Wrestling alums Jon Masa (Long Beach, NY) and Michael Patrovich (Islip, NY) and current student-athlete Lou Ruggirello (Walden, NY) will be recognized for being selected to the CAA honorary team. As part of the 25^th Anniversary of the Colonial Athletic Association, the CAA is honoring silver anniversary teams in each of its sports during this academic year. These teams consist of the 25 top players in CAA history in each sport, as voted on by a panel of coaches. On Saturday, Hofstra will honor three of its eight student-athletes who were chosen to the CAA 25^th Anniversary wrestling team.

Masa is the only three-time All-American in Hofstra history. He posted a record of 126-25 during his career at Hofstra. The Long Beach High School graduate is also one of only two Hofstra wrestlers who captured four conference championships, winning in 2002 at 141 pounds, and in 2003, 2005 and 2006 at 149 pounds. Masa was selected the CAA Wrestler of the Year in 2005 after a 26-10 record, and the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the CAA Championships in 2006. He earned All-American honors at the NCAA championships by placing seventh in 2003, fifth in 2006 and third in 2005.

Patrovich was a four-time NCAA qualifier for the Pride and recorded a career record of 106-30 between 2001 and 2007. The Islip High School product captured CAA championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was named the CAA Wrestler of the Year in 2006 following a 34-5 season. He was selected the Most Outstanding Wrestler at the  2007 CAA Championships. Patrovich earned All-American honors at the NCAA Championships by placing fourth at 174 pounds in 2006 and sixth at 165 pounds in 2007.

Ruggirello is currently a red-shirt on the 2009-10 Pride wrestling team and will return to intercollegiate competition next season. In his three seasons with the Pride, he is a three-time CAA champion at 133 pounds and a three-time NCAA qualifier. The Valley Central High School graduate in Montgomery, New York has recorded a career record of 99-21 since arriving at Hofstra in 2006. Ruggirello was named the CAA Rookie of the Year after posting a 31-9 overall mark, a 20-4 record in duals and a 7-0 mark in conference matches in 2007. In 2008, he was awarded the Manual Gorrarian Award at the NCAA Championships after recording the most pins in the quickest amount of time. Ruggirello is also a two-time National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic Team member and was voted the 2009 CAA Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Hofstra's five other alums who were named to the CAA 25th Anniversary Wrestling Team, Jason DeBruin, Charles Griffin, Chris Skretkowicz, James Strouse and Chris Weidman, will be honored at a later time when schedules permit.

The Brown match is the middle match of a busy weekend for the Pride that has them facing Army Friday night (7:30 p.m.) at West Point, Brown Saturday at 3 p.m. and Harvard at 5 p.m. Hofstra, 2-3-1 on the season, had its run of bad luck continue in last Sunday's loss to #3 Ohio State. The Pride, who lost sophomore starters Steve Bonanno (125) and Justin Accordino (149) earlier this season, lost junior 165-pounder, Ryan Patrovich for the season with a knee injury. In addition, freshman, 133-pounder Jamie Franco, who is filling in for the three-time CAA champion Lou Ruggirello, who is red-shirting this season, went down with a shoulder injury that will cause him to miss at least four weeks.

Patrovich (16-7), who was ranked 10th in the nation at 174 pounds before last Sunday's loss to Ohio State's Dave Rella dropped him to 20th this week, ends a promising season that saw him place fifth at both the Cliff Keen-Las Vegas Invitational and the Southern Scuffle last month, and capture the North Carolina State Open in November. Bonanno and Accordino, like Patrovich, were also nationally ranked at the time of their injuries.

Senior Jonny Bonilla-Bowman (4-2), ranked 19th at 157 pounds, is now Hofstra's lone ranked wrestler this week by InterMat. Sophomore P.J. Gillespie (18-8), who leads the team in victories, fell out of the top 20 this week at 165 pounds after being ranked 16th, as did classmate Ben Clymer (12-4), who was 20th at 184 pounds in the last poll.

All three of Hofstra's opponents this weekend also have busy schedules this weekend. The Black Knights of Army, who will host the Pride at Gillis Field House at West Point will also host the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Boston University and Rutgers on Sunday. Army is 0-2 in dual matches this season and are led by senior Richard Starks, who is ranked 17th at 197 pounds with a 6-0 record.

The Bears of Brown University, like Hofstra, will also have three dual matches this weekend. Brown will begin its dual match season on Friday at Rutgers with duals against the Scarlet Knights and Franklin and Marshall before coming to Hofstra Saturday afternoon. The Bears placed seventh at the Keystone Classic and 38th at the Cliff Keen-Las Vegas Invitational earlier this season.

The Crimson of Harvard University is following the same schedule as Brown this weekend. Harvard heads into Friday's matches with a 1-2 dual match record with a win over Sacred Heart and losses to Penn State and Northern Iowa. Harvard, which placed 18th at the Cliff Keen-Las Vegas Invitational in December, has two ranked wrestlers in seniors J.P. O'Connor (14-0), who is ranked number one at 157 pounds, and Louis Caputo (5-2), who is ranked 10th at 184 pounds.