2010 Opponent Profiles

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2 Manhattan 2010 Opponent Profiles Feb. 19, pm Homewood Field Delaware Feb. 23, pm Homewood Field Siena Feb. 28, 2010 Noon Homewood Field Riverdale, NY Founded: 1853 Enrollment: 3,200 Jaspers Kelly Green & White Metro Atlantic Athletic (MAAC) Homefield: Gaelic Park Field Turf Dr. Brennan O Donnell Robert J. Byrnes Newark, DE Founded: 1743 Enrollment: 16,000 Blue Hens Royal Blue & Gold Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Homefield: Rullo Stadium / Delaware Stadium AstriTurf 12 / Field Turf Dr. Patrick T. Harker Bernard Muir Loudonville, NY Founded: 1937 Enrollment: 3,000 Saints Green & Gold Metro Atlantic Athletic (MAAC) Homefield: Siena Turf Field Turf Fr. Kevin Mullen, O.F.M John D Argenio Tim McIntee Alma Mater/Year: C.W. Post 88 Record at Manhattan: (13th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 718/ Rick Ruggles Tim Clancy Joe Clifford SID Office Phone: 718/ SID Fax: 718/ jospeh.clifford@manhattan.edu Press Box Phone: n/a Bob Shillinglaw Alma Mater/Year: North Carolina 74 Record at Delaware: (32nd season) (35th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 302/ Greg Carroll Ryan Glennon Scott Selheimer SID Office Phone: 302/ SID Fax: 302/ selheime@udel.edu Press Box Phone: 302/ / Brian Brecht Alma Mater/Year: Springfield 95 Record at Siena: (6th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 518/ Liam Gleason Eric Wolf, Derek Pedrick Mark Adam SID Office Phone: 518/ SID Fax: 518/ madam@siena.edu Press Box Phone: None Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 5-2 (T-2nd) 2009 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 35/5 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/2 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 2-4 (5th) 2009 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/5 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/2 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 8-0 (1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA First Round Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 29/16 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Series Record vs. JHU: First Meeting Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads 6-0 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads 1-0 Princeton March 6, :30 pm M&T Bank Stadium Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic UMBC March 9, pm Homewood Field Princeton, NJ Founded: 1746 Enrollment: 4,900 Tigers Orange and Black Ivy League Homefield: Class of 1952 Stadium (4,500) Artificial Turf Shirley Tilghman Gary D. Walters Baltimore, MD Founded: 1966 Enrollment: 12,870 Retrievers Black & Gold w/red America East Homefield: UMBC Stadium (4,500) Momentum Turf Dr. Freeman Hrabowski Dr. Charles Brown Chris Bates Alma Mater/Year: Dartmouth 90 Record at Princeton: First Season (11th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 609/ Greg Raymond Stephen Brundage, Bryce Chase Jerry Price SID Office Phone: 609/ SID Fax: 609/ SID Home: 215/ Press Box Phone: 609/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 5-1 (1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinals 4th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 39/8 Starters Returning/Lost: 5-5 Saturday, March 6, 2010 M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD Maryland vs. Duke 11 am Johns Hopkins vs. Princeton 1:30 pm Loyola vs. Notre Dame 4 pm Don Zimmerman Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 76 Record at UMBC: (17th season) (24th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Pat Tracy Andy Gallagher Steve Levy SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ slevy@umbc.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 4-1 (T-1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA First Round 9th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 27/13 Starters Returning/Lost: 4/6 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

3 Hofstra March 13, pm Shuart Stadium Syracuse March 20, pm Homewood Field 2010 Opponent Profiles Virginia March 27, 2010 Noon Klockner Stadium Hempstead, NY Founded: 1935 Enrollment: 12,400 Pride Gold, White and Blue Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Homefield: James M. Shuart Stadium (13,000) Field Turf Stuart Rabinowitz Jack Hayes Syracuse, NY Founded: 1870 Enrollment: 12,440 Orange Color: Orange Big East Homefield: Carrier Dome (49,550) Field Turf Chancellor & Nancy Cantor Dr. Daryl Gross Charlottesville, VA Founded: 1819 Enrollment: 21,057 Cavaliers Orange & Blue Atlantic Coast Conference Homefield: Klockner Stadium (8,000) Grass John T. Casteen III Craig Littlepage Seth Tierney Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 91 Record at Hofstra: (4th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 516/ Joe Amplo Matt Rewkowski, Sean Smith Jim Sheehan SID Office Phone: 516/ SID Fax: 516/ SID Jim.N.Sheehan@hofstra.edu Press Box Phone: 516/ John Desko Alma Mater/Year: Syracuse 79 Record at Syracuse: (12th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 315/ Roy Simmons III Lelan Rogers, Kevin Donahue Mike Morrison SID Office Phone: 315/ SID Fax: 315/ mdmorris@syr.edu Press Box Phone: 315/ or 5452 Dom Starsia Alma Mater/Year: Brown 74 Record at Virginia: (18th season) (27th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 434/ Marc Van Arsdale Steve Holmes, John Walker Vince Briedis SID Office Phone: 434/ SID Fax: 434/ vb7s@virginia.edu Press Box Phone: 434/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 6-0 (1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA First Round 10th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 21/16 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: n/a 2009 Postseason: NCAA Champions 1st Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 36/14 Starters Returning/Lost: 5/5 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 2-1 (T1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA Semifinals 5th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/12 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads 18-4 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, North Carolina April 3, 2010 Noon Homewood Field Albany April 10, pm Homewood Field Smartlink Day of Rivals Chapel Hill, NC Founded: 1793 Enrollment: 28,136 Tar Heels Carolina Blue & White Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Homefield: Fetzer Field (6,000) Grass Chancellor: Dr. Holden Thorp Dick Baddour Albany, NY Founded: 1844 Enrollment: 13,246 Great Danes Purple & Gold America East Homefield: John Fallon Field (2,000) Grass Dr. George M. Philip Lee McElroy Joe Breschi Alma Mater/Year: North Carolina 90 Record at North Carolina: 12-6 (2nd season) (13th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 919/ Pat Myers Chris Feifs, Brian Holman Dave Lohse SID Office Phone: 919/ SID Fax: 919/ dlohse@uncaa.unc.edu Press Box Phone: 919/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 0-3 (4th) 2009 Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinals 6th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/15 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Scott Marr Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 91 Record at Albany: (10th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 518/ Bill Ralph Chris Kivlen, Donald Shea Brian DePasquale SID Office Phone: 518/ SID Fax: 518/ bdepasquale@uamail.albany.edu Press Box Phone: n/a Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 3-2 (3rd) 2009 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 27/11 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Saturday, April 17, 2010 M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD Army vs. Navy 4 pm The prestige of Army-Navy kicks off the second annual Day of Rivals as the Cadets and Midshipmen meet for the 85th time. Johns Hopkins vs. Maryland 6:30 pm The greatest rivalry in college lacrosse renews itself for the 106th time in the Day of Rivals nightcap. Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 61

4 Maryland 2010 Opponent Profiles April 17, :30 pm M&T Bank Stadium Navy April 24, 2010 Noon Marine Corps Stadium Towson April 28, pm Homewood Field College Park, MD Founded: 1856 Enrollment: 37,195 Terrapins Red, White, Black and Gold Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Homefield: Byrd Stadium (51,000) Grass C.D. Mote, Jr. Deborah A. Yow Annapolis, MD Founded: 1845 Enrollment: 4,200 Midshipmen Navy Blue & Gold Patriot League Homefield: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000) Astroplay Superintendent: Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, USN Chet Gladchuk Towson, MD Founded: 1866 Enrollment: 21,177 Tigers Gold, White and Black Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Homefield: Johnny Unitas Stadium (11,198) Field Turf Dr. Robert Caret Mike Hermann Dave Cottle Alma Mater/Year: Salisbury State 78 Record at Maryland: (9th season) (28th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 301/ Dave Slafkosky Ryan Moran, Jon Stainbrook Patrick Fischer SID Office Phone: 301/ SID Fax: 301/ pfischer@umd.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Richie Meade Alma Mater/Year: North Carolina 76 Record at Navy: (16th season) (20th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Anthony Gilardi Stan Ross, Mark Goers Stacie Michaud SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ michaud@usna.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Tony Seaman Alma Mater/Year: Cortland State 65 Record at Towson: (11th season) (27th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Sean Nadelen Michael Allan, P.T. Ricci Eric Rhew SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ erhew@towson.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 2-1 (T-1st) 2009 Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinals 13th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/15 Starters Returning/Lost: 7-3 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 4-2 (3rd) 2009 Postseason: NCAA First Round 12th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 24/13 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/2 Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 4-2 (2nd) 2009 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 34/10 Starters Returning/Lost: 7/3 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 34-3 Loyola May 8, 2010 Noon Ridley Athletic Complex NCAA Tournament Information 2009 NCAA Tournament Results Baltimore, MD Founded: 1852 Enrollment: 3,686 Greyhounds Green & Grey ECAC Homefield: Ridley Athletic Complex (6,000) Poligrass Fr. Brian Linnane, S.J. Joseph Boylan Charley Toomey Alma Mater/Year: Loyola 90 Record at Loyola: (5th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Matt Dwan Dan Chemotti, Steve Vaikness Ryan Eigenbrode SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ rceigenbrode@loyola.edu Press Box Phone: 443/ Final 2009 Record: Conference Finish: 6-1 (T-1st) 2009 Postseason: None 14th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 32/11 Starters Returning/Lost: 4/6 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 44-3 First Round Virginia-18, Villanova-6 Johns Hopkins-12, Brown-11 (OT) Cornell-11, Hofstra-8 Princeton-10, UMass-7 Duke-14, Navy-5 North Carolina-15, UMBC-13 Maryland-7, Notre Dame-3 Syracuse-11, Siena-4 Quarterfinals Virginia-19, Johns Hopkins-8 Cornell-6, Princeton-4 Duke-12, North Carolina-11 Syracuse-11, Maryland-6 Semifinals Cornell-15, Virginia-6 Syracuse-17, Duke-7 Championship Syracuse-10, Cornell-9 All-Time NCAA Championships Syracuse-11, Johns Hopkins-9, Princeton-6, North Carolina-4, Virginia-4, Cornell-3, Maryland-2 All-Time NCAA Championship Game Appearances Johns Hopkins-18, Syracuse-16, Maryland-9, Virginia-8, Princeton-8, Cornell-6, North Carolina-5, Duke-2, Navy-2, Massachusetts-1, Loyola-1, Towson NCAA Schedule May 9 Tournament Announcement May 15 First Campus Sites May 16 First Campus Sites May 22 Princeton May 23 Stony Brook May 29 Semifinals (Baltimore, MD) May 31 Championship (Baltimore, MD) Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

