By Gio Annatelli — STAFF WRITER
The Pride received two goals each from Josh Byrne, Korey Hendrickson and Brian von Bargen but it wasn’t enough as a comeback surge from Georgetown downed Hofstra 11-6 at Shuart Stadium Saturday.
The eighth-ranked Pride lost its first game of the year as they fall to 3-1 while the Hoyas get their first win of the year and improve to 1-3. This is the second time this year where Hofstra was held to one goal in a quarter (once at North Carolina and three times this game).
Georgetown was led by freshman Daniel Bucaro with a hat trick and an assist, and also by Peter Conley who tallied two goal and six points.
The Hoyas took control for most of the first quarter. They scored two goals in the first 11 minutes thanks to Joe Bucci. The Pride didn’t go down easy, as they scored four unanswered to take the lead. Von Bargen scored on a feed from line-mate Hendrickson with about two minutes left to cut the lead to one.
Hendrickson got the ball rolling with a goal on man-up from a feed by Brendan Kavanagh just 42 seconds into the quarter to knot the game up at two. Von Bargen scored again to put Hofstra up and then Byrne would get a backwards-between-the-leg goal right in front of the Hoyas net to give his team a two score lead.
Down but not out, Georgetown responded with five straight goals to close out the first half and into the second. Bucaro scored on a man-up goal and was followed up by a goal from Zeke Morrill, also on man-up, to knot the game up at four. The teams went into the locker room tied up.
The Hoyas jumped right out of the gates in the second half thanks to goals from Bucaro, Devon Lewis and Stephen Quinzi all within four minutes of each other.
Byrne closed the deficit to two with his 14th goal of the season with the third quarter winding down. Yet, to close out the third and fourth quarters, Georgetown scored three more unanswered goals to bring the score to 10-5. Conley scored with 12 seconds left in the third while Bucaro and Matt Behrens scored in the beginning of the fourth.
Hendrickson made his second man-up goal of the day with under five minutes left in the game before Conley sealed the game with a goal at 3:11 to give Georgetown the 11-6 victory.
Jack Concannon received his first loss of the year, allowing 11 goals on 14 saves while Nick Marrocco allowed six goals on 15 saves for the victory.
The Pride won the ground ball battle, 32-30, and the battle at the face-off X, 13-8. The Georgetown defense was sound, forcing 17 turnovers and shutting down star Sam Llinares without a single point.
Hofstra will be back in action next Saturday, March 12th, as they host the Ohio State Buckeyes at James M. Shuart Stadium. Game time is set at noon.
