Hempstead, NY – While Mother Nature continues to wreak havoc on sports schedules in the northeast, the Hofstra Men's Lacrosse team will look to improve to 2-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association when the Pride host the Stags of Fairfield at James M. Shuart Stadium Friday night. Game time is 7 p.m. 

The contest was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, April 7 at 7 p.m. but was moved up due to weather and travel considerations.
 
Also, back by popular demand, fans can also get in on a special replica jersey ticket deal by purchasing a $20 ticket to the game that will include a replica camo jersey of what the Pride wore against Towson last weekend. 
 
Pride Productions will provide a live video stream of the contest. Hofstra will provide live game stats through HofstraStats.com. Pride Productions will also provide a live audio stream by WRHU, Radio Hofstra University with student broadcasters Nick Faria and Cristian Scovell describing the action. All links are available on this page as well as on the men's lacrosse schedule page at GoHofstra.com.

Hofstra is 5-4 on the season and coming off a 9-3 victory over the Towson Tigers, the CAA defending champions. After leading 2-1 at halftime, the Pride erupted for seven second half goals including four in the third quarter to post the win. Sophomore Ryan Tierney tallied four goals and one assist in the game and was named the CAA Player of the Week. Junior Jimmy Yanes added two goals and one assist while senior Dylan Alderman, who returned after missing the previous four games with an injury, added a goal and an assist. Senior Jack Concannon made seven saves in the Pride goal.
 
On the season, Hofstra allows only 7.00 goals per game while scoring 8.78 per outing. The Pride is also among the national leaders in defense, ranking fourth in Division I.

Hofstra has five players with double-figures in points through nine games as Tierney leads the team with 38 points on 18 goals and 20 assists after recording 11 assists in his last three games. Junior Jimmy Yanes has 23 points on 15 goals and eight assists while McIntosh has 18 goals and one assist. Senior Dylan Alderman, who missed the last four games due to injury, has five goals and seven assists in five games. Sophomore Kyle Gallagher is now 88-for-156 for a .564 winning percentage, while also picking up a team-best 61 ground balls and scoring twice. 

Fairfield and the Pride will be meeting for the 10th time. Hofstra leads the series, 5-4. Hofstra snapped a three-game losing streak to the Stags in 2017 defeating Fairfield, 10-6.

The Stags of Fairfield are 3-8 overall this season and 0-1 in the CAA. The Stags have wins over Saint Joseph's (11-6), Quinnipiac (9-6) and NJIT (12-8) this season. Their losses have come against Vermont (12-5), Rutgers (12-7). Hartford (16-11), Stony Brook (11-9), Yale (8-3), Penn State (17-13), Villanova (13-12 in OT) and Delaware (11-10). Fairfield enters the Hofstra contest on a two-game losing slide.

Fairfield, which averages 9.27 goals per game and allow 10.9 per contest, has six players with eight goals or more this season. The Stags are led in scoring by Joe Rodrigues with 26 goals and five assists in 11 games. Colin Burke has added 11 goals and a team-high 16 assists while Dylan Beckwith has contributed eight goals and 13 assists. Jack Brennan has tallied 12 goals and eight assists. In goal, Sean McKee has a 10.74 goals against average with 82 saves and a .485 save percentage in nine starts while Max McGuire has an 11.95 GAA with 17 saves and a .415 save percentage in two starts.