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TROY, N.Y. - Junior Breanainn McNeally scored five goals with two assists to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's lacrosse team to its fifth straight victory, 17-5, over Vassar College in a Liberty League contest at East Campus Stadium. 

RECORDS

• Rensselaer: 6-2; 2-1 Liberty League ... RPI sits in second place in the eight-team conference, behind only No. 2 RIT (3-0; 10-0).
• Vassar: 4-4; 1-1 Liberty League ... The Brewers are in a four-way tie for third place.

NOTEWORTHY

• Rensselaer scored the first five goals of the game with four coming in the first quarter ... The Engineers held a 2-0 lead before the Brewers attempted their first shot.
• Senior midfielder Chaz Bell opened the scoring with his first goal of the season.
• McNeally assisted on the first two goals and then scored the next two ... He now has 30 goals and six assists in eight games ... McNeally is first on the team in goals and points.
• After Jake Weidner scored unassisted, Vassar scored three straight times to pull within 5-3 ... Three different players tallied with Liam Moriarty assisting on the first two (JT Thomas, Brandon DeStasio).
• Vassar's all-time leading scorer, Noah Parson, scored the third goal, his team-leading 18th of the season.
• McNeally scored with 41 seconds left in the first half to give RPI a 6-3 lead at the break
• Vassar's Brandon Crecco stopped six first half shots, while Rensselaer's David Gibbs made one save in that span.
• RPI held a 22-10 lead in shots, including 15-2 in the first quarter, at halftime ... The Engineers, led by Oliver Kaija, won 7 of 11 faceoffs in the first 30 minutes.
• Rensselaer outscored the Brewers 6-2 in the third quarter and 5-0 in the fourth ... Eight different players had second half goals.
• CJ Kigar and McNeally both had two goals in the third frame ... Lucas Bastarache, who had an assist on the final goal of the first half, had four assists in the third quarter.
• Moriarty scored for the Brewers at 10:10 of the third for a 7-4 score, but RPI answered with five straight markers ... Sam Houston-Read talllied his 13th of the year from Thomas to snap RPI's skid with 1:31 left in the third quarter.
• Five different players - Bastarache, Jacob Shavel, Kigar, Patrick Finn and Corey Burns - scored in the fourth for the Engineers ... Finn assisted on Shavel's goal and now has a team-high 17 helpers.
• Crecco finished with 10 saves.
• The game was RPI's first home game since March 12 ... The Engineers played four consecutive road games leading into Saturday's contest.
• Rensselaer is now 18-0 all-time against the Brewers.

MULTIPLE POINT PRODUCERS

• Rensselaer: McNeally – 5 goals, 2 assists; Bastarache – 1 goal, 4 assists; Finn – 1 goal, 3 assists; Kigar – 3 goals; Jake Weidner – 2 goals; Matt Hall – 1 goal, 1 assist. 
• Vassar: Moriarty – 1 goal, 2 assists; Thomas – 1 goal, 1 assist.

SAVES

• Rensselaer: Gibbs – 2 saves; Parker Smith – 3 saves; Troy Manchester – 1 save.
• Vassar: Crecco – 10 saves; Matthew Boyd – 1 save.

KEY STATS

• RPI outshot Vassar, 44-18, including 14-3 in the third quarter ... The Engineers won 37 of 61 ground balls.
• Rensselaer won 18 of 26 faceoffs with Kaija going 17 of 22 with a game-high nine ground balls.
• The Engineers were a perfect 14 for 14 on clear attempts.

UP NEXT

• RPI is right back at home on Tuesday against Oneonta in a non-league contest at 4pm.
• Vassar hosts Drew in a non-league game on Tuesday at 6pm.