FINAL SCORE
#5/4 Princeton 22 (1-0)
Monmouth 9 (0-1)
PRINCETON, NJ – The Monmouth University men's lacrosse team dropped a 22-9 decision to the No. 5/4 ranked Princeton Tigers in the season opener for both teams on Saturday afternoon at Sherrerd Field.
The Tigers built a 3-0 lead in the first four minutes and never trailed in the contest. Monmouth's
Cade Stratton scored a hat trick on the offensive end, while rookies
Ty Caffarelli and
Caden Kesselring each scored their first-career goals.
Monmouth used a three-goal third quarter run to pull back within single digits and made it 14-6 on
Sean Ketchen's goal, but Princeton erased all doubt of a comeback with a four-goal run of its own.
NOTES & QUOTES
- Monmouth is 4-6 all-time in season opening games.
- The Hawks are 4-6 in road openers.
- Monmouth fell to 1-10 all-time against ranked opponents.
- The Hawks are 1-5 on the road against ranked teams.
- Monmouth fell to 0-5 all-time against Princeton, including 0-4 on the road.
- Monmouth is 7-8 all-time against New Jersey opponents.
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Ty Caffarelli and
Miles Edmiston made their first-career starts in their Monmouth debuts.
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Luke Cole,
Andrew Kuhlman and
Sean Ketchen each made their first-career starts.
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Caden Kesselring,
Max Sullivan,
Jared Chantz,
Danny Boyer,
Brandon Rispoli,
Ryan O'Rourke,
James Csorba and
Cam Stovel each played their first games in a Monmouth uniform.
- The Hawks wore their chrome helmets with midnight blue jerseys and shorts.
NUMBERS CRUNCH
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Cade Stratton led Monmouth's offensive effort with a hat trick. It was the sixth hat trick of Stratton's career and the first time a Hawk has scored a hat trick against a top five opponent.
- Stratton has 44 career goals, tied for seventh in program history and is fourth with 77 career points.
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Matt Karsian and
Sean Ketchen each had a goal and an assist. It was the second-career multi-point performance for both players.
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Connor Macrae scored his 37
th career goal.
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Matt Soutar scored his third career goal.
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Ty Caffarelli and
Caden Kesselring each scored their first-career goals.
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Luke Cole added an assist.
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Andrew Kuhlman made his first-career start in goal for Monmouth and made 14 saves.
- Soutar went 16-for-32 at the faceoff X and picked up eight ground balls.
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Jared Chantz went 1-for-1 on faceoffs.
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Thomas Gray caused two turnovers to lead the Hawks.
NEXT UP
Monmouth will host NJIT in its 2023 home opener on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Kessler Stadium. The game will be broadcast live on FloSports.
