NAZARETH DOWNS CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, 14-8
O'Keefe and Amidon help lead Golden Flyers to victory
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. (March 13, 2007) -- Senior Conor O'Keefe (pictured) scored a career-best four goals while fellow senior Chad Amidon recorded three goals and three assists to help lead Nazareth to a 14-8 victory over Connecticut College in a non-conference game played at Sony Brook's Lavelle Stadium Tuesday.

With the victory, the seventh-ranked Golden Flyers improve their record to 4-0 while Connecticut College falls to 0-2.

Steve Dachille scored just 2:06 into the game to give the Camels an early 1-0 lead. However, Nazareth answered quickly with seven consecutive goals in under 10 minutes to take a 7-1 lead. O'Keefe began Nazareth's scoring run with an unassisted goal and scored two more of his goals during the stretch. Junior Matt Aloi, freshman Erinn O'Hara, and seniors Francis Donald and Jordan Hirsch also recorded goals for the Golden Flyers during the scoring spree.

Connecticut recorded a goal at the end of the first quarter and two goals in the first 2:16 of the second quarter to cut Nazareth's lead to 7-4 before Amidon scored to extend Nazareth's lead to four goals. Craig Audin (three goals) recorded his second goal with 8:38 left in the second half to again cut the Golden Flyers' lead to three goals, but that is as close as the Camels would come to taking the lead.

Nazareth junior Aaron Civilier scored with 3:55 left in the second quarter to give the Golden Flyers a 9-5 lead at halftime. The Golden Flyers controlled the third quarter after Amidon scored just 40 seconds into the quarter. O'Hara and O'Keefe eached scored before Amidon scored his third goal of the game to give Nazareth a commanding 13-5 lead late in the third quarter.

The Golden Flyers scored on three out of four of their extra-man opportunities, held a 50-42 advantage in shots, and a 38-32 advantage in ground balls. Senior goalie Pat Mullin made eight saves in about 43 minutes of playing time to record the victory for Nazareth. Freshmen goalies Cory Spinale and Chris Hoffmeister each saw about eight minutes of action in the second half for the Golden Flyers.

Nazareth will try to remain undefeated when it plays again Saturday against 12th-ranked St. Lawrence University at Corcoran High School in Syracuse at 12 p.m.