Hempstead, NY –Pride freshman Ryan Tierney scored a career-high five goals but Drexel rallied back from a 9-2 halftime deficit to post a 13-12 Colonial Athletic Association victory over previously undefeated and second-ranked Hofstra at James M. Shuart Stadium Saturday night.

Hofstra slips to 10-1 overall and 2-1 in the CAA while Drexel is now 5-6 on the year and 2-1 in conference play.

Tierney topped his previous best of four goals against both Georgetown and Stony Brook with four first half goals and one in the second half. Sophomore Jimmy Yanes added three goals and a season-high two assists for a career-high five points while junior Brendan Kavanagh added two goals. The Pride outshot the Dragons, 40-26 and picked up 31 ground balls to Drexel's 18. Junior goalie Jack Concannon made six saves in the contest with five coming in the first half.

Drexel was led by freshman Reid Bowering with career-highs of five goals, including four in the second half, and two assists for seven points. Senior Cole Shafer added three goals and two assists while classmate Robert Frazee tallied three goals including two consecutive goals in the fourth quarter that tied the game at 12-12 with 1:19 to play. Junior Jake O'Donnell scored the game-winning goal with 1:02 to play to cap the furious Drexel comeback. Senior goalie Jimmy Joe Granito recorded 15 saves including eight in the fourth quarter for the victory.

Hofstra was cruising, scoring the first five goals of the contest to take a 5-0 lead just 1:32 into the second quarter following Tierney's second goal of the contest. After Bowering put Drexel on the board almost two minutes later, the Pride scored four of the next five goals, with both Yanes and Tierney recording the hat-tricks, for a 9-2 halftime lead.

But Drexel did not quit in the second half and came out on fire. After Bowering, on the man-up for Drexel, and Kavanagh scored for Hofstra in the first two minutes of the third to move the score to 10-3, the Dragons scored seven of the next eight goals, with Bowering and Shafer each notching three to close to 11-10 after Bowering's fifth of the game, on the man-up, with 4:11 to play in regulation.

Tierney scored his fifth of the game with 2:30 remaining to give the Pride some breathing room at 12-10. But Frazee answered with back-to-back goals 29 seconds apart to tie the game at 12-all with 1:19 to play. Drexel broke the tie with 1:02 to play while on the man-up with Hofstra a man-down on a face-off violation. O'Donnell would score his fifth goal of the season off a pass from Bowering to hand the Pride their first loss of the year.

Hofstra returns to action next Saturday, April 22 when the Pride closes out their regular season home schedule against the Minutemen of Massachusetts. Game time for the Senior Day contest at Shuart Stadium is 1 p.m.