Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse 2009 Opponent Profiles

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2 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Siena Face-Off Classic Princeton Feb. 20, pm Homewood Field Feb. 28, 2009 Noon M&T Bank Stadium Loudonville, NY Founded: 1937 Enrollment: 3,000 Saints Green & Gold Metro Atlantic Athletics (MAAC) Homefield: Siena Turf Field Turf Fr. Kevin Mullen, O.F.M John D Argenio 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 2009 Opponent Profiles Brian Brecht Alma Mater/Year: Springfield 95 Record at Siena: (5th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 518/ Asst. Coaches: Liam Gleason Eric Wolf, Tim Robbins Mark Adam SID Office Phone: 518/ SID Fax: 518/ madam@siena.edu Press Box Phone: None Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 4-4 (T-4th) 2008 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 37/4 Starters Returning/Lost: 9/1 Saturday, February 28, 2009 M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins vs. Princeton Noon Maryland vs. Duke 2:30 pm Bill Tierney Alma Mater/Year: Cortland State 73 Record at Princeton: (22nd season) (25th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 609/ Asst. Coaches: David Metzbower Bryce Chase, Kevin Unterstein Jerry Price SID Office Phone: 609/ SID Fax: 609/ SID Home: 215/ Press Box Phone: 609/ Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 4-2 (3rd) 2008 Postseason: None 20th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 33/16 Starters Returning/Lost: 5-5 Series Record vs. JHU: First Meeting Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, UMBC Hofstra Syracuse March 3, :30 pm UMBC Stadium March 7, 2009 Noon Homewood Field March 14, pm Carrier Dome Baltimore, MD Founded: 1966 Enrollment: 12,300 Retrievers Black & Gold w/red America East Homefield: UMBC Stadium (4,500) Momentum Turf Dr. Freeman Hrabowski Dr. Charles Brown Hempstead, NY Founded: 1935 Enrollment: 12,700 Pride Gold, White and Blue Colonial Athletic Association Homefield: James M. Shuart Stadium (13,000) Field Turf Stuart Rabinowitz Jack Hayes Syracuse, NY Founded: 1870 Enrollment: 12,400 Orange Color: Orange Independent Homefield: Carrier Dome (49,550) Field Turf Chancellor & Nancy Cantor Dr. Daryl Gross Don Zimmerman Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 76 Record at UMBC: (16th season) (23rd season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ or 1527 Assistant Coaches: Rob Cross, Pat Tracy Tim Flanagan Steve Levy SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ slevy@umbc.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Seth Tierney Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 91 Record at Hofstra: (3rd season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 516/ Assistant Coaches: 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/ or 5275 John Desko Alma Mater/Year: Syracuse 79 Record at Syracuse: (11th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 315/ Asst. Coaches: 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 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 5-0 (T-1st) 2008 Postseason: NCAA First Round 6th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 31/9 Starters Returning/Lost: 9/1 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 5-1 (T-4th) 2008 Postseason: NCAA First Round Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 29/9 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/2 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: NA 2008 Postseason: NCAA Champions 3rd Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 33/16 Starters Returning/Lost: 5/5 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 6-0 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads 17-4 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

3 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Virginia North Carolina Albany March 21, pm Homewood Field March 28, pm Fetzer Field April 4, 2009 Noon Homewood Field 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 Chapel Hill, NC Founded: 1793 Enrollment: 28,136 Tar Heels Carolina Blue & White Atlantic Coast Conference Homefield: Fetzer Field (6,000) Grass Chancellor: Dr. Holden Thorp Dick Baddour Albany, NY Founded: 1844 Enrollment: 12,748 Great Danes Purple & Gold America East Homefield: John Fallon Field (2,500) Grass Dr. George M. Philip (Interim) Lee McElroy Dom Starsia Alma Mater/Year: Brown 74 Record at Virginia: (17th season) (26th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 434/ Assistant Coaches: Marc Van Arsdale, Hannon Wright Michael Colley SID Office Phone: 434/ SID Fax: 434/ mediamike@virginia.edu Press Box Phone: 434/ Joe Breschi Alma Mater/Year: North Carolina 90 Record at North Carolina: (1st season) (12th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 919/ Assistant Coaches: Greg Paradine Pat Myers, Brian Holman Dave Lohse SID Office Phone: 919/ SID Fax: 919/ dlohse@uncaa.unc.edu Press Box Phone: 919/ Scott Marr Alma Mater/Year: Johns Hopkins 91 Record at Albany: (9th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 518/ Assistant Coaches: Bill Ralph Chris Kivlen, Donald Shea Brian DePasquale SID Office Phone: 518/ SID Fax: 518/ bdepasquale@uamail.albany.edu Press Box Phone: n/a 2009 Opponent Profiles Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 1-2 (2nd) 2008 Postseason: NCAA Semifinals 2nd Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 30/10 Starters Returning/Lost: 7/3 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 0-3 (4th) 2008 Postseason: NCAA First Round 9th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 34/11 Starters Returning/Lost: 7/3 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 4-1 (2nd) 2008 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/11 Starters Returning/Lost: 7/3 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 6-1 Maryland Day of Rivals Navy April 11, pm M&T Bank Stadium April 18, pm Homewood Field College Park, MD Founded: 1807 Enrollment: 36,014 Terrapins Red, White, Black and Gold Atlantic Coast Conference 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 Dave Cottle Alma Mater/Year: Salisbury State 78 Record at Maryland: (8th season) (27th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 301/ Assistant Coaches: Dave Slafkosky Ryan Moran, Jon Stainbrook Patrick Fischer SID Office Phone: 301/ SID Fax: 301/ SID Home: 410/ Press Box Phone: 410/ Richie Meade Alma Mater/Year: North Carolina 76 Record at Navy: (15th season) (19th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Assistant Coaches: Anthony Gilarid Stan Ross, Ray Finnegan Stacie Michaud SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ michaud@usna.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 2-1 (2nd) 2008 Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinals 8th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 32/14 Starters Returning/Lost: 7-3 Saturday, April 11, 2009 M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD Army vs. Navy 11:30 am The prestige of Army-Navy kicks off the inaugural Day of Rivals as the Cadets and Midshipmen meet for the 84th time. Johns Hopkins vs. Maryland 2 pm The greatest rivalry in college lacrosse renews itself for the 105th time in the Day of Rivals nightcap. Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 5-1 (T-1st) 2008 Postseason: NCAA Quarterfinals 14th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 31/12 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads,

4 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Towson Mount St. Mary s Loyola April 22, :30 pm Unitas Stadium April 27, pm Waldon Family Stadium May 2, pm Homewood Field Towson, MD Emmitsburg, MD Baltimore, MD 2009 Opponent Profiles Founded: 1866 Enrollment: 19,758 Tigers Gold, White and Black Colonial Athletic Association Homefield: Johnny Unitas Stadium (11,198) Field Turf Dr. Robert Caret Mike Hermann Tony Seaman Alma Mater/Year: Cortland State 65 Record at Towson: (11th season) (27th season) Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Assistant Coaches: Sean Nadelen, Michael Allan Matt Eckerl, Ted Melanson Eric Rhew SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ erhew@towson.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Founded: 1808 Enrollment: 1,528 Mountaineers Blue & White Northeast Conference Homefield: Waldron Family Stadium (1,000) Field Turf Dr. Thomas H, Powell Lynn Phelan Robinson Tom Gravante Alma Mater/Year: Hobart 88 Record at MSM: (14th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 301/ Asst. Coach: Joe Conner Mark Vandergrift SID Office Phone: 301/ SID Fax: 301/ vandergrift@msmary.edu Press Box Phone: n/a Founded: 1852 Enrollment: 3,538 Greyhounds Green & Grey ECAC Homefield: Diane Geppi-Aikens Field (5,000) Poligrass Fr. Brian Linnane, S.J. Joseph Boylan Charley Toomey Alma Mater/Year: Loyola 90 Record at Loyola: (4th season) Same Lacrosse Office Phone: 410/ Asst. Coaches: Matt Dwan Dan Chemotti, Steve Vaikness Jordan Bishop SID Office Phone: 410/ SID Fax: 410/ jwbishop@loyola.edu Press Box Phone: 410/ Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 3-3 (T-3rd) 2008 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 28/16 Starters Returning/Lost: 3/7 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 2-6 (8th) 2008 Postseason: None Unranked Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 14/6 Starters Returning/Lost: 6/4 Final 2008 Record: Conference Finish: 6-1 (1st) 2008 Postseason: NCAA First Round 18th Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 35/9 Starters Returning/Lost: 8/2 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 33-3 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, 3-0 Series Record vs. JHU: JHU leads, NCAA Tournament Information 2008 NCAA Tournament Results First Round Duke-12, Loyola-7 Ohio State-15, Cornell-7 Johns Hopkins-10, Hofstra-4 Navy-8, North Carolina-7 Syracuse-20, Canisius-3 Notre Dame-8, Colgate-7 (OT) Maryland-10, Denver-7 Virginia-10, UMBC-9 Quarterfinals Duke-21, Ohio State-10 Johns Hopkins-10, Navy-4 Syracuse-11, Notre Dame-9 Virginia-8, Maryland-7 (OT) Semifinals Johns Hopkins-10, Duke-9 Syracuse-12, Virginia-11 (2OT) Championship Syracuse-13, Johns Hopkins-10 All-Time NCAA Championships Syracuse-10, Johns Hopkins-9, Princeton-6, Cornell-3, North Carolina-4, Virginia-4, Maryland-2 All-Time NCAA Championship Game Appearances Johns Hopkins-18, Syracuse-15, Maryland-9, Virginia-8, Princeton-8, Cornell-6, North Carolina-5, Duke-2, Navy-2, Massachusetts-1, Loyola-1, Towson NCAA Schedule May 3 Tournament Announcement May 9 First Campus Sites May 10 First Campus Sites May 16 Navy May 17 Cornell May 23 Semifinals (Foxboro, MA) May 25 Championship (Foxboro, MA) Consecutive Appearances (Active) NCAA Men s Lacrosse Tournament 1. Johns Hopkins 37 (1972-) 2. Maryland 6 (2003-) 3T. Cornell 5 (2004-) Navy 5 (2004-) 5. Virginia 4 (2005-) Consecutive Top Five Seeds (Active) NCAA Men s Lacrosse Tournament 1. Johns Hopkins 12 (1997-) 2. Virginia 4 (2005-) 3. Duke 2 (2007-) Consecutive NCAA Tournament Appearancs (Active) By Division I Men s Team Sports 1. Johns Hopkins (Lacrosse) 37 (1972-) 2. Miami of Florida (Baseball) 36 (1973-) 3. Virginia (Soccer) 28 (1981-) 4. Arizona (Basketball) 24 (1985-) 5. Michigan (Hockey) 18 (1991-) Overall Appearances (20 or more) NCAA Men s Lacrosse Tournament 1. Johns Hopkins 37 2T. Maryland 31 Virginia Syracuse Navy North Carolina Cornell First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

