Hofstra Offense Provides Lightning Strikes To Win NCAA First Round Game
Miles McQuiggan
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (Nov. 13, 2021) – The Hofstra women’s soccer team earned a trip to the NCAA Second Round with a 3-0 win over Providence on an eventful Saturday afternoon both at the Hofstra Soccer Stadium and within the Championship bracket.
Georgia Brown scored the opening goal for Hofstra before
Lucy Porter’s tally led the Pride to a 2-0 halftime advantage. Porter’s goal earned the CAA Midfielder of the Year Hofstra’s career points record with 123 and moved her up to ninth in CAA history in points.
The teams would return to play for the first 11:14 of the second half before severe thunderstorms, hail, and winds gusting above 40 miles per hour led to a 92-minute delay.
Play would resume and no one was more ready than the Pride’s
Miri Taylor, who scored 13 seconds following the resumption to give Hofstra the 3-0 lead that would hold up the rest of the way.
Hofstra produced its program-record 13
th shutout of the year and advances to the NCAA Second Round for the third time in the last four seasons.
The Pride will head to the West Coast for its Second Round game, as Hofstra faces South Carolina on Friday in Los Angeles after the Gamecocks picked off national seed North Carolina, 1-0, on Saturday.
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