West Virginia and Drexel came to the Greenberg Ice Pavilion this weekend hoping to upset the Penn State ACHA Division Icers. Coming off two defensive struggles against Ohio, Penn State figured to open things up more offensively, but no one could have foreseen the Icers manhandling their opponents the way they did, routing the Mountaineers and Dragons by a combined score of 17-0.

Penn State didn't find the net until the end of the first period of Friday's game. When Mike McMullen finally lit the lamp with six seconds remaining in the opening stanza, it ignited an outpouring of goals that would last the whole weekend.

"They're a young team," Icers head coach Scott Balboni said of West Virginia after Penn State's 6-0 win.

"I think they might have been intimidated a little bit by the crowd. They came out at the beginning and gave a good effort, and I think our team really came out and picked it up in the second and third period."

This weekend's games provided a stark contrast to the defensive battles between Penn State and Ohio last week. After scoring only four goals against the Bobcats in two games (one of which was an empty-netter), the Icers offensively dominated the Mountaineers and Dragons.

Eight different players scored for the Icers, including freshman Dave Herel and sophomore Mark Orlando's first goals with the team. Balboni was glad to see everyone contributing.

"Obviously I like to see a lot of guys get involved in the scoring," he said. "It worked out that way that, we got a lot of guys on the ice, a lot of guys who don't normally get ice time."

Forward Nate Obringer provided the biggest punch for the Icers' offense this weekend, scoring five goals, with a hat trick against Drexel.

"It's my first [hat trick] of the year and only the second of my career, so it's a good feeling," Obringer said.

Penn State helped its own cause by out-shooting its opponents 106-27. Most of the shots that did get through to goalie Nick Signet were turned away easily. The biggest test of the weekend for the players was just keeping a high intensity level despite having both games in hand.

"We don't want to show anybody up," Obringer said. "You can always end up on the other side of that. But you have to keep going out there and playing hard otherwise somebody's going to get hurt."

Things did get scrappy at the end of Friday's game. West Virginia became exceedingly frustrated at the way the contest was going, and hard hits and clean checks escalated into pushes and shoves. In the third period, one of the Mountaineers jumped on top of forward Matt Schwartz and landed some shots to his head, leading to a five-minute major penalty.

"He was going for my face," Schwartz said. "He took his glove off and was grabbing my facemask and obviously that's not allowed. There's not much you can do in a college game. I don't know what he was trying to prove, but you can't really get away with that out here."