Upper Montclair, NJ (11/16/03) --- Freshman forward RYAN MORGAN (Princeton, NJ/Princeton) scored the only goal of the game at 73:19 of regulation to lead the third-seeded Montclair State University men's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over fourth-seeded Ramapo College today at Sprague Field. The win gave Montclair State the 2003 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Metro Championship. It is MSU's third ECAC title overall, and first since 1993.

The Red Hawks, who finished 16-4-3 overall this fall, were ECAC runners-up in both 2000 and 2002. Morgan tallied three goals and one assist in three ECAC games this year, including two game-winning goals, and finished with a team-high 12 goals and 27 points this season. Freshman forward ILYAS TASCI (Paramus, NJ/Paramus) drew the lone assist on Morgan's goal against Ramapo, while sophomore goalkeeper DAVID AVILES (Dover, NJ/Dover) had four saves for Montclair in recording his fourth shutout of the season.

Freshman netminder Patrick Jagodzinski (Lebanon, NJ/Immaculata) had four stops for the visiting Roadrunners, who were outshot, 12-11, but had six of the game's seven corner kicks. Junior midfeidler Matt Chester(Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) led Ramapo with five shots. Morgan's game-winning goal, his second straight in the ECACs, came with just under 17 minutes left when Tasci carried the ball down the right side and centered to Morgan in front, who tapped the ball past Jagodzinski and inside the far left post.

MSU and Ramapo played to a scoreless tie on September 27 this year in Mahwah.The Red Hawks, who also topped Ramapo, 1-0, in the first round of last year's ECAC Metro Tournament, eventually fell to Stevens Tech, 1-0, in double overtime in the final. Montclair previously won the ECAC title in 1988 and 1993 and has finished runner-up four times (1994, 1997, 2000, 2002).