Flying Dutchmen Fans

Hofstra opens the season today against LIU. The Mennella sisters are both back and so r hopes for this program this year. https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/2/8/wom ... sland.aspx

So we trounce LIU 13-5 after a 2 hour plus delay of the start of the game that was supposed to be played at LIU and wound up being played at HU. Mennella sisters combined for 6 goals and 3 assists and Melissa Sconone adds 3 goals and 2 assists. I'm assuming after this trouncing that LIU is not a good team. Correct??

Yes
lets see how they play against conference foes Delaware Drexel and Towson
Dont think they are at SBUs level yet

We're 1-2 now after consecutive losses to USC 9-15 and Fairfield yesterday 9-12. Mennella sisters have been scoring but not all that much else after them. Comments??

team is not deep and in womens lacrosse you need to score between 12 to 15 goals to win games
The womens game is more offensive friendly than to mens game

Thanks Stu for the insight!

After a loss to Army 11-18 we beat Wagner 17-2 and Marist 14-10. We played UCONN today who apparently is not that good coming in at 1-4 and lose 11-13. So we can beat bad teams but teams that have any upside seem to be too much for us. Just trying to keep women's lacrosse in the conversation.

like I said team is not deep
Menella coming off injury
also CAA is tougher than the OOC scedule
Look at Stonybrooks , OOC, and look at our OOC
look at Stoneybrooks OC and look at our OC. It’s it’s like night and day.

So we're now 3-0 in the CAA after blowing out Elon 17-7. We're getting a lot of points from both Taylor Mennella and Melissa Sconone who's a graduate student transfer from N Carolina. Does anyone know what happened to Nikki Menella? Is she hurt again?

I think she is hurt
could be game to game
Hiw good is this team
lets see how we do against Drexel Towsen, and Delaware beat those three and with the second best team in the conference
Unfortunately, Stonybrook is in a class by itself
We be Campbell 12 to 10
Stonybrook without their best player to destroy Campbell 21 to 3

So here's your answer Stu we blow out Towson yesterday 15-8 we're now 4-0 and 7-4 overall. Sconone and Walser lead the charge but Nikki is back and makes a major contribution in this game with 3 goals and 2 assists. This is great news for us and I wonder can we compete with that other Long Island team who's also 4-0 and 9-2 overall??

Yes it should be a close and competitive game. This is Shannon Smiths best team

We get beat up by Rutgers yesterday 14-8 and were down 12-2 at the half. Clearly not competitive at this level.

We again dominate another CAA team yesterday and beat up on Monmouth 22-7 after leading 7-0 after the 1st quarter. Tomorrow we have to play Delaware and next week we come back to reality against S.B. WHO'S 6-0. Drexel tied with us at 5-0. If we win tomorrow is this a team who could finish in 2nd place in this league? I know we're looking good in a WEAK league.

So reality clicked in and we lost to Stony Brook 18-5
It was a no contest from start to finish
Shows you the gap between the best team in the CAA vs the second best team
we were ranked 51 and Stony Brook 13
biggest reason look at the OOC schedule
There is no comparison to the quality opponents. Stonybrook plays as opposed to the opponents played.

Yup embarrassing loss we were down 5-0 in the blink of an eye. We don't belong on the same field with this team but have made strides so far this year.

Agreed but still a big gap
At least Shannon is making the right moves beating teams like Delaware, Towson and Drexel

We play Drexel again in the semi-final after losing to them by 1 a few days ago. They finished as the 2nd seed we finished third. A very winnable game even if the championship won't be. https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/4/30/wo ... inals.aspx

Good luck to our women's lacrosse team today. They face Drexel at 2:30 pm on LacrosseTV.

And congratulations to the seven team members on their All-CAA honors:

https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/5/1/wom ... teams.aspx