One disappointing streak continues, but luckily for the No. 72 Penn State men's tennis team another came to an end on Friday against No. 68 Purdue.

The Nittany Lions (12-3, 1-2 Big Ten) snapped their two-game losing streak to Big Ten opponents with a 5-2 victory against the Boilermakers (3-7, 0-2). The Lions lost the doubles point, something none of the current players have won against Purdue, but held off the Boilermakers with some great singles play for the win.

"In the beginning of the doubles, I thought we were tight, we didn't really settle in -- timid, tentative, tight," Penn State coach Jan Bortner said. "In the singles, our guys just played.

"They were disappointed with our doubles, that kicked our pants and said you know we've got to start picking it up. It motivated our guys; we know we can play doubles better than we did."

After dropping the doubles point, with only the pair of Malcolm Scatliffe and Mark Barry defeating Sounak Chatterjee and Filip Koziell, 8-6, at first doubles, the Lions were in a 1-0 hole for the match. A quick start in singles got them on the right track, with the Lions winning the first set in all four of the opening singles matches.

"They won the doubles point, and maybe thought that it was going to be the match, and they let up a little in the beginning [of singles]," Barry, Penn State's No. 1 singles player, said. "I remember it was like 3-2 in my match and I looked over and everyone's up 5-0 -- it was good to start like that, to show them we're ready."

The Lions certainly were ready. Relying on their great singles play, they took five of six matches. The overall match culminated with Bradley Hunter's thrilling three-set match, putting the Lions up 4-1, and clinching the victory for Penn State. And when David Robinson hit his final shot wide, Hunter screamed "line!," pointing to where the ball landed out of bounds, and celebrated his 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 win.

"[It was] a lot of fun to be in, it was a great feeling winning, of course," Hunter said. "The best part about it is that I feel confident that I could put any one of these guys in that position and they could've done the same thing. It's a really great group of guys and they were behind me the whole time and that really helped out."

The singles matches did not come all that easy for the Lions. Most of the Purdue players, including Robinson -- he forced three sets with Hunter -- pulled it together after initially falling behind in singles. It took Scatliffe a tiebreak in a tough second set to beat Koziell, 6-1, 7-6.

"You have to give Purdue a lot of credit," Bortner said of the strong second-set performances by the Boilermakers. "That's why they're a nationally ranked program and a great team, because they were down at one point in each match ... and fought their way back."

The Lions were able to hold off Purdue with their singles play, but must improve in doubles to keep up their winning ways in the Big Ten.