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2011 PRIDE PROFILES<br />
5<br />
STEVE<br />
SERLING<br />
Midfield<br />
6-0, 180, Graduate-Student<br />
Rockville Centre, NY/South Side<br />
High School Coach: Joe Baccerela<br />
First season on the Pride Lacrosse team…Comes<br />
to Hofstra following graduation from Lafayette<br />
College in Easton, Pennsylvania…At Lafayette College: Tallied 72 goals<br />
and 24 assists in three seasons at Lafayette…Graduated with a Economics<br />
and Business degree… 2010: USILA All-American honorable mention…<br />
USILA Scholar-All-America Team selection…Patriot League Offensive<br />
Player of the Year…All-Patriot League first team selection…Played and<br />
started in all 14 games for the Leopards…Tallied 37 goals and 12 assists<br />
for a team-high 49 points…Ranked first in the Patriot League and ninth in<br />
the nation in goals (2.64) and second in the Patriot League and 18th in the<br />
nation in points…Tallied five goals and three assists in the season opener<br />
against Fairfield…Scored five goals against Holy Cross…Scored three<br />
man-up goals and was credited with a game-winning goal…Picked up 14<br />
ground balls and took 101 shots…2009: Did not play due to injury…2008:<br />
Played and started in all 13 games…Tallied 23 goals and nine assists for a<br />
team-high 32 points…Scored four goals against Holy Cross and three goals<br />
against Wagner…Picked up 15 ground balls…2007: Played in 13 games<br />
and started 11 as a freshman…Second on the team with 12 goals including<br />
a season-high three against Drexel…Dished out three assists…Picked up<br />
nine ground balls…High School: Was a captain and three-year letterwinner<br />
in lacrosse at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York…<br />
Named to All-Nassau County teams as a senior in lacrosse and soccer…<br />
Captained the soccer team as well…National Honor Society member…<br />
Personal: Born May 9, 1988…Has two brothers and one sister…Pursuing<br />
a master’s degree in finance at Hofstra.<br />
Year GP Sht. G A Pts. GB<br />
2007* 13 39 12 3 15 9<br />
2008* 13 74 23 9 32 15<br />
2010* 14 101 37 12 49 14<br />
Career 40 214 72 24 96 38<br />
* - at Lafayette<br />
14<br />
STEPHEN<br />
BENTZ<br />
Attack<br />
6-0, 215, Senior<br />
Massapequa, NY/Massapequa<br />
High School Coach: Steve Mollot<br />
Fourth season on the Hofstra Lacrosse roster…<br />
Team Captain…2010: Started all 14 games as a<br />
junior…Was third on the team in scoring with 29<br />
goals and 12 assists for 41 points…Posted nine multi-goal games including<br />
a career-high five goals against Sacred Heart and Towson…Equaled his<br />
best single game points total of five with three goals and two assists against<br />
Brown…Tallied two goals and two assists against Princeton, Army and<br />
Delaware…Posted two goals against Drexel, UMass and Johns Hopkins…<br />
Ranked sixth in the CAA in goals (2.07) and seventh in points (2.93)…<br />
Netted four man-up goals including two against UMass…Picked up 26<br />
grounds balls including six versus Towson…2009: Played in 14 games as a<br />
sophomore…Seventh on the team in goals with six and added one assist for<br />
seven points…Scored goals against Johns Hopkins, Sacred Heart, Drexel,<br />
North Carolina, Stony Brook and Cornell…Assisted on a goal at Army…<br />
Five of his six goals were man-up…Picked up eight ground balls including<br />
24 — 2011 Hofstra Men’s Lacrosse<br />
two against Robert Morris…<br />
Took 10 shots of which eight<br />
were on goal…2008: Played in<br />
all 16 games as a freshman…<br />
Recorded one goal and two<br />
assists and took seven shots…<br />
Tallied a goal and an assist<br />
against Robert Morris…<br />
Picked up an assist against<br />
Sacred Heart…Posted four<br />
ground balls on the season…<br />
Tallied one ground ball against<br />
Massachusetts, Towson, Sacred<br />
Heart and Robert Morris…High School:<br />
Played four years of lacrosse, three years<br />
of football and two years of basketball at<br />
Massapequa High School in Massapequa<br />
Park, New York…Helped the Chiefs to two<br />
Nassau County championships in lacrosse…<br />
Member of two conference championship teams<br />
in basketball…All-Nassau County selection in both<br />
lacrosse and football as a senior…Two-time honorable mention<br />
all-county lacrosse pick…New York State Scholar-Athlete in football<br />
and basketball…Team captain in all three sports as a senior…Recorded<br />
31 goals, 31 assists and 87 ground balls as a senior…Most Valuable<br />
Player of the Exceptional Senior All-Star game…Won two gold medals<br />
as a member of the Long Island Empire State Games lacrosse team…<br />
Received Massapequa’s Superintendent’s Award and the Margaret<br />
<strong>Call</strong>ahan Leadership Award…Personal: Born January 20, 1989…Has<br />
one sister and one brother…Also recruited by Loyola, Johns Hopkins and<br />
Massachusetts…Hobbies include fishing and crabbing…Serves as a youth<br />
lacrosse coach…History major.<br />
Year GP Sht. G A Pts. GB<br />
2008 16 7 1 2 3 4<br />
2009 14 10 6 1 7 8<br />
2010 14 61 29 12 41 26<br />
Career 44 78 36 15 51 38<br />
20<br />
JAY<br />
CARD<br />
Attack<br />
5-10, 195, Senior<br />
Caledon, Ontario, Canada/<br />
The Hill Academy<br />
High School Coach: Brodie Merrill<br />
Fourth year on the Hofstra Lacrosse roster…<br />
Team Captain…Enters 2011 with a 28-game point scoring streak…2011<br />
Preseason All-CAA selection by Face-Off Yearbook…2010: USILA All-<br />
American honorable mention...All-CAA first team selection…Played<br />
and started in 13 games…Tied for the team lead in points with 53 and led<br />
the Pride in assists with 22…Ranked seventh in Division I in points per<br />
game (4.08), 13th in assists (1.69) and 19th in goals (2.38)…Tallied 31<br />
goals including nine multi-goal games…Posted a career-high with eight<br />
points on five goals and three assists against Army…Notched four goals<br />
against Maryland, Jacksonville and Sacred Heart…Recorded three goals<br />
and three assists against Delaware at the opening of the New Meadowlands<br />
Stadium…Posted seven multi-assist games including four against Johns<br />
Hopkins and three versus Sacred Heart, Army, Manhattan, Delaware…<br />
Netted five man-up goals on the season including two against both Army<br />
and Maryland…Posted one game-winning goal…Tallied seven points<br />
against Sacred Heart and six points against Johns Hopkins and Delaware…<br />
Picked up 31 ground balls including five against Johns Hopkins and four
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