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6 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Game 1 February 23, 2008 Homewood Field #1 Johns Hopkins-10, #11 Albany-5 Game 2 March 1, 2008 M&T Bank Stadium #1 Johns Hopkins-14, #9 Princeton-9 Game 3 March 4, 2008 Homewood Field #1 Johns Hopkins-10, UMBC Game-by-Game Recaps 64 BALTIMORE, MD The Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team spotted 11th-ranked Albany an early 1-0 lead then scored six of the next seven goals en route to a 10-5 win over the Great Danes in front of 1,993 fans at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The top-ranked Blue Jays, who never let Albany closer than two after building a 6-2 lead, won for the sixth time in eight season openers under head coach Dave Pietramala and extended their winning streak to 10 games dating back to last season. Albany s Jordan Levine needed just 36 seconds to give the Great Danes an early 1-0 lead as he scored on an ally dodge down the right side. Hopkins sophomore attackman Steven Boyle responded and gave the Blue Jays a 2-1 lead with backto-back goals less than two minutes apart. He handled a tough pass on the back door and beat Albany s Brett Queener from 10-feet out to tie the game and dodged from behind the goal with 11:32 remaining to make it 2-1. As it turned out, the game was never tied again. Senior Michael Doneger and Levine traded goals over the final 8:04 of the first period as Doneger popped off the crease and one-timed a shot past Queener off an assist from Brian Christopher, while Levine scored from in tight with just six seconds left in the opening quarter after holding the ball for nearly a minute. Senior Kevin Hunley scored the first of his four goals on the day just 80 seconds into the second quarter to account for the only other goal before the half as JHU carried a 4-2 lead into intermission. Doneger added his second goal just over two minutes into the third quarter off an assist from Huntley and senior Paul Rabil made it 6-2 midway through the period when he picked the top of the net with a laser from 12 yards out. Albany didn t go quietly as the Danes scored three of the next four goals to pull within 7-5 early in the fourth quarter. An extra-man goal by Joe Pompo with 3:03 left in the third quarter was answered by Huntley s second of the day just 73 seconds before the end of the third to make it 7-3 at the end of three. Pompo s goal broke a scoreless streak of 27:03 for Albany and ignited a mild-rally for the Danes. Twin brothers Steve and Mike Ammann netted back-to-back goals just 38 seconds apart less than three minutes into the fourth quarter to trim the deficit to two, but Huntley s third of the game with 11:29 remaining pushed the lead back to three and Stephen Peyser and Huntley closed the scoring with goals in the final 7:05 to account for the final scoring. Huntley s four goals and five points were game highs, while Boyle added two goals and one assist and Doneger netted the pair to lead the way offensively for the Blue Jays. Sophomore Michael Gvozden registered 11 saves in goal for the Blue Jays, including five in the second and third quarters combined when Hopkins outscored Albany, 4-1. Freshman Matt Dolente won 7-of-9 faceoffs to help the Blue Jays to an 11-8 advantage at the X and Hopkins won the ground ball war, Levine was the only multi-point scorer for Albany, which was 1-for-2 on extra-man opportunities and got six saves from Queener. However, the scoreless stretch of over 27 minutes and the inability to win faceoffs in the middle of the game (JHU won 5-of-7 in the second and third quarters combined) was more than the Danes could overcome. #11 Albany (0-1) /11 #1 Johns Hopkins (1-0) /10 Goals: A: Levine-2, M. Ammann, S. Ammann, Pompo. J: Huntley-4, Doneger-2, Boyle-2, Rabil, Peyser. Assists: A: Small. J: Boyle, Bryan, Christopher, Hutnley, Kimmel. Saves: A: Queener-6, McKeon-0. J: Gvozden-11. Shots: A-26. J-29. EMO: A: 1-for-2. J: 0-for-1. Attendance: 1,993. BALTIMORE, MD The top-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team jumped out to a 5-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, pushed the lead to 8-0 midway through the second and cruised to a 14-9 win over ninth-ranked Princeton in the second game of the 2008 Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium Saturday afternoon. The win, the 11th straight for Johns Hopkins dating back to last season, followed Virginia s win over Syracuse in the first game of the day. A crowd of 19,165 was on hand for the doubleheader. It took the Blue Jays just 10 seconds to take the lead for good as sophomore Michael Kimmel blistered a shot past Princeton goalie Alex Hewitt off a feed from senior Paul Rabil. Rabil grabbed the ground ball on the opening faceoff, found Kimmel unmarked coming in from the box and Kimmel wasted no time netting his first goal of the season. The goals came in bunches for the Blue Jays in the first half as they methodically built a 10-1 lead at intermission. Senior Stephen Peyser and Rabil scored back-to-back goals less than a minute apart midway through the opening quarter and senior Kevin Huntley netted the natural hat trick with three goals in a six-minute span that bridged the first and second periods. A transition goal by junior Andrew Miller and another unassisted goal by Rabil pushed the lead to 8-0 with 8:34 remaining in the first half. An extra-man goal by Princeton s Bob Schneider finally ended the scoreless drought for the Tigers at the 6:56 mark, but Huntley and sophomore Steven Boyle both scored in the final 4:05 of the quarter to account for the nine-goal halftime lead. To Princeton s credit the Tigers pushed the Blue Jays throughout the second half. Rabil and Boyle sandwiched goals around a Brendan Reilly goal in the first eight minutes of the third quarter to give the Blue Jays their largest lead of the game (12-2) before the Tigers scored seven of the final nine goals of the game. A Tommy Davis goal with 2:57 remaining in the third quarter ignited a 3-0 run for Princeton that trimmed the deficit to 12-5 with Schneider and Mark Kovler also scoring during the spree. Senior Michael Doneger and Huntley then bookended another goal by Davis in a three-minute span early in the fourth quarter before Greg Seaman, Alex Haynie and Jack McBride all scored in the final 6:07 for the Tigers to make it a 14-9 final. Hopkins scored its 10 first-half goals on just 21 shots and the 10 goals in the half match the most Princeton had given up in an entire game since the beginning of the 2007 season. As it turned out, the 14 the Blue Jays scored are the most allowed by Princeton since Huntley scored a game and career-high-tying five goals and added an assist to match his personal-best of six points, while Rabil added three goals and four assists for a career-high seven points. Boyle added two goals and an assist and Miller chipped in with one goal and one assist for the Blue Jays, who improved to 4-0 at M&T Bank Stadium since the start of the 2007 season. JHU is 5-2 all-time at M&T. Sophomore Michael Gvozden turned in a solid effort for the Blue Jays in goal as he posted 11 saves, including eight through three quarters as Hopkins built a 12-4 lead in the first 45 minutes. Peyser won 12-of-19 faceoffs and grabbed a game-high 11 ground balls to go along with his early goal. Davis and Kovler both registered three points in the loss as Davis had two goals and one assist, while Kovler had the one goal and two assists. Schneider added the two goals and Hewitt made 12 saves for the Tigers, who also got a 13-for-22 performance from Alex Berg on faceoffs. #9 Princeton (1-1) /9 #1 Johns Hopkins (2-0) /14 Goals: P: Davis-2, Schneider-2, Kovler, McBride, Haynie, Seaman, Reilly. J: Huntley-5, Rabil-3, Boyle-2, Miller, Peyser, Kimmel, Doneger. Assists: P: Kovler-2, Davis, McBride, Sgalardi, Striebel. J: Rabil-4, Boyle, Huntley, Miller. Saves: P: Hewitt-12. J: Gvozden-11. Shots: P-38. J-39. EMO: P: 3-for-6. J: 1-for-2. Attendance: 19,165. BALTIMORE, MD Sophomore attackman Steven Boyle totaled three goals and two assists and the top-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team used a 5-1 second-half run to erase a 6-5 deficit and fuel a 10-8 win over UMBC at Homewood Field Tuesday night. The win is the 12th straight for the Blue Jays (3-0) dating back to last season and improves Hopkins all-time record against the Retrievers to 6-0. UMBC slips to 1-3 with the loss. The Retrievers took a 6-5 lead on an unassisted goal by senior midfielder Terry Kimener 94 seconds into the third quarter, but the Blue Jays scored the next three goals to take an 8-6 lead. Boyle opened the spree with his second goal of the game as he was on the back end of a tic-tac-toe that started with Stephen Peyser at the top and Paul Rabil on the side. Rabil hit Boyle in stride coming from behind the goal and Boyle beat UMBC goalie Jeremy Blevins from in tight. Freshman Kyle Wharton blew an extra-man goal by Blevins off an assist from sophomore Michael Kimmel just over four minutes later and Kimmel gave the Blue Jays their first two-goal lead of the game less than two minutes into the fourth quarter. Kyle Wimer drew the Retrievers within 8-7 when he dodged to the goal from the top and beat Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden low to the far post with 10:05 remaining in the game and the one-goal lead held for nearly six minutes before Kimmel threaded a pass from the top of the box to Boyle just to Blevins right and Boyle double-pumped before slipping his third goal of the night into the open cage. An extra-man goal by Rabil with 1:36 remaining made it 10-7 and Matt Latham closed the scoring with an extra-man goal for the Retrievers with 17 seconds on the clock to account for the 10-8 final. The Retrievers used a deliberate attack throughout the game and built an early 2-0 lead on goals by Wimer and Ryan Smith in the first four minutes of the game. Austin Walker s first goal of the season with 8:02 remaining in the quarter ignited a three-goal Hopkins run that took just over four minutes. Walker s 12-yard blast from the top of the box was assisted by Boyle, who added his first goal of the game 92 seconds later when he came from the side and redodged and slipped inside his defender after being stopped on his first run at the