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Portland games ain't pretty, but it doesn't matter

By Graham Hays

Monday, September 29, 2008

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- No. 4 Portland 4, No. 22 Penn State 1 Goals: Sophie Schmidt, Portland (3rd minute); Danielle Toney, Penn State (9th minute); Michelle Olivier, Portland (19th minute); Sara Jackman, Portland (65th minute); Danielle Foxhoven, Portland (79th minute). Perhaps the bucolic vistas of rural Pennsylvania could keep landscape painters busy for weeks, but it was fitting that the backdrop for Sunday's game in Happy Valley was heavier on the soggy remnants of the previous day's foo ...

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