LEXINGTON, Va. --- Despite multi-score games from sophomore Collin Fogerty, senior Ryan Darrow, and senior Aaron Forster, the NJIT men's lacrosse team lost on the road to Virginia Military Institute Keydets, 15-8, Saturday afternoon.

Fogerty led NJIT (0-4) with three goals on the day while Darrow and Forster each netted a pair of scores. Forster also logged one of the Highlanders' two assists to join Fogerty as the only Highlanders to register three points against the Keydets (2-0).

Fogerty put NJIT on the board less than two minutes into the opening quarter after grabbing the rebound of a Forster saved shot and putting it home from the front of the net. VMI strung together the next three goals before sophomore Vincent D'Agostino trimmed the host's lead to one (3-2) with 47 seconds left in the period.

VMI extended its lead to 5-2 after the first five minutes of the second quarter but Forster (8:50) and Darrow (7:02) kept the Highlanders in striking distance - Forster by scoring after gatherling a loose ball and Darrow after being his defender in isolation from the top of the box. Two more Keydet goals would send NJIT into halftime needing to make up a 7-4 deficit.

Each team scored a goal to open the second half, with VMI scoring first and Fogerty answering with a solo score from the left wing. Forster would put in NJIT's sixth goal with eight seconds left and with the help of sophomore Jackson Boyd (10-6) but only after another pair of goals from VMI.

In the fourth, Darrow would score his second goal and Fogerty would add his third - the team's third man-up goal of the season - but it would not be enough as VMI added five more goals in the final period. 

After setting the NJIT single-game record for saves against Delaware (22), sophomore Alexzander Hunt finished with 20 saves to eclipse the 20 save mark for the second straight game. Junior John Tachon led the Highlanders with seven ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers.

NJIT will return to action on Saturday, March 2 at 4 p.m. with a home matchup with Quinnipiac at Rutgers-Newark's Alumni Field.