cage. A Tom Duerr goal with 3:47 remaining in the first quarter closed the scoring in the opening period UMBC answered by scoring three of the next four goals to take a 5-4 lead late in the second quarter. Maxx Davis opened and closed the run with Rabil and Smith trading goals between the first Davis goal with 8:11 remaining in the period and his final tally with just 20 seconds left in the quarter. It appeared the Retrievers would carry the one-goal lead into intermission, but Peyser won the faceoff after Davis s second goal and needed just six seconds to work his way through the defense and tie the score. Peyser won the ensuing faceoff and Hopkins nearly scored in the final moments of the half, but a pass to the crease was mishandled just before time expired. Kimener s goal just over a minute-and-a-half into the third quarter was answered by what proved to be the deciding run for the Blue Jays. The five points match Boyle s previous career high, while Kimmel added one goal and three assists for a personal-best four points. Rabil added two goals and one assist, while Peyser won 14-of-16 faceoffs and had nine ground balls to go along with his goal. The 14 faceoffs won match Peyser s career high. Gvozden had eight saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who won 17-of-22 faceoffs and won the ground ball war, Smith, Wimer and Davis all scored two goals for the Retrievers, who got a goal and an assist from Kimener and 10 saves from Blevins. The Retrievers outshot the Blue Jays and ran their patient offense to perfection, but scoreless droughts of 17:58 in the first half and 18:10 in the second were more than they could overcome. 177 First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

7 UMBC (1-3) /8 #1 Johns Hopkins (3-0) /10 Goals: U: Wimer-2, Davis-2, Smith-2, Kimener, Latham. J: Boyle-3, Rabil-2, Kimmel, Peyser, Walker, Wharton, Duerr. Assists: U: Kimener, Pierce. J: Kimmel-3, Boyle-2, Rabil. Saves: U: Blevins-10. J: Gvozden-8. Shots: U-39. J-36. EMO: U: 1-for-2. J: 2-for-2. Attendance: 921. Game 4 March 8, 2008 Shuart Stadium Hofstra-8, #1 Johns Hopkins-7 (OT) HEMPSTEAD, NY - Freshman Jay Card scored his fourth goal of the game off a failed Johns Hopkins clear just over two minutes into overtime to lift Hofstra to an 8-7 win over the top-ranked Blue Jays at rain-soaked Shuart Stadium Saturday afternoon. Card, who had scored his three previous goals in the first half as the Pride built a three-goal lead, entered the game with no goals in his first two career games. The loss snaps a 12-game winning streak for the Blue Jays, who slip to 3-1 with the loss. Hofstra controlled the faceoff to start overtime, but the Blue Jays came up with a loose ball with just over two minutes remaining in the extra session. Junior Matt Drenan s pass to classmate Andrew Miller at midfield failed to connect and the Pride came up with the loose ball. Junior Anthony Muscarella then found Card behind the defense in transition and Card beat Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden from in tight for the game-winner and secured Hofstra s (2-1) first-ever win against a number-one ranked team. Hopkins erased a three-goal halftime deficit and forced overtime by out-scoring the Pride 4-1 in the second half. An unassisted goal by Stephen Peyser just 35 second into the third quarter started the rally for the Blue Jays, who also got third-quarter goals from junior Austin Walker and senior Michael Doneger in a three-minute span midway through the period to knot the game at 6-6. Walker s goal came off an assist from junior Mark Bryan, while Doneger buried an extra-man goal off a nifty pass from sophomore Michael Kimmel on the doorstep. Both teams had chances in the fourth quarter, but Gvozden came up with four saves in the period and Hofstra s Danny Orlando had three. Still, the Pride pushed out to a 7-6 lead on an extra-man goal by Dan Stein with 9:02 remaining. The Blue Jays had held Hofstra scoreless for 37:56 before Stein s goal. Hofstra held the Blue Jays down a goal for nearly eight minutes after Stein s goal before JHU isolated Peyser at the top of the box out of a timeout. Working from the top and slightly to Orlando s left, he split the defense before firing home his second goal of the game with 1:15 remaining. That set the stage for Card s game-winner, which gave the Pride their second straight win over the Blue Jays at home. The Pride built a 6-3 first quarter lead that held through halftime as they worked for good shots and limited the Blue Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Jays possessions. Back-to-back unassisted goals by Muscarella and Card gave Hofstra a 2-0 lead just over six minutes into the game. Muscarella stuck a shot just inside the crossbar on an ally drive and Card scooped up a loose ball on the crease and stuck the ball into an open net account for the Pride s first two goals. The Blue Jays needed just eight seconds to get on the board after Card s goal as freshman Matt Dolente won the ensuing faceoff and fed senior Kevin Huntley, who beat Orlando for his 10th goal of the season. Huntley helped draw the Blue Jays even 59 seconds later when he threaded a pass from the top of the box to Bryan on the crease and Bryan quickly fired home his first of the year. An unassisted goal by Kimmel 90 seconds later gave the Blue Jays a 3-2 lead and what appeared to be all the momentum, but Hofstra scored four times in the final 5:01 of the quarter to take the 6-3 lead that held until the second half. Card s second goal of the game also came into an open net as he took a nifty cross-crease pass from freshman Kevin Ford and drew the Pride even at 3-3 with 5:01 remaining in the opening period. Card completed the hat trick 11 seconds later when he scored off the faceoff and Muscarella and Mike Unterstein both scored unassisted goals in the final 4:07 to account for the 6-3 score at the end of one. Neither team scored in the second quarter, although the Pride had several good scoring chances and held a 7-1 advantage in shots in the period. Gvozden made four saves in the period, including three spectacular stops, to keep the Blue Jays alive. Peyser (2 goals), Huntley (1g, 1a) and Bryan (1g, 1a) were the only Blue Jays to register more than one point in the game and Gvozden posted 11 saves in the loss. Card s four goals paced Hofstra, which also got two goals and one assist from Muscarella and 14 saves from Orlando. Joe Montemurro won 10-of-18 faceoffs and Hofstra held advantages in shots (32-21) and ground balls (31-29). #1 Johns Hopkins (3-1) /7 Hofstra (2-1) /8 Goals: J: Peyser-2, Huntley, Kimmel, Bryan, Doneger, Walker. H: Card-4, Muscarella-2, M. Unterstein, Stein. Assists: J: Bryan, Dolente, Huntley, Kimmel. H: Colleluori, Ford, Muscarella, Prifte. Saves: J: Gvozden-11. H: Orlando-14. Shots: J-31. H-32. EMO: J: 1-for-3. H: 1-for-1. Attendance: 2,741. Game 5 March 15, 2008 Homewood Field #5 Syracuse-14, #4 Johns Hopkins-13 (OT) BALTIMORE, MD Senior midfielder Steven Brooks fourth goal of the game 37 seconds into overtime capped a wild comeback for the fifth-ranked Syracuse men s lacrosse team as the Orange stunned fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. Syracuse, which scored the final four goals of the game after the Blue Jays took a lead midway through the fourth quarter and won at Homewood Field for the first time since 1998, improves to 4-1 with the victory while the Blue Jays dropped their second straight and slip to 3-2. The Blue Jays led 12-9 with 11:51 remaining after a George Castle goal and still held a three-goal lead at after Stephen Peyser scored on an ally dodge with 8:01 remaining, but the Orange needed just 12 seconds to answer Peyser s goal and Hopkins never scored again. Junior Matt Abbott scored off the faceoff after Peyser s goal and Dan Hardy punched one home from in tight less than two minutes later to make it a game with 6:01 remaining. That lead held for just under four minutes when the Orange made the Blue Jays pay for one of their 14 turnovers. Freshman Joel White stripped Paul Rabil of the ball and John Carrozza started a fast-break the other way. Carrozza carried into the Blue Jay zone and found junior Kenny Nims, who beat Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden up high with the equalizer. Syracuse faceoff specialist Danny Brennan won the opening faceoff in overtime and the Orange worked the ball to Brooks at the top of the box. After starting to his right, he worked back to his left and bounced a shot past Gvozden from 10 yards out for the game-winner. Just like last week s loss at Hofstra, the Blue Jays never had an offensive possession in overtime. Brooks scored the first two Syracuse goals of the game as he answered tallies by Steven Boyle and Michael Kimmel in the opening eight minutes. His second goal with 7:20 remaining in the opening quarter would be the last the Orange would score for nearly 20 minutes as the Blue Jays built a 6-2 lead with a 4-0 run. Back-to-back unassisted goals by second-line midfielders Austin Walker and Brian Christopher in a threeminute span early in the second quarter made it 4-2 and Kevin Huntley and Rabil added goals in a five-minute span to give the Blue Jays the four-goal lead late in the quarter. The Orange needed just over two minutes to fire off a threegoal run to pull within 6-5 at the half. Back-to-back unassisted goals by Mike Leveille 66 seconds apart and a Greg Niewieroski tally off an assist from Leveille with just 41 seconds left in the second quarter made it a one-goal game at intermission. The score could have been higher at the half if not the play for Gvozden and Syracuse goalie John Galloway. Gvozden made six saves before the half and Galloway made eight stops in the opening two quarters. The one-goal lead for the Blue Jays held at the end of the third quarter as both teams scored four times in the period. Again, each rally by the Blue Jays was answered by Syracuse. Hopkins scored three of the first four goals in the second half as Huntley scored twice and freshman Kyle Wharton added an extra-man goal with 10:48 remaining with only a Jovan Miller goal in that time for the Orange as the Blue Jays pushed out to a 9-6 lead. SU trimmed the deficit to 9-8 with back-toback goals by Brendan Loftus and Brooks, but a Boyle steal off a clear attempt led to another Huntley goal with 1:07 remaining to make it That lead held until just 12 seconds remained in the period when Miller was on the backside of a misfired pass inside from Leveille and Miller beat Gvozden from eight yards out. Again the Blue Jays would score three of the first four goals in a period as Peyser book-ended a 3-1 run to open the period with a 12-yard laser 41 seconds into the fourth quarter and the ally dodge six minutes later. Castle and Leveille traded goals between the two Peyser tallies and that set the stage for Abbott s goal that ignited the late-game Syracuse rally. Leveille paced the Orange with six points on three goals and three assists and Brooks added the four goals to help lead the way for Syracuse. Galloway posted 10 saves in goal for Syracuse, which got another standout performance from Brennan on faceoffs. Brennan entered the game as the nation s top faceoff specialist and didn t disappoint as he won 18-of-27 with three ground balls. Huntley scored four goals (on four shots) and added an assist, while Kimmel had the one goal and tied his career high with three assists. Peyser scored two goals, won 9-of-22 faceoffs and grabbed a game-high 10 ground balls. Boyle, Rabil 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps 65