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6 Game 1 February 20, 2009 Homewood Field #4 Johns Hopkins-11, Siena-3 BALTIMORE, MD Junior Steven Boyle and sophomore Kyle Wharton combined for seven goals and two assists and the Johns Hopkins defense held visiting Siena scoreless for the final 45:50 as the fourth-ranked Blue Jays eased past the Saints, 11-3, at chilly Homewood Field Friday night. The Blue Jays, who won for the seventh time in nine seasonopeners under head coach Dave Pietramala, outscored the Saints 9-0 over the final three quarters. The three goals are the fewest JHU has allowed in a season opener since allowing just three against Yale in Siena led 3-2 entering the second quarter as Brian Neufeld scored twice in the opening 15 minutes to give the Saints the one-goal lead. The Blue Jays tied the game just under eight minutes into the second period when Boyle threaded a pass from along the goal line to senior Mark Bryan on the crease and Bryan one-timed a shot past Tom Morr. Five minutes later Wharton scored his second of the game off a nice cut and feed from junior Michael Kimmel to give the Blue Jays the lead for good. Hopkins carried the 4-3 lead into halftime. It took just nine seconds for the Blue Jays to extend the lead to 5-3 in the third quarter as Boyle handcuffed Morr from seven yards out right off the faceoff and Brian Christopher pushed the lead to 6-3 three minutes later when he blew a shot past Morr from nearly the same spot as Boyle had scored from. Bryan came up with a loose ball on the opposite side of the field and found Christopher alone on the backside, where he wasted little time before putting it home. Boyle added a pair of goals both assisted by Christopher in the final 6:02 of the third quarter to push the lead to 8-3. Both goals came after some nifty passing as the Blue Jays moved the ball well against the Siena defense. Christopher found Boyle cutting from the goal line on both goals and Boyle scored from in tight both times. Wharton and Boyle sandwiched fourth quarter goals around the first career tally by freshman Marshall Burkhart to account for the final scoring, but by that time the story had turned from the Blue Jay offense to the Blue Jay defense. Hopkins didn t allow the Saints to get off a shot in the third quarter and Siena managed just six shots in the fourth, only two of which were on goal. Wharton had opened the scoring 5:30 into the game when Boyle found him on the backside and he ripped a shot into the far top corner. Neufeld knotted the game just over three minutes later when he shoveled a loose ball in front of the crease into an open net. Jordan Loftus added a transition goal three minutes later to give the Saints a 2-1 lead and Kimmel and Neufeld traded goals over the final three minutes to make it 3-2 Siena at the end of one period. That lead held until Bryan s goal ignited the 9-0 run to end the game. Boyle s four goals tied his career high, while his six points are a personal best. Wharton s three goals are just one less than he scored all of last year, while Christopher s two assists and three points both matched career highs. Junior Michael Gvozden posted eight saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who have now held the opposition scoreless for a stretch of 25 minutes or longer 14 times since the start of the 2007 season. In all, eight of Johns Hopkins 11 goals were assisted. Neufeld was the only Siena player to register a multipoint game as his two goals led the way for the Saints. Morr posted eight saves in goal for Siena, but the Saints turned the ball over 29 times, were outshot (21-6 in the second half) and lost the ground ball battle Siena (0-1) /3 #4 Johns Hopkins (1-0) /11 Goals: S: Neufeld-2, Loftus. J: Boyle-4, Wharton-3, Christopher, Kimmel, Bryan, Burkhart. Assists: S: Whalen, Zarins. J: Boyle-2, Christopher-2, Bryan, Dolente, Goodrich, Kimmel. Saves: S: Morr-8. J: Gvozden-8. Shots: S-23. J-37. EMO: S: 0-for-2. J: 0-for-3. Attendance: 1,740. Game 2 February 28, 2009 M&T Bank Stadium #9 Princeton-14, #6 Johns Hopkins-8 BALTIMORE, MD - Nearly one year to the day of a 14-9 Johns Hopkins victory over Princeton in the 2008 Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, the Tigers returned the favor with an eerily similar and equally convincing 14-8 win over the Blue Jays at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers won every statistical battle in winning their second straight game this season and first against Johns Hopkins since The Blue Jays slip to 1-1 with the loss and its their first loss in the three-year history of the Face-Off Classic. The Tigers led 3-0 after seven minutes, 6-1 at the end of the first quarter and 9-1 before the Blue Jays mounted a mild comeback. A year ago, it was JHU that scored 10 seconds into the game, led 8-0 midway through the second quarter and 10-1 at the half. Scott McKenzie, Mark Kovler and Jack McBride all scored during the Tigers opening three-goal spree, which was temporarily halted by a Michael Kimmel unassisted goal 32 seconds after McBride s tally. That would be as close as the Blue Jays would be all day as Princeton s Rob Engelke fired an extra-man goal into an open net after a nifty cross-crease pass from Tommy Davis with 6:54 remaining in the opening period. Kovler ripped a low-to-low shot past Blue Jay goalie Mike Gvozden with 2:59 remaining to make it 5-1 and Paul Barnes scored 19 seconds later after a long scramble after the faceoff following Kovler s goal. Cousins Chris and Jack McBride all but put the game away with back-to-back goals in a span of 75 seconds midway through the second period and Greg Seaman added an extra-man tally before the period was eight minutes old to make it 9-1. The Blue Jays sliced the deficit to 9-3 at the half with back-to-back goals by Steven Boyle and Chris Boland in a little over a minute late in the half and Hopkins had several chances late in the second quarter and early in the third to cut further into the deficit, but it was Princeton that got the next goal when John Cunningham scored in transition off an assist from Chad Wiedmaier. Jack McBride added two more goals in the third quarter to push the lead to 12-4 before the Blue Jays scored four of the final six goals in the fourth quarter to account for the final score of Junior Brian Christopher scored both of his goals and added an assist during JHU s late flurry, which ended with a Kimmel extra-man goal with 6:45 remaining. Matt Drenan Jack McBride led the Tigers with his four goals, while Kovler and Barnes added two goals apiece. Freshman Tyler Fiorito played the entire game in goal for the Tigers and posted 11 saves, while Princeton held advantages in shots (51-28) and ground balls (30-18). Kimmel tied his career high with three goals and four points; the hat trick was also the seventh of his career. Christopher (2g, 1a) and Boland (1g, 1a) also registered multipoint games for the Blue Jays, who got nine saves in goal from Gvozden. #6 Johns Hopkins (1-1) /8 #9 Princeton (2-0) /14 Goals: J: Kimmel-3, Christopher-2, Boland, Wharton, Boyle. P: J. McBride-4, Kovler-2, Barnes-2, MacKenzie, C. McBride, Engelke, Cunningham, Seaman, Lesko. Assists: J: Boland, Christopher, Kimmel, Wharton. P: Davis-2, Sgalardi-2, Wiedmaier. Saves: J: Gvozden-9, Burke-1. P: Fiorito-11. Shots: J-28. P-51. EMO: J: 2-for-2. P: 2-for- 7. Attendance: 17,119. Game 3 March 3, 2009 UMBC Stadium #10 Johns Hopkins-14, #6 UMBC-11 CATONSVILLE, MD - The 10th-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team built a seven-goal lead early in the fourth quarter and held off a furious rally by sixth-ranked UMBC as the Blue Jays escaped with a victory at chilly UMBC Stadium Tuesday night. Hopkins, which trailed for a total of just seven seconds in the game, improves to 2-1 overall and improves to 7-0 all-time against UMBC. The Retrievers had their three-game season-opening winning streak snapped and slip to 3-1. The Blue Jays led 8-5 at the half and were up just 8-6 after UMBC s Chris Jones scored an unassisted goal less than two minutes into the third quarter. It took Johns Hopkins less than 90 seconds to extend the lead back to three as sophomore Kyle Wharton fired home his fifth goal of the season with 11:48 remaining in the third quarter to make it 9-6. The three-goal lead held for the Blue Jays until late in the period, when an unassisted goal by Chris Boland ignited a four-goal spree that took less than six minutes and pushed the lead to Boland had a hand in the first four goals during the run as he assisted on back-to-back-to-back goals by Josh Peck, Tim Donovan and Michael Kimmel after his own marker to give the Blue Jays what appeared was a comfortable seven-goal lead. It took the Retrievers less than eight minutes to hop back in the game as a Kyle Wimer goal 19 seconds after Kimmel s tally ignited a five-goal run for the Retrievers that may have been bigger if not for a pair of key plays by Johns Hopkins goalie Michael Gvozden in the final three minutes. An extra-man goal by Rob Grimm less than 30 seconds after Wimer s goal made it 13-8 and Alex Hopmann sandwiched unassisted goals around another goal by Jones to make it with 3:34 remaining. That would be as close as the Retrievers would get as Gvozden came up with a big save on a Peet Poillon shot with 1:47 remaining and then intercepted a pass by Grimm in front of the net with 1:14 remaining to kill UMBC s last chance. Wharton closed the scoring with an extra-man goal in the final seconds to account for the final score. Ryan Smith had given UMBC an early 1-0 lead when he slipped home his fifth goal of the season with 12:55 remaining in the first quarter. It took the Blue Jays and sophomore Matt Dolente just seven seconds to get the equalizer as Dolente cleanly won the faceoff after Smith s goal and beat UMBC goalie Jeremy Blevins from five yards out with his first goal of the season. The clean win on the faceoff for Dolente was his second straight to open the game and the Blue Jays would win the first 10 faceoffs of the game before UMBC would win its first late in the second quarter. The domination on faceoffs, which came largely on the efforts of junior Michael Powers, helped the Blue Jays slowly Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

