By Hailey Oliveri and Alex Mitchell - STAFF WRITERS
The Pride set a new record in victory over Marist.
Records were broken this past Friday for the Women’s Lacrosse Team. Improving their record this season to 3-2, the Pride took the win up at Tenney Stadium over Marist 12-8. With a solid effort from many of the Prides’ players, nobody had a better night than senior defender April Iannetta.
With five draw controls, Iannetta was able to break the schools record of 145 set back in the early 2000’s by Becky Thorn and bring the record to 146. With the season being nowhere close to done, Iannetta will surpass Thorn’s record greatly and hold the title of all time leader in draw controls.
Iannetta wasn’t the only senior on the team to have a team leading number that night. Senior attacker Brittan Altomare lead the team in points with two goals and three assists giving her a total of five points.
In Hofstra’s last outing against defending champions Maryland, freshman Amanda Seekamp showed everyone that the freshman could really bring their A-game.
Seekamp scoring four out of the six goals on the Prides end that night did not disappoint in the matchup against Marist. Seekamp, alongside senior attacker Sam Lenox, scored a goal each to get the Pride off to an early 2-0 lead less than four minutes into the first half. Seekamp also recorded another goal and a groundball in the game.
It was a give-and-go game, and Marist fought hard. The Red Foxes were able to pull a 3-2 lead on a free position goal from Hayley Burke. Then the Pride took over.
The remainder of the half the Pride were led by Iannetta scoring two goals in a five goal run leaving the pride with a halftime lead of 7-3.
The second half was an equal effort on both ends of the field, with both the Pride and the Red Foxes both scoring five goals.
What the Pride lacked in their previous matchup against Maryland they brought to the table in this game against Marist. With long possessions that resulted in goals, along with Kelsey Gregerson’s nine saves and the 15 draw controls taken by Hofstra, the Pride was able to beat the Red Foxes.
The Hofstra Pride took down the Quinnipiac Bobcats on Sunday March 8 by a score of 14-9, improving to 4-2. What started out as a slow defensive game quickly took a wild turn. Hofstra started with two quick strikes within the first forty seconds and another five minutes later.
It wasn’t until about eight minutes in that Qunnipiac would find the back of the net answering one Pride goal cutting Hofstra’s lead to two. Hofstra then took a three goal lead back of Carlee Ancona’s second goal of the season with about five to play in the half. Quinnipac’s attacker Kyra Ochwat would answer with two goals of her own before the half finished, narrowing Hofstra’s lead to just 4-3.
The second half of play sparked higher amounts of offense for both squads. Hofstra scored four minutes in to the final half and that was promptly answered by Ochwat for her third goal of the game. Quickly following Hofstra put two up as well. Between the two teams, there was a total of five goals scored in about four minutes. Following that Quinnipiac put up two of their own bringing the score to 7-6. A little more than halfway through the final half, Brittan Altomare struck the net to get her second goal of the game, boosting the Pride up by two.
The Pride took care of business via a four goal run in nearly four minutes giving Hofstra a 12-7 advantage. Two of which were scored by Atlomare giving her a second four-goal game this season. Both units would finish the game scoring two a piece rendering the final score of 14-9. Tiana Parrella also finished with four goals, the last assisted by Altomare for her fifth one of the game.
Hofstra coach Shannon Smith said, “Overall the offense started to click a little bit and we couldn’t turn over the ball anymore.”
Altomare added, “This was a huge weekend for us it prepared us for CAA play.”
Hofstra prepares to take on Johns Hopkins at home on Saturday, March 14th for an afternoon showdown.