8 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse and Christopher all added one goal and one assist for the Blue Jays, who won the ground ball battle (38-34), but were outshot and lost 19-of-31 faceoffs. Gvozden posted 11 saves in goal for Hopkins. #5 Syracuse (4-1) /14 #4 Johns Hopkins (3-2) /13 Goals: S: Brooks-4, Leveille-3, Miller-2, Loftus, Hardy, Abbott, Nims, Niewieroski. J: Huntley-4, Peyser-2, Kimmel, Rabil, Boyle, Christopher, Walker, Wharton, Castle. Assists: S: Leveille-3, Carrozza, Hardy, Loftus, Perritt. J: Kimmel-3, Boyle, Christopher, Huntley, Rabil. Saves: S: Galloway-10. J: Gvozden-11. Shots: S-40. J-33. EMO: S: 1-for-2. J: 2-for-2. Attendance: 3,563. Game 6 March 2, 2008 Klockner Stadium #2 Virginia-13, #6 Johns Hopkins-12 (OT) CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA Brian Carroll s second goal of the game with 7.7 seconds remaining in overtime lifted the second-ranked Virginia men s lacrosse team to a win over sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins before a Klockner Stadium record crowd of 7,579 Saturday afternoon. Virginia, which will likely take over the top spot in the national rankings after Duke s 11-7 loss at Georgetown earlier today, improves to 9-0, while Johns Hopkins dropped its third straight game in overtime and slips to 3-3. This is the first time Johns Hopkins has ever played three straight overtime games. Hopkins won the opening faceoff in overtime, but turned the ball over 90 seconds into the extra session. After the Blue Jays forced a turnover it was Virginia that backed up a Stephen Peyser shot and cleared with just over a minute remaining. Hopkins again forced a turnover, but an offsides on the clear gave the ball back to Virginia with 29 seconds remaining and Carroll fired home the game-winner 21 seconds later to give the Cavaliers their third straight win in the series. The Blue Jays trailed 9-8 entering the fourth quarter, but rallied to take a lead with just over three minutes remaining. A Mark Bryan goal just under four minutes into the final period drew the Blue Jays even at 9-9, only to have Virginia s Shamel Bratton give the Cavaliers a 10-9 lead when he scored off an ally dodge with 7:38 on the clock. The Blue Jays answered with back-to-back goals by Brian Christopher and Paul Rabil to take an lead with 4:02 remaining, but Garrett Billings fired one home 40 seconds later from an impossible angle along the goal line. Hopkins needed just 15 seconds to grab what would be its final lead of the game as Rabil grabbed the ground ball off the faceoff and found Tom Duerr cutting to the net from behind the goal. Duerr beat Virginia s Adam Ghitelman from the doorstep to make it Virginia s Ben Rubeor forced overtime when he surprised Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden with a sneaky shot through a partial screen from 12 yards out to the far post with 56 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Virginia had the final possession in regulation, but Gvozden came up with a save with 20 seconds remaining and the Cavaliers couldn t generate another shot before the horn sounded. That set the stage for an overtime that featured four turnovers and three shots, including Carroll s game-winner. Virginia carried a 6-5 lead into the half as UVa got a goal from Carroll with just five seconds remaining in the second quarter to snap a 5-5 tie. The Blue Jays led 3-2 at the end of the first quarter, only to have Virginia score three goals in the first 4:40 of the second period to take a 5-3 lead. Shamel Bratton jump-started the spree when he slipped inside a defender and scored from eight yards out at the 13:36 mark. An extra-man goal from Billings just over three minutes later and a Rubeor goal 10 seconds after that gave the Cavaliers the twogoal lead. The Blue Jays answered with back-to-back goals from Rabil. He pulled the Blue Jays to within 5-4 as he beat Mike Timms with a swim move near the top of the box and beat Ghitelman upstairs and than added an extra-man goal off an assist from Steven Boyle three minutes later to tie the game with just over two minutes remaining in the second quarter. Carroll gave UVa the one-goal halftime lead just seconds before intermission when he took a pass at the top of the box from Glading and ripped one home from 12 yards. Peyser knotted the game at 6-6 just over two minutes into the third quarter, but Steve Giannone and Rhamel Bratton scored in a four-minute span midway through the period to give the Cavaliers another two-goal lead. Peyser added his second goal of the game with 3:06 left in the quarter and Matt Dolente scored right off the faceoff six seconds later to tie the game. Shamel Bratton s unassisted goal with 1:15 remaining in the period gave the Cavaliers the 9-8 lead at the end of three and set the stage for a wild fourth quarter and overtime. Shamel Bratton and Rubeor both scored three goals for the Cavaliers and Glading added a game-high four assists. Ghitelman posted 10 saves and the Cavaliers outshot the Blue Jays, 44-31, and won 17-of-29 faceoffs. Rabil scored a team-high three goals and added one assist, while Peyser matched his career-high with the two goals and two assists. Gvozen posted a career-high 17 saves in goal for the Blue Jays. #6 Johns Hopkins (3-3) /12 #2 Virginia (9-0) /13 Goals: J: Rabil-3, Peyser-2, Huntley-2, Christopher, Duerr, Doneger, Dolente, Bryan. V: S. Bratton-3, Rubeor-3, Carroll-2, R. Bratton-2, Billings, Giannone. Assists: J: Boyle-2, Peyser-2, Christopher, Rabil. V: Glading-4, S. Bratton, Carroll. Saves: J: Gvozden-17. V: Ghitelman-10. Shots: J-31. V-44. EMO: J: 1-for-2. V: 1-for-2. Attendance: 7,579. Game 7 March 29, 2008 Homewood Field #9 North Carolina-13, #8 Johns Hopkins-8 BALTIMORE, MD Ninth-ranked North Carolina got two goals from Ben Hunt in the first three minutes of the game, pushed its lead to 5-1 at the half and was never seriously challenged as the Tar Heels eased past the eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team, 13-8, before a crowd of 4,250 at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the second straight for the Tar Heels against Johns Hopkins and their first at Homewood Field since UNC improves to 7-2 with the win, while the Blue Jays drop their fourth straight and fall to 3-4. Hunt needed just 35 seconds to open the scoring and pushed the lead to 2-0 with his second unassisted goal just over two minutes later. The Heels added back-to-back goals in a 46- second span late in the first quarter by Cryder DiPietro and Nick Tintle to push the lead to 4-0 and junior goalie Grant Zimmerman was spectacular in the opening 15 minutes as he registered six of his 14 saves in the first quarter. The Blue Jays outshot the Tar Heels 11-7 in the first quarter, yet trailed 4-0 when the period ended. The teams traded second quarter goals before the Blue Jays goal two of the first three goals of the third quarter both by senior Michael Doneger to slice the deficit to 6-3 with just over 10 minutes remaining in the period. The Tar Heels took over from there and put the game away with a 5-0 run over the final nine minutes of the period to push out to an 11-3 lead at the end of three quarters. Sean Delaney scored twice and added an assist during the 5-0 spree for North Carolina, which also got Hunt s third goal of the game and a Bart Wagner tally in the period. The Blue Jays outscored the Tar Heels 5-2 in the final period to account for the 13-8 final score. Stephen Peyser and Dave Spaulding scored in a seven-second span in the first minute of the quarter to pull JHU within 11-5, but DiPietro found Michael B. Burns wide open in front of the net 30 seconds after Spaulding s goal and the Blue Jays solved Zimmerman just once a Paul Rabil goal off an assist from Kyle Wharton with 8:49 remaining over the next 10 minutes. Burns added his second goal of the game with 3:25 remaining and Kevin Huntley closed out the scoring with a pair of goals in the final 1:36. Zimmerman led the way for North Carolina with his 14- save performance, which included 13 saves over the first three quarters as the Tar Heels stretched out to the 11-3 lead after 45 minutes. Hunt scored a game-high three goals and added one assist, while Delaney chipped in with two goals and two assists as the Tar Heels got goals from nine different players and 12 players registered at least one point in the victory. Huntley, Doneger and Rabil all scored two goals for the Blue Jays, who also got one goal and one assist from Peyser. Peyser also won 11-of-13 faceoffs and grabbed a game-high nine ground balls. #9 North Carolina (7-2) /13 #8 Johns Hopkins (3-4) /8 Goals: N: Hunt-3, Burns-2, Delaney-2, DiPietro, McAuley, Tintle, Petracca, Wagner, Kaiser. J: Huntley-2, Rabil-2, Doneger-2, Peyser, Spaulding. Assists: N: Delaney-2, Bitter, Burke, DiPietro, Gregory, Hunt, McAuley. J: Boyle-2, Goodrich, Peyser, Wharton. Saves: N: Zimmerman-14. J: Gvozden-7, Sheain-1 Shots: N-30. J-40. EMO: N: 1-for-3. J: 1-for-2. Attendance: 4,250. Game 8 April 5, 2008 Koskinen Stadium #2 Duke-17, #11 Johns Hopkins-6 66 ZERRLAUT DURHAM, NC Second-ranked Duke got six goals and one assist from senior attackman Zack Greer and one goal and six assists from fellow senior Matt Danowski as the Blue Devils raced past 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins, 17-6, at Koskinen Stadium Saturday night. The win is the third straight for Duke, which improves to 11-1 with the victory. Johns Hopkins dropped its fifth straight and falls to 3-5. The Blue Jays trailed 4-2 early in the second quarter before 177 First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

