No. 8 Men's Lacrosse Hosts Lafayette Tuesday

Tuesday, March 15

Piscataway, N.J.

3:00 PM

Rutgers University

Lafayette

Photo by: Sarah Snyder

Mar 14 | Men's Lacrosse

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3 pm midweek game is final home nonconference game

Lafayette at No. 8 Rutgers
Tuesday, March 15, 3 p.m., SHI Stadium, Piscataway, N.J.

BROADCAST INFO
The game will be live streamed on B1G+, with Dom Savino (play-by-play) and Rick Mercurio (analyst) on the call.

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Rutgers is led offensively by five players all averaging over two goals per game: Ross Scott (20 goals), Mitch Bartolo (18), Ronan Jacoby (16), Brian Cameron (14) and Shane Knobloch (13). Scott (30 points) and Bartolo (26 points), the team's two leaders in the category, where each named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List last week, joining teammate Colin Kirst.

Sophomore Nick Teresky had a breakthrough game Saturday at Princeton at midfield. Entering the game with two career goals in the first 10 games of his career, he had a career-high three points on a goal and two assists.

Kirst has a 10.81 goals-against-average and 54.4% save percentage on the season. LSM Ethan Rall, who had six ground balls and three caused turnovers at Princeton, has 23 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers on the season. He has already reached a new career-high in caused turnovers in just seven games.

LAST TIME OUT
Last Friday night, RU took its first loss of the season in an in-state rivalry contest at No. 7 Princeton. In the 99th lifetime meeting in the Garden State series, the longest played series for RU, Rutgers was led by three goals from Mitch Bartolo and two goals apiece from Brian Cameron and Michael Sanguinetti.

ABOUT LAFAYETTE
Lafayette has opened the season at 2-4, with wins over VMI and Drexel, while taking losses to the Big Ten's Penn State, Binghamton (OT), and mutual opponents with Rutgers Army and Loyola. The Leopards are led offensively by Peter Lehman (14 goals, 9 assists), John Mathes (13 goals) and Kalman Kraham (12 goals). The team has used Gabe Cummins and Ryan Ness for three starts apiece in goal. Aidan Kelly (55%) and James Turco (48%) have primarily taken the faceoffs.

Lafayette assistant coach Scott Bieda played collegiately at Rutgers, where he was an All-American, two-time First Team All-Big Ten selection and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year in 2016.

ALL-TIME SERIES
Rutgers has played Lafayette 15 times dating back to 1926, and has won all 15 contests. The teams have only met twice since 1993, in 2012 (9-6 RU victory) and 2019 (14-8 win). In the 2019 season opener, Connor Harryman won 22-of-25 faceoffs, and Adam Charalambides and Kieran Mullins combined for seven goals. Eight players on the current roster (Jack Stahanczyk, David Sprock, Cole Daninger, Michael Sanguinetti, Joe Peterson, Brennan Kamish, Jaryd Jean-Felix and Bobby Russo) made their career debut in that game, while Sprock and Sanguinetti scored the first goal of their careers.

GALLAGHER APPROACHES 100
Rutgers captain Ryan Gallagher is approaching an upcoming milestone. The Atlanta native enters Tuesday's game with 99 career points, just one point away from 100 for his career.

RIP COACH HAYES
The Rutgers men's lacrosse program is mourning the loss of former head coach Tom Hayes, a lacrosse icon who coached the Scarlet Knights from 1975 to 2000 and led the team to 21 winning seasons and to final top-20 rankings for 24-straight years. He also had a large impact on the growth of lacrosse at the international level. Rutgers will wear a memorial nameplate with his name on the back of his jersey all season long.

UP NEXT
Rutgers concludes non-conference play this weekend, travelling to Hofstra for a 1 p.m. game Saturday on LSN.