Rutgers Downs Manhattan to Move to 2-0
from press release
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers
men’s lacrosse team (2-0) continued its strong opening
weekend play as it downed the Manhattan Jaspers (0-1), 11-3, this
afternoon at the RU Turf Field. The game saw seven different
Scarlet Knights score, with two posting multiple goal efforts.
Junior Will Mangan (Maplewood, N.J.) led the way for RU with four
goals and an assist.
RU got out to a quick start when Duncan Clancy (Princeton, N.J.)
found a cutting Mangan who rifled the shot into the back of the net
giving RU a 1-0 lead less than two minutes into the game. With 4:14
left in the first, Clancy connected with Mangan again to push the
RU advantage to 2-0. A goal by Clancy with 36 seconds left in the
first gave the Scarlet Knights a 3-0 lead going into the
second.
Rutgers again got out to a quick start in the second when Andrew
D’Agostino (Syracuse, N.Y.) took a groundball off a faceoff
win from Chris Mattes (Westfield, N.J.), slashed into the Manhattan
zone and fired the ball past the Jaspers’ keeper. After
Manhattan answered with a pair of goals to cut the RU lead in half,
Mike Diehl (Fleminton, N.J.) was able to find the back of the net
with nine seconds left before half to give RU a 5-2 lead going into
the break.
Diehl got the scoring going to start the second half when he found
the back of the net less than five minutes into the third giving RU
a 6-2 lead. After the Jaspers answered with a goal of their own
three minutes later, the Scarlet Knights defense took over and shut
out Manhattan the rest of the way.
While the defense kept the Jaspers off the board, the Scarlet
Knights offense found its groove rallying off the last five goals
of the game. RU picked up two more goals from Mangan and goals from
Scott Kilmchak (Clark, N.J.), Kory Kelly (Princeton, N.J.) and Jake
Fradkin (Owings Mills, Md.) to close out the scoring and give RU
the 11-3 victory.
Rutgers will return to action on Saturday, Feb. 26, when they
travel to Baltimore for a 1 p.m. matchup with UMBC.
