After a weekend split the Penn Statefield hockey team is left scratching their heads.

The No. 8 Nittany Lions (10-3) defeated No. 20 Indiana (5-3), on Friday 2-1 but fell to No. 2 North Carolina (11-1), on Sunday afternoon 3-2. The Lions led 2-0 at halftime, but allowed the Tarheels to come back and win on a goal off a penalty corner by North Carolina junior Katy Potter with less than two minutes remaining in the game. They scored two goals in the last six minutes of the game.

"Sunday was a really a tough loss," Penn State field hockey coach Charlene Morett said. "We played a great game, our best game to date and I thought we did everything we had to do to win, but we gave up three second half goals."

Penn State and North Carolina have had a great history together playing many close games. Sunday was no different.

The Lions came out and scored first when senior Heather Conroy tallied her team-leading ninth goal of the season early in the first half.

Penn State extended their lead when Karin Grap put a shot past Carolina's keeper ending the first half.

The Tar Heels had never trailed by two goals at halftime this season, but they proved that they were capable of mounting an exciting comeback.

The second half was anything but boring.

Unfortunately it came at the expense of the Lions.

North Carolina finally got on the board with about 20 minutes left, and then tied the game with just less than six minutes to go in the game.

"We were really frustrated," Morett said. "I am proud of our players, they did an outstanding job offensively and they had great defensive pressure, but what it came down to was we just missed a couple of chances."

The Lions came out Friday against Indiana not having their 'A' game but they were able to get a conference win. It seems to be a continuing trend for the Lions who in the past few series have staggered out of the gate in their weekend openers.

"We came out flat, but I am not sure why," Morett said. "It is good to get a win, but we did not play well, we must have been looking ahead to Carolina."