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Nine points from Charlie Kitchen and an overtime winner from Tye Kurtz helped Delaware stay atop the CAA standings with a 15-14 comeback win at Hofstra on Saturday.
Down three goals entering the fourth quarter, the No. 16 Blue Hens (7-2) scored seven consecutive times to take a commanding three-goal lead with eight minutes remaining. Delaware took their foot off the gas and let the Pride back into it as Hofstra scored three in the final 49 seconds to force OT.
Second-team Midseason All-American Owen Grant held Ryan Tierney without a point all afternoon until a loose scramble saw the ball end up in Tierney’s stick behind the goal. Tierney found Justin Lynskey in front to set the Hofstra program record for career points with his 239th overall point.
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Delaware s Mark Bieda (48) had four goals and two assists in Delaware s 19-12 win over Drexel.
So it turned out there wasn’t quite as much separation this week as expected.
Chalk some of it up to Georgetown’s trip to Denver being delayed by three days due to snow, a blessedly normal sort of postponement in a year that’s already seen more than enough of them for virus-related reasons (Saturday alone featured five such games).
And some of it stems from just how North Carolina and Maryland collected key conference victories in the week’s most high-profile games.
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We are living with postponements and programs in pause. We witnessed monster goal-scoring runs this week.
We were treated to a more robust slate of Sunday games because of on-campus social distancing and facility availability. I think that’s a longterm positive. Why stack all the games on Saturday? The game grows when teams play on Thursday night, Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Everybody can’t play Saturday at the same time.
Maryland, North Carolina and Johns Hopkins picked up marquee wins. Duke dominated. Lehigh is legit. Vermont and Delaware are surging. UMass made its belated debut.