The Penn State Lady Icers' offensive woes continued to plague the team this past weekend in a two-game set at No. 4 Rhode Island.

The previous weekend, the Lady Icers hosted No. 5 Western Michigan and dropped both contests, 11-4 and 4-3. While the team looked improved in its tight loss in the second game, a lack of aggressive shooting hampered the Lady Icers in both games.

The Lady Icers had opened the 2004-05 season in October against Rhode Island and ended up tying the first game, 3-3, and dropping the second, 3-1. Coming into Saturday's game in Kingston, R.I., the team was confident that it could improve on that result and pick up an upset.

The Lady Rams had other ideas, though, and jumped on the Lady Icers right way, scoring its first goal in the first 1:23 of the game. Rhode Island's offense kept up the relentless attack and went up 5-0 after a single period.

Rhode Island continued its scoring barrage throughout the second and third periods, picking up five more goals. The Lady Icers had no response on the offensive end and fell by a final score of 10-0. The Lady Rams were able to keep Penn State off guard by utilizing many different options for scoring. Rhode Island got goals from seven different players, three of whom scored two goals.