opponents would never even come close to tallying a score. Part of that can be attributed to the style of play the Mountain Hawks displayed.

It seemed as though Lehigh was playing a conservative game with almost all of their players defending their goal. On the rare occasion that Lehigh did have the ball in the Lions' end of the field, they only had two or three forwards there to try to advance it. Head coach Barry Gorman said that it was hard for his team to score because of the way Lehigh played. He also said that it was a credit to them that they were able to play that way the whole game.

"As long as they were in the game 1-0 they weren't going to change their game plan," Gorman said. "You have to respect teams like that. You may not like it but you have to respect them. They were going to try to pinch one and they were going to try to steal it, especially in the latter stages of the game."