GAMEDAY (Feb. 26, 2020): The Engineers (2-0) return to East Campus Stadium for a non-league game against Coast Guard (1-1) ... First faceoff is 5pm.

SO LONG: Following Tuesday's game against the Bears, the Engineers play five straight contests on the road ... RPI's next home game is March 21 vs. St. Lawrence.

ALL-TIME VS. BEARS: The Engineers and Bears faced one another for the first time last season ... RPI won that game, 12-11.

FEB. 28, 2019: Owen Putman had two goals and three assists and seven teammates also had multiple points as Rensselaer defeated Coast Guard 12-11 ... RPI's JT Kelly (2 goals, 1 assist) and Cooper Urban (3 assists) both had three points and five others had two points apiece ... Riley McNulty had four goals and an assist for the Bears ... Brian Doughty made two saves in the first half and freshman Kyle Botsford made eight in the second for the Engineers ...  Coast Guard's Trey Johnson made 11 stops.

TEAM STATS: Coast Guard outshot RPI 60-34 and held the edge in ground balls 27-17 in last season's contest.

RPI IN GAME 1: Brian Doughty made a save on a shot that would have tied the game with under 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and the Engineers held off Scranton 17-16 ... Nicholas Colucci led RPI with three goals and three assists ... Owen Putman scored three times and Doughty had 11 saves.

COLUCCI HONORED: Rensselaer junior Nicholas Colucci had a team-high six points on three goals and three assists to earn Liberty League Offensive Performer of the Week ... He also had six shots (4 on goal) with two ground balls.

RPI IN GAME 2: Sophomore Cooper Urban had three goals and three assists, including one and three in a 7-goal second quarter, and RPI defeated Keene State 12-9 ... Twelve different Engineers had at least one point, including Owen Putman (3 goals) ... Brian Doughty finished with 11 saves and a caused turnover.

COAST GUARD IN GAME 1: Micah Ballew had a game-high five goals to lead Elizabethtown to a 13-8 win over Coast Guard ... Freshman Caleb Holdridge led the Bears with four goals and two assists in his first collegiate game ... Will Iorio had two goals and two assists ... Tom Mahoney made 16 saves for the Blue Jays, while Charles McAllister had 10 saves for Coast Guard.

COAST GUARD IN GAME 2: Freshman Caleb Holdridge scored seven goals to lead Coast Guard to a 16-6 victory over Manhattanville ... He had five goals in the first half and added one assist and four ground balls in the game ... Junior Will Iorio had four goals and two assists ... Senior goalkeeper Charles McAllister made nine saves for the Bears ... Jason Frezza turned away 11 shots for the Valiants.

ROSTER BREAKDOWN: RPI has a 48-man roster that features five seniors, 15 juniors, seven sophomore and 11 freshmen.

TWO OF THREE: Rensselaer returns two of its top three point producers in Owen Putman (48 goals, 20 assists) and Cooper Urban (39 goals, 21 assists) ... Putman, a senior, was first on the team in goals and second in points (68), while Urban, a freshman, was second in goals and third in points (60).

2020 CAPTAINS: The Engineers will be led on the field by seniors Aidan Denecke, Kevin Frega and Owen Putman ... Denecke, a midfielder, has played 34 games in his career ... Frega has played in 35 contests and Putman has 44 games played.

PRE-SEASON ALL-AMERICA: Rensselaer's Owen Putman is among those recognized by Inside Lacrosse as Division III Preseason All-Americans ... An attack, he is coming off a season in which he led the Engineers with 48 goals, along with 20 assists, in 16 games, all starts ... His 68 points ranked second, while he was first in shots (134) and shots on goal (81).

NEW STAFF: The Engineers welcome Henrik Dion and Quinn Fettig to the staff ... Both played four seasons of defense with the Engineers, graduating in 2019.

RPI IN 2019: Last season, Rensselaer had a 12-5 overall record with a 5-3 conference mark ... The Engineers played in the Liberty League Tournament semifinals, losing in at Union ... RPI, which started the season at 6-0 and 9-1, was nationally-ranked for the latter half of the campaign.

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 2020 Liberty League Preseason Poll ... Union was second with 54 points and a first-place vote ... St. Lawrence (52) is third, followed by Ithaca (42) and Rensselaer (37) ... Clarkson is sixth (29), followed by Vassar (23), Skidmore (15) and Bard (8).

KALKSTEIN AT FREERIDE WORLDS: Freshman midfielder Ely Kalkstein spent late January in Kappl, Austria, competing in the 2020 Freeride Junior World Championship ... He was one of 32 worldwide (10 from the U.S.) to participate.

MYERS CHOSEN TO NATIONAL TEAM: Freshman midfielder Dan Myers has been selected to represent Puerto Rico in the 2020 World Lacrosse Men's Under-19 World Championship to be held in July in Ireland ... The tournament will take place in Limerick from July 9-18.

SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN: The Engineers play 16 total games in 2020 with six at at East Campus Stadium, nine away and one at a neutral site ... Four contests are in February, seven are in March and five come in April ... Seven Saturdays will be spent playing with five other games on Wednesdays and two on Sundays ... There will be one on a Tuesday and one on a Friday ... The first six contests are non-league.