9 Austin Walker and Paul Rabil scored back-to-back goals in a span of just 24 seconds to pull Hopkins even. Any momentum the Blue Jays had seized was short-lived as the Blue Devils needed just 13 seconds to answer Rabil s extra-man goal as Parker McKee scored in transition off the faceoff to jumpstart what would become a 9-0 Duke run that lasted over 20 minutes. Back-to-back extra-man goals by Max Quinzani and Brad Ross and Ned Crotty s third goal of the first half sent the Devils to the locker room with an 8-4 lead. The Blue Jays then held Duke scoreless for nearly six minutes to open the second half, but failed on several golden opportunities to slice into the fourgoal deficit and Blue Devils pounced with a lightning-quick five-goal run that put the game away. Quinzani opened the spree with his second goal of the game as Danowski found him on the crease with a crisp pass from the top of the box and Quinzani beat Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden from the doorstep. Greer scored three of the next four goals for Duke with Mike Catalino s goal in transition also adding to the spree. A Matt Bocklet goal off the faceoff after a Greer extraman goal late in the quarter finally halted the run, but Sam Payton and Greer added goals before Kevin Huntley fired home JHU s final goal off an assist from Brian Christopher with 11:50 remaining in the final quarter. Leading 15-6 after Huntley s goal, Greer scored twice more in a three-minute span midway through the final period before the Devils emptied the bench late in the game. The Blue Jays had controlled the opening minutes of the game and took a 1-0 lead just over two minutes in when Huntley capped off a long opening possession by slipping inside a defender six yards from the goal and sticking one inside the far post. The one-goal lead held for just over five minutes before Duke got back-to-back goals in a 10-second span from Danowski and Quinzani to take a 2-1 lead. The first of Crotty s three goals came three minutes later when he dodged from behind the goal and scored up high. Michael Doneger s extraman goal early in the second quarter was answered by Crotty s second of the game. That was followed shortly after by the back-to-back goals by Walker and Rabil. Rabil s extra-man goal would be the last tally for the Blue Jays until Bocklet s goal late in the third quarter. In addition to the seven-point games by Danowski and Greer, the Blue Devils also got the three goals and an assist from Crotty and three goals from Quinzani. Dan Loftus played just over 54 minutes in goal for Duke and posted nine saves while allowing all six Blue Jay goals. Duke won 15-of- 25 faceoffs, won the ground ball war and outshot the Blue Jays The Blue Devils also scored on 4-of-6 extraman opportunities. Huntley led the Blue Jays with two goals and two assists, but Christopher (2 assists) was the only other Johns Hopkins player to register more than one point. Gvozden played 56:37 in goal for the Blue Jays and posted eight saves. #11 Johns Hopkins (3-5) /6 #2 Duke (11-1) /17 Goals: J: Huntley-2, Rabil, Walker, Doneger, Bocklet. D: Greer-6, Crotty-3, Quinzani-3, Danowski, Payton, Ross, Mc- Kee, Catalino. Assists: J: Huntley-2, Christopher-2, Spaulding. D: Danowski-6, Crotty, Greer, Payton, Solie. Saves: J: Gvozden-8, Sheain-0. D: Loftus-9, Schroeder-1. Shots: J-31. D-39. EMO: J: 2-for-7. D: 4-for-6. Attendance: 4,291. Game 9 April 12, 2008 Homewood Field #13 Johns Hopkins-10, #7 Maryland-4 BALTIMORE, MD The 13th-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team thrilled a Homecoming crowd of 8,626 at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon with a thorough 10-4 victory over rival Maryland. The Blue Jays outscored the Terps 6-1 in the third quarter, got great play on faceoffs from senior Stephen Peyser and 13 saves in goal from sophomore Michael Gvozden as they improved to 4-5 on the year. Maryland dropped its second straight and slips to Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Hopkins led just 3-2 at the half before Peyser won the opening faceoff of the third quarter and raced down and beat Maryland goalie Jason Carter from eight yards just four seconds into the period. Peyser s goal ignited a 5-0 Blue Jay run that took just 7:29 and extended the one-goal halftime lead to 8-2. Michael Doneger s third goal of the game 66 seconds after Peyser s tally pushed the lead to 5-2 and junior Austin Walker fired home a pair of goals in a span of just over four minutes to continue the rally. Sophomore Michael Kimmel assisted on Doneger s goal and Walker s first before junior Mark Bryan assisted on Walker s second tally. Senior Paul Rabil scored the first of his two second-half goals 45 seconds after Walker s second goal when he split a pair of defenders and picked the net just under the crossbar from nine yards out. Maryland finally halted the run with 4:36 remaining in the third quarter when Grant Catalino scored an extra-man goal off an assist from Dan Groot. The Blue Jays were actually playing two men down and nearly killed off the entire man-down situation before the Terps scored. Hopkins won 7-of-8 faceoffs in the quarter, outshot the Terps 11-6 in the period and got three timely saves from Gvozden to fuel the spree. Maryland trimmed the deficit to 9-4 with 8:09 remaining in the fourth quarter when Adam Sear side-armed a shot just inside the far post after Catalino drew a slide and dumped it to him, but Rabil finished the scoring for the day with a goal clearly ticketed for SportsCenter. Matched up with a shortstick middie behind the goal, he dodged from behind, used a swim move to beat the first slide and beat Carter from in tight while falling and rolling through the next slide to complete his hat trick. The Blue Jays had built a 3-0 lead in the first 17 minutes of the game as Doneger scored back-to-back goals in a fiveminute span that bridged the first and second quarter. Rabil had given the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead just 71 seconds into the game and Hopkins controlled the tempo throughout the first opening quarter. The Blue Jays outshot the Terrapins 14-5 in the opening 15 minutes and won all three faceoffs in the opening quarter. The 3-0 lead held until the middle of the second quarter when the Terps finally broke through on an unassited goal by sophomore Brian Farrell, who raced the length of the field after a Blue Jay turnover and scored under heavy pressure. A Drew Evans goal just over two minutes later trimmed the deficit to 3-2. Gvozden made a nice save on a shot by Max Ritz, but Ritz came up with the rebound and fed Evans who scored his fifth goal of the year. Neither team scored again in the first half and Peyser s goal moments into the third quarter jumpstarted the game-clinching run for the Blue Jays. Peyser earned JHU s Chris Gardner Player of the Game Award as he scored the one goal, had a game-high seven ground balls and won 12-of-13 faceoffs. This is the 11th straight year the Blue Jays have played a game in honor of Gardner, a member of the 1996 JHU men s lacrosse team who lost his battle with cancer in the fall of Rabil scored three goals and added one assist, Doneger matched his careerhigh with the three goals and Kimmel added a career-hightying three assists. Gvozden s 13 saves are the second-highest total of his career. Catalino was the only Terrapin player to register more than one point as he had the one goal and one assist. Carter posted 11 saves in goal for Maryland, but the Terps won just 3-of-18 faceoffs, were outshot and lost the ground ball battle, #7 Maryland (7-4) /4 #13 Johns Hopkins (4-5) /10 Goals: M: Catalino, Farrell, Sear, Evans. J: Rabil-3, Doneger-3, Walker-2, Bryan, Peyser. Assists: M: Catalino, Groot, Ritz. J: Kimmel-3, Boyle, Bryan, Rabil. Saves: M: Carter- 11. J: Gvozden-13. Shots: M-28. J-34. EMO: M: 1-for-1. J: 0-for-2. Attendance: 8,626. Game 10 April 19, 2008 Navy Marine Corps Stadium #7 Johns Hopkins-12, #10 Navy-5 ANNAPOLIS, MD Playing in front of a hostile crowd of over 16,000 fans at Navy s Marine Corps Stadium, the seventh-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team jumped out to an early four-goal lead, withstood a mild Navy rally, held the Mids scoreless for over 30 minutes at one point and cruised to a 12-5 victory over the 10th-ranked Midshipmen Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays moved back to.500 (5-5) with their second straight win and 34th straight in the series. Navy dropped its second straight and falls to 9-4. The Blue Jays needed just over 10 minutes to jump to a 4-0 lead as senior attackman Kevin Huntley scored twice in the first six minutes before Kyle Wharton and Steven Boyle added back-to-back extra-man goals in a four-minute span. Huntley opened the scoring with a behind-the-back goal just 1:19 in when he scooped up a loose ball on the crease and scored from three yards out, then brought the heat on his second goal as he swept in from the side and rifled home a 10-yarder off a feed from senior Stephen Peyser. Wharton and Boyle polished off JHU s first two extra-man chances to push the lead to 4-0. Wharton took a cross-field pass from senior Paul Rabil and blistered a shot past Navy goalie Tommy Phelan from eight yards out, while Boyle, positioned just off the crease to Phelan s right, took a nifty pass from Huntley from the top of the box and quickly slipped a shot home from the doorstep to close the opening spree. It took less than a minute for Navy to slice the lead in half as sophomore attackman Tim Paul scored back-to-back goals in a 49-second span to make it 4-2. Paul polished of a 5-on-4 fastbreak after a Blue Jay turnover with 3:12 remaining in the opening period and side-armed a shot inside the far post after a nifty spin move just 49 seconds later to make it a two-goal game. Huntley completed the first-quarter hat trick seven seconds after Paul s second goal to give the Blue Jays a three-goal lead at the end of one period. The pace slowed in the second quarter as the teams traded goals to make it 6-3 at the half. Rabil fired home his 17th goal of the season on an ally dodge with 10:50 remaining in the period to push the lead to 6-2, but the Midshipmen trimmed the lead to three on a Nick Mirabito goal five minutes later as Patrick Moran found him cutting from behind the goal and Mirabito wasted little time beating Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden from in close. As it turned out, that would be the last Navy goal until just over three minutes remained in the fourth quarter. A week after scoring just four seconds into the third quarter, the Blue Jays needed just seven seconds after intermission to increase their lead as senior Michael Doneger one-timed a 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps 67

