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After suffering their first losses of the season over this past weekend, Rutgers women’s soccer team slid down the rankings a bit in the latest United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA DI Women’s poll.
Rutgers, No. 9 in the nation a week ago, is now No. 16 in the latest poll.
Rutgers was upset on Friday at home in a 4-3 loss to Princeton, now 5-0-1 on the season and No. 22 in the poll. Then Sunday, the Scarlet Knights lost at Georgetown, who are 3-0-4 and ranked No. 25.
On Thursday, they have a home match against Drexel before they begin the Big Ten portion of the schedule with a Sunday match against No. 8 Penn State (6-1-0).
Rutgers is one of three programs from the Big Ten ranked in the women’s poll with No. 21 Michigan (6-1-0) rounding out the conference’s representation alongside Penn State.
The men’s team remains undefeated, beating St. Joseph’s 2-1 on Monday and outlasting Lehigh 3-2 at home over the weekend.
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The men did not receive any national votes in the most recent poll. They are 5-0-1 on the year.
“I don’t think we played our best soccer tonight, but was proud of the fight,” Rutgers men’s soccer coach Jim McElderry said after the match.
“We were able to keep our legs fresh and generate some great offensive chances with Nico [Rosamilia] and Ola [Maeland] coming in as substitutes in the first half. We were able to disrupt enough of their momentum in the second half to gut out the win. Plenty to work on this week ahead of a tough one at Indiana.