Aug 25, 2025
Penn State’s Dane Dowiak (19) passes around Boston University’s Jack Harvey (12) during the first period in a semifinal game in the NCAA Frozen Four men’s college hockey tournament, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in St. Louis (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
UNIVERSITY PARK — The Big Ten recently announced its complete 2025-26 men’s hockey schedule with each team playing each other a total of four times, twice at home and twice on the road.
Penn State, which announced its 10-game, non-conference schedule last month, opens Big Ten play with four-straight road contests beginning in Columbus against Ohio State with a Thursday-Friday series on Oct. 30-31 leading into the Penn State-Ohio State football game on Saturday, Nov. 1.
PSU then travels to Michigan State for a series at Munn Ice Arena on Nov. 7-8 before entertaining Michigan at Pegula Ice Arena on Nov. 14-15. Penn State then closes out its first half slate at Minnesota with a pre-Thanksgiving series on Nov. 21-22.
The Nittany Lions open the second semester with three of four series at home during January, beginning with back-to-back against Minnesota (Jan. 9-10) and Notre Dame (Jan. 16-17). Following a trip to Wisconsin (Jan. 23-24), Penn State welcomes Michigan State to town for a Saturday-Sunday affair on Jan. 31-Feb. 1.
Following a bye week, PSU travels to Michigan on Feb. 13-14 before hosting Ohio State on Feb. 20-21. The Nittany Lions then close out February at Notre Dame on the 27-28 before wrapping up the regular season at home against Wisconsin on March 5-6.
Big Ten Tournament play then opens with the new format in 2026 as a single-game quarterfinal will be played on the campuses of the higher seeds on Wednesday, March 11 before the two semifinal matchups on March 14 and the Big Ten championship on either March 20 or 21.
PSU wrestlers shine
UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State wrestlers Mitchell Mesenbrink and Rocco Welsh both won gold medals at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Ascuncion, Paraguay, on Friday.
Mesenbrink won gold at 74 kg., and Welsh won gold at 86 kg.
Earlier last week, five members of the Penn State wrestling team came away with medals at the United World Wrestling U20 World Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria.
True freshmen PJ Duke and Marcus Blaze won U20 gold, true freshman William Henckel brought home silver, and Cole Mirasola and Connor Mirasola earned bronze medals.
Duke won at 70 kg. Duke began the tournament with three straight wins to advance to the gold medal bout.
He met Alexandr Gaidarl of Moldova in the finals. Duke took an early lead then responded after Gairdarl tied the bout late, scoring the last two points of the match to post a thrilling 7-5 win.
Blaze won at 61 kg. He notched a 10-0 tech over Sandro Hungerbuehler of Switzerland, got a DQ victory over Armenia’s Sargis Begoyan and teched Askat Toktomatov of Kyrgyzstan 11-1.
He met UWW’s Magomedkhan Magamedkhanov in the semifinals and rolled through his opponent, notching a 15-4 technical superiority victory. In the finals, Blaze took on Iran’s Ahora Khateri and rolled over the Iranian in a 10-0 technical superiority to win gold.
Henckel earned the silver medal at 79 kg. Henckel reeled off three straight wins to advance to the semfinals. He beat Amit Amit of India in the semis, 5-4, but fell to Iran’s Mahdi Yousefi Hajivar, 8-6, in the title bout.
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