Hempstead, NY – The Hofstra Men's Lacrosse team will play their final non-conference game of the season this Saturday, April 11 when the Pride travel to Ithaca, NY to face the 10th-ranked Big Red of Cornell. Game time at Schoellkopf Field is noon.
Pride Productions will have live audio beginning with the pregame show at 11:45 a.m. Julian Coltre and Matt Durant will have the call for the radio broadcast on WGCH (1490 AM). Live stats can be accessed at
CornellBigRed.com with links on GoHofstra.com as well.
Hofstra (4-7) is coming off an 11-8 loss to Marist at James M. Shuart Stadium this past Tuesday. After tying the game at 3-3 in the second quarter, the Pride watched as the Red Foxes scored seven of the next nine goals to build a 10-5 lead at the end of three quarters. The Pride scored three unanswered goals to start the fourth quarter and close to within two at 10-8. But a Marist man-up goal with 5:41 to play stopped the Pride momentum as Hofstra fell for the second consecutive game.
Hofstra senior short-stick defensive midfielder
Steve Romano recorded the first multi-goal game of his career with three goals while freshman
Dylan Alderman added two goals and one assist. Junior
Korey Hendrickson added two assists. The Pride's top two scorers were held off the stat sheet against the Red Foxes as junior
Sam Llinares saw his 39-game point scoring streak come to an end while senior
Mike Malave saw his 17-game goal and point streak also stopped,
Hofstra continues to be led in scoring by Llinares. The Tewaaraton Trophy candidate has a career-high 27 goals and 22 assists as he closes in on his career-high of 32 assists and 53 points which were both achieved last season. Llinares is also poised to become the first Hofstra player to record 50 points or more in consecutive seasons since Tom Kessler did so in 2000 and 2001. Malave, who posted his career-best 27th goal of the season against Drexel last Saturday, has 27 goals and three assists. Hendrickson has 10 goals and eight assists and Alderman has seven goals and 11 assists.
Kris Clarke has now won 154 of 236 face-offs for a .653 winning percentage.
Chris Selva has an 8.44 goals against average with 87 saves and a .492 save percentage.
Saturday's game is the ninth meeting between Hofstra and Cornell in a series that started in 1972. Cornell leads the series, 6-2. The two teams last met on April 12, 2014 in Hempstead.
Mike Malave's overtime goal gave #16 Hofstra a 10-9 win over #6 Cornell. Cornell's last win in the series came on May 9, 2009 in Ithaca, NY in the NCAA Championship first round. Cornell posted an 11-8 victory.
The 10th-ranked Big Red of Cornell enter Saturday's game against the Pride with an 8-3 record following their 12-6 victory over Canisius on Tuesday.
The Big Red have wins over Hobart (16-8), Binghamton (17-10), Albany (16-9), Yale (14-7), Colgate (10-9 in OT), Penn (10-9 in three overtimes), Dartmouth (8-2) and Canisius. Their losses have come to Syracuse (14-6), Virginia (15-14) and Harvard (10-9).
Cornell has six players in double-figure goal scoring. Senior Matt Donovan has posted 31 goals and 16 assists while classmate Connor Buczek has added 27 goals and 12 assists. Senior John Hogan has tallied 15 goals and 16 assists, classmate Dan Lintner has added 20 goals and two assists and junior John Edmonds has contributed 14 goals and four assists. Junior Bradlee Lord has chipped in 10 goals and four assists, Sophomore Domenic Massimilian has won 176 of 263 face-offs for a .669 winning percentage and sophomore goalie Christian Knight has an 8.88 goals against average with 98 saves and a .508 save percentage in 11 games this season.
