UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - With a five-point outing from senior captain Nick Aponte, the third-ranked Penn State men's lacrosse team (6-0) withstood a late surge from the Furman Paladins (1-6), holding on to win, 12-10, at the Penn State Lacrosse Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Nittany Lions led by six with three minutes remaining in the third quarter, before Furman scored five unanswered to make it a one-goal game with 4:43 to go in the fourth quarter. With 44 seconds remaining in the game, junior midfielder Ryan Keenan spun away from his defender and buried the ball in the right side of the net to ice the game. Aponte, who registered a game-high five points on a goal and four assists, logged his 100th career point assisting on Penn State's first goal of the game. The midfield again provided the majority of Penn State's scoring, with senior Dan Craig and sophomore Kevin Hill and reigning Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week Nick Spillane each logging a pair of goals in the outing. In addition to the trio of midfielders with multi-goal performances, seniors Matt Florence and Mike Sutton, Keenan, and freshman Nick McEvoy each scored a goal from the midfield. Attackmen Grant Ament and Mac O'Keefe continued to contribute on the offensive end as well. Ament extended his point streak to 21-straight games, while O'Keefe logged a goal. The freshman has scored at least once in every game so far with a nation's-best 26 goals through six games this season. Freshman Gerard Arceri and senior Billy Lombardi split the faceoff duties for the Nittany Lions, going a combined 17-of-25 at the faceoff `x'. Each scooped four groundballs, being two of the four players with four to lead Penn State. In the cage, Colby Kneese made eight stops, including a critical one late in the game that led to Keenan's insurance goal. Penn State returns to action on Saturday, March 11, as the team faces undefeated Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at noon. The Turning Point With Furman on a 5-0 run, it felt that the Paladins had the momentum late in the fourth quarter with one score separating the game. With 44 seconds left on the clock Keenan shook his defender before dumping in the insurance goal for the Nittany Lions win.