It is the No. 18 Nittany Lions' (5-7) second straight loss to a lower ranked or unranked team in a row.

"It's a huge disappointment," Penn State head coach Suzanne Isidor said.

Penn State held a slim 10-9 lead at halftime and the Blue Hens used six goals and a quick start in the second half to win. The teams traded spurts of two goals and the Blue Hens were last ones with the spurt. McCrudden led Delaware with five goals, three in the second half including the game winner.

"At the end we had some costly turnovers and Delaware made the plays that counted," Isidor said.

Penn State took a timeout three minutes into the game against Delaware and apparently Lori Havrilla got the message. She scored three goals in about a minute's time for the Penn State women's lacrosse team. She tallied a total of four goals in the loss.

The Blue Hens scored six unanswered goals after Penn State took the lead in the first half to lead 9-5, before Shari Maslin broke the streak with a free position goal.

"We had moments of brilliance and some lapses," Isidor said.

As they have been all season, Maslin, Havrilla and Jessi Lieb led the Lions in points for the game. Like Havrilla, Lieb had four goals and Maslin had three. Lindsay Dutch had two goals and Meg Boyd added her third of the season.

Delaware got off to a quick start scoring 55 seconds into the first half and scoring on four of its first five shots of the game. The first half was a close battle with each team going on streaks of scoring. The free position shots were clutch for the Lions in the first half as they cashed in on two of their four first half, free position attempts.

After Delaware's fourth goal, about 12 minutes into the game Isidor pulled starting goalie Cammie Jurkowsky in favor of Jess Boccio. In her first playing time since starting against Princeton on Mar. 18, Boccio made one save for the Lions and gave up five goals.

However, in the second half Jurkowsky was back in net after the coaching staff gave her time to regroup and because both goalies made one save each in the first half. Jurkowsky made three total saves in 40-plus minutes of action. Their counterpart Jessica Cerveny made seven saves, four in the second half.