As soon as the game ended, Penn State men's lacrosse coach Glenn Thiel did not look happy.

His team had just lost a one-goal game against Stony Brook, and Thiel just wanted his team to pack up and head to the locker room.

After the 11-10 loss to the Seawolves on Saturday in Holuba Hall, Thiel had a lot of things to be upset about.

"We didn't deserve to win the game," Thiel said. "It was one of the worst performances in poise and intelligence we've ever had. I thought we had better athletes, better stick skills and were better at handling the ball."

The game started out promisingly as the Nittany Lions (2-3, 0-1 in ECAC) quickly scored two goals to the start the game.

The first quarter ended with the Lions holding a 6-4 lead, with junior Brian Boyle scoring three.

With time running out in the period, sophomore Andrew Mackrides ran the length of the field to score with no time left on the clock.

But the second quarter was a different story as the team was shut out and went into the half down 7-6.

Thiel attributed missed opportunities as the reason for his team's poor performance.

"We had the best guys on our team have chances to tie the game and win the game and they didn't," Thiel said. 'We talked about being able to do it, sometimes you just have to be able to do it."

With Holuba Hall filled with Stony Brook fans, the Seawolves had all of the momentum going into the second half.

The Lions scored three straight goals but ended up being scored on as the period ended. But the quarter was again marred by missed wide-open shots and blown opportunities.

"We threw shots right to their goalie every time," Thiel said. "We probably outshot them 2-1."

The Seawolves quickly took the lead with two more goals and held onto it late in the fourth quarter. After two sprawling saves by freshman goalie Drew Adams, senior captain Nate Whitaker tied the game at 10-10.

But a Penn State foul gave Stony Brook an extra man opportunity that was capitalized on with just under three minutes left in the game. To make matters worse, senior captain Keith Benjamin went down in the fourth quarter with an injury.

The score of 11-10 would remain the same for the rest of the game.

Thiel saw many opportunities for his team throughout the game that were never capitalized on.

"We had all of those chances to pull away, to tie it up and then to win it," Thiel said. "When it was 10-10 we had Whitaker with a wide-open shot, and you didn't even need a goalie."

Open net shots were missed high and goals that seemed too easy to miss were sent wide, while Stony Brook seemed not to be able to miss.

"We gave them four goals on restarts from the end line which we talked about and were ready for and we just didn't play," Thiel said. "They would just throw it in there and boom goal, boom goal, four times."

The Lions will now have all week to prepare for ECAC opponent Fairfield.

Thiel knows that the practice time will help his injury-prone team heal and work on maximizing on missed opportunities.

"It isn't easy when you've got the pressure on, the question always is are you going to do it or not going to do it," Thiel said. "How many basketball players can't make a free throw; this time you have a goalie in there, it's a little different."