Card Caps Dramatic Hofstra Rally

from press release

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Sophomore Jay Card scored his third goal of the game
with just four seconds remaining to give the 13th-ranked Pride of
Hofstra (1-0) an 11-10 victory over #20 Massachusetts (1-1) at James M.
Shuart Stadium Saturday afternoon.

Card, a native of Caledon, Ontario, Canada, scored all three of his
goals in the final 12 minutes as Hofstra scored six times in the final
quarter. He tied the game at 10-all with 1:12 to play, taking a pass
from senior Michael Colleluori to the right of UMass goalie Doc
Schneider (8 saves) and firing a bullet from eight yards out. On the
winning goal, Card took a pass again on the right side, ducked under a
charging defender, and beat Schneider low for the game-winner.

Card, the 2008 CAA Rookie of the Year who had three game-winning goals
last season, tied the game at 7-7 just 3:48 into the fourth quarter,
taking another pass from Colleluori down low and to the side of the
cage. Colleluori tallied two goals and three assists in the contest
while junior Dan Stein and red-shirt freshman Kevin Ford each added two
goals. The Minutemen of Massachusetts were led by seniors Evan Blum and
Rory Pedrick with two goals and one assist each.

In the 34th installment of one of college lacrosse’s fiercest
rivalries, the Minutemen jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Blum and
senior Jim Connolly in the first six minutes. Ford put Hofstra on the
board with a 13-yard, man-up bullet from the center of the box with 4:36
to play in the first. But UMass freshman Anthony Biscardi and Hofstra
junior Danny Stein exchanged goals to close the first quarter with the
Minutemen ahead, 3-2. Stein’s goal came with two seconds remaining on
a wrap-around.

Massachusetts opened the second quarter with three straight goals as
Pedrick scored 4:54 into the period, and sophomore Ryan Hantverk and
senior face-off specialist Joe Reale scoring eight seconds apart late in
the period to build a 6-2 lead. Pride sophomore Stephen DeNapoli closed
the gap with a goal while falling down that beat Schneider high just 15
seconds later. But junior middie Bobby Hayes gave the Minutemen a 7-3
lead at the break off a pass from Pedrick with 14 seconds to play.

The Pride came out with a sense of urgency in the second half and
scored four unanswered goals to tie the game at 7-all. Colleluori
started the run with a 12-yard bullet off the stick of Schneider 5:27
into the third to cut the gap to 7-4. Almost six minutes later senior
Ryan Carter took a cross-field pass from Colleluori a fired a shot past
Schneider from 12 yards out. In the fourth quarter, Stein scored again
on a wrap-around just 1:24 into the period before Card tied the game off
the pass from Colleluori two minutes later.

UMass ended the run as Reale picked up the ground ball off the ensuing
face-off and ran through the Pride defense and beat Hofstra goalie Danny
Orlando (5 saves) from five yards for an 8-7 lead. Ford tied the game at
8-8 for Hofstra 2:33 later with a 15-yard bullet after a pass from Card.
But a minute later Blum scored his fourth of the season on a 12-yard
shot from the left of Orlando, and Pedrick scored on a jump shot from
eight yards in front three minutes after that to take a 10-8 lead.

Colleluori brought Hofstra back to within one with 2:44 to play with
his second of the game on the run before Card tied the game with 1:12 to
play. On the ensuing face-off sophomore middie Joe Montemurro won the
face-off and started the Pride on their road to victory.