No. 16 Field Hockey Blanks Stanford

Sunday, August 27

Stanford, Cal.

3:00 PM

Rutgers University

(2-0)

Stanford

(0-2)

Rutgers

Stanford

Photo by: Rich Graessle

Aug 27 | Field Hockey

Box Score Stats Video: Goals

The Scarlet Knights were buoyed by goals from Puck Winter and Iris Langejans in the victory.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – No, 16 Rutgers field hockey earned another win on Sunday afternoon on their opening week trip to California. The Scarlet Knights claimed a 2-0 win over Stanford. The Scarlet Knights were buoyed by goals from Puck Winter and Iris Langejans in the victory.

Rutgers dominated play in the game, outshooting the Cardinal 16-4. They held a 6-3 advantage in corners.

Rutgers struck first, tallying two goals in a span of less than a minute in the first quarter. At the 8:30 mark, RU scored the first marker off a penalty corner. A textbook corner play saw Puck Winter put the ball home, with assists to Vicky Jure and Iris Langejans.

Just 53 seconds later, the visitors broke through again. Rutgers gained another penalty corner, and the resulting play led to a penalty stroke opportunity for RU. Iris Langejans stepped to the dot and converted the stroke for RU, giving them a 2-0 lead just under 10 minutes into the game.

In the third quarter, RU thought they had added to their lead with a Noelle Leaf tally, but after review, the goal was overturned as it was deemed that it hit a foot, and the score remained at 2-0. Nonetheless, RU remained in control of the game, and earned their second straight 2-0 win of the road trip, following Friday's 2-0 win at UC Davis.

Rutgers has one more game to complete this opening trip to California. RU is at Cal Monday, a 4 p.m. game that will be televised by the Pac-12 Network.

Postgame Notes

Freshman Olivia Fraticelli earned her first career start for RU.
After not recording a point as a freshman despite starting 13 games, Jure has an assist in each of the first two games of the season.
Langejans is now 3-of-3 on penalty stroke attempts in her career.
With the victory, RU improved to 4-2 all-time against Stanford. It was their first meeting against the Cardinal since 2017.
Abbie Zacchini made her RU debut in the game.
RU's first four goals of the season were all scored by different players, and all by returners.
The shutout was the eighth complete game shutout of Sophia Howard's career, and her second straight shutout.

2 Goals in 1 Minute from 2 🇳🇱 🇳🇱 = a 2-0 Win at Stanford

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