NCAA Lacrosse Player Blogs: Hofstra Cribs Edition

The Game

The Dutchmen came away with another big conference win this past Saturday as they beat Robert Morris in a CAA matchup 11-5. The big story of the game is that ten different Pride players scored goals including one apiece from the defensive rope of Steve Prifte, Steven DeNapoli, and the first career goal for Tim Holman. In net, Baby Gvozden made eight saves, many of the spectacular kind, to preserve his fourth win in his rookie season. On defense, Adam “A-Bomb” Swarsen and Mike “The Cat” Skudin once again played well.

Up next for the Pride is the Big City Classic at the Meadowlands for another huge conference matchup with the Delaware Blue Hens. It should be another exciting game so don’t miss it!

YouTube Video of the Week

In what will become a weekly staple of my blog, I will be including a YouTube video that will be a must see. This week’s video comes from Mobile, Alabama where it seems a leprechaun is on the loose.

I want the Gold!!!!

Interview with Keith Prifte

1) What is your most memorable non-lacrosse experience?
All of my high school senior year.

2) If you could have dinner with any three people dead or alive, who would they be?
George Washington, JP Morgan, and John Candy.

3) Are you a Mac or a Windows guy and why?
Mac. I’m a sucker for anything with an Apple logo on it.

4) What is your favorite restaurant?
My favorite restaurant at home is called the Library. They have the best salad bar in the world. Up here at school, my favorite is Grand Lux. Their lemonade is unreal.
5) If you live anywhere, where would it be?
The two places I want to move to after graduating are New York City and Washington D.C. I also want to move to a completely random country for a couple years someday.

6) What was your senior high school prank?
On our senior trip to Walt Disney World, we all decided to sprint to the hotel pool at 1am while a certain room played a song. Only about twenty of us did it, but it was hilarious.

7) What was your first college goal?
Well, I only have one and it was the last goal against Sacred Heart last year. It is now famously referred to as my game winning goal. My dad is building an awesome train set which has Hofstra’s stadium on it and that score is going to be on the scoreboard.

If you were stranded on an island, what three items would you want?
A Chic-Fil-A, my friend Bob because he is constant entertainment, and a bom-box.

9) What are your favorite movie performances?
My three favorite movie performances are Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights, Tom Hanks in Forest Gump, and Morgan Freeman is The Shawshank Redemption.

10) What is a little known fact about you?
At the end of the summer, my parents and I found a nest of baby flying squirrels in our attic. I took care of two of them for a month hand feeding them with an eye dropper. Unfortunately, they both died for unknown reasons. I’m going to buy two more once I get my own place because they were awesome.

Hofstra Cribs- The 1st Edition

In the first edition of Hofstra Cribs, I visited the Senior Lacrosse House. This has become the go to hangout of the Hofstra lacrosse team after games and for after hour events. The house members include Ryan Carter, Steve Prifte, Tom Shuey, Keith Prifte, and Jack Vivonetto (as seen below). This house also has many very, very frequent weekly visitors such as Anthony Muscarella, Mike Skudin, and Steven DeNapoli (seriously, they are extremely frequent visitors).

The housemates

Down time

In this picture, Tom Dooley, Ryan Carter, Keith Prifte, and Tom Shuey are enjoying some nice quality time together in the main gathering area of the house. Notice on the left wall, the American flag is flying, a natural staple of any real household. On the back wall, we have a holdover from the Devon lacrosse house (the junior house last year). This majestic oil painting was given as a gift to the Priftes and Devon house about eighteen months ago by Lynchburg University’s finest, Bob McGrath. Bob junk picked it at a nursing home that he worked at and knew he had to have it. It has held a place of honor ever since.

Uh oh.

This warning notice was placed over the kitchen sink by Steve Prifte. Apparently, Steve is the only one who cleans dishes in the household and other house members leave their dirty dishes in the sink. Steve has recently had to discard multiple fine china plates due to a lack of effort in the household when it comes to cleaning them. The Senior House now only uses the finest of paper plates.

Senior House kitchen

Red Room Garage

The Red Room Garage (above). It is used primarily for after hour events. The decorating of the Red Room is courtesy of Keith Prifte and Tom Shuey. Those of you who followed the 2008 Presidential Race may recognize the red carpet as it is the same red carpet used for the third and final presidential debate, which was held at Hofstra. Now inquiring minds may be wondering how the house acquired such a token as the presidential debate carpet. Well, Jack Vivonetto was walking around the outside of the basketball arena where the debate was held and saw the red carpet just lying in a dumpster. Figuring it had some sort of value, Jack took almost 200 ft. of this carpet out of the dumpster with the intent of selling it on EBay as a souvenir of the last presidential debate. I mean, such stars as John McCain did walk on it. Anyways, anyone interested in such a wonderful souvenir as the one and only red carpet used for the 2008 third and final presidential debate may contact us. Also, the senior house has the staircase that led up to stage. Again, John McCain walked up those very steps.

NHL '09

Above, we see Steve Prifte and Ryan Carter playing NHL ’09 on PS3. This has become the go-to video game of the 2009 Dutchmen. As a side note, in my one and only game against Ryan Smith and only my second time ever playing, I won 1-0 and thus lead the season series one game to none.

Call of Duty

Above, we see senior captain Jack Vivonetto in his room playing Call of Duty 4 on his Xbox 360. As you may notice, there are stairs in the middle of his room and that may seem a bit odd to readers and rightfully so. That’s because Jack lives in Tom Shuey’s hallway. Jack originally lived in the basement of the house, but because of the HUGE crickets down there, he was too scarred to live down there and decided a move to Tom’s hallway would be for the best.

Sweet FatHead

Above, we see Steve Prifte’s room. Steve is a diehard New York Giants fan so of course, as any diehard fan would, he has a fathead on the wall of perhaps the greatest linebacker to ever play in the NFL, Lawrence Taylor. You may also notice a television stand against the far wall that has no television. His recently went MIA and if anyone has seen it, please contact us immediately.

Carter's spot

Finally, as we see above, Ryan Carter is relaxing on your standard futon. However, you may see several notable items above him. Naturally, the flag on the left side of the wall was a gift from me to the house. To the right of the flag, there is a 2009 Hofstra Pride poster. Above that is a Newsday paper with Bernie Madoff on the cover. The seniors put the picture up because Madoff looks a lot like a certain Dutchmen player’s father. We also have a souvenir towel from a 2009 Giants Divisional playoff game, which they lost.

Senior House favorite place to eat: Ralph’s Italian Ices

An interesting tidbit about the house: The landlord of the house, Tom, is a former Ole Miss quarterback and a former Vietnam pilot, who currently resides in Georgia. One day over this past summer, he came to visit the house and check up on the guys, and the first thing he noticed was that the colors were proudly being flown outside the house. He told the guys how awesome it was that the American Flag was flying and proceeded to say that the United States is not the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave; but rather, it is the Land of the Free BECAUSE of the Brave.

Till next week, keep your head to the grindstone and God Bless America!

(as seen on Insidelacrosse.com: )

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