GAMEDAY (March 2, 2019): The Engineers continue with non-league action as they welcome the Engineers of MIT to East Campus Stadium (3pm).

SECOND IN THREE: Rensselaer is playing its second game in three days after defeating Coast Guard 12-11 on the road on Thursday ... That game was originally scheduled to be played Wednesday but was moved due to the weather.

RPI AT COAST GUARD: Junior Owen Putman had two goals and four assists and six of his teammates also had multiple points as RPI took down the Bears, 12-11 ... The game was tight throughout with Rensselaer taking its final lead with three straight goals in the fourth quarter, 12-10 ... JT Kelly (3 goals, 1 assist) had four points, Cooper Urban (3 assists) had three and four others had two points apiece ... Brian Doughty made two saves in the first half and freshman Kyle Botsford made eight in the second ... Coast Guard senior goalie Trey Johnson made 11 stops.

LAST SATURDAY: Freshman Cooper Urban had four goals and two assists and junior Owen Putman had three goals with three helpers to lead Rensselaer to a 15-6 victory over Keene State ... The Engineers scored the first four goals of the game and seven of the first nine ... Freshman Kyle Botsford stopped six shots with two ground balls in 30 minutes of action in goal. 

TEAM STATS: The Engineers had 30 more shots (59-29) and 15 more ground balls (43-28) than the Owls, who could manage just seven clears in 20 attempts ... RPI was 18 of 20 on its clearing attempts.

RECENT SEASON STARTERS: The Engineers are now 5-6 in their last 11 season openers, including 3-2 against Keene State over the past five years ... All five of the wins have come at ECAV.

FIRST WIN: RPI's win over Keene State was the first with Rensselaer for head coach Scott Hackett-Dalgliesh, who was hired in August.

WEEKLY AWARDS: Rensselaer student-athletes Owen Putman and Cooper Urban were selected for weekly awards by the Liberty League for their efforts against Keene State ... Putman was named Offensive Performer of the Week, while Urban garnered Rookie of the Week following RPI's 15-6 victory ... Putman scored three goals with three assists for six points ... Two of his goals were man-up and each of his assists came even strength ... He had a game-high 15 shots with six on goal and a team-high six ground balls ... Urban had a game-high four goals with two assists ... His first two goals gave the Engineers a 2-0 lead and his first assist put RPI ahead 5-1 early in the second quarter ... He added eight shots (6 on goal) and four ground balls.

MIT'S FIRST GAME: Lasell scored five goals in the fourth quarter to overcome an 8-7 deficit in defeating MIT 12-10 in Newton ... The teams came out of the first quarter tied at 4-4 before the Engineers scored three times in the second for a 7-4 lead ... Lasell had a 3-1 edge in the third before going on a 5-0 run in the fourth (7-0 overall) ... MIT's Jack Strachan ended the game with a career-high five goals and one assist ... Connor Kaminska made 11 saves in the loss.

TEAM STATS: The Engineers were 13 for 16 in clear attempts, while Lasell converted 22 of 26 clear chances ... MIT also held a 39-22 edge in ground balls and outshot the Lasers 45-32.

ALL-TIME VS. MIT: The RPI Engineers are 5-0 all-time against the MIT Engineers.

April 9, 1938 W 4-1 Troy
April 13, 1946 W 15-4 Troy
April 26, 1947 W 6-4 Cambridge
May 1, 1948 W 14-1 Troy
April 14, 2018 W 15-11 Cambridge

LAST SEASON: A pair of runs helped RPI secure a 15-11 victory over MIT in Massachusetts ... RPI opened the game with four consecutive goals and did the same to begin the fourth quarter ... The Engineers led 15-8 before MIT scored the final three goals of the contest ... Zach Lukas and Cliff Kigar both recorded two goals and three assists for RPI ... Parker Smith picked up nine saves and five ground balls in 40 minutes of action ... Brian Doughty closed out the game with six stops ... Senior Mitch Turley paced MIT with three goals and two assists ... Victor Fink, a junior, had eight saves and six ground balls for the home team.

RPI IN 2018: Last season, Rensselaer had a 12-4 overall record with a 6-2 conference mark ... The Engineers played in the Liberty League Tournament semifinals, losing in double overtime ... RPI, which had an eight-game winning streak from March 3 to April 3, was nationally-ranked for the latter half of the season, climbing as high as 17th in the USILA Poll.

THREE OF FOUR: Rensselaer returns three of its top four point producers in Cliff Kigar (35 goals, 19 assists), JT Kelly (20 goals, 29 assists) and Lucas Bastarache (15 goals, 17 assists) ... Kigar was first on the team in goals and points (54), Kelly was first in assists (29) and third in points (49) and Bastarache was fourth in points (32) ... All three are seniors.

ROSTER BREAKDOWN: RPI has a 51-man roster that features 11 seniors, seven juniors, 15 sophomore and 18 freshmen.

2019 CAPTAINS: The Engineers will be led on the field by seniors Lucas Bastarache, JT Kelly and JP McGrady ... Bastarache has been named the captain with Kelly and McGrady serving as assistant captains ... Bastarache and Kelly have both played 45 career games, while McGrady has seen action in 31 contests in his first three seasons.

PRE-SEASON ALL-AMERICA: Rensselaer's Keaton Ackermann, Lucas Bastarache and Quinn Fettig are among those recognized by Inside Lacrosse as Division III Preseason All-Americans ... Ackermann, a defenseman, was selected to the Third Team, while Bastarache, a midfielder, and Fettig a defenseman, garnered Honorable Mention recognition ... All three are seniors.

NEW STAFF: The Engineers have a new coaching staff, led by Scott Hackett-Dalgliesh, an 11-year coaching veteran who joins Rensselaer from Dartmouth College, where he was an assistant from 2015-18 ... Among his stops prior to working with the Big Green was as head coach of Division III Marywood University from 2012 to 2014 ... Hackett-Dalgliesh is being assisted by Vinny Biancardi, Aaron Leeds and Josh Porcell.

PRESEASON POLL: In a vote by the league's head coaches, RIT received eight first-place votes for 64 points to rank first in the 2019 Liberty League Preseason Poll ... Ithaca was second with 53 points and a first-place vote ... Rensselaer and St. Lawrence tied for third with 47 points apiece ... Union rounded out the top five with 38 points while Skidmore (26) narrowly edged out Clarkson (25) for sixth ... The Golden Knights were followed by Vassar (16) and Bard (8) ... The Brewers and Thoroughbreds both have new head coaches.