FINAL SCORE
NJIT 8 (1-5)
Monmouth 5 (1-4)

NEWARK, NJ – The Monmouth University men's lacrosse built a 3-1 lead, but a run of six consecutive goals by NJIT made the difference in an 8-5 setback on Tuesday night at Sweeney Field.

Monmouth's early lead was supported by three Griffin Figel assists as Anthony Sardo, J.D. Nozemack and Brock Anderson each scored for the Hawks. Nozemack's goal came with one second left in the first quarter, before Anderson made it 3-1 with 12:30 to play in the second. From there, NJIT reeled off six consecutive goals surrounding halftime and took a 7-3 lead into the fourth.

Sardo's second and Casey Kimmel's goal pulled Monmouth within two with three minutes to play, but a late NJIT goal sealed the victory for the home team.

NOTES AND QUOTES
"From top to bottom we are all pretty disappointed with the way we played this evening. It's been a tough two week stretch for us and we'll need to use the next week to get better and ready for conference play."
- Head Coach Brian Fisher

- Monmouth leads the all-time series against NJIT, 4-1.
- Monmouth dropped to 0-3 on the road in 2019.
- J.D. Nozemack made his first-career start on attack for the Hawks.
- The Hawks wore their midnight blue chrome helmets with midnight blue jerseys and shorts.

NUMBERS CRUNCH
- Griffin Figel led Monmouth with three assists. Figel has at least one point in six straight games, 10 points on the year (4 G, 6 A) and 67 points in his career.
- Figel's 67 career points move him into fourth on Monmouth's all-time points list and he is the active career leader.
- Anthony Sardo registered his fourth-career multi-goal game. Sardo incresed his season goals total to six and his career total to 19.
- Casey Kimmel scored for the second consecutive contest. He has two goals this season and the 13 in his career.
- Freshman J.D. Nozemack scored the first goal of his career.
- Ian Weinberg went 12-for-16 at the faceoff X. Weinberg tied his career high with 12 faceoff wins and his 75 percent also equaled a career best.
- Weinberg tied the Monmouth program record with eight ground balls in the game. His eight ground balls are the most since Chandler Vanderbeek '18 collected eight against Lafayette on April 3, 2018.
- Noah Lode totaled 11 saves in goal for the Hawks. It was Lode's 14th consecutive and 17th career double-digit save performance.
- Monmouth's defense has held four straight opponents to eight goals or less.
- Conor Tuturice led the Hawks with a career-high with three caused turnovers and also picked up a career-high four ground balls.

UP NEXT
Monmouth opens conference play on Saturday, March 16 when it takes on Marist. Opening faceoff from Poughkeepsie, NY is set for 1 p.m.