10 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse feed from Tom Duerr past a defenseless Phelan after Peyser cleanly won the opening faceoff of the third quarter. Navy outshot the Blue Jays 10-6 in the third period, but Gvozden registered five of his 16 saves in the period and Hopkins put the game away with back-to-back goals just over two minutes apart midway through the quarter. Doneger made it five goals in the last two games when he took a Mark Bryan pass and again scored from the doorstep with 7:36 remaining and Bryan poked home a rebound after Phelan had made a nice save on a shot by Rabil with 5:15 on the clock. Peyser and junior Andrew Miller scored in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter to push the lead to 11-3 before Navy scored two of the last three goals to account for the 12-5 final score. Navy s Greg Clement and Sean Standen sandwiched goals around the second career goal for Hopkins Andrew Jaffe in the final 3:14. Huntley paced a balanced scoring attack with the three goals and one assist, while Doneger was the only other player with more than one goal. Rabil, Peyser and Bryan started together on the first midfield for the second straight week and each of the three had one goal and one assist. The Blue Jays won 13-of-21 faceoffs and grabbed one more ground ball (26-25) than Navy. Paul was the only Navy player with more than one point as he scored two of Navy s five goals on the day. Phelan posted seven saves and allowed 10 goals before giving way to Matt Coughlin, who played the final 11:37 and allowed the last two goals. #7 Johns Hopkins (5-5) /12 #10 Navy (9-4) /5 Goals: J: Huntley-3, Doneger-2, Rabil, Peyser, Wharton, Boyle, Bryan, Jaffe, Miller. N: Paul-2, Mirabito, Standen, Clement. Assists: J: Bryan, Duerr, Huntley, Peyser, Rabil. N: Gallagher, Moran. Saves: J: Gvozden-16, Sheain-1. N: Phelan-7, Coughlin-0. Shots: J-25. N-37. EMO: J: 2-for-4. N: 0-for-2. Attendance: 16,042. Game 11 April 23, 2008 Homewood Field #6 Johns Hopkins-16, Towson-7 BALTIMORE, MD On a night when the Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team honored its seniors during pre-game festivities, the seniors returned the favor by combining to score the Blue Jays first nine goals to pace a 16-7 victory over visiting Towson at Homewood Field Wednesday night. The win is the Blue Jays third straight overall and 13th straight against the Tigers. Hopkins, which used runs of four, five and six goals to fuel the victory, improves to 6-5 while Towson slips to 4-9. The Blue Jays led just 5-3 after Towson s Jonathan Engelke scored early in the second quarter, but responded with a 5-0 run that stretched the lead to 10-3 early in the second half. Seniors Stephen Peyser and Paul Rabil answered Engelke s goal with back-to-back unassisted tallies midway through the second quarter to give the Blue Jays a 7-3 lead at the half and senior Michael Doneger and sophomore Michael Kimmel sandwiched goals around another Peyser tally in the first 2:49 of the third quarter to build what appeared to be a safe 10-3 lead. The Tigers had other thoughts and needed exactly three minutes to slice the seven-goal deficit to Mitchell Rosensweig needed just five seconds to answer Kimmel s goal as he scored right off the ensuing faceoff to jump-start the Tigers run. Bill McCutcheon added an extra man goal just over two minutes later and Tim Stratton scored 43 seconds after that. Rosensweig won all three faceoffs in that span as the Blue Jays never had possession during the run and called timeout after Stratton s goal. Whatever head coach Dave Pietramala said during the timeout worked on both ends of the field. Senior Kevin Huntley netted back-to-back goals late in the third quarter to ignite what would become a 6-0 run that put the game away. Sophomore Steven Boyle added a pair of goals and Mark Goodrich and Nathan Matthews also scored during the spree, which finally ended when Towson s Randall Cooper scored an extra-man goal with just 31 seconds remaining in the game. The Blue Jay defense held Towson scoreless for a span of 23:33 between Stratton s goal and Cooper s game-ending goal. The scoreless stretch represents the sixth time this season the Blue Jays have held an opponent scoreless for 22 minutes or longer. The Tigers answered a game-opening goal by Rabil with back-to-back goals by Adam Hagelin and Engelke in a fourminute stretch before the game was six minutes old. Doneger ignited a 4-0 run over the last 8:04 of the first quarter with consecutive goals in a 72-second span midway through the quarter and Peyser and Rabil both added goals before the period was over to push the Blue Jays out to a 5-2 lead entering the second quarter. Engelke s goal early in the second quarter was answered by the 5-0 run that eventually built the lead to Towson was never closer than the four-goal margin at 10-6 and the Blue Jays methodically built the lead to 10 before ending with the nine-goal margin, the team s largest victory of the season. Seniors accounted for 11 of the Blue Jays 16 goals with co-captains Rabil, Doneger and Peyser each netting a hat trick. Rabil and Peyser added assists to pace the team with four points apiece. Huntley s two goals push his career total to 100, which ties with his father, Dave Huntley ( ) and Brian Wood ( ) for 13th place on JHU s career goal-scoring list. Boyle added the two goals and one assist and Kimmel added a goal and assist to help pace an offense that netted the 16 goals on 37 shots. Sophomore Michael Gvozden posted nine saves for the Blue Jays, who also got a spectacular individual effort on defense from senior Matt Bocklet, who assisted on Doneger s second goal of the game and grabbed a game-high 10 ground balls, many of which came in traffic after he knocked the ball to the ground. He fueled a defense that also killed off 7-of-9 extra-man opportunities for the Tigers. Engelke paced the Towson attack with two goals and two assists and Cooper added one goal and one assist. Rosensweig added the one goal and dominated on faceoffs as he won 14- of-23 and grabbed seven ground balls. Matt Antol and Rob Wheeler split time in goal for the Tigers and both posted four saves. Towson (4-9) /7 #6 Johns Hopkins (6-5) /16 Goals: T: Engelke-2, Cooper, McCutcheon, Stratton, Hagelin, Rosensweig. J: Rabil-3, Peyser-3, Doneger-3, Huntley-2, Boyle-2, Kimmel, Goodrich, Na. Matthews. Assists: T: Engelke-2, Andrew, Boyle, Cooper. J: Bocklet, Kimmel, Miller, Peyser, Rabil. Saves: T: Antol-4, Wheeler-4. J: Gvozden-9, No. Matthews-0. Shots: T-36. J-37. EMO: T: 2-for-9. J: 1-for-2. Attendance: 2,714. Game 12 April 28, 2008 Homewood Field #5 Johns Hopkins-12, Mount St. Mary s-1 BALTIMORE, MD Johns Hopkins got two goals apiece from Steven Boyle, Michael Kimmel and Austin Walker and the Blue Jay defense held visiting Mount St. Mary s scoreless for the final 49:11 as the fifth-ranked Hopkins men s lacrosse team eased past visiting Mount St. Mary s, 12-1, at Homewood Field Monday night. The win is the fourth straight for the Blue Jays, who improve to 7-5 with the victory, while Mount St. Mary s dropped its second straight and ends the season at Hopkins needed just 49 seconds to open the scoring as Boyle one-timed a feed to the crease from Paul Rabil past Mountaineer goalie T.C. DiBartolo. An unassisted goal by Kimmel six minutes later gave the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead, but Jon Rodrick answered three-and-a-half minutes later for the Mount when he split the defense down the middle and fired a low shot past Blue Jay goalie Michael Gvozden. A tenacious Hopkins ride forced a Mount St. Mary s turnover late in the quarter and senior Kevin Huntley cashed in on the breakaway with 1:45 remaining in the period and Walker s first of the game 56 seconds later made it 4-1 at the end of the first quarter. DiBartolo came up with seven second-quarter saves and held the Blue Jays at bay until late in the period when Kimmel fired home his second of the game on an ally dodge with 2:17 remaining. A Rabil extra-man goal with four seconds remaining in the opening half sent the Blue Jays to intermission with a 6-1 lead. Any hopes of a comeback for The Mount were dashed in the first six minutes of the third period as senior Stephen Peyser needed just 13 seconds to net his 16th goal of the season and Boyle dodged from behind the goal and beat DiBartolo from in tight with 9:39 remaining. Tom Duerr scored late in the period for the Blue Jays, who also got fourth-quarter goals from Josh Peck, Walker and Tim Donovan to close out the scoring. Gvozden made seven saves and allowed just the one goal before departing with just over six minutes remaining in regulation. His efforts keyed a defensive showing that resulted in the fewest goals the Blue Jays have allowed since April 24, 1999 when Hopkins beat Navy, Nine different players scored for Johns Hopkins with Boyle, Kimmel and Walker leading the way with the two goals apiece. Huntley and Rabil also netted two points in the win with one goal and one assist. DiBartolo was spectacular in goal for the Mountaineers as he finished with 15 saves before giving way to A.J. Schauffler with 7:39 remaining in the fourth quarter. Rodrick s unassisted goal was the only shot that found the net for Mount St. Mary s, which was outshot and turned the ball over 16 times in the loss. 177 First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

11 Mount St. Mary s (2-12) /1 #5 Johns Hopkins (7-5) /12 Goals: M: Rodrick. J: Walker-2, Kimmel-2, Boyle-2, Rabil, Huntley, Peyser, Duerr, Peck, Donovan. Assists: M: None. J: Bryan, Huntley, Rabil. Saves: M: DiBartolo-15, Schauffler-0. J: Gvozden-7, Sheain-2, Matthews-0. Shots: M-28. J-44. EMO: M: 0-for-2. J: 1-for-1. Attendance: 675. Game 13 May 3, 2008 Diane Geppi Aikens Field #5 Johns Hopkins-9, #17 Loyola-6 BALTIMORE, MD The fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins men s lacrosse team used a 6-0 second-half run to erase a 5-3 deficit en route to a 9-6 win over host Loyola at Diane Geppi Aikens Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the fifth straight overall and the ninth straight against Loyola for the Blue Jays, who improve to 8-5 on the year and have likely secured their 37th straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Loyola, champions of the ECAC and recipient of the league s automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Tournament, slips to 7-6 with its second straight loss. Loyola rattled off three consecutive goals in a span of just over three minutes midway through the third quarter to take a 5-3 lead, but an opportunistic goal by junior Tom Duerr jumpstarted the game-turning run for the Blue Jays. Duerr s fourth goal of the season came after Loyola s Jake Hagelin made a save, but failed to handle the rebound. Duerr scooped up the loose ball seven yards in front of the cage and fired home his only goal of the game to pull the Blue Jays within one. Junior Brian Christopher knotted the game three minutes later when he dodged from behind the goal and beat Hagelin upstairs. Both teams had chances to take a one-goal lead before the end of the third period, but Hagelin made a nice save on a Mark Bryan shot in the final minute and Michael Gvozden made a save at the buzzer to keep it 5-5 entering the final quarter. Hopkins needed just 71 seconds of the fourth quarter to take the lead for good as senior Paul Rabil dodged down the ally and snuck a low left-handed laser between Hagelin and the pipe for his 22nd goal of the season. The Blue Jay defense then forced four straight Loyola turnovers before sophomore Michael Kimmel gave the