7 begin to take control after Dolente s goal. An unassisted goal by senior Brian Christopher with 1:20 remaining in the first quarter was followed closely by an extra-man goal from junior Steven Boyle to make it 3-1 at the end of the first. A Poillon tally just over 90 seconds into the second quarter drew the Retrievers to within one, but Kimmel and Boyle added unassisted goals just over two minutes apart midway through the period to make it 5-2. The teams traded the next six goals to account for the 8-5 Hopkins lead at the half before Jones goal early in the third quarter set the stage for what turned out to be a run just big enough for the Blue Jays to hold off the late spree by the Retrievers. The Blue Jays starting attack unit of Boyle, Boland and Wharton combined for seven goals and four assists with Boland and Wharton both netting two goals and two assists. The four points are a career-high for both, while Boyle s three goals improve his career totals in three games against UMBC to seven goals and five assists. Kimmel added his second straight hat trick to a balanced offensive attack that netted its 14 goals on just 35 shots. The star of the game for the Blue Jays was clearly Powers, who entered the game having won 10-of-20 faceoffs in his career, but won 17-of-24 with nine ground balls on the night. He is the first Johns Hopkins player to win 15 or more faceoffs in a game since Greg Peyser won 15 against Hofstra on March 13, Powers efforts helped the Blue Jays to a 19-of-26 showing on faceoffs and a advantage on faceoffs. UMBC got a game-high four goals from Hopmann and two goals from Poillon and Jones, but Wimer, who entered the game with 14 points in three games, was held to just the one goal. Blevens posted nine saves in goal for the Retrievers, who converted on 4-of-5 extra-man chances, but couldn t overcome the discrepancies in faceoffs and ground balls. #10 Johns Hopkins (2-1) /14 #6 UMBC (3-1) /11 Goals: J: Kimmel-3, Boyle-2, Boland-2, Wharton-2, Christopher, Donovan, Dolente, Peck. U: Hopmann-4, Poillon-2, Jones-2, Grimm, Wimer, Smith. Assists: J: Boland-3, Wharton-2, Christopher, Donovan, Kimmel. U: Poillon-2, Grimm, May. Saves: J: Gvozden-8. U: Blevins-9. Shots: J-35. U-32. EMO: J: 3-for-6. U: 4-for-5. Attendance: 931. Game 4 March 7, 2009 Homewood Field #10 Johns Hopkins-12, #9 Hofstra-7 BALTIMORE, MD In a matchup that saw Michael Gvozden and Andrew Gvozden become one of the first pair of brothers to start opposite each other in goal, the 10thranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team got a career-high five goals from sophomore attackman Kyle Wharton, built an 8-3 halftime lead and never let ninth-ranked Hofstra get closer than four in the second half of a 12-7 win at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win, JHU s second in five days over a team ranked in the top 10, improves the Blue Jays record to 3-1, while Hofstra slips to 2-1 with the loss. The win is also the 99th for Blue Jay head coach Dave Pietramala at Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays wasted little time hoping in front as junior Steven Boyle dodged hard from behind the goal and opened the scoring with an unassisted tally with 12:04 remaining in the first quarter. Freshman Marshall Burkhart made it 2-0 just under a minute later when a defender slipped at the top of the box and he raced in and slipped a low shot past Andrew Gvozden. Wharton got going less than two minutes later when he was at the back end of a slow-developing transition play and whistled a shot home at the 9:32 mark. After Wharton pushed the lead to 4-0, the Pride hopped back in the game with back-to-back goals in the final 3:03 of the first period to cut the deficit in half after 15 minutes. Sophomore Jay Card beat Michael Gvozden on the near post off an assist from Dan Stein, while Ryan Carter scored on an ally dodge with 12 seconds remaining in the period. It took less than four minutes for the Blue Jays to push the Matt Dolente lead back to four as Wharton completed his hat trick with a nifty behind-the-back goal on a nice feed from Boyle with 12:37 remaining and sophomore Tim Donovan blistered a shot into the top corner from 12 yards out just over 90 seconds later. Stephen Bentz shoveled home an extra-man goal midway through the period as he scooped up a loose ball on the crease and dribbled one home three yards out, but Boyle found junior Max Chautin alone on the crease two minutes later and Wharton blew one home with 2:49 left in the second quarter after cutting from behind the goal and taking a pass from junior Michael Kimmel. The Pride, who had erased large second-half deficits in season-opening wins against UMass and Brown, never scored two consecutive goals in the second half and never got closer than 8-4. Stein s goal early in the second half was quickly answered by Wharton and Donovan tallies to push the Blue Jays lead out to 10-4 and the teams traded the final five goals to account for the 12-7 final. The brothers Gvozden nearly matched each other save-for save as Michael Gvozden posted 12 saves for the Blue Jays, while Andrew Gvozden posted 11 for the Pride. While there is no official record of brothers facing each other as starting goalies in a Division I lacrosse game, it is believed they are the first to do it since the Cynar brothers (Justin-Cornell / Keith-Harvard) did it in Wharton s five goals were two more than his previous career high and push his season total to a team-high 11. Donovan s two goals were also a career-high, while Kimmel matched his career-highs for points (4) and assists (3). Boyle (1g, 2a) and Burkhart (1g, 1a) were JHU s other two multipoint scorers in the game. In addition to his one goal and one assist, Burkhart was forced to step in and take over as JHU s primary faceoff man in the second quarter and won 5-of-11 while running his regular shift on the second midfield. Anthony Muscarella scored two of Hofstra s last three goals and paced the Pride offense with his two tallies, but the Blue Jay defense did a nice job of controlling Card and senior midfielder Michael Colleluori, who entered the game with a total of 21 points in two games, but managed just the one goal by Card between them. Stein had the one goal and one assist for Hofstra, but the Pride were outshot and lost the ground ball battle #9 Hofstra (2-1) /7 #10 Johns Hopkins (3-1) /12 Goals: H: Muscarella-2, Stein, Card, Dooley, Carter, Bentz. J: Wharton-5, Donovan-2, Kimmel, Boyle, Burkhart, Boland, Chautin. Assists: H: Ford, Stein. J: Kimmel-3, Boyle-2, Burkhart. Saves: H: A. Gvozden-11. J: M. Gvozden-12. Shots: H-35. J-43. EMO: H: 2-for-5. J: 0-for-4. Attendance: 2,560. Game 5 March 14, 2009 Carrier Dome #2 Syracuse-14, #6 Johns Hopkins-11 SYRACUSE, NY - The second-ranked Syracuse men s lacrosse team used a 6-0 first-half run and a 5-1 second-half run to pull away from visiting Johns Hopkins en route to a victory in front of 9,197 fans at the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon. The win is the third straight for Syracuse against the Blue Jays and improves the Orange to 4-1 on the year. Johns Hopkins slips to 3-2 with the loss. Hopkins jumped out to a 3-1 lead less than six minutes into the game as the Blue Jays scored on each of their first three shots. A Brian Christopher goal at the 11:30 mark was answered just over a minute later by Dan Hardy, but it took just 62 seconds for the Blue Jays to take the 3-1 lead as Steven Boyle scored on a sneaky shot after working from behind the goal and Kyle Wharton scored off the ensuing faceoff as Matt Dolente won the draw cleanly and fed Boyle, who found Wharton on the backside for the easy goal. The Orange answered with the 6-0 run that turned the 3-1 deficit into a 7-3 lead. Jeff Gilbert, Josh Amidon and Pat Perritt all scored before the end of the first quarter to give the Orange a 4-3 lead. Scott Kahoe assisted on the first two of the goals by Gilbert and Amidon. The deficit could have been worse for the Blue Jays at the end of the first period as the Orange held a 19-3 advantage in shots, but Michael Gvozden posted six first-quarter saves to keep it close. Syracuse needed just over three minutes of the second quarter to push the lead out to 7-3 as the Orange excelled in transition and fed off the crowd. Senior Kenny Nims was on the back-end of a nice hesitation dodge by Perritt, who found him alone two yards from the crease to make it 5-3 and Matt Abbott pushed the lead to 6-3 with a nice ally dodge, hesitation and go just over a minute after Nims goal. When Nims found Tim Dekso alone on the doorstep 18 seconds later the Orange had their biggest lead of the first half. The Blue Jays halted the run and hopped back into the game as Wharton and Christopher scored back-to-back goals in a two-minute span midway through the second quarter to cut the deficit to 7-5. Wharton scored in transition after a Gvozden save and Christopher swept across the field 12 yards in front of the goal and blew a 12-yarder past John Galloway. Nims collected his third assist of the first half when he found Spencer Van Shaack four yards in front of the goal in an unsettled situation to push the lead to 8-5 at the half. The Blue Jays won the opening faceoff of the third quarter and had four shots before Galloway robbed Chris Boland on the doorstep to end a long JHU possession. That would prove to be a turning point as Syracuse would score two goals in a span of just over two minutes to stretch the lead to Amidon and Abbott scored the goals for Syracuse 2010 Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 65

8 before Boland found junior Mike Kimmel alone on the side of the goal and Kimmel beat Galloway from in tight to make it 10-6 at the end of the third. Any hopes for a Blue Jay comeback were dashed in the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter as Syracuse cashed in three times before Hopkins rallied late to account for the final. Abbott found Perritt alone behind the defense with a crossfield pass and Perritt dropped down and beat a defenseless Gvozden with a low-to-high shot from a tough angle. Stephen Keogh then scored back-to-back goals, including one while the Orange had the extra man, to stretch the lead out to a The Blue Jays made a late run with five goals in the final 4:04. Boland and senior Mark Bryan scored from in tight - both on assists from Wharton - in a 27-second span to make it 13-8 and Boyle, Boland and senior Austin Walker answered another Amidon tally in the final 1:30. Amidon led the Orange with his three goals, while Abbott (2g, 2a), Nims (1g, 3a), Keogh (2g) and Perritt (2g) helped lead an offense that fired 45 shots and featured nine different goal-scorers. Galloway posted five saves in goal for Syracuse, including three in the third quarter that helped Syracuse maintain then build on its 8-5 halftime lead. The loss overshadowed the efforts of Govzen and Dolente, who defied all odds by playing in the game less than two weeks after suffering what was thought to be an injury that would keep him out at least a month. Gvozden posted 15 saves, the fifth-highest total of his career, while Dolente s gutty effort included a 15-of-24 showing on faceoffs with six ground balls. His 15 faceoff wins are a career-high. Wharton matched his career-high with five points on two goals and a personal-best three assists. Boland (2g, 2a), Boyle (2g) and Christopher (2g, 1a) were JHU s other multipoint scorers. #6 Johns Hopkins (3-2) /11 #2 Syracuse (4-1) /14 Goals: J: Wharton-2, Boland-2, Christopher-2, Boyle-2, Kimmel, Bryan, Walker. S: Amidon-3, Abbott-2, Perritt-2, Keogh-2, Nims, Hardy, Desko, Van Schaack, Gilbert. Assists: J: Wharton-3, Boland-2, Boyle, Drenan, Christopher. S: Nims-3, Abbott-2, Hardy-2, Kahoe-2, Daniello, White. Saves: J: Gvozden-15. S: Galloway-5. Shots: J-34. S-45. EMO: J: 1-for-4. S: 1-for-2. Attendance: 9,197. Game 6 March 21, 2009 Homewood Field #1 Virginia-16, #9 Johns Hopkins-15 BALTIMORE, MD Two years ago, the Virginia men s lacrosse team came to Homewood Field and slipped past host Johns Hopkins 7-5. On Saturday night in front of a crowd of 5,475, the Cavaliers outscored the Blue Jays in the first quarter; and then the game got interesting. When it was all said and done, top-ranked Virginia escaped Homewood Field with a victory that included a 7-1 run by the Cavaliers, a 6-1 run by the Blue Jays, and a frantic final two minutes. Virginia s Garrett Billings scored all four of his goals and added an assist during the 7-1 Virginia run that turned a 5-5 tie late in the first quarter into a 12-6 lead late