RUTGERS ATHLETICS WEEKLY COMMUNICATIONS REPORT SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

THE FIVE THINGS TO KNOW

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Football (1-1, 0-1) Volleyball (5-5) • Travels to Kansas Saturday for Noon ET matchup (MSG+, • Wraps up tournament season at UConn’s Dog Pound FSN). Challenge on Friday and Saturday in Storrs, Connecticut, • Fell to No. 4 Ohio State on the road (Recap | Postgame with matches against St. John’s, Holy Cross and the host Press Conference). Huskies (Tournament Central). • Game against Buffalo on Sept. 22 scheduled for Noon on • Freshman Inna Balyko set a new program record for assists BTN. in a three-set match with 47 in a victory over Howard on • RFootball Show with Chris Ash debuted last week. Friday at the Rutgers Invitational (Recap - Day 1). • Chris Ash Radio Show returns to Quaker Steak and Lube • Junior Stasa Miljevic broke Rutgers’ second record of the Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. weekend on Saturday for blocks in a four-set match with 10 • Game Program Features: Jerome Washington | Kevin as the Scarlet Knights downed Navy (Recap - Day 2). Wilkins • Junior middle blocker Jasmine Stackhouse was named to • Game Week Pressers: Chris Ash, John McNulty, Jay Austyn Cuneo the Rutgers Invitational All-Tournament Team with 26 kills Niemann tops this week’s on a .426 hitting percentage and 14 blocks. RVision Top 5 • Added world-class depth to its outside hitting corps with No. 23 Field Hockey (5-0) the arrival of freshman Tali Marmen. • Begins Big Ten play on Friday at No. 7 Michigan (7 p.m., BTN Plus) before traveling to Longwood on Sunday (11 a.m.). Women’s Golf • Defeated Cornell 1-0 on Friday (Recap | RVision Highlights) and No. 6 • Opens its season Monday and Tuesday at the Golden Gopher Invitational Princeton 1-0 on Sunday (Recap | Video Recap | RVision Highlights). at Prestwick Golf Club in Woodbury, Minnesota. • Leads the country in goals against average (0.40) and shutouts (0.8 per • Hosts the sixth annual Unger-DeBlasio Cup at the Rutgers University Golf game). Course on Friday, Oct. 5. • Two collected conference weekly honors, including Gianna Glatz named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and Milena Redlingshoefer named Men’s Golf Big Ten Freshman of the Week. • Hosts its second-annual Hackberry Invitational on Friday, Sept. 21 before • Last week, Daphne Groothuis was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of competing in the OTC Collegiate Invitational Sept. 24-25 in Winston Salem, the Week and NFHCA National Offensive Player of the Week following a North Carolina. two-goal, five-assist weekend in wins over Hofstra and St. Joe’s. • With one round to play at the Badger Invitational, junior Tony Jiang is tied for fourth at -5. Jiang shot a five-under-par 67 on in the opening round on Women’s Soccer (4-1-2) Sunday. (Recap - Day 1 | Video Recap) • Opens Big Ten action at home with Nebraska on Friday (5 p.m., BTN • Jiang produced seven birdies and and two eagles during his first 36 holes Plus) and Iowa on Sunday (1 p.m., BTN Plus). of play. • Wrapped up nonconference play with a loss to Monmouth on Friday • Closes out the Badger Invitational on Tuesday. (Recap) and a 2-2, double-overtime draw with La Salle on Sunday (Recap | RVision Highlights). Baseball • The fourth annual Scarlet Knights Baseball Golf Outing will be held Oct. 8 Men’s Soccer (1-3-1) (Columbus Day) at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township. • Opens Big Ten play on Friday with last season’s regular season champions, Michigan (8 p.m., BTN Plus). Softball • Played to a 2-2 stalemate against Hartford on Saturday. Jordan Hall • Will hold open tryouts on Saturday, Sept. 15 from 10:30 a.m. – noon at converted a PK for his third goal of the season (Recap). the RU Softball Complex on the Livingston Campus. Tryouts are open to all Rutgers full-time students. Men’s Cross Country • Announced 2018 camp and clinic dates. • Travels to Van Cortlandt Park for the Iona College Meet of Champions on Friday, Sept. 14. Men’s Basketball • Finished fourth at the Fordham Fiasco on Saturday, as Conor •The Big Ten announced game times and television Murphy paced the team with a top 10 finish (Recap). designations for the 2018-19 men’s basketball season.

Women’s Cross Country Women’s Basketball • Returns to action on Saturday at the Greeno/Dirsken 6K • Set the nonconference finale with Brown for January 4. Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska, site of the 2018 Big Ten Cross • Will be featured four times on BTN this season including Country Championships. two dates at the RAC - Dec. 15 vs. LSU and Feb. 28 vs. Minnesota.