Sat May 15 2021 | Nelson Rice | College
PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN OZER/RUTGERS ATHLETICS (@JOZER7)
Colin Kirst is interviewed on the field after making 17 saves in Rutgers 12-5 win Saturday over eighth-seeded Lehigh in Charlottesville, Va.
While most of the focus was on Rutgers’ 17-year NCAA tournament drought when the Scarlet Knights’ name was called on Selection Sunday for the first time since 2004, the program’s most recent, and only, NCAA tournament victory dated back 14 more years.
In 1990, Rutgers topped Virginia 7-6 in Charlottesville to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals.
Kyle Kirst was the Scarlet Knights’ goalie.
Almost 31 years later to the day on the same campus, Colin Kirst starred in between the pipes at Klöckner Stadium and fulfilled his family’s legacy. The Big Ten Goalie of the Year made 17 saves, many of the spectacular variety, against his former team to lift Rutgers to a 12-5 first-round win Saturday over eighth-seeded Lehigh and claim a spo
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On Sunday in College Park, Md., Jake, Jesse and Jared Bernhardt will all be wearing the same dented ring.
It’s engraved with “JB” for their dad Jimmy Bernhardt. The dents and the divots, the engraving, it’s there, two more copies molded for Jesse and Jared from dad’s original ring that Jake now wears. It’s a reminder of their late father and a Christmas gift from their mom, Catherine.
“I know their dad’s looking down on them from a different place. The boys all know he’s there,” Catherine says. “They all have his ring that he wore. They know that their dad is always with them.”