in the second. Freshman Steele Stanwick ignited the spree with backto-back goals in a 33-second span late in the first quarter, the second coming with just four seconds remaining in the period when he took a cross-field pass from Shamel Bratton in a scramble situation and scored from a ridiculous angle. Billings scored twice in the first 69 seconds of the second quarter to make it 9-5, before a Chris Boland goal for Johns Hopkins temporarily halted the run. Max Pomper added a goal 10 seconds after Boland s tally after the Blue Jays lost the ensuing faceoff on a procedure call and Billings fired home two more goals over the next six-and-half minutes to give the Cavaliers what most in the crowd probably throught was a comfortable 12-6 lead with just over three minutes remaining in the first half. The Blue Jays sliced the deficit to 12-8 before the half Chris Boland as senior Brian Christopher dodged from behind the goal and side-armed a shot past Adam Ghitelman and Boland worked from behind the goal and beat Ghitelman while falling to the ground with 1:09 left in the opening 30 minutes. With the Cavaliers scoring 12 times on just 22 first-half shots and senior Chad Gaudet having his way on faceoffs in the first half (Virginia won 17-of-21 before intermission), few in the crowd saw Hopkins third-quarter explosion coming, but what was once a six-goal deficit turned into a onegoal Blue Jay lead in a stunning 15 minutes. Kyle Wharton swept in from the side and whipped a 12-yarder past Ghitelman less than a minute into the third quarter and an extra-man goal by Christopher followed 80 seconds later. The Blue Jays drew within one with just over 11 minutes remaining in the third quarter when junior Michael Kimmel found Steven Boyle in front and Boyle slipped home a five-yard shot from his knees to make it An unassisted goal by John Haldy, who used stutter step on an alley dodge to create separation from his defender and then beat JHU goalie Michael Gvozden low to the far post, gave the Cavaliers a two-goal advantage midway through the quarter, but the Blue Jays scored four times in the final 3:25 with only a Steven Giannone goal for Virginia mixed in during that time to give Hopkins an improbable lead entering the fourth quarter. Boland ignited the quarter-ending run for the Blue Jays when he scooped up a loose ball in front of the goal and shoveled a shot past a defenseless Ghitelmen from four yards out with 3:25 on the clock. Giannone s goal game 56 seconds later as Billings worked through a pick behind the goal and slipped a pass to Giannone on the crease and he easily beat Gvozden from the doorstep. After fighting their way back for the first 14 minutes of the third quarter, the Blue Jays needed just 40 seconds to turn a deficit into a lead. Senior Mark Bryan dodged from behind the goal, beat his defender just behind the goal line and a slide never came as he walked in front and fired home his third goal of the season. Boland completed his six-goal effort on the ensuing faceoff as Matt Dolente cleanly won the faceoff and found Boland on the crease, where he turned and fired home the game-tying goal. When Christopher polished off his fourgoal effort with seven seconds remaining in the period, the Blue Jays had come all the way back to take the lead. If only the game was 45 minutes long. Virginia isn t 10-0 by accident and the Cavaliers needed just under five minutes, 4:59 to be exact, to take the lead back for good. After the teams combined to score between eight and 12 goals in each of the first three quarters, only two shots found the back of the net in the fourth quarter and both were by Virginia. Billings found Bratton 10 yards in front and Bratton had time and room to fire his second goal of the game into the far corner and Glading gave Virginia the lead with 10:01 remaining when Billings again found the right man as Glading had time and room to step and fire home his second of the night. While the scoring was down in the fourth quarter, the pace was frantic. Hopkins fired five shots at Ghitelman and he came up with three point-blank saves to protect the lead. Both teams turned the ball over seven times in the period, including two by Johns Hopkins in the Virginia zone in the final 1:50. When Boyle s pass in front in the final seconds failed to connect the loose ball rolled harmlessly towards the edge of the restraining line as time expired. The frantic finish was fitting for a game that saw 12 firstquarter goals on 19 shots. Five different Cavaliers found the net in the first 7:37, but Hopkins stood toe-to-toe with the consensus number-one ranked team in the nation as Boland got his night started with a pair of first-quarter goals and Boyle and Wharton scored back-to-back goals to turn a 5-3 deficit into a 5-5 tie with 2:30 remaining in the opening period. Wharton s goal set the stage for Stanwick s two firstquarter tallies that gave Virginia the 7-5 lead that quickly swelled to As it turned out, the excitement was just getting started when the first quarter ended. In a game full of offensive stars, Billings led Virginia with eight points on four goals and four assists. Glading added the two goals and three assists, Bratton had two goals and two assists and Stanwick added a hat trick for the Cavaliers, who outshot the Blue Jays, 42-31, won the ground ball war, 40-25, and took 22-of-34 faceoffs. Ghitelman posted nine saves, including the three crucial fourth-quarter stops as Virginia held the Blue Jays scoreless in the final 15 minutes. The scoreless quarter was the first for Johns Hopkins since the first quarter of the game vs. North Carolina last season a streak of 66 straight quarters with at least one goal. Boland s six goals and eight points were both career highs. In fact, he entered the game with career totals of six goals and six assists. His eight points are the most by a Johns Hopkins player since Kyle Barrie had nine against Navy on April 19, Christopher doubled his previous careerhigh for goals in a game with four and his five-point showing was also a personal best. Wharton (2g, 1a) and Boyle (2g) also had multi-point games for the Blue Jays, who had won five of their previous six games against teams ranked number one in the nation at the time of the game. #1 Virginia (10-0) /16 #9 Johns Hopkins (3-3) /15 Goals: V: Billlings-4, Stanwick-3, Glading-2, S. Bratton-2, Giannone-2, Carroll, Pomper, Haldy. J: Boland-6, Christopher-4, Wharton-2, Boyle-2, Bryan. Assists: V: Billings-4, Glading-3, S. Bratton-2, Carroll-2, Giannone, Huguely. J: Boland-2, Kimmel-2, Christopher, Dolente, Spaulding, Wharton. Saves: V: Ghitelman-9. J: Gvozden-8. Shots: V-42. J-31. EMO: V: 0-for-1. J: 2-for-3. Attendance: 5,475. Game 7 March 28, 2009 Fetzer Field #12 North Carolina-10, #6 Johns Hopkins-9 (OT) CHAPEL HILL, NC - One week after a tough loss to unbeaten and top-ranked Virginia, the Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team suffered an even more hard-to-swallow setback on Saturday afternoon at North Carolina as the Tar Heels got a goal from Sean Delaney 2:29 into overtime to slip past the Blue Jays Hopkins, which trailed for nearly the entire game before scoring twice in the final 5:16 to force the extra session, slips to 3-4 on the year, while the Tar Heels improve to Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

9 Johns Hopkins won the faceoff in overtime, but never seemed comfortable getting setup and senior Brian Christopher turned the ball over 15 yards in front of the goal in the middle of the field. After a North Carolina clear and timeout, the Tar Heels worked the ball behind the goal to Billy Bitter, who started to come up the left side before finding Delaney unchecked 12 yards in front of the goal. Delaney had time and room to set his feet and beat Michael Gvozden with a low shot to win it. The Blue Jays trailed 9-7 with just over six minutes remaining in regulation after Bitter and Bart Wagner scored back-to-back goals in a 25-second span. The Blue Jays drew within one 59 seconds after Wagner s goal when senior Mark Bryan slipped a pass inside to junior Chris Boland, who one-timed a shot past North Carolina goalie Grant Zimmerman from the doorstep. After winning the ensuing faceoff and withstanding a turnover, the Blue Jays regained possession and tied the score with 1:01 remaining when Bryan found senior Josh Peck six yards from the goal and Peck picked the far corner to force overtime. That set the stage for Delaney s game-winner, which gave the Tar Heels their third straight win over the Blue Jays. One week after Hopkins and Virginia combined for 12 first quarter goals, the Blue Jays and Tar Heels needed more than 13 minutes to find the back of the net as goalkeepers Gvozden and Zimmerman held firm until the `Heels scored in transition with 1:41 remaining in the opening period. The Blue Jays had worked the ball in tight on offense, only to turn the ball over. North Carolina quickly worked the ball down field and Wagner fired one home off a feed from Delaney. The Blue Jays needed less than two minutes - 14 seconds really - to take the lead early in the second quarter as midfielders Michael Kimmel and Matt Dolente scored backto-back goals to give the Blue Jays a one-goal lead. Kimmel swept across the top of the box, gained an edge on his defender with a stutter-step and beat Zimmerman low to the far post. Dolente scored off the ensuing faceoff to give the Blue Jays what would turn out to be their only lead of the game. The Tar Heels tallied three times in the final 6:54 of the second period to carry a 4-2 lead into halftime. Sean Burke opened the three-goal spree with a nice spin-move along the goal line that gave him a step on his defender and he beat Gvozden with a high-to-low shot from in tight. Bitter streaked to the goal from the back corner 75 seconds later and beat a late slide to make it 3-2 and Gavin Petracca scored in transition after a Blue Jay turnover with 1:14 left in the first half to account for the 4-2 halftime score. The Tar Heels threatened to run away with the game early in the third quarter as they scored back-to-back goals just 10 seconds apart. Delaney scored the first of his two goals off a feed from Ben Hunt as he rifled a 10-yard shot just inside the far post and Petracca handcuffed Gvozden right off the following faceoff as he slipped one inside the near post. The Blue Jays hopped back in the game as Austin Walker and Marshall Burkkart scored back-to-back goals three minutes apart midway through the third quarter. Walker scored off a feed from Steven Boyle as he dropped down and beat Zimmerman from 10 yards, while Burkhart took a cross-field feed from freshman Tom Palasek and blew his third goal of the season past Zimmerman. When Christopher scored two minutes after Burkhart in a scramble situation, the Blue Jays seemingly had all the momentum, but a turnover less than two minutes later cost the Blue Jays again as Cryder DiPietro scored an identical goal to Delaney s game-winner to give the Heels a 7-5 lead. Bryan had a hand in both goals that forced a 7-7 tie as he found Boyle in front of the goal just over a minute into the fourth quarter and Boyle quick-sticked it home to make it a one-goal game. Bryan added the equalizer five minutes later when he found the far post from his knees seven yards to Zimmerman s right. Bitter s goal that made it 8-7 came just under two minutes after Bryan s goal and set the stage for the nail-biting finish, which Delaney sealed with his game-winner with 91 seconds remaining in overtime. Bryan s three assists and four points are both career-highs. Kimmel (1g, 2a) and Boyle (1g, 1a) were the only