The No. 20 (then No. 23) Knights took down No. 3 Northwestern this past Saturday. It was Rutgers’s highest ranked win to date, improving their record to 7-6 overall and 3-3 in the loaded Big Ten, with seven of nine teams in the Top 20 and five in the Top 10. Freshman Indy van Ek and Junior Iris Langejans, both hailing from the Netherlands, scored the Knights’s two goals. Langejans picked up Big Ten and National Defensive Player of the Week awards for her stellar play shutting down the nation’s leading scorer, Bente Baekers.
The game was part of RU’s weekend of celebrations in honor of the 50th anniversary of Title IX.