Blue Jays some breathing room with back-to-back goals in a 69-second span. Out of a timeout he isolated behind the goal and stuck one inside the cross bar after dodging to Hagelin s right and the Blue Jays ran the same play a minute later with the same result to push out to an 8-5 lead. Christopher s second goal of the game with 2:23 remaining sealed the victory, although the Hounds got the last goal of the game with two seconds remaining on a transition goal by Cooper MacDonnell off an assist from Paul Richards. A defensive struggle in the first half produced a 2-2 tie at intermission. Shane Koppens gave the Greyhounds an early 1-0 lead as he got a step inside his defender and beat Gvozden with a behind-the-back shot from in tight with 12:53 remaining. Kimmel answered with a 10-yard left-handed blast after spinning inside his defender off an ally dodge. The 1-1 tie lasted just under two minutes before Collin Finnerty drove to the goal and scored from the three yards out with 7:54 remaining in the opening period. The Loyola defense, and Hagelin in particular, were solid in the first half as the Blue Jays went more than 20 minutes without scoring after Kimmel s goal before Stephen Peyser handcuffed Hagelin from 10 yards out with 3:31 remaining in the first half to make it 2-2. The Blue Jays took a short-lived 3-2 lead early in the second half as Peyser dodged from the top and netted his 18th goal of the season with a left-handed rocket, but Loyola answered quickly with a 3-0 run that gave the Greyhounds the 5-3 lead. Koppens second goal of the game less than two minutes after Peyser s goal forced the third tie of the game and Taylor Ebsary scored nine seconds later from the doorstep of a nifty feed from Koppens to make it 4-3. A transition goal by Chris Basler just over three minutes later after a Blue Jay turnover gave the Hounds the two-goal lead, but Duerr s goal three minutes after that ignited the game-turning 6-0 run. The Blue Jay defense held Loyola scoreless for 23:44 between Basler s goal and the final tally by MacDonnell in the closing seconds Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Kimmel s three goals led the way for the Blue Jays, who also got two goals from Peyser and Christopher. Gvozden continued to sparkle late in the season as he posted 14 saves while allowing just the six goals. Senior Matt Bocklet was dazzling with the ball on the ground as he registered a career-high 12 ground balls. With his efforts leading the way the Blue Jays won the ground ball war and were successful on 21-of- 22 clearing attempts. Koppens was the only multi-point scorer for the Greyhounds as he had the two goals and one assist. Hagelin was strong in goal for Loyola as he posted 10 saves, including eight through three quarters as the teams battled to a 5-5 tie after 45 minutes. LC held a advantage in shots and won 12-of- 19 faceoffs. #5 Johns Hopkins (8-5) /9 #17 Loyola (7-6) /6 Goals: J: Kimmel-3, Christopher-2, Peyser-2, Rabil, Duerr. L: Koppens-2, MacDonnell, Finnerty, Basler, Ebsary. Assists: J: None. L: Koppens, Landry, Ricci, Richards. Saves: J: Gvozden-14. L: Hagelin-10. Shots: J-27. L-31. EMO: J: 0-for-2. L: 0-for-2. Attendance: 3,410. Game 14 May 11, 2008 Homewood Field #4 Johns Hopkins-10, #16 Hofstra-4 NCAA 1st Rd. BALTIMORE, MD Senior midfielder Paul Rabil scored a game-high four goals and host Johns Hopkins used a 6-0 run to break open a close game as the fifth-seeded Blue Jays knocked off Hofstra, 10-4, in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Men s Lacrosse Tournament Sunday afternoon. The win, which avenges an 8-7 overtime loss at Hofstra during the regular season, is the sixth straight for the Blue Jays, who improve to 9-5 and will play Navy in the NCAA Quarterfinals next Saturday at Navy. Hofstra had a four-game winning streak snapped and ends the season at Despite controlling the action for most of the opening 20 minutes, the Blue Jays found themselves in a 2-2 tie after Hofstra s Michael Unterstein netted an unassisted goal with 8:47 remaining in the second quarter. The Blue Jays needed just 54 seconds to answer as Rabil swept across the top of the box and blew a 14-yard laser past Hofstra goalie Danny Orlando to give the Blue Jays the lead for good. The Pride held the Blue Jays away for six minutes before Rabil gave the Blue Jays a two-goal cushion with 1:53 remaining in the first half as he scored the 100th goal of his career on a left-handed shot inside the far post on an ally dodge. The first of sophomore Michael Kimmel s three goals with 23 seconds remaining in the first half pushed the lead to 5-2 at intermission. PEYSER If not for the play of Orlando, the deficit could have been larger at the half as he posted seven first-half saves as the Blue Jays outshot the Pride 24-8 in the first 30 minutes. Any hopes of a second half Hofstra comeback were short-lived as the Blue Jays maintained possession for nearly the first seven minutes of the third quarter and tallied twice during that stretch to push out to a 7-2 lead. An extra-man goal just under four minutes into the second half by senior Michael Doneger on a nifty pass to the crease by Kimmel made it 6-2 and Doneger scored his second of the game just under two minutes later as he picked the top corner from 10 yards out on a quick pass from senior Stephen Peyser. Kimmel closed the 6-0 run with 2:09 remaining when he quick-sticked a pass from Steven Boyle past Orlando from in tight to make it 8-2 at the end of three quarters. The teams traded goals in the fourth quarter with Unterstein and Tom Interlicchio sandwiching goals around Rabil s fourth of the day in the first nine minutes of the period. Kimmel polished off his second straight hat trick and the sixth of his career when he closed the scoring with 2:47 remaining with a six-yard shot off a nice feed from Boyle. Johns Hopkins held the Pride scoreless for the first 16:06, but led only 1-0 after one quarter as a Peyser goal with 6:27 remaining in the first quarter was the only tally for either team in the first 15 minutes. Hofstra finally pushed through with 13:53 remaining in the second quarter when Dan Stein worked from behind the goal and scored on a wrap-around shot to tie the game. Rabil got his day started just over a minute later when he scored the first of his four goals with an unassisted tally at the 12:50 mark. Unterstein s goal four minutes later forced the second and last tie of the game as the Blue Jays embarked on the 6-0 run, during which they held the Pride scoreless for 25:33, shortly after. Rabil s four-goal effort not only led the way for the Blue Jays, but also pushed him to the top of the all-time goal-scoring list among Hopkins midfielders as he now has 101. The four goals also tied Rabil s career high. Kimmel added the three goals and one assist, while Boyle assisted on three goals for the Blue Jays. The three goals tied Kimmel s career high, while Boyle matched his personal best with the three assists. Sophomore Michael Gvozden anchored the Blue Jays defensive effort as he posted nine saves while allowing just the four goals. Unterstein s two goals led the way for Hofstra, which didn t have any assisted goals in the game. Orlando posted 14 saves for the Pride, who were outshot 40-25, won just 7-of-18 faceoffs and lost the ground ball war #16 Hofstra (10-6) /4 #4 Johns Hopkins (9-5) /10 Goals: H: M. Unterstein-2, Stein, Interlicchio. J: Rabil-4, Kimmel-3, Doneger-2, Peyser. Assists: H: None. J: Boyle-3, Peyser-2, Kimmel. Saves: H: Orlando-14. J: Gvozden-9. Shots: H-25. J-40. EMO: H: 0-for-1. J: 1-for-1. Attendance: 2,219. Game 15 May 17, 2008 Navy Marine Corps Stadium #4 Johns Hopkins-10, #14 Navy-4 NCAA Quartefinals ANNAPOLIS, MD Senior Paul Rabil and sophomore Steven Boyle both scored three goals and Johns Hopkins held host Navy to just one goal over the final three quarters as the Blue Jays eased past the Midshipmen, 10-4, in the NCAA Division I Men s Lacrosse Quarterfinals at Navy s Marine Corps Stadium. The win, the seventh straight overall and 35th straight for Johns Hopkins against Navy, improves the Blue Jays record to Navy finishes the season at With the win, Johns Hopkins advances to the final four for the second consecutive year and the sixth time in the last seven years. The Blue Jays, who won the national championship a year ago, are the first defending national champion to advance to the final four since Syracuse got back in 2003 after winning the 2002 championship. Leading just 5-3 at the half, the Blue Jays came out and took control in the third quarter as they outscored the Midshipmen 3-0 in the period. After just over six scoreless minutes to open 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps 69

12 2008 Game-by-Game Recaps 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse the half, Rabil broke through when he worked to the middle of the field after rolling his defender twice to each side, found space down the middle and bounced home a 12-yarder. The three-goal lead held until the last two minutes of the period, when Hopkins got back-to-back goals in a span of just nine seconds to extend the lead to 8-3 at the end of the third quarter. Senior Kevin Huntley s second goal of the game with 1:36 on the clock made it 7-3 as he swept in from the side, split a pair of defenders and found the far post despite Navy goalie Tommy Phelan getting a piece of the shot. Boyle capped his first hat trick since March 4 nine seconds later when he took a pass from senior Stephen Peyser off the faceoff and raced in from the side before slipping a shot between Phelan s legs from in tight. Navy finally broke a scoreless streak of 33:11 when the Midshipmen capitalized on a Blue Jay turnover. After Hopkins goalie Michael Gvozden came up with a save, the Blue Jays grabbed the loose ball, but got pinned in near the sideline and turned the ball over. Evan Sullivan then quickly found Gregory Clement 10 yards in front of the goal and Clement fired home his 14th goal of the season. That would be the only goal Navy would score over the final three quarters of the game. In addition, the scoreless streak of 33:11 marks the 11th time this season the Blue Jays have held an opponent scoreless for 20 minutes or longer. The Blue Jays milked the final 10 minutes of the game and tallied twice in the final 4:25 with Navy pressuring and double-teaming. Rabil completed his hat trick when he came up with a ground ball behind the cage and raced to the front of the goal before scoring from in tight. Junior Brian Christopher closed the scoring with 46 seconds remaining as he slipped inside a defender along the goal line and fired into an open net. A frenetic first quarter that saw the teams combine for 13 turnovers ended with the Midshipmen holding a 3-2 advantage. Rabil opened the scoring for the Blue Jays with 12:44 on the clock as he split a double team to Phelan s right, worked his way back to