No. 8 Men’s Lacrosse Dominates Lafayette, 22-10

Tuesday, March 15

Piscataway, N.J.

3:00 PM

Rutgers University

7-1

Lafayette

2-5

Lafayette

Photo by: Ben Solomon/Rutgers Athletics

No. 8 Men’s Lacrosse Dominates Lafayette, 22-10

Mar 15 | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score Postgame Interview: Ross Scott Box Score Tom Hayes Tribute on Broadcast Goal Compilation Video

Rutgers had 12 different goal scorers in the victory

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – No. 8 Rutgers men's lacrosse had a dominating performance in a Tuesday afternoon midweek contest, taking down Lafayette, 22-10. Twelve different Scarlet Knights scored on the day, led by four goals apiece from Ross Scott and Ronan Jacoby.

Mitch Bartolo, Brian Cameron, Jack Aimone and Dante Kulas each had two goals while Tommy Coyne, Michael Sanguinetti, Justin Kim, Erik Henig, Eric Civetti and Christian Maisel each tallied. Ross Scott also had a career-high three assists to tie his career high with a game-high seven points.

"We were sticking to our offense well today," Scott explained. "I had a lot of help from our guys getting me the ball in the right spots and setting us up. We're at our best when all six guys are playing together and moving the ball around. We tried to play within our system, play our game, make the simple passes, and that makes it look easy out there. That's our goal every time we go out there."

Rutgers led in shots (45-32) and was 24-of-26 on clears. The Scarlet Knights won 19 faceoffs and had 38 ground balls.

Ethan Rall had another excellent performance with four caused turnovers and four ground balls. Colin Kirst made 10 saves and allowed just five goals in his time in cage.

The game was even in the early going, with RU holding a 4-3 advantage after one quarter. In the second quarter, RU outscored the Leopards 7-2 to take an 11-5 lead. The home team used an overall 16-2 run to turn the score from 3-3 in the first quarter to a 19-5 blowout in the fourth. Both teams subbed extensively in the final quarter, with a number of different players seeing playing time as RU closed out the win.

Rutgers is back on the road this weekend. The Scarlet Knights travel to Long Island, where they will face Hofstra at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Postgame Notes

Rutgers reached 20 goals for the second time this season.
It was the fifth time in the past two seasons that RU scored 22+ goals.
Senior captain Ryan Gallagher reached 100 career points with an assist on the game's first goal.
Ross Scott had a career-high in assists (three) and points (tied, seven).
Brian Cameron's two assists were his most as a Scarlet Knight.
Bryant Boswell had three caused turnovers, his most as a Scarlet Knight.
Tommy Coyne and Justin Kim had their first goal of the season.
Christian Maisel scored his first career goal.
Luke Romanek had career-highs in faceoffs win (5) and ground balls (two).
Eric Civetti had his first career assist and a career-high two points.
Jack Aimone had his first career assist and a career-high three points.
Zackary Franckowiak had a career-high two assists.
Andrew Kim, Christian Maisel, Jake Norgard, James Ringer and Jonathan Taub made their season debuts.
Christian Maisel and Jake Norgard made their collegiate debut.

Ross Scott led the way in a 22-10 win over Lafayette with 4 goals and 3 assists.

Following the game, he broke down the #RUMLax offensive success with @DominickSavino and @RickMercurio1 pic.twitter.com/tMVXzzrotR
— Rutgers Men's LAX (@RUmlax) March 15, 2022

Congratulations to Captain Ryan Gallagher on scoring his 100th career point!! #BleedScarlet pic.twitter.com/0F2IMxDIkP
— Coach Brian Brecht (@RUlaxCoach) March 15, 2022

#RUMLax kept setting off the goal horn on Tuesday!🚂🚨

22 goals from 12 different goal scorers in a 22-10 win over Lafayette

Recap/stats/notes: https://t.co/idfdPUhSqD pic.twitter.com/mVzZt6Asuv
— Rutgers Men's LAX (@RUmlax) March 16, 2022