other Blue Jays who registered multi-point games as Hopkins had nine different players score goals in the game. Gvozden posted 10 saves in goal for the Blue Jays. Bitter, Petracca, Delaney and Wagner all scored twice for the Tar Heels, who held advantages in shots (45-28) and ground balls (42-30). Zimmerman posted eight saves in goal for North Carolina. #6 Johns Hopkins (3-4) /9 #12 N. Carolina (8-3) /10 Goals: J: Bryan, Kimmel, Boyle, Peck, Christopher, Boland, Dolente, Walker, Burkhart. N: Bitter-2, Petracca, Delaney, Wagner, Burke, DiPietro. Assists: J: Bryan-3, Kimmel-2, Boyle, Palasek, Wharton. N: Bitter-2, Petracca-2, Burke, Delaney, B. Hunt, C. Hunt. Saves: J: Gvozden-10. N: Zimmerman-8. Shots: J-28. N-45. EMO: J: 0-for-0. N: 0-for-3. Attendance: 4,535. Game 8 April 4, 2009 Homewood Field #11 Johns Hopkins-14, #18 Albany-9 BALTIMORE, MD Junior Chris Boland scored five goals and 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins had seven different players record multi-point games as the Blue Jays posted a 14-9 victory over 18th-ranked Albany at wind-swept Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the 100th for Dave Pietramala as the head coach at Johns Hopkins (100-29) and snaps a three-game losing streak for the Blue Jays (4-4). Albany, which has dropped seven of eight all-time meetings with Johns Hopkins, falls to 6-3. Boland got the Blue Jays off to a quick start as he netted a pair of goals in the first seven minutes of the game and sophomore Kyle Wharton added an unassisted tally before the game was 10 minutes old to stake Hopkins to a 3-0 lead. Albany got back-to-back goals in a span of just over two minutes late in the first quarter to trim the deficit to one. Dave Brock tallied the first of the two goals in an unsettled situation and Brian Caufield whistled one home a short time later when Joe Resetarits found him on the side of the goal after Caufield made a nice cut from behind. That would be as close the Great Danes would get as Hopkins reeled off the next six goals to take the 9-2 lead. Michael Kimmel, Mark Bryan, Wharton and Brian Christopher all scored unassisted goals in the second quarter to push Michael Kimmel the 3-2 lead at the end of the first quarter to 7-2 at halftime. Bryan and Wharton s goals came less than one minute apart midway through the period and quickly turned a 4-2 lead into a 6-2 advantage. The Blue Jays dominated possession in the second quarter as they won 4-of-5 faceoffs and outshot the Danes, 18-2 in the period. It took just 65 seconds for Johns Hopkins to push the lead to 9-2 in the second half as Kimmel dodged from the top and found Bryan, who wasted little time beating Albany goalie John Carroll with a high-to-low shot from eight yards out. Boland completed his hat trick eight seconds later when sophomore Matt Dolente found him alone on the doorstep after cleanly winning the faceoff after Bryan s goal. The teams traded the next six goals to make it 12-5 early in the fourth quarter before Albany made things interesting with a three-goal run that trimmed the deficit to 12-8 with just over 11 minutes remaining in regulation. Caufield scored twice in a 33-second span once on a nifty dodge from behind the goal and once after taking a nice pass from Joe Pompo while cutting from the side of the goal and Dererk Kreuzer added an extra-man goal before the fourth quarter was four minutes old. The Blue Jays closed out the victory in the final eight minutes as Christopher and freshman Tom Palasek sandwiched extra-man goals around a Luke Cometti goal to account for the 14-9 final. Christopher and Palasek s goals helped the Blue Jays to a 3-for-4 showing with the extra-man on the day. Boland s five goals were one shy of his career high and paced an offense that generated its 14 goals on 39 shots. Wharton, Christopher and Bryan all added two goals and senior Steven Boyle chipped in with a career-high-tying three assists. Dolente had a career-high two assists, won 11-of- 17 faceoffs and grabbed eight ground balls. Johns Hopkins won 18-of-27 faceoffs in the game, including 12-of-13 in the second and third quarters combined, when they outscored Albany 8-3. Caufield, who entered the game ranked third in the nation in points per game, totaled three goals and one assist to lead the way offensively for Albany. Kreuzer was the only other multi-goal scorer for Albany as he scored twice. Carroll posted three saves in goal for Albany, which couldn t overcome 18 turnovers and the 2-to-1 advantage JHU enjoyed on faceoffs. #18 Albany (6-3) /9 #11 Johns Hopkins (4-4) /14 Goals: A: Caufield-3, Kreuzer-2, Resetarits, Brock, Pompo, L. Cometti. J: Boland-5, Wharton-2, Christopher-2, Bryan-2, Kimmel, Peck, Palaseck. Assists: A: Resetartis-2, Brock, Caufield, Pompo. J: Boyle-3, Dolente-2, Goodrich, Kimmel. Saves: A: Carroll-3. J: Gvozden-5. Shots: A-24. J-39. EMO: A: 1-for-4. J: 3-for-4. Attendance: 1,832. Game 9 April 11, 2009 M&T Bank Stadium #9 Johns Hopkins-10, #12 Maryland-9 BALTIMORE, MD -- Sixty Minutes! Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala preaches week-in and week-out to his team that it must be ready to play a full 60 minutes. In the 105th edition of the storied Hopkins-Maryland rivalry on Saturday afternoon, the Blue Jays pulled out a 10-9 victory that wasn t secure until junior goalie Mike Gvozden posted his sixth save of the fourth quarter and 12th of the day as time expired. It took the full 60 minutes to beat the Terps for the third straight time and seventh time under Pietramala. The Blue Jays (5-4) trailed 8-7 after Maryland scored back-to-back extra-man goals in a 69-second span midway through the third quarter to give the Terrapins their only lead of the game. Dan Groot bounced home a man-advantage goal with 6:39 remaining in the period and Jeremy Sieverts added an extra-man goal of his own with 5:30 left to give the Terps the one-goal lead and, seemingly, all the momentum. The momentum and the lead didn t last long as the Blue Jays grabbed the lead back for good with back-to-back goals 2010 Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 67

10 in a 55-second span late in the period. Junior Michael Kimmel scored off a quick restart with 2:16 remaining and Josh Peck added an extra-man goal of his own off a nifty feed inside from Kimmel 55 ticks later. After the teams battled to seven ties in the first three quarters, the Blue Jays took what would prove to be an insurmountable two-goal lead early in the fourth quarter when sophomore Kyle Wharton slipped inside his defender and rifled a shot past Maryland goalie Brian Phipps with just over 11 minutes remaining. Nearly 11 minutes passed before the Terps (6-5) would draw within one, but it wasn t for a lack of chances. Gvozden posted three big saves during the 11-minute span, including two on Maryland s leading scorer, Grant Catalino, and the Blue Jays killed a majority of the period. Still, Maryland came up with a turnover in the last 45 seconds of regulation and Groot made the Blue Jays pay when he came up with an errant Terp shot behind the goal and sprinted to the side of the goal, where he beat Gvozden with a high-to-low shot from the side with 26 seconds remaining. Hopkins won the ensuing faceoff on procedure, but turned the ball over after stepping out of the box with possession while leading in the final two minutes. Maryland quickly worked the ball downfield and Catalino found himself alone in front of the goal, but Gvozden was equal to the task as Catalino took a low pass in front and shoveled it towards the goal, where Gvozden got in front of it to make the biggest of his 12 saves as time expired. The first 30 minutes solved nothing as the teams battled to a 5-5 halftime tie. The Blue Jays jumped out to a 2-0 lead just over five minutes into the game as Chris Boland and Mark Bryan both scored in the first 5:20. Boland spun inside his defender and scored from in tight along the goal line at the 11:11 mark to open the scoring and Bryan blew an eight-yard shot past Phipps off a feed from Wharton. The Terps battled back to force the first of four first-half ties as Catalino slipped behind his defender cutting to the goal and fired home a pass from Ryan Young at the 4:38 mark and Sieverts whistled one into the top corner off an ally dodge to make it 2-2 with 3:06 remaining in the opening period. The Blue Jays held a 10-2 advantage in ground balls in the first quarter and they made the final one count as junior Max Chautin scooped up a loose ball in front of the crease after a Phipps save and slipped his second goal of the year into an open net. Young and Catalino sandwiched goals around a Kimmel tally in the first 4:15 of the second quarter to forge a 4-4 tie before the Blue Jays capitalized on the only extra-man chance of the first half midway through the period when Wharton fired a 10-yarder home off an assist from Boland. Maryland matched JHU s goal with three seconds left in the opening quarter with a strike with three seconds left in the second quarter. Young worked behind the goal until less than 10 seconds remained in the period and then drove to goal line extended before sliding a pass to Travis Reed, who dropped down and beat Gvozden from 10 yards to account for the 5-5 tie at the half. Wharton led the Blue Jays with three goals and one assist, while Kimmel added two goals and two assists to pace an offense that generated its 10 goals on 30 shots. Gvozden s 12 saves are his second-highest total of the season. The Blue Jays converted on 3-of-7 extra-man chances with Wharton scoring two of the three EMO goals for JHU. Groot scored a team-high three goals for Maryland, which also got two goals and one assist from Catalino and Sieverts. Phipps posted 11 saves in goal for the Terps. #9 Johns Hopkins (5-4) /10 #12 Maryland (6-5) /9 Goals: J: Wharton-3, Kimmel-2, Christopher, Boland, Bryan, Peck, Chautin. M: Groot-3, Catalino-2, Sieverts-2, Young, Reed. Assists: J: Kimmel-2, Boland, Christopher, Wharton. M: Young-2, Brusn, Catalino, Reed, Sieverts. Saves: J: Gvozden-12. M: Phipps-11. Shots: J-30. M-37. EMO: J: 3-for-7. M: 2-for-3. Attendance: 20,732. Game 10 April 18, 2009 Homewood Field #9 Johns Hopkins-15, #11 Navy-7 BALTIMORE, MD Johns Hopkins junior attackman Steven Boyle scored three goals and added a career-high four assists for a personal-best seven points and the Blue Jays outscored Navy 11-2 in the second and third quarters combined in a 15-7 victory against the Midshipmen at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the third straight overall for Johns Hopkins and the 36th straight for the Blue Jays against Navy. Hopkins improves to 6-4 with the victory, while Navy slips to 9-4 with the loss. In thrilling a Homecoming crowd of 6,925 at sun-baked Homewood Field, the Blue Jays also handed head coach Dave Pietramala his 125th career victory. He now boasts a record in 12 seasons as a head coach. Hopkins also improved to 42-2 under Pietramala against teams from the state of Maryland and 39-4 in the month of April on his watch. Navy led 3-2 at the end of the first quarter after attackman Bruce Nechanicky dodged hard from behind the goal and slipped a shot past Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden. From there, it was all Johns Hopkins for the next 30 minutes. The Blue Jays need just 2:23 of the second quarter to tie the game as senior Brian Christopher scored the first of his two goals after backing in his defender with a double spin move before ripping a shot inside the near post. Sophomore Mark Goodrich added his first goal of the season 76 seconds later and Boyle found senior Mark Bryan streaking down the middle of the field 24 