Purchase, NY - Senior midfielder Chris Meinxer (Hamburg, NJ/Vernon) and junior attack KEVIN GONDRES (Fair Lawn, NJ/Fair Lawn) each scored three times as Montclair State remained unbeaten with a 19-16 victory over Manhattanville College in the Knickerbocker Lacrosse Conference opener for both teams on Saturday.

RICH DOYEN (Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge) and BRIAN FISCHER (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) also had three goals each as the Red Hawks improved to 6-0 (1-0 KLC) overall.
Jim Frattarola (Yorktown, NY) and Andy Nagy (Gardiner, ME) each had three goals for the Valiants (2-4), whose rally in the fourth period fell short.

Montclair State used its man-advantage opportunities in the game to lead by as many as eight heading into the final period before Manhattanville mounted a rally led by Jim Seymour (Freeport, NY), who had three of his game-high six goals in the quarter.

Goalkeeper ALAN ANNAZONE (Fair Lawn, NJ/Fair Lawn) made 15 saves for MSU, which was 4-of-7 in their man-up chances. Anthony Ceretani (Waverly, NY) had nine saves for the Valiants.

The Red Hawks return to action on Wednesday, March 31 as they host the Cougars of Kean University in a Knickerbocker Conference matchup at Sprague Field, beginning at 7:00 pm.