The No. 6 MSU field hockey team travels to No. 7 Penn State (12-3 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) on Saturday for a top-10 Big Ten showdown with the Nittany Lions.

The Spartans (11-4, 3-1) split last weekend, losing 1-0 to rival Michigan on Friday but bouncing back to beat Hofstra 5-2 on Saturday.

MSU is 6-3 in road games this season, and this will be the team's last road game of the season. The win would keep MSU one game behind the Wolverines with one game left to play.

The Spartans hope to ride the hot play of junior midfielder Annebet Beerman, who scored a hat trick in the victory over Hofstra. It is the second MSU hat trick this season; the other was by Alexandra Kyser, who scored three goals against Southwest Missouri State on Sept. 13.

MSU concludes its regular season on Halloween against Ohio State.

J. Ryan Mulcrone