Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra volleyball team will play four matches this week as the Pride gears up for the start of Colonial Athletic Association play next week. 

Hofstra will host St. Francis Brooklyn on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the David S. Mack Physical Education Center before heading upstate to take part in the Syracuse Tournament where the Pride will face the Orange, Army West Point, and Yale on Friday and Saturday. 

The home match against the Terriers will air on FloVolleyball and the weekend tournament will be available on the ACC Network Extra. 

The Pride most recently took part in the Denver Invitational where they dropped a three-set match to Butler before battling Portland and Denver in four sets before falling in both. Hofstra is 2-5 entering this week's matches. 

Hofstra is 9-0 all-time against St. Francis Brooklyn, 7-5 versus Syracuse, 6-2 against Army West Point, and 4-3 versus Yale. The Pride defeated the Terriers in four sets a season ago. They last faced Syracuse in 2018, falling in four sets. Hofstra swept Army West Point in 2018 in the last meeting and lost to Yale in three sets in 2009. 

The Pride will face three teams from the state of New York this week. Hofstra has had tremendous success against teams from New York. Since the program became Division I in 1982, the Pride is 119-35 (77%) against New York teams.