The Seawolves were not as fortunate this afternoon losing 1-0. In the last minute of the first half, the Hawks had the ball deep in Stony Brook territory when a ball caromed off the leg of midfielder Aleko Petridis onto the foot of substitute Omar Tall who found the right side of the net past a defenseless Carlos Villa from no more than 5 yards out.

Stony Brook Head Coach Ryan Anatol spoke about the goal after the game. “I don’t really know what happened I can’t say too much about the goal. It was off a free kick that could’ve gone either way. They put it in the box and tried to make a mess of things and it went their way. You let ball’s bounce in your box and that’s what happens.”

The real story of the game, however, was Hartford’s relentless defensive pressure. The Hawks defense dominated for the better portion of the game leaving very little opportunity for Stony Brook to make any sort offensive momentum.

“They made a few adjustments into the first half that helped but for the most part I think it was more of what we didn’t so offensively and not so much of what they did defensively. We weren’t able to get the ball into the final third of the field. There were too many mistakes on the offensive end,” coach Anatol said.

With the loss the Seawolves move into a tie for last place in the America East standings with UMass Lowell with 4 points and a record of 1-3-1 in conference play.

“We’re going to need to train hard and prepare for these last two games. We need all the points we can get,” coach Anatol said.

The Seawolves finish their home stand next Saturday, Nov. 2, against the University of Vermont Catamounts (8-3-4, 2-2-1 AE). Vermont was ranked number 6 in a recent Northeast Regional Poll, but most of their damage has been done at home, sporting a 6-1-2 record at home, so the Seawolves will look to capitalize on their mediocrity on the road.