seconds later to make it 5-3. Christopher scored his second goal of the game 60 seconds after Bryan s goal before Navy sliced the deficit to 6-4 on a extra-man goal by Evan Sullivan with just over four minutes remaining in the half. The two-goal lead held for the next two minutes before Boyle and junior midfielder Michael Kimmel connected for a pair of goals in the final two minutes of the first half to make it 8-4 at intermission. Boyle skipped a pass to the backside from the goal line and Kimmel picked the near post with 1:53 left in the half and then he returned the favor with five seconds left in the period as he swept across the top of the box and flipped a pass to the backside, where Boyle had time and room and beat Navy goalie Tom Phelan from six yards out. Like it had in the first quarter, Navy struck first in the third quarter as Patrick Moran matched his game-opening goal with a strike just 44 seconds into the second half to slice the deficit to 8-5. Any hopes for a comeback were dashed over the final 12:54 of the period as the Blue Jays outscored the Mids 5-0 during that stretch. Boyle had a hand in four of the five third-quarter goals for the Blue Jays as he assisted on Chris Boland and Kimmel goals in a two-minute span early in the period and then tallied back-to-back unassisted goals 17 seconds apart to give Hopkins a 13-5 lead after three quarters. Bryan added his second goal of the game between Boyle s two assists and two goals to account for the 5-0 run. Moran and Ryan O Leary sandwiched fourth-quarter goals around tallies by Kyle Wharton and Tim Donovan to account for the 15-7 final score. The Midshipmen balanced the stat sheet in the final period as they held advantages in shots (12-5), ground balls (13-5) and faceoffs (5-of-5) in the final 15 minutes as the Blue Jays attempted to run large chunks of time off the clock. Boyle, whose previous career-highs were three assists and six points, reached the 100-point mark for his career with the seven-point showing. He now has 59 goals and 42 assists for 101 points. Kimmel posted the eighth four-point game of his career with two goals and two assists, while Christopher (2g, 1a), Wharton (2g) and Bryan (2g) also enjoyed multipoint games. Despite the lopsided fourth quarter statistics, the Blue Jays still held advantages in shots (45-31), ground balls (34-25) and faceoffs (14-of-26). Hopkins was also successful on 19-of-21 clearing attempts, while Navy was just 11-of-18 on clears. Moran scored three of Navy s seven goals and Andy Warner contributed four assists for the Midshipmen, who also got 15 saves from Phelan. Boyle and Phelan earned Chris Gardner Player of the Game honors for their efforts. Gardner played for Johns Hopkins in 1996 before being diagnosed with and later dying of cancer. The Blue Jays have played a game in his honor every year with an additional dollar added to the cost of the tickets for the game. The money raised is donated to the Johns Hopkins Children s Center, where Chris received his treatment. #11 Navy (9-4) /7 #9 Johns Hopkins (6-4) /15 Goals: N: Moran-3, Nechanicky, Sullivan, Daratsos, O Leary. J: Boyle-3, Kimmel-2, Christopher-2, Wharton-2, Bryan-2, Goodrich, Boland, Donovan, Spaulding. Assists: N: Warner-4. J: Boyle-4, Kimmel-2, Christopher, Dolente, Peck. Saves: N: Phelan-15. J: Gvozden-7, Burke-1. Shots: N-31. J-45. EMO: N: 1-for-3. J: 0-for-1. Attendance: 6,925. Game 11 April 22, 2009 Unitas Stadium #7 Johns Hopkins-11, Towson-10 (2OT) Mark Bryan TOWSON, MD - It seemed like a simple thing. Johns Hopkins junior Michael Kimmel picked up a ball that went out of bounds on the side and prepared to restart with 7.2 seconds remaining in the second overtime of Wednesday night s game at Towson. Before the restart, senior midfielder Brian Christopher came and took the ball from him and needed just six of those 7.2 seconds to net his third goal of the game and second career overtime game-winner as he dodged to the middle of the field, spun inside his defender and bounced a Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

11 tricky shot inside the near post to lift the Blue Jays to an victory before a crowd of 3,509 at Unitas Stadium. In winning a game they never led while the clock was moving, the Blue Jays improved to 7-4 and ran their winning streak to four games overall and 14 games against the Tigers. Towson slips to 6-8 with the loss. Towson controlled the tempo from the outset, led by as many as four and carried a 9-6 lead into the fourth quarter before the Blue Jays rallied. Hopkins had trailed by scores of 7-3 and 8-4 in the third quarter before back-to-back goals by Chris Boland and Kyle Wharton sliced the deficit to 8-6 with still more than four minutes remaining in the third. Towson got what appeared was a crushing goal with 2.8 seconds remaining in the third quarter when Matt Lamon found Justin Schneider with a cross-field pass from the top of the box to the back-door for any easy goal in tight. But after scoring nine goals on 26 shots in the first 45 minutes, the Tigers would find the net just once on 15 shots in the final 23 minutes. Senior Mark Bryan started the Blue Jay comeback as he worked a nifty face-dodge 10 yards from the goal and beat Towson goalie Rob Wheeler from six yards out to make it 9-7. The Tigers efficiently worked their offense over the next eight minutes and Hopkins failed to convert twice after forcing turnovers - once on a failed clear and again when Wheeler stopped Andrew Miller on a breakaway. But for all of their possession time, the Tigers couldn t regain the three-goal lead. Hopkins finally drew within one for the first time since late in the second quarter when senior Josh Peck one-timed a pass to the crease from Steven Boyle for an extra-man goal with 5:02 remaining. Kimmel forced the first tie of the game 70 seconds later when he scored from a tough angle on an ally dodge, but the tie was short-lived as Bill McCutcheon got free in a scramble situation after a save by Michael Gvozden and blew a shot home just 32 seconds after Kimmel s tally. Christopher scored what would prove to be the overtimeforcing goal with 2:12 remaining as he swept across the top of the box and cut to the inside before beating Wheeler from 10 yards with a high-to-low shot on the run. Both teams had possession in the final two minutes, but Gvozden intercepted a pass behind the goal and Kimmel s pass to the front of the goal with just under 20 seconds remaining was batted down and time expired before either team could get off a shot. Gvozden and Wheeler both came up with big saves in the first overtime - Gvozden s was of the kick-save variety just 40 seconds in and Wheeler stoned Boyle on the crease with 1:25 left. The Tigers cleared successfully after Wheeler s save, but turned the ball over in the final seconds before getting off another shot. A frantic second overtime, which featured nine combined shots, five combined saves and a failed extra-man opportunity by the Blue Jays (Peck hit the post from two yards out) came down to Gvozden and Christopher. Gvozden came up with a big save with just over a minute to play, only to turn the ball over on the ensuing clear attempt. He went low 10 seconds later to take one away from Schneider and the Blue Jays came up with the loose ball and cleared the ball. After a timeout, Wharton backed up a shot that went wide and out of bounds on the sideline. Six seconds later Christopher had his third goal of the game, the Blue Jays had won their fourth straight and Hopkins had won a game it never led until the clock stopped for the final time with 1.2 ticks left in the second overtime. The Tigers crafted a 5-3 halftime lead on the strength of goals by five different players. Tim Stratton and Lamon scored back-to-back goals in a span of less than a minute late in the second quarter, but Wharton scored off an assist from Kimmel with 26 seconds remaining in the opening half to account for the 5-3 halftime score. When Randall Cooper and Pat Britton scored in the first seven minutes of the third quarter the Tigers had their 7-3 lead and when McCutcheon answered the first of Kimmel s two goals less than 90 seconds later it was 8-4. Boland and Wharton s goals quickly followed before Schneider s goal as the third quarter wound down. Thirty one shots, 11 saves from Gvozden and two Christopher goals later and the Blue Jays had come from four goals down to win for the first time since erasing a 7-1 deficit at Syracuse on March 18, #7 Johns Hopkins (7-4) /11 Towson (6-8) /10 Goals: J: Christopher-3, Kimmel-2, Wharton-2, Boyle, Bryan, Boland, Peck. T: Schneider, Cooper, McCutcheon-2, Lamon, Harrington, Stratton, Britton. Assists: J: Kimmel-3, Boyle-2. T: Lamon-3, Cooper-2, Schneider-2, Harrington, McCutcheon, Stratton. Saves: J: Gvozden-15. T: Wheeler-8. Shots: J-35. T-41. EMO: J: 3-for-4. T: 1-for-3. Attendance: 3,509. Game 12 April 27, 2009 Waldron Family Stadium #8 Johns Hopkins-12, Mount St. Mary s-5 EMMITSBURG, MD - Sophomore attackman Kyle Wharton scored four goals and junior attackman Chris Boland added two goals and a career-high four assists to lead the eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team to a 12-5 win over host Mount St. Mary s before a Waldron Family Stadium record crowd of 1,258 on Monday evening. The win is the fifth straight for the Blue Jays, who improve to 8-4 with the win. Mount St. Mary s had a modest two-game winning streak snapped and slips to 5-9. The Blue Jays jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the first six minutes of the game, only to have Mount St. Mary s battle back to knot the game at 2-2 at the end of the first quarter. Senior Brian Christopher found Boland alone on the doorstep and Boland beat Mountaineer goalie T.C. DiBartolo in tight less than 90 seconds into the game and senior Josh Peck took a nifty skip pass from sophomore Mark Goodrich and dropped down from six yards out just over four minutes after Boland s goal to make it 2-0. The Mount withstood the early assault and scored backto-back goals in transition in a six-minute span to make it 2-2. After nearly turning the ball over on a clear attempt, Cody Lehrer came up with a ground ball near the top of the Blue Jays defensive box and found Christian Kellett alone in front of the goal, where he easily beat JHU goalie Michael Gvozden. DiBartolo jump-started another transition opportunity six minutes later as he made a nice save and the Mount cashed in at the other end when Mike Adkins polished off a feed from Brendan Harrison with 1:37 remaining in the period. Michael Gvozden DiBartolo made several highlight reel saves in the first 10 minutes of the second quarter and the Mount grabbed a 3-2 lead when Eric Ososki found Geery Grant alone seven yards in front of the goal and Grant quickly found the back of the net. Both goalies were on over the next several minutes as DiBartolo robbed Michael Kimmel and Boland on backto-back shots with 4:30 remaining, only to have Gvozden match him less than a minute later when he stoned Harrison on a breakaway. The Blue Jays hopped back in front for good with backto-back goals in a 19-second span late in the quarter as they were able to keep the pressure on the Mountaineer defense. Wharton finally broke a 21-minute scoreless drought for the Blue Jays when Boland hit him from behind the net and he picked the far corner with 2:45 remaining. Boland was on the back-end of a nifty cross-crease pass from Peck off the ensuing faceoff and he wasted little time beating a defenseless DiBartolo to account for a 4-3 halftime score. The Blue Jays pushed the one-goal halftime lead to two goals by the end of the third