New Jersey Pride
V.
Baltimore Bayhawks
August 4, 2001


Pride Takes Wind Out From Bayhawks Wings;
Gain Lead in National Division


Baltimore, MD - The New Jersey Pride traveled to Baltimore to take on the Bayhawks with revenge on their minds. In this critical National Division match-up with Baltimore, 7-3, holding a slim ½ game lead over the Pride, 6-3, New Jersey was looking to make amends for the trashing the Pride received from the Bayhawks earlier in the season, 14-7. In that game, Baltimore's Rob Doerr held Jesse Hubbard, the leading goal scorer in Major League Lacrosse with 30 goals, scoreless for the entire game. While the Baltimore defense managed to play well against Hubbard, holding him to only two goals, they could not handle the Pride's triple threat of Jon Hess, Scott Urick and David Curry who combined for 10 goals and seven assists in leading New Jersey to a 16-14 win.




Pride midfielder Drew Melchionni opened the scoring early on, after each team missed some tough shots, on a great feed from Jon Hess, Hess' first of four for the game. The Bayhawks answered with a goal from Thursday nights Major League LacrosseStar Game MVP, Mark Millon. With the score tied 2-2 Urick notched his first goal of four for the game and his 20th of the season. Urick scored his second goal of the game with seconds left in the first quarter, giving New Jersey a 4-3 lead at the end of one.


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Mark Millon came out on fire to start the second quarter. Scoring his second goal of the game just :54 seconds into the quarter. Millon ended the half with four goals and one assist, but with goals by Jay Jalbert, Hubbard, Urick, and David Curry's first of four goals, the Pride led 8-6 going into the locker room at halftime.


Baltimore's Cattrano and Doerr

The Pride outscored the Bayhawks 4-2 in the opening minutes of the third quarter, paced by back-to-back goals from Jon Hess. With New Jersey leading 12-8, Millon scored his fifth goal of the game in the waning minutes of the third quarter. Although, the score brought Baltimore within three at 12-9, the goal marked the end of the Mark Millon show as the Pride defense made some great adjustments at halftime to shut him down. Curry added two goals to put New Jersey ahead 16-11 in the fourth quarter. The Bayhawks pulled to within two on a last minute two-point goal by Matt Shearer.




Urick and Curry led the Pride triple threat with four goals apiece and contributed two and one assists respectively. Hess quarterbacked the trio and upped his league leading assist total to 25 with four assists on the night. Hubbard's two goals increased his League leading total to 32.

The win catapulted the New Jersey Pride into first place in the National Division with a 7-3 record and a share of the best record in Major League Lacrosse with the Long Island Lizards. The Bayhawks fall to 7-4.


David Curry

The Pride face a crucial two game stretch against division rival Rochester away on August 10th and back home in the friendly confines of Yogi Berra Stadium on Thursday, August 16th at 7:30 PM. The Pride's defeat of the Bayhawks will be rebroadcast today, August 5th, at 5:00 PM on the MSG Network. For more information about upcoming home games please call 973-686-9500 or visit www.newjerseypride.com.


Action Videos

Bayhawk Greg Cattrano    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Tom Ryan    High Bandwidth Only

The Pride's Jon Hess to Drew Melchionni    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Jay Jalbert (disallowed)   High Bandwidth   Slow Motion




Bayhawk Dan Denihan to Mark Millon

Bayhawk Mark Millon to Jared Testa    High Bandwidth

Baltimore's Greg Cattrano    High Bandwidth Only

The Pride's Jon Hess to David Curry    High Bandwidth

Bayhawk Greg Catranno to Josh Sims    High Bandwidth Only

The Pride's Jon Hess to Chris Massey    High Bandwidth

Kip Fulks with an amazing effort on a ground ball.    High Bandwidth Only

The Pride's Scott Urick    High Bandwidth

Bayhawk Mark Millon    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Scott Urick to Jay Jalbert    High Bandwidth

Millon Again!    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Jesse Hubbard    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Scott Urick    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Jon Hess to David Curry    High Bandwidth

Bayhawk Kip Fulks    High Bandwidth

The Pride's David Curry to Scott Urick    High Bandwidth

The Pride's David Curry    High Bandwidth

Bayhawk Paul Cantabene    High Bandwidth

The Pride's Jay Jalbert to Jon Hess    High Bandwidth Only

The Pride's Steve Koudelka    High Bandwidth



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