SCRANTON, Pa. - Cooper Urban scored five goals with two assists and JT Kelly had two goals with five assists to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's lacrosse team to a 16-11 victory over Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) in a non-league game that was played at Marywood University. The Engineers, who are ranked 17th in the latest Division III poll, improve to 6-0. The Battling Bishops are now 2-5.

Urban, a freshman attack, scored four of his goals during a 9-2 run in the third and fourth quarters for RPI that erased an 8-7 deficit and put it ahead 16-10 with just over a minute to play in the fourth quarter. Senior Will Killeen started a string of three straight goals that tallies from Owen Putman and Urban. Steven Hildebrand scored for OWU to get it within a goal at 12:40, but Urban finished a feed from Kelly just nine seconds later for an 11-9 margin. 

Max Tennant scored for the Battling Bishops at 9:44, but this time the Engineers answered with five straight goals for a 16-10 lead. Kelly, Lucas Bastarache, Will Hatcher and Urban (twice) found the back of the net. Kelly had two assists in the sequence, while Bastarache had one. Tennant tallied man-up with 46 seconds left to close out the scoring. 

RPI outshot Ohio Wesleyan 53-32, though both teams had 27 shots on goal. Brian Doughty made nine saves with five goals allowed in 39:44 and Kyle Botsford stopped seven shots in 20:16 for the Engineers. Joey Sichenzia had 11 saves in 60 minutes for OWU, which turned the ball over 28 times and managed just three successful clears on 14 attempts. RPI 10 of 15 on clears.

Bastarache finished with a goal and three assists and Putman scored three times. Tyler Hancock had a game-high eight ground balls and Keaton Ackermann forced four turnovers.

Tennant had four goals and Hillebrand had three for the Battling Bishops, who saw Russell Perciballi win 17 of 29 faceoffs with 12 ground balls.

Rensselaer returns to the field on Wednesday when it hosts Williams College at East Campus Stadium (6pm) in its final non-league game of the season. Ohio Wesleyan plays John Carroll on Wednesday at 7pm.