Big Comeback Lifts Hofstra Over Stony Brook
from press release
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Tom Dooley's goal with 1:38
remaining capped off a furious comeback as the Pride rallied from a
five-goal second half deficit for a 12-11 victory Tuesday night.
The Pride (10-2) trailed 9-4 less than three minutes into the third
quarter before outscoring the Seawolves, 8-2 the rest of the way.
Dooley finished with three goals and two assists, while Kevin Ford
(pictured) had a career best five goals and an assist on the
evening. Stony Brook falls to 7-5 with the loss.
The two teams started off slowly with Hofstra taking a 1-0 lead
5:51 into the game on Ford's first goal of the game off an assist
from Sean Lucas. A little over two minutes later the Seawolves tied
the score on Robbie Campbell's unassisted tally and then took a 2-1
lead on Kevin Crowley's goal with 4:12 on the clock. Campbell's
goal started a 5-0 run for the Seawolves that saw Crowley add a
second score before Steve Waldek and Jordan McBride ended it with
13:37 remaining in the second quarter.
Hofstra's Jay Card cut the deficit to 5-2 off a feed from Steve
DeNapoli 5:39 into the second, but Stony Brook would score three of
the next five goals to take an 8-4 advantage into halftime. Kyle
Belton extended the lead 2:20 into the third quarter, converting a
Crowley feed for a 9-4 lead. Ford, however, ignited a 4-0 run for
the Pride, with the red-shirt freshman getting two goals in the
spurt. Dooley's goal at the 5:20 mark of the fourth quarter capped
the run and came off a pass from Michael Colleluori to make the
score 9-8 in Stony Brook's favor.
McBride scored from Campbell at 6:51 to put the Seawolves back up
by two,10-8, before Ford scored his fourth and fifth goals of the
night to knot the score at 10 with 5:46 remaining. A little over
three minutes later Card gave the Pride their first lead since 1-0,
when he fired in a shot from 35 yards past an out-of-position Stony
Brook keeper Charlie Paar for an 11-10 Pride advantage.
The lead was short-lived as Stony Brook won the ensuing faceoff and
raced downfield to score the equalizer off the stick of McBride
with 2:21 remaining. The Pride would not be denied and with 1:38 on
the clock, Ryan Carter passed from behind the net to Dooley, who
one-timed a shot past Paar. Stony Brook did have one last
possession following a Hofstra turnover with 17 seconds left, but
their long clearing pass went out of bounds and Hofstra ran out the
final seconds for their eighth win in the last nine games.
McBride had four goals to lead Stony Brook, while Crowley had two
goals and an assist. Paar made 12 saves in a losing effort. In
addition to Dooley and Ford, sophomore midfielder Steven DeNapoli
posted a team season -high nine ground balls to go with two assists
and Jay Card added three goals and one assist. Freshman Andrew
Gvozden recorded eight saves for his eighth victory of the
season.
The Pride outshot Stony Brook, 36-33, and Hofstra picked up 38
ground balls to the Seawolves 32. Hofstra, which has already
captured the CAA regular season title, returns to action this
Saturday, April 28 when they host CAA-rival Villanova in their
final regular season match-up before the conference championship.
Game time is 7 p.m. at Shuart Stadium.