quarter as they outscored the Mountaineers 3-2 in the period. Kimmel worked down the ally before slipping a pass back to Christopher at the top of the box and Christopher blew a 12-yarder past DiBartolo to make it 5-3 less than two minutes into the second half, but the Mount answered back less than four minutes later as Anthony Golden capped a long possession when Ryan Shewell found him alone at the top of the box and he fired a 10-yarder past Gvozden. Hopkins pushed the lead to 7-4 with an extra-man goal by Wharton with 9:14 remaining in the third and a nifty split dodge goal by Christopher two minutes later, but the pesky Mountaineers wouldn t go away and sliced the deficit to 7-5 when Lehrer found Grant curling around a screen eight yards in front of the goal and Grant one-timed a shot home to account for the 7-5 score at the end of the third. Any hopes for a Mountaineer comeback were dashed in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter as the Blue Jays got a pair of extra-man goals from Wharton and Peck in the first 4:08 of the period and Boland found Max Chautin alone in front and Chautin scored from the doorstep to make it 10-5 with 9:20 remaining. The Blue Jays added a Wharton goal off a scramble in front with 4:59 remaining and a late goal by freshman Will McCance to account for the final scoring. In addition to Boland and Wharton s exploits, the Blue Jays got two goals and two assists from Christopher and two goals and one assist from Peck. Gvozden posted six saves and the Blue Jays held advantages in shots (42-19) and ground balls (38-19). DiBartolo was spectacular in goal as he posted 15 saves before departing with just over nine minutes remaining. Grant s two goals paced the Mountaineers offensively Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 69

12 #8 Johns Hopkins (8-4) /12 Mount St. Mary s (5-9) /5 Goals: J: Wharton-4, Boland-2, Christopher-2, Peck-2, Chautin, McCance. M: Grant-2, Kellett, Golden, Adkins. Assists: J: Boland-4, Christopher-2, Goodrich, Kimmel, Palasek, Peck. M: Lehrer-2, Harrison, Ososki, Shewell. Saves: J: Gvozden-6, Burke-0. M: DiBartolo-15, Schaufler-0. Shots: J-42. M-16. EMO: J: 3-for-4. M: 0-for-1. Attendance: 1,258. Game 13 May 2, 2009 Homewood Field #8 Johns Hopkins-11, #13 Loyola-10 (2OT) BALTIMORE, MD With all due respect to Virginia standout Brian Carroll, who has rightfully earned the nickname of Big Shot Brian for his late-game and overtime heroics, Johns Hopkins senior midfielder Brian Christopher may want in on the moniker as well. Christopher s career-hightying fourth goal of the game 25 seconds into the second overtime lifted Johns Hopkins to an victory over visiting Loyola before 2,732 fans at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The overtime game-winner is the third of Christopher s career and his second in double-overtime in the last 10 days. The Blue Jays improve to 9-4 with the win, while Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala moves into a tie with Henry Ciccarone for second place on the school s career victories list. Pietramala now sports a record of in nine seasons at Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins had what appeared as a comfortable 10-7 lead with less than four minutes remaining and still led 10-8 with less than a minute to play after the Greyhounds Jake Wilcox had made it 10-8 with a left-handed runner just inside the far post with 3:49 remaining. It had taken the Blue Jays more than 13 minutes bridging the third and fourth quarters to turn a 7-5 deficit into the 10-7 lead. After JHU turned the ball over with less the 40 seconds on the clock, it took just 19 seconds for Loyola to stage a stunning rally and force overtime. The Blue Jays milked more than 30 seconds off the clock late in regulation before turning the ball over. When Tim Donovan was sent off for a cross check with 32 seconds left, the Hounds needed just nine seconds to pull to within one at 10-9 as Shane Koppens skipped a pass across the field and found Jimmy Daly, who rifled home Loyola s second extraman goal of the game with 23 ticks left on the clock. Still the Blue Jays seemed to be safe as sophomore Matt Dolente scooped up the ensuing faceoff and raced down the sideline with possession, only to stripped on a nice backcheck by Taylor Ebsary, who grabbed the ground ball and found senior P.T. Ricci in the middle of the field. Ricci carried towards midfield before rifling a 30-yard pass to Koppens 10 yards in front of the goal. Koppens caught the ball Michael Powers with Blue Jay defender Michael Evans draped all over him, spun to the outside and ripped one past Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden to send the crowd into a frenzy. Both teams had chances to win in the first overtime, but Loyola s Collin Finnerty was stripped three yards from the goal after slipping inside the defense and Christopher rang one off the crossbar with 55 seconds left and dinged another off the post 40 seconds later. The Blue Jays didn t manage a shot in the final 15 seconds of the first extra session. Dolente, who struggled early in the game on faceoffs before rallying to win 11-of-22 on the day, won the opening faceoff of the second overtime and the Blue Jays called timeout. Out of the timeout, Christopher took a pass from Kimmel at the top of the box, swept to his left and then worked his way back to the middle, where he beat Loyola s Jake Hagelin from nine yards after splitting a pair of defenders. In a game that featured seven ties and four lead changes, neither team led by more than one until Loyola got backto-back goals in a six-minute span in the third quarter off a pair of failed clears by the Blue Jays. Koppens stuck one with 12:27 remaining after Cooper MacDonnell intercepted a Gvozden clearing attempt and Finnerty got his only goal of the game after intercepting a Matt Drenan pass to Gvozden behind the goal and shooting into an open net. The Blue Jay defense held Loyola scoreless for more than 17 minutes after Finnerty s goal and the Blue Jays crafted a 5-0 run during that time to turn the two-goal deficit into the 10-7 lead. Kimmel opened the spree when he blew one home off a feed from Christopher and Christopher took the honors himself less than 30 seconds later when he scored in transition off a clear after the Blue Jays won the faceoff after Kimmel s goal. Back-to-back goals by Wharton the first coming just seven seconds into the fourth quarter and a high-to-low shot by senior co-captain Josh Peck after a nice catch off a curl five yards above the crease gave the Blue Jays the threegoal lead with 6:47 remaining in the fourth quarter. The lead held at three goals until Wilcox hit the runner three minutes after Peck scored. As it turned out, the Greyhounds were just getting going and Christopher s work off the iron in the first overtime was followed shortly after by his school-record third career overtime goal. Christopher matched his career-high with four goals and five points and Kimmel reached the 100-career point mark with his one goal and two assists. Wharton netted his fifth hat trick of the season and dished a game-high three assists. Gvozden matched his season-high with 15 saves and moved into 10th place on JHU s career saves list (341). Loyola got two goals and two assists from Koppens, two goals from Wilcox and one goal and one assist from Daly, but the Hounds managed just a 5-5 halftime tie despite dominating the game statistically through 30 minutes. Loyola won 9-of-12 faceoffs in the first half, outshot the Blue Jays in the opening 30 minutes and led in ground balls 23-8 at intermission. But after leading 2-1 and 3-2, they surrendered back-to-back goals to Christopher and needed a Matt Langan goal with less than two minutes remaining in the half to pull even at intermission. #13 Loyola (9-5) /10 #8 Johns Hopkins (9-4) /11 Goals: L: Koppens-2, Wilcox-2, Daly, Finnerty, Atkinson, Langan, Hurst, Lusby. J: Christopher-4, Wharton-3, Kimmel, Bryan, Peck, Boyle. Assists: L: Koppens-2, Basler, Daly, MacDonnell, Ricci. J: Boland-3, Kimmel-2, Christopher, Goodrich. Saves: L: Hagelin-6. J: M. Gvozden-15. Shots: L-47. J-30. EMO: L: 2-for-4. J: 0-for-1. Attendance: 2,732. Game 14 May 9, 2009 Homewood Field #8 Johns Hopkins-12, #11 Brown-11 (OT) NCAA First Round BALTIMORE, MD It s safe to say that Johns Hopkins senior Brian Christopher enjoys overtime. For the third time in four games and the fourth time in his career, Christopher found the back of the net in overtime this time just 36 seconds into the first extra session to lift the Blue Jays to a victory over Brown in the first round of the NCAA Men s Lacrosse Tournament at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the seventh straight for the Blue Jays (10-4), who move into the quarterfinals for the 19th straight year with the victory. Brown, which forced overtime with a goal with just eight seconds left in regulation, ends the season at The Blue Jays led with less than 30 seconds to play and came up with a loose ball on the crease in front of goalie Michael Gvozden, but an errant pass to midfield was scooped up by the Bears and they got it back to Kyle Hollingsworth behind the goal. Hollingsworth dodged from behind the goal, only to be stripped of the ball coming around the side. With the ball loose in front, he managed to shovel the rolling ball through traffic into the corner of the net to force the extra session. In overtime, sophomore Matt Dolente won the opening faceoff and the Blue Jays quickly called timout. Out of the timeout, Hopkins circled the ball once before working it to Christopher at the top of the box. He dodged to his right, got a step on his defender and blew a shot into the top corner before a late slide could help. A week ago it was Loyola he beat in the second overtime; 10 days before that he lifted the Blue Jays past Towson with 1.2 seconds remaining in the second extra session. The last three weeks have been pretty exciting, Christopher noted in the post-game press conference. I thought I had a good opportunity to get to the goal and once I got some space I was able to get off a good shot, he added of his game-winner. Johns Hopkins had jumped out to a 3-0 lead less than nine minutes into the first quarter as junior Chris Boland sandwiched the first two of his five goals around a tally by classmate Steven Boyle. Despite the quick start, the Blue Jays found themselves in a 3-3 tie less than 90 seconds into the second quarter as Thomas Muldoon and Brady Williams struck before the end of the first quarter and Rob Schlesinger scored in a scramble situation with 13:35 remaining in the second quarter. Three times before the end of the third quarter the Blue Jays built two-goal leads, only to have the resilient Bears battle back to force a 7-7 tie at the end of the third. The Blue Jays moved the 3-3 tie to a 6-4 advantage at the half as Boyle, Boland and Kyle Wharton all scored in a six-minute span midway through the period with only an Andrew Feinberg goal mixed in for the Bears during that time. Neither team scored in the final 7:56 of the second quarter. Brown got three of the four goals in the third quarter to account for the 7-7 tie at the end of the third. A Nic Bell goal less than one minute into the third was answered 59 seconds later by Christopher s first of the game, but Muldoon and Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

