Porky Pig should have popped out of the midfield circle, wearing a bow tie, and stuttered "That's all, folks!" at the end of the Penn State men's soccer game last night.

It would have been a fitting Looney Tunes end to a game that was unremarkable in result but memorable for the impact that a cast of St. Bonaventure characters had on the game.

Three particular Bonnies -- forward Phil Amahazion, midfielder Kevin Omokhua and goalkeeper Jonathan Blanchard -- possessed a characteristic that made each stand out from the rest of his teammates.

Standing 6-foot-5, Blanchard did so literally. The goalie's reach was a factor on the game in nearly every way. He stopped all but one of 29 Penn State shots, 16 of which were on goal, and got to balls that a normal keeper might not.

With 11:18 left in the game, a Penn State shot was perfectly placed to sneak in over his head -- or rather, it would have been perfectly placed had his lightning rod arms not stopped it.

"We put too many shots high," Penn State men's soccer coach Barry Gorman said. "I told [the team], with a guy who's 6-foot-7, or whatever size he is, you don't want to put the ball in the air."

Perhaps the most illustrative point of this is that Lions' lone goal leaked in on the ground, far below the canopy Blanchard created. On multiple crosses, Blanchard asserted himself in the box and snagged the ball out of the air.

"You play against a big goaltender, you gotta pull the ball away from him to eliminate his ability to get to a cross or make a save," Gorman said.

While Blanchard used his hands, Omokhua used his whippet-quick legs to make his mark. It became apparent that Omokhua would treat the game like a track meet just a few minutes into the game, when he broke free on a chance that was met by Penn State keeper Conrad Taylor.

There were times in the game when it looked like he was on roller skates and every other player decided to wear snowshoes. Even though Omokhua had one of the Bonnies' four shots, his breakaway potential caused Penn State to monitor his whereabouts.

"When you play against someone that fast you gotta give them their space," Penn State junior defender David Gray said. "They're gonna be coming after you, so you've just got to make sure you give yourself enough time to close down any space with them and not give them a head start, cause that's where you'll get caught."

Gray also said that Omokhua wasn't too special of a player. To a degree, he is right, given that Omokhua's speed overshadowed his skills. He was called offsides too frequently to be truly effective, but one has to notice when an opposing player causes Penn State assistant coach Marlon LeBlanc to advise his defense not to leave him one-on-one.

Running downfield at top speed is one thing, but running one's mouth -- as the Bonnies' Amahazion did -- is quite another. He could be considered St. Bonaventure's morale captain, as he was always in someone's face, clapping and nearly stomping around the field between stoppages of play.

He had his mouth open more often than a hungry athlete at a buffet, but his verbal animation proved to be more of a nuisance for some.

"He likes to talk out there, he's real intense," Penn State senior captain Brian Devlin said. "I knew he was going to do something stupid, and he did. And he got a card for it, so he's just stupid. Stupid player."

Amahazion's yellow card was one of four for St. Bonaventure, a sign of the fact that each of these players was a nuisance -- even a minor one -- for the Lions in some way.