Daniel Burko fed the ball in front of the goal to Laurie Goddard. And suddenly, amid the Vermont flurries, the Pride players were racing toward a sideline snowbank to celebrate with their supporters over one of the biggest wins in Hofstra history — any sport.

The unseeded Pride had just evicted the top overall seed, the defending national champion and TopDrawerSoccer’s top-ranked team in the country from the NCAA Division I men’s soccer tournament last Sunday in the second round, beating Vermont, 3-2, in overtime.

“The gamut of emotions in the millisecond is unbelievable,” coach Richard Nuttall said. “You worry about conceding and what we’re going to do to try to score. And suddenly you score. It just changes instantly to euphoria.”

It was just the fourth time a Hofstra team had ever

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