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    Hofstra releases schedule

    HEMPSTEAD, NY -- Three regular season tournaments and 21 dual matches, including six contests against teams that placed in the top 25 at the NCAA Championships last March, highlight the 2010-11 Hofstra wrestling schedule, Pride Head Coach Tom Shifflet announced Wednesday.

    The Pride, who will compete in the Cliff Keen-Las Vegas Invitational (Dec. 3-4), the Southern Scuffle in Greensboro, North Carolina (Dec, 29-30, and the New York State Collegiate Wrestling Championship in Binghamton, New York (Jan. 22-23), begin their 64th season with three-match dual meets at Edinboro University on November 6, and at the University of Missouri on November 21.

    At Edinboro, the Pride will face the host Fighting Scots, who placed 16th in the NCAA Championships, Newberry College, and Purdue University, which placed 28th in the NCAAs last March. At Missouri, Hofstra will face the Tigers, who placed 10th in the NCAA Championships, along with NAIA power Lindenwood University, which has won five national titles and finished second twice in the last 10 years, and Oregon State University.

    December will see the Pride travel to the Cliff Keen-Las Vegas Invitational, which returns to the Las Vegas Convention Center after being held in Primm, Nevada last year. Hofstra will host the Terrapins of the University of Maryland, which placed 20th in the NCAAs, on December 11 in the first of five home matches this season. The Pride close December at the Southern Scuffle.

    Hofstra will host the Tar Heels of North Carolina on January 8 before heading to the CAA Duals in Fairfax, Virginia the following Saturday against four conference-members to be announced. The Pride will return to the New York State Collegiate Championship for the first time since 2002 on January 22-23.

    The Pride will host Army on January 26, Cornell University, which placed second in the NCAAs last March, on February 5 and CAA-foe Rider on February 16. Hofstra will also have road matches at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University in Philadelphia (Jan. 30), Lock Haven University (Feb. 9), Harvard University and Brown University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 12, and at Princeton on February 19.

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