No. 11 Hofstra Beats No. 19 Brown 15-12
from press release
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Junior Stephen Bentz tallied
three goals and two assists and four other Pride players added two
goals as 11th-ranked Hofstra downed #19 Brown, 15-12, at James M.
Shuart Stadium Saturday afternoon. The Pride evened their record at
1-1 while the Bears dropped their season opener.
Hofstra sophomore Brad Loizeaux recorded two goals and one assist
while classmate Michael DeNapoli, junior Steven DeNapoli and
freshman Adrian Sorichetti each added two goals. Junior Jamie
Lincoln posted one goal and two assists for the Pride. Freshman
goalie Rob Bellairs stopped seven shots in the Hofstra cage. The
Bears of Brown were led by seniors Reade Seligman with three
goals and four assists and Thomas Muldoon with four goals and one
assist while junior David Hawley tallied three goals and one
assist.
The Bears opened the scoring with just 1:15 remaining in the first
quarter as Muldoon scored off a pass from Rob Schlesinger for a 1-0
lead-the Bears only lead of the game. The Pride took nine shots on
Brown goalie Matt Chriss with the junior making eight of his 13
saves in the
contest in the first quarter.
The Pride found the target in the second quarter, scoring six times
to take a 6-3 lead at the intermission. Just 12 seconds into the
second quarter Stephen DeNapoli scored right off the face-off to
tie the game at 1-1. Less than 90 seconds later, senior Danny Stein
found Bentz
coming around the back of the cage for his third goal of the season
and a 2-1 advantage. Muldoon tied the game from five yards out on a
perfect pass across the crease from Seligmann.
But Hofstra tallied three straight goals as Sorichetti notched his
third of the year from Michael Hamilton at the 11:52 mark, and
Bentz tallied his second and third of the game to build a 5-2 lead.
Seligmann brought the Bears back to within two with a bullet from
10 yards out off a pass from Hawley with 5:39 to play in the half
but Mike DeNapoli scored an unassisted goal on a charge to the cage
with 23 seconds remaining in the period to boost the Hofstra lead
to 6-3 at the break.
The second half featured nine goals and just two saves by each
team. Brown closed to 6-5 scoring two in the first 1:06 as Matt
Greenberg and Seligman dented the twine. But the Pride responded
with three unanswered goals as Lincoln posted his fifth of the year
at the 12:52 mark, Steven DeNapoli tallied a man-up goal 20 seconds
later, -and Tom Interlicchio posted his first of the year from
Lincoln four minutes after that for a 9-5 advantage.
Brown wasn't through as Muldoon scored his third and fourth of the
game 1:40 apart to close to within two. But the Pride responded
with goals from Sorichetti and Loizeaux to rebuild a four-game lead
at 11-7. The Bears made things interesting in the fourth quarter,
scoring four of the first five goals as Hawley scored twice and
Seligman and George Sherman sandwiched a Pride goal by Jay Card in
the first 5:37 to close to within one at 12-11. But Mike DeNapoli,
Michael Burke and Loizeaux scored unassisted goals down the stretch
to boost the Pride lead to 15-11. Hawley closed out the scoring
with 1:09 to play for Brown.
The Pride outshot the Bears, 39-30, and picked up 39 ground balls
to Brown's 25. Hofstra returns to action next Saturday, March 13
when the Pride entertain the fifth-ranked Blue Jays of Johns
Hopkins at 7 p.m.
