The Penn State men's lacrosse team made history on Saturday in Geneva, N.Y., as it defeated Hobart on the road for the first time since 1968.

Freshman Will Jones scored his second game-winning goal in overtime on the season and gave Penn State (5-4, 0-3) a thrilling 11-10 victory over the Statesmen (5-4, 4-1 Patriot League) in a contest where no team led by more than two goals.

The Nittany Lions got their first lead of the second half with 37 seconds remaining in the game on senior Will Driscoll's sixth goal of the game off of a feed by senior Sean Droogan.

"Sean Droogan has been stepping up," Penn State coach Glenn Thiel said. "Sean Droogan has made some real nice moves in the midfield and he fed Driscoll for the key goal at the end."

The lead would be short-lived as Hobart junior Tim Booth won the ensuing face-off, passed the ball to senior attacker Scott Harvey, who scored his third goal of the game to tie it up at 10 with just 31 seconds remaining.

It was then time for junior Rob Booth to make his second big play of the game. Booth lost the opening face-off to Hobart, but stuck with the play and knocked it loose, giving the Lions possession. They called timeout and on their fifth shot of the overtime period, Jones hit the back of the net with the game-winner.

"I checked him, it was rolling towards the sidelines and I grabbed it one-handed, we had possession the rest of the overtime," Booth said. "It was back and forth all day long with the other face off guy."

Earlier in the game just six seconds before halftime, Hobart junior John Bogosian scored giving the Statesmen a 7-5 lead. Booth would then win the following face-off and raced down field firing a shot that crossed the goal line just before the quarter ended.

"We got a controversial goal like that on a long shot at Notre Dame," Thiel said. "We won the face-off, got down there and got the shot off. It kept us close, we felt good at halftime."

The game may not have been so close if it weren't for the great job of goaltending by Hobart junior Mike Borsz. Borsz made a career-high 25 saves as the Lions out shot the Statesmen 58-45 for the contest.

"He was unbelievable," Hobart coach Matt Kerwick said in a press release. "That was one of the best goalie performances I've ever seen."

The Lions have struggled this season with close games, but Booth thinks the difference on Saturday was what they have taken from their losses.

"I think honestly the difference was the way we felt because of the way UMBC panned out and all those other one goal losses and how terrible we felt," Booth said.

"We had some one goal losses that tore the team apart and Saturday we just felt that we were gonna win it and we got a couple of balls to roll our way."