13 Collins Carey fired home the only goals in the final 13 minutes of the quarter as the Blue Jays were held scoreless for the final 13:12 after Christopher s goal. Johns Hopkins appeared to take control with three goals in the first 4:30 of the fourth quarter to turn the 7-7 tie into a 10-7 lead. Boland sandwiched his fourth and fifth goals of the game around Wharton s second of the day to give the Blue Jays their first three-goal lead since it was 3-0 late in the first quarter. Feinberg drew the Bears to within 10-8 when he blew a shot home from a tough angle after he was left unchecked, but Boland found Christopher alone 10 yards from the goal and Christopher had time and room to blow home his second of the day to push the lead back to three. Muldoon made it a one-goal game with back-to-back unassisted goals in a span of just under four minutes down the stretch. He spun through traffic and scored from in tight with 6:23 remaining and then dropped down to beat Gvozden with 2:46 remaining to make it a one-goal game. Both teams had possession inside the two-minute mark, only to turn the ball over. The Blue Jays had a chance to win in regulation when they came up with the loose ball on the crease in the final 30 seconds, but the Bears retrieved a loose ball near midfield and worked the ball to Hollingsworth, whose game-tying goal forced the extra session and set the stage for Christopher s overtime heroics. Boland led the Blue Jays with five goals and two assists. His goal and point totals are were both one shy of his career high. Boyle and Wharton both added two goals and two assists as the starting attack unit combined for nine goals and six assists for the Blue Jays. Christopher added three goals for Hopkins, which had 10 of its 12 goals assisted on the day. Gvozden posted 11 saves in goal, including two big stops in the fourth quarter. Muldoon paced the Bears with four goals, while Feinberg scored twice for Brown, which got 10 saves from senior Jordan Burke and held a advantage in shots on the day. Johns Hopkins, which improved to 16-6 under head coach Dave Pietramala in overtime games, will play the winner of Sunday s Viriginia-Villanova game in next week s NCAA Quarterfinal. The Johns Hopkins-Virginia/Villanova game will take place at Navy. The other game at Navy that day will feature North Carolina vs. the Navy/Duke winner. #11 Brown (12-4) /11 #8 Johns Hopkins (10-4) Goals: B: Muldoon-4, Feinberg-2, Hollingsworth, Carey, Bell, Schlesinger, Williams. J: Boland-5, Christopher-2, Wharton-2, Boyle-2. Assists: B: Carey, Hardy, Hollingsworth, Seligman. J: Boland-2, Boyle-2, Kimmel-2, Wharton-2, Donovan, Palasek. Saves: B: Burke-10. J: Gvozden-11. Shots: B-42. J-36. EMO: B: 1-for-2. J: 0-for-3. Attendance: 2,491. Game 15 May 17, 2009 Navy Marine Corps Stadium #5 Virginia-19, #8 Johns Hopkins-8 NCAA Quarterfinals ANNAPOLIS, MD - The Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team had no answers for top-seeded Virginia in Sunday s NCAA Quarterfinal game at Navy Marine Corps Stadium. The Blue Jays led 1-0 early, only to see the Cavaliers score six straight and 12 of the next 14 en route to a 19-8 win that moves Virginia into the NCAA Semifinals. Johns Hopkins had its seven-game winning streak snapped and ends the season with a 10-5 record. It took just 67 seconds for the Blue Jays to grab a 1-0 lead as Michael Kimmel drew a pair of defenders at the top of the box and slipped a pass to Brian Christopher, who blew home his 29th goal of the season from 10 yards out. The Blue Jays wouldn t score again until early in the second quarter and by then the Cavaliers had rattled off six goals in a six-minute span to take a 6-1 lead at the end of the first quarter. Sophomore Rhamel Bratton sandwiched goals around a Danny Glading tally to jump-start the spree, which included a goal by Shamel Bratton and back-to-back goals by Garrett Billings in a 28-second span late in the quarter. The Blue Jays sliced the deficit to four (7-3) less than three minutes into the second quarter as Kimmel and Christopher sandwiched goals around Billings third of the game, but it took Virginia just 12 seconds to answer Christopher s goal as Steele Stanwick scored off the faceoff following his goal and Shamel Bratton fired home a 12-yarder 45 seconds later to make it 9-3. The six-goal lead held until late in the period, when it swelled to 12-3 on goals by John Haldy, Shamel Bratton and Glading. To make matters worse for the Blue Jays, they lost the services of senior defenseman Michael Evans after Haldy s goal as he went down with a knee injury and was unable to return. A Kyle Wharton goal in transition with five seconds remaining in the second quarter gave the Blue Jays some momentum heading into the half, but that momentum didn t carry into the third quarter as the Cavaliers needed less than one minute to extend the 12-4 lead to 14-4 as Shamel Bratton and Billings scored on Virginia s first two possessions of the second half. When you look at the last three or four weeks, we were skating by, Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala noted in the post-game press conference. Our offense was carrying us a little bit; we weren t doing a great job defensively. There were mistakes we were battling with all year. We were battling them today and you can t do that against this type of team. Virginia led by as many as 13 on two occasions in the fourth quarter before the Blue Jays closed with goals by Josh Peck, Kimmel and Matt Dolente in the final two minutes to account for the final margin. Shamel Bratton led the Cavaliers with a career-high five goals, while the attack unit of Billings, Glading and Stanwick combined for 11 goals and nine assists in the victory. Adam Ghitelman posted 14 saves in goal for the Cavaliers, who held a advantage in shots and forced 24 Blue Jay turnovers. Kimmel paced the Blue Jays with two goals and two assists, while Christopher added two goals. Michael Gvozden posted 14 saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who won the ground ball war (33-27) and controlled 17-of-30 faceoffs. Dolente won 10-of-18 faceoffs and had nine ground balls to go along with his goal late in the game. Of course, 19 goals is a lot to score, but they didn t do anything we didn t expect, Gvozden noted. They did a great job of moving the ball. #8 Johns Hopkins (10-5) /8 #5 Virginia (15-2) /19 Goals: J: Kimmel-2, Christopher-2, Wharton, Bryan, Dolente, Peck. V: S. Bratton-5, Billings-4, Stanwick-2, Glading-2, R. Bratton-2, Gill-2, Haldy, Briggs. Assists: J: Kimmel-2, Drenan, Palasek, Walker. V: Stanwick-5, Billings-3, Carroll, Gaudet, Glading. Saves: J: Gvozden-14, Burke-0. V: Ghitelman-14. Shots: J-33. V-47. EMO: J: 0-for-0. V: 1-for-3. Attendance: 12, Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 71

14 2009 Results and Statistics 2009 Results (Home games in bold) Date Opponent W/L Score Overall Attend Goalie Site 2/20 Siena W Mike Gvozden (1-0) Baltimore, MD 2/28 #9 Princeton + L Mike Gvozden (1-1) Baltimore, MD #6 UMBC W Mike Gvozden (2-1) Baltimore, MD 3/7 #9 Hofstra W Mike Gvozden (3-1) Baltimore, MD #2 Syracuse L Mike Gvozden (3-2) Syracuse, NY 3/21 #1 Virginia L Mike Gvozden (3-3) Baltimore, MD #12 North Carolina (OT) L Mike Gvozden (3-4) Chapel Hill, NC 4/4 #18 Albany W Mike Gvozden (4-4) Baltimore, MD 4/11 #12 Maryland ^ W Mike Gvozden (5-4) Baltimore, MD 4/18 #11 Navy W Mike Gvozden (6-4) Baltimore, MD Towson (2OT) W Mike Gvozden (7-4) Towson, MD Mount St. Mary s W Mike Gvozden (8-4) Emmitsburg, MD 5/2 #13 Loyola (2OT) W Mike Gvozden (9-4) Baltimore, MD 5/9 #11 Brown (NCAA 1st Rd.) (OT) W Mike Gvozden (10-4) Baltimore, MD 5/17 #5 Virginia (NCAA QF) L Mike Gvozden (10-5) Annapolis, MD + Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic (M&T Bank Stadium) ^ Day of Rivals (M&T Bank Stadium) Individual Statistics (Returning Players in Bold) No. Name GP/S G A Pts Sh Shot% GW UP DN GB TO CT FO Pct Pen-Min 32 Chris Boland 15/ /0 42 Kyle Wharton 15/ / Michael Kimmel 15/ / Brian Christopher 15/ / Steven Boyle 14/ / Mark Bryan 14/ / Josh Peck 15/ /1.0 4 Matt Dolente 13/ / Tim Donovan 15/ /1.0 7 Mark Goodrich 14/ / Tom Palasek 14/ / Marshall Burkhart 9/ / Max Chautin 15/ / Austin Walker 12/ / Dave Spaulding 15/ / Matt Drenan 15/ / Will McCance 4/ / Hunter Rodgers 10/ /0.0 9 Charlie Wiggins 15/ / Sam DeVore 15/ /7.5 3 Andrew Miller 14/ /0.5 2 Nate Matthews 6/ / Michael Evans 15/ / Tom Duerr 1/ /0.0 5 Michael Powers 12/ /0.0 1 Max Levine 4/ / Peter Swerz 7/ / Greg Harrington 15/ / Andrew Blasko 3/ / John Franklin 2/ / Steven Burke 5/ / Zach Tedeschi 3/ / Will Jawish 11/ / Nick Donoghue 4/ / Gavin Crisafulli 6/ / Orry Michael 15/ / Conor Cassidy 1/ / Trevor Brown 3/ / Eric DiProspero 2/ /0.0 8 Mike Maydick 13/ /0.0 6 Mike Gvozden 15/ /0.0 JHU Totals /46.0 Opponent Totals /45.0 Team Statistics JHU OPP SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct Shots on goal-attempts SOG pct Shots/Game Assists MAN-UP OPPORTUNITIES Goals-Opportunities Conversion Pct GOAL BREAKDOWN Total Goals Man-up Man-down 0 0 Unassisted Overtime 3 1 Goals scored average GROUND BALLS TURNOVERS CAUSED TURNOVERS FACEOFFS (W-L) Faceoff W-L Pct CLEARS Clear Pct PENALTIES Number Minutes 46:00 45:00 ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date 7/3394 5/3886 Neutral Site #/Avg 3/16664 Goalie Statistics (Returning Players in Bold) No. Name GP/S Minutes GA GAA Saves Pct W L 35 Steven Burke 5/0 20: Mike Gvozden 15/15 894: JHU Totals : Opponent Totals : Men s Lacrosse Media Guide

15 2009 Miscellaneous Stats / Polls / Awards USILA Coaches Poll May 4, 2009 JHU Week-by-Week in the Polls Johns Hopkins Record... Rk. Team Rec. Points 1. Syracuse (5) Notre Dame Duke (2) Princeton Virginia North Carolina Cornell Johns Hopkins UMBC Hofstra Brown Navy Maryland Loyola UMass Penn State Bucknell Harvard Villanova Stony Brook Others Receiving Votes: Georgetown, Colgate USILA Coaches Nike/Media Preseason 5th -- Feb. 9 No Poll 5th Feb. 16 4th 4th Feb. 23 6th 3rd March 2 10th 9th March 9 6th 8th March 16 9th 7th March 23 7th 6th March 30 11th 11th April 6 9th 9th April 13 9th 9th April 20 7th 7th April 27 8th 6th May 4 8th 7th June th In Under Curr Petro Streak Overall: L1 At home: W4 On the road: W2 At a neutral site: L1 On artificial turf: W2 On grass: L3 On Sportexe / Fieldturf: L1 During the day: L1 At night: W2 In overtime: W3 In one-goal games: W4 Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll June 1, 2009 On television: L1 Rk. Team Rec. Points 1. Syracuse (17) Cornell Duke Virginia Princeton North Carolina Johns Hopkins Maryland Notre Dame Hofstra UMBC Brown Navy Loyola Massachusetts Penn State Harvard Villanova Bucknell Colgate Others Receiving Votes: Siena-22, Georgetown-15, Army-5, Denver-5, Towson-3, Bryant-2, Ohio State-2, Delaware Honors and Awards In weekday games: W4 On the weekend (Sat/Sun.): L1 Against teams ranked 1-5: L4 Against teams ranked 6-10: W2 Against teams ranked 11-20: W5 Against unranked teams: W5 Leading after one quarter: W5 Leading at the half: W14 Leading after three quarters: W4 Trailing after one quarter: L1 Trailing at the half: L1 Trailing after three quarters: L1 Tied after one quarter: W2 Tied at the half: W5 Tied after three quarters: W2 Steven Boyle (Jr./A) Honorable Mention USILA All-American. Scoring first: L1 Opponent scores first: W2 Brian Christopher (Sr./M) Third Team USILA All-American. Michael Evans (Sr./D) William C. Schmeisser Award (Division I Defenseman of the Year), First Team USILA All-American. Michael Kimmel (Jr./M) Second Team USILA All-American Kyle Wharton (Jr./A) Honorable Mention USILA All-American Scoring 10 or more goals: W7 Scoring less than 10 goals: L3 Allowing 10 or more goals: L1 Allowing less than 10 goals: W14 Getting more ground balls: L1 Getting less ground balls: W4 Ground balls equal: W5 Winning more faceoffs: L1 Opp. wins more faceoffs: W2 Faceoffs equal: W Men s Lacrosse Media Guide 73