The No. 70 Penn State men's tennis team was victim to the golden rule on Sunday, as the Ohio State Buckeyes did unto it what it had done unto everyone else.

Rolling over opponents, what the Lions had been doing for weeks, is exactly what the No. 12 Ohio State Buckeyes did, as they defeated the Lions 6-1.

"It was a wake-up call for our guys," Penn State men's tennis coach Jan Bortner said of the loss. "You can preach to these guys all you want, but talk is cheap. Today some of our guys found out what the Big Ten is all about."

Although Roddy Cantey and Malcolm Scatliffe came out strong for the Lions at first doubles, they were unable to win the point, dropping their match 9-7 to Ohio State's duo of Jeremy Wurtzman and Joey Atas.

The Lions wanted to show they would not be intimidated against a higher ranked opponent, but ended up losing all three doubles matches.

"It was really tight the whole match, if we could have won [first doubles] it would have been great for momentum," Cantey said. "There were just a few points here or there that was the difference."

The problem with the Lions doubles play is still a lack of aggression in serving and returning.

Bortner stressed that there are still players on the team who have a perfect opportunity to hit a winner but will stand there and push at it, rather than stepping into the ball and driving their shot.

"Roddy and Malcolm are the only doubles team playing aggressive, and that's the reason they're having success," Bortner said. "The other teams are too timid, and not going for their shots."

The lack of aggressive play carried through to singles, as the Lions dropped five out of six matches.

However, those who played aggressive found at least some success in their matches.

Scatliffe was matched up at first singles against Wurtzman, who is ranked second in the nation.

Although Scatliffe dropped the match 4-6, 1-6, his first set was close and served as the only spark the Lions had going for them early in singles.

"I missed a lot of game points, but I think it was a lot closer than the score shows," Scatliffe said. "I was in every game, that's just how it goes sometimes."

The Lions picked up their only point of the match when freshman Bradley Hunter fought back to defeat Scott Green 6-7, 6-2, 10-4 (tiebreak) at sixth singles.

The third set between Hunter and Green was decided by a tiebreak due to time reasons.

Hunter managed to win after dropping a close first set, even when the overall match was long over.

"First I was thinking we don't want to get shut out," Hunter said. "I wanted to make a statement to them, that over the next few years we know they will be good, but so will we. They are going to have to fight against all of us for every point."