GAMEDAY: Rensselaer hosts Hartwick in the season opener for both teams.

SINCE 1977: The 2019 campaign is the 43rd season of Rensselaer Field Hockey.

ALL-TIME VS. HAWKS: RPI is 19-21-1 in 41 all-time meetings with Hartwick … Rensselaer is 9-8 at home.

LAST 10: RPI has a slight edge over the Hawks in recent years, winning six of the last 10 head-to-head contests. 

MOST RECENT 5: Hartwick has won three of the last five meetings, including three straight ... Hartwick won last year 1-0.

TIGHT GAMES: Four of the last six meetings between Rensselaer and Hartwick have been 1-goal contests … Each team won three.

Aug. 31, 2018: Hartwick 1, RPI 0
Sept. 1, 2017: Hartwick 3, RPI 2
Sept. 1, 2016: Hartwick 2, RPI 1
Sept. 1, 2015: RPI 3, Hartwick 1
Sept. 3, 2014: RPI 3, Hartwick 1
Sept. 4, 2013: RPI 3, Hartwick 2

LAST SEASON: Freshman Perry Willett scored the game's only goal 6:01 into the game and Hartwick topped RPI 1-0 in Oneonta … Willett smacked a backhand just past the outstretched pad of RPI keeper Rachel Kaufman and into the far corner for the lone tally … Allyson Osborne earned the shutout with three stops.

2019 ENGINEERS: Rensselaer's roster features six freshmen, five sophomores, four juniors and three seniors.

CAPTAIN: Senior Charisse Stakutis is the captain of this year's Engineers ... The business and management major has played 43 career games, including 18 as a junior when she led the team with three game-winning goals.

THE SCHEDULE: The Engineers have eight home games in 2019 and 10 non-league contests ... Four opponents are in the NFHCA Preseason Poll, led by Vassar at No. 8 ... Rochester is No. 9, Montclair State is No. 13 and Hamilton is No. 18.

UP NEXT: Rensselaer visits Montclair on Saturday at 2pm.