HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.  – Junior Antonio Bustamante set a school and Colonial Athletic Association Championship record with four goals to lead the William & Mary men's soccer team to a 4-1 victory at Hofstra in the league quarterfinals on Saturday night. He scored early in the sixth minute and tallied two in each half to provide W&M (9-4-5) all the cushion it would need in eliminating the Pride (6-6-6) for the second year in a row. Bustamante, who is the first Tribe player in 30 years to score four goals in a game, is just the fifth player in the country to score four goals in a game this season.
 
The Green and Gold wasted little time jumping on top and Bustamante used his speed in the sixth minute. The junior broke free in midfield, touching around Hofstra goalkeeper Alex Ashton and slotting it home to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.
 
Hofstra answered in the 27th minute off a corner kick. John Fraser served the ball to the front side of the six-yard box, where Oscar Ramsay back-heeled it just past senior goalkeeper Phil Breno inside the near post.
 
Bustamante scored his 10th goal of the season to put the Tribe back in front in the 36th minute. Sophomore Julian Ngoh created the chance by beating his defender to the endline and centering a pass to the six. Bustamante was waiting to punch in home and retake the lead, 2-1.
 
In the 54th minute, sophomore Reeves Trott earned a foul just outside the top of the 18-yard box. Bustamante took the 22-yard free kick and buried it over top of the wall into the upper left corner for his third goal of the night.
 
With Hofstra pushing to draw closer, Bustamante got free on a breakaway in the 78th minute. Junior Remi Frost set his front-running classmate free into the attacking third, and Bustamante beat Ashton to the right side from 15 yards out.
 
W&M Starters – #26 Breno (GK), #4 Frost, #5 Golan, #8 Fuquene, #10 A. Bustamante, #11 Bell, #12 Berry, #14 Eskay, #16 H. Bustamante, #21 Trott, #23 Spain
 
Hofstra Starters - #1 Ashton (GK), #3 Lindqvist, #4 Fraser, #6 Agerstrom, #10 Ramsay, #11 Elliott, #14 Rodriguez, #15 Nealis, #17 Walcott, #19 Brown, #22 O'Malley
 
Scoring Summary
6' – W&M – Antonio Bustamante (unassisted)
27' – Hofstra – Oscar Ramsay (Jon Fraser)
36' – W&M – Antonio Bustamante (Julian Ngoh)
54' – W&M – Antonio Bustamante (unassisted)
78' – W&M – Antonio Bustamante (Remi Frost)
 
Quotables
"Overall, we are certainly pleased. Obviously to go on the road to a tough venue and beat a team that you have already beaten is tough to do. The guys' attitude was good, and they did a great job of following the game plan. As a result, we were able to get an early goal to ease the pressure. Hofstra upped the tempo, and it was good for us to answer after they equalized. I felt like all our goals came at critical moments in the game." – Head Coach Chris Norris thoughts on the win
 
"It was special. One of the best things about the goals Antonio scored tonight, outside of the free kick, is that he got behind the defense. Last year, he was doing that a lot, but this year, his goals have come different ways. We have been preaching to our attacking players to get behind defense and get on the end of one. It was really encouraging to see Antonio do that, and he made three of them count." – Norris on Antonio Bustamante's performance

Inside the Numbers
- Hofstra outshot W&M, 18-11, including 9-7 on goal.
- The Pride finished with seven corner kicks, scoring its only goal off a chance, compared to five corners for the Tribe.
- Bustamante led all players with six shots on the evening, scoring on all four of his chances on goal.
- Senior goalkeeper Phil Breno equaled a season high with seven saves on the night, while Hofstra's Alex Ashton totaled three.
 
Notes
Bustamante tied the W&M school record with the four goals and is the first Tribe player since Ron Rabb against Christopher Newport in 1987 to accomplish the feat … John McManus (1980 vs. Radford), Chris Thomas (1975 vs. Washington & Lee) and Don McCarthy (1971 vs. East Carolina) have scored four goals in a game for the Tribe … The four-goal performance tied a CAA single-game record as well, and he is the first CAA player since 2004 to score four times in a game … Bustamante pushed his season goal total to 12, which is the most for a Tribe player since Carlos Garcia's 15 in 2001 … Bustamante is the first Tribe player since Andrew Hoxie in 2008 and 2009 with back-to-back seasons of 10 or more goals … It marked the fourth-straight game in which Bustamante has scored against Hofstra … Bustamante reached a pair of milestones with his second marker of the night, recording the 25th of his career and it was his 60th career point … Bustatmante's 29 points this season are the most for a Tribe players since Andrew Hoxie had 32 in 2009 … Ngoh's assist was his third of the season and of his career … Frost picked up his third assist of the season and fourth of his career … The Tribe ran its unbeaten streak to eight matches (5-0-3) with the win, its longest since a 10-match stretch in 2010 … W&M improved to 30-14-1 all-time in the CAA Championship and upped its quarterfinal mark to 13-5-1 … The Tribe improved to 6-3 as the No. 5 seed and 4-0 in the CAA Tournament vs. Hofstra.
 
Up Next
The Tribe advances to the CAA Semifinals for the second year in a row and 15th time overall. W&M squares off with league regular season champion James Madison at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10, in Harrisonburg. The contest will be streamed on CAA.TV.