UNION, N.J. (2/20/23) – Connor Batjer notched his 100
th career point as the Kean University men's lacrosse team opened the 2023 season with a 16-15 victory over Skidmore College on Monday afternoon.
Batjer finished with six points on four goals and two assists for the Cougars who improve to 1-0 overall. Charlie McFadden totaled five points on four goals and one assist for the Thoroughbreds who fall to 0-1 overall.
First Half
- Kean led 7-6 at halftime.
- After trading goals, Batjer and Dante Magliano scored back to-back man-up goals to lead 5-3 after 15 minutes of play.
- Skidmore opened the second quarter with back-to-back scores to even everything at 5-5.
- Magliano punched in two more second quarter goals for a 7-5 advantage.
- Tommy Pellegrino and Nick Thorne scored and assisted on a goal.
- Anthony Porter notched two assists.
- Jackson Earley and Dylan Johnson also tallied an assist.
- Brian Gonsalves tallied two goals for the Thoroughbreds
Second Half
- Skidmore and Kean were even, 9-9.
- The Thoroughbreds tied the game at 8-8 on back-to-back goals
- Batjer scored three times and Thorne assisted on two goals as the Cougars increased their lead to 11-8.
- During that run, Batjer notched his 100th career points on a feed from Johnson.
- Johnson scored his first career goal as Kean maintained a three goal advantage at 12-9 to end the third.
- Skidmore responded with three straight goals to even the contest at 13-13.
- Kean answered back with goals from Pellegrino, Thorne and Porter to go back up three with 3:18 remaining.
- The thoroughbreds made things close late as Jon Bouiver scored two goals in the final 30 seconds.
- Thorne totaled two goals.
- Hunter Jenkinson tallied an assist.
- Porter scored and assisted on a goal.
Inside the Box Score
- Thorne totaled six points on three goals and three assists.
- Johnson totaled four points on three assists and one goal.
- Magliano totaled three goals.
- Pellegrino totaled three points on two goals and one assist.
- Cormac McCabe totaled two goals.
- Christian Baucom went 10-for-17 on faceoffs with six groundballs.
- Max Stevens went 7-for-16 with four groundballs.
- Devin Reppert notched a career-high 10 saves in his first career start.
Milestone Watch
- Today's victory puts Head Coach Shelley Sheiner at 201 career victories. Sheiner needs seven wins to become the winningest coach in program history surpassing his mentor Hawley Waterman, who won 207 career games at Kean from 1970 to 1994.
- Porter is currently sitting at 98 career points.
Coach Sheiner and the Cougars will return to action on Wednesday, Mar. 1
st, hosting the Aggies of Delaware Valley University at 7:00 p.m.
