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2010 GAME SUMMARIES
up from Mann. But Hofstra then ran off four straight goals to take the lead
early in the fourth. First, Loizeaux fought through the Jacksonville defense
for his second of the game and 17th of the season, and Card made a dodge
to the goal for his second of the contest and 25th of the year with 4:07 to
play in the third. Card would then tie the game at 9-9 with six seconds to
play in the period off a pass from Sorichetti.
Hofstra would break the tie 1:32 into the fourth quarter as Loizeaux took a
pass from junior Stephen Bentz and scored on a runner in the middle of the
box. But sophomore Jeremy Tissenbaum tied the game for the Dolphins on
a running bullet from 12 yards two minutes later.
Hofstra senior Dan Stein gave the Pride the lead for good, taking a pass
on the crease from Loizeaux and scoring his seventh of the season. Just
33 seconds later, Sorichetti scored his ninth goal of the season on a bullet
from 13 yards out, and sophomore Mike DeNapoli tallied his ninth goal of
the year, on the man-up, off a pass to the crease from Jamie Lincoln for a
13-10 lead. Card closed out the scoring spurt with 7:26 to play, off a pass
from Loizeaux, for his 27th of the season. Gvozden blanked the Dolphins
the rest of the way.
Hofstra outshot the Dolphins, 36-26 and picked up 40 ground balls to
Jacksonville’s 29. The Pride also won 19 of 27 face-offs with freshman
John Antoniades winning 11 of 12 in the second half.
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Jacksonville 2 6 1 1 10
#11 Hofstra 4 2 3 5 14
JACKSONVILLE SCORING: GOALS: Serville, Ryan 2; Scalzo, Nick
2; Mann, Cameron 1; Tissenbaum, Jeremy 1; Kenary, Tj 1; Ziegler, Jake
1; Spindler, Stephen 1; Lange, Donovan 1. ASSISTS: Mann, Cameron
3; Green, Owen 1; Gurowski, Max 1; McNulty, Dan 1; Scalzo, Nick 1;
Serville, Ryan 1.
HOFSTRA SCORING: GOALS: Jay Card 4; Brad Loizeaux 3; Aaron
Jones 2; Adrian Sorichetti 1; Drew Coholan 1; Jamie Lincoln 1; Dan Stein
1; Mike DeNapoli 1. ASSISTS: Brad Loizeaux 2; Adrian Sorichetti 2;
Stephen Bentz 1; Drew Coholan 1; Tim Holman 1; Jamie Lincoln 1.
GAME 13
MAY 1 VS. #11 TOwSON:
Stephen Bentz tied a career high with five goals and Dan Stein tallied the
go-ahead goal with 4:31 remaining to lift #15 Hofstra to a 12-10 victory
over #11 Towson in a CAA matchup at James M. Shuart Stadium. By
beating the first-place Tigers, Hofstra closed out the regular season with a
9-4 overall record and a 2-3 ledger in the Colonial Athletic Association.
Kevin Ford joined Bentz in logging Hofstra’s only other multi-goal game,
scoring twice and adding two assists. Junior Jay Card added two assists.
Sophomore goalie Andrew Gvozden stopped four shots in the Pride cage.
Stein broke a 9-all tie late in the fourth quarter, completing a run from the
left sideline before making a cut-in move at the crease for his eighth goal of
the year. Ford added a man-up goal a little more than two minutes later on
a bounce shot from 15 yards, and Steven DeNapoli notched his fourth with
47 seconds to play to boost the Pride lead to 12-9. Towson closed out the
scoring with nine seconds to play on Will Harrington’s second goal of the
contest and 24th of the year.
The Pride got on the board 5:50 into the contest when Lincoln took Jay
Card’s pass and fired a behind-the-head shot past goalie Travis Love for a
1-0 lead. It was Lincoln’s 33rd goal of the year. Just 39 seconds later Tim
Stratton fed Christian Pastirik all alone in front of the crease for his 21st
goal of the year.
Hofstra reeled off three unanswered goals in a 1:01 span to build a 4-1 lead.
First, Tom Interlicchio ran from his defensive end, shook off a defender
and fired a 10-yard bullet for his fourth goal of the season with 6:52 to play
in the first quarter.
Bentz, who also collected six ground balls, then took a pass from Ford in
traffic and beat Love from six yards out 42 seconds later. Brad Loizeaux
then scored his 19th of the year 59 seconds later from nine yards for a 4-1
advantage. Matt Hughes then closed the gap for Towson with his ninth
of the year from the right side of the Pride cage with 1:37 to play in the
quarter.
The two teams exchanged goals in the second quarter with Bentz notching
his second of the game, from Ford, 1:10 into the period. Pastirik adding his
second from Stratton with 6:07 to play in the half as the Pride took a 5-3
lead into the locker room at halftime.
The two teams again split eight goals in the third quarter as the Pride
continued to hold a two goal lead after three periods. Hofstra scored the
first two goals of the quarter as Kevin Ford scored his 13th of the year from
18 yards out, and Bentz notched his 26th from 10 yards out to boost the
Pride lead to 7-3.
But the Tigers came right back with Carl Iacona posting his eighth of the
year and Stratton scoring his 14th of the season on a man-up opportunity
with 6:35 to play in the third, bringing Towson within 7-5.
Bentz tallied his fourth of the game1:07 later for Hofstra and Peter
Mezzanotte tallied his first of the year with 4:01 to play for Towson. Bentz
then tied his career-high with his fifth of the game and 28th of the year,
scoring off long-stick middie Adam Mojica’s pass off the face-off. Pastirik
then added his third, taking Matt Lamon’s feed from the center of the box
scoring from 11 yards-out with five seconds to play in the third, making it a
9-7 contest entering the fourth quarter.
The Tigers tied it up in the first 6:31 of the fourth quarter. Will Harrington
notched his 23rd of the year, scoring just off the crease, 2:37 into the
quarter, and Pastirik scored his fourth of the game and 24th of the year
almost four minutes later to tie the game at 9 before Hofstra’s final three
goal run.
Pastirik led the Tigers with four goals and two assists while Stratton ended
the contest with a goal and two assists. Love finished the game with eight
saves in the Towson cage. Hofstra outshot the Tigers, 32-30, and picked up
35 ground balls to Towson’s 17. The Pride effort was helped by freshman
face-off specialist John Antoniades, who won 17 of 25 face-offs.
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#11 Towson 2 1 4 3 10
#15 Hofstra 4 1 4 3 12
TOWSON SCORING: GOALS: Pastirik, Christian 4; Harrington, Will
2; Stratton, Tim 1; Iacona, Carl 1; Mezzanotte, Peter 1; Hughes, Matt 1.
ASSISTS: Pastirik, Christian 2; Stratton, Tim 2; Lamon, Matt 1.
HOFSTRA SCORING: GOALS: Stephen Bentz 5; Kevin Ford 2; Jamie
Lincoln 1; Steve DeNapoli 1; Dan Stein 1; Brad Loizeaux 1; Tom
Interlicchio 1. ASSISTS: Jay Card 2; Kevin Ford 2; Adam Mojica 1
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