the middle of the field and sidearmed a shot past Phelan while falling to his knees. Navy struck back for two straight goals in a four-minute span late in the period to take its first lead at 2-1. Junior Michael Beggins got the Midshipmen on the board when he slipped a 12-yard shot inside the far post that seemed to be more tricky than it was fast. Senior Nick Mirabito made it 2-1 with 2:17 remaining in the opening quarter as he beat Gvozden from a tough angle. Gvozden got a piece of the shot, but it had just enough on it to find the back of the net. The Blue Jays appeared to grab the momentum back late in the quarter when Boyle dodged hard to the goal from the edge of the box to Phelan s right and dove across the top of the crease and scored. That momentum was gone before the quarterfinal record crowd of 17,017 had sat down. Navy, which won 9-of-10 first half faceoffs, needed just five seconds to retake the lead as Mikelis Visgauss pushed the ensuing faceoff forward and raced into the offensive zone before slipping a shot past Gvozden from seven yards out. The back-to-back goals by Boyle and Visgauss in a five second span are the third-fastest back-to-back goals in NCAA Division I history. The goal by Visgauss would be the last for Navy until Clement s goal early in the fourth quarter and the Blue Jays took control by out-scoring the Midshipmen 3-0 in the second quarter. Boyle one-timed a nifty pass from Rabil past a defenseless Phelan from the doorstep to tie the game at 3-3 and Govzden then made what turned out to be the game-changing play. Mirabito worked his way in tight after a failed Johns Hopkins clearing attempt, but Gvozden stoned him and quickly found Peyser in transition. Peyser pushed the ball into the Navy zone and dished to Huntley, who side-stepped a defender and blistered a shot from eight yards out to make it 4-3. A Tommy Duerr goal with 58 seconds remaining in the second quarter gave the Blue Jays the 5-3 lead at the half, a lead that held until Rabil ignited the 3-0 third-quarter run with his second goal of the game. Rabil further etched his name in the Johns Hopkins record book with his three-goal, one-assist effort as he became the Blue Jays career scoring leader in the NCAA Tournament as he now has 21 goals and 21 assists in 12 career tournament games. Brian Wood ( ) previously held the record with 39 points. Gvozden finished with 13 saves to anchor a Johns Hopkins defensive effort that held Navy to just the four goals on 35 shots. Navy did not have a player with more than one point and Phelan posted six saves in goal for the Midshipmen. Visgauss scored the one goal and won 10-of-16 faceoffs, but the Blue Jays found the answer at the X in the second half as they took 6-of-8 after intermission. #14 Navy (10-6) /4 #4 Johns Hopkins (10-5) /10 Goals: N: Mirabito, Beggins, Visgauss, Clement. J: Rabil-3, Boyle-3, Huntley-2, Duerr, Christopher. Assists: N: Sullivan. J: Kimmel, Peyser, Rabil. Saves: N: Phelan-6. J: Gvozden- 13. Shots: N-35. J-23. EMO: N: 0-for-3. J: 0-for-2. Attendance: 17,017. Game 16 May 24, 2008 Gillette Stadium #4 Johns Hopkins-10, #1 Duke-9 NCAA Semifinals FOXBOROUGH, MA - Senior Kevin Huntley scored a game-high four goals and sophomore Michael Gvozden matched his career high with 17 saves as fifth-seeded and fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins stunned top-seeded and topranked Duke, 10-9, in the NCAA Semifinals before 48,224 at Gillette Stadium Saturday afternoon. The win, which avenges a 17-6 loss at Duke earlier this season, is the eighth straight for the Blue Jays, who advance to the NCAA Championship game for the third time in four years and the fourth time in six years. The Blue Jays will meet Syracuse in the title game. The Orange defeated Virginia, 12-11, in double overtime in the first semifinal. The Blue Jays led 7-5 entering the fourth quarter and still held a two-goal lead after Matt Danowski and George Castle traded goals in a span of 1:26 midway through the final period. Castle s goal, his second of the season, came at the 7:25 mark and gave the Blue Jays an 8-6 lead, but Duke needed all of 18 seconds to pull even. Danowski s second of the game came 12 seconds after Castle s tally and Nick O Hara scored six seconds after that to give the Devils what appeared to be all the momentum. Both Duke goals came after the Blue Jays lost the faceoffs on procedure calls. Hopkins took the lead for good 28 seconds after O Hara s goal as sophomore Steve Boyle quick-sticked a shot from in tight past Duke s Dan Loftus off a nifty feed from classmate Michael Kimmel while the Blue Jays had the man advantage. Huntley tacked on his fourth goal of the game just over two minutes later when he polished off a back-and-forth sequence. After a Blue Jay turnover, Duke s Max Quinzani hit the post in transition and the Blue Jays took it the other way. Kimmel then found Huntley, who wasted no time netting his fourth of the game with 4:18 remaining. Gvozden made two saves over the next three minutes before Brad Ross drew Duke within one with 28 seconds remaining as he fired home a 10-yarder off a feed from just behind the goal to Gvozden s left. The Blue Jays won the ensuing faceoff, but turned the ball over with 17 seconds remaining. The Devils grabbed the loose ball and set up a final play for Danowski after a timeout with 3.9 seconds remaining, but Govzden was equal to the task down low and time expired before Duke could get off another shot. The Blue Jays dictated the tempo in the first half and led 4-2 at intermission on the strength of an efficient offense and timely goalkeeping from Gvozden. The Blue Jays opened the scoring with 6:55 remaining in the opening half when Kim First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

13 mel found Huntley on a backdoor cut in transition and Huntley beat Loftus from six yards out. The goal came after Gvozden registered one of his five first-quarter saves. The 1-0 lead lasted until the 4:07 mark of the opening period when the Devils scored in transition. After a Loftus save, Duke quickly worked the ball up field to Danowski, who found a streaking Zack Greer three yards in front of the goal and Greer slipped one past Gvozden. Duke took its first lead of the game with 44.5 seconds remaining in the opening period when Greer threaded a pass to Quinzani on the backside of the crease and Quinzani faked high and shot low to capitalize on the only extra-man opportunity of the first half for either team. The Blue Jays would score three straight goals in the second half to take the two-goal halftime lead. Junior Brian Christopher fired one low to the far post on an ally dodge with 9:14 remaining and Boyle dodged hard from behind the goal and scored on a one-handed wrap-around to the top far corner just under four minutes later. The Blue Jays didn t need long to push the lead to 4-2 as senior Stephen Peyser won the ensuing faceoff and found Boyle just at the edge of the box along the goal line. Boyle quickly worked behind the goal and found Huntley cutting to the goal, where he took Boyle s pass and scored a behind-the-back goal from five yards out to close out the first-half scoring. Hopkins pushed the lead to 5-2 just 2:23 into the second half when senior Paul Rabil came down in transition and found senior Michael Doneger alone in front of the goal. Doneger quickly fired home his 19th goal of the season to give the Blue Jays the three-goal lead. Duke needed less than one minute to pull even as junior Steve Schoeffel ignited a three-goal run that took just 45 seconds as he sprinted in from the side, slipped inside his defender and scored from in tight. Quinzani netted his second of the game 38 seconds later and Terrence Molinari capped the lightning-quick three-goal run seven seconds later when he was at the back end of a nifty tic-tac-toe off the faceoff after Quinzani s goal. The Blue Jays answered with 7:27 remaining when Rabil blew a left-handed laser past Loftus on an ally dodge and Huntley beat the third-quarter horn when he grabbed a loose ball and went low-to-high from six yards out with two-tenths of a second remaining in the period. That set the stage for the wild fourth quarter, which saw Gvozden make seven of his 17 saves, including the one at the horn that preserved the victory. #4 Johns Hopkins (11-5) /10 #1 Duke (18-2) /9 Goals: J: Huntley-4, Boyel-2, Rabil, Christopher, Doneger, Castle. D: Danowski-2, Quinzani-2, Greer, Ross, Schoeffel, Mollinari, O Hara. Assists: J: Kimmel-3, Boyle, Peyser, Rabil. D: Greer-3, Crotty, Danowski. Saves: J: Gvozden-17. D: Loftus-11. Shots: J-35. D-43. EMO: J: 1-for-1. D: 1-for-2. Attendance: 48,224 Game 17 May 26, 2008 Gillette Stadium #3 Syracuse-13, #4 Johns Hopkins-10 NCAA Championship FOXBOROUGH, MA - Third-seeded Syracuse used a 4-0 run that bridged the third and fourth quarters to extend a 9-8 lead to 13-8 and held off a late-game rally by fifth-seeded Johns Hopkins as the Orange knocked off the Blue Jays, 13-10, in the 2008 NCAA Division I Men s Lacrosse Championship game at Gillette Stadium Monday afternoon. Syracuse ends the season with a 16-2 record, while the Blue Jays had their eight-game winning streak snapped and finish A pro-syracuse record crowd of 48,970 attended the game. Hopkins trailed just 9-8 after Paul Rabil s fourth goal of the game with 4:17 remaining in the third quarter, but Syracuse scored the next four to push out to a five-goal lead. Dan Hardy opened the run as he swept in from the side and lifted a left-handed shot into the top right corner of the goal just 28 seconds after Rabil s tally. Neither team scored over the next RABIL Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse six minutes, but the Orange struck for three straight in a span of just over four minutes in the fourth quarter to take control. Kenny Nims broke the ice after the six-minute scoreless stretch as he took a pass from behind the goal from Mike Leveille and had time to lock-and-load before ripping home his second goal of the game. Back-to-back goals in a span of just 10 seconds midway through the period effectively put the game away for the Orange. Brendan Loftus ended an extended Syracuse possession as he picked the near post on an ally dodge with 8:25 remaining. The Blue Jays won the ensuing faceoff, but turned the ball over and Leveille easily beat Michael Gvozden from in front after taking a pass from behind the goal. The Blue Jays sliced the five-goal deficit to with a pair of goals by Rabil in the final seven minutes - he ended the game with a career-high six goals and tied his career-best with seven points - but Syracuse eventually took possession with just under a minute remaining and ran out the clock to secure its first national championship since A fast-paced first half saw the Blue Jays build a 4-2 lead at the end of the first quarter, only to have Syracuse fight back to take a 6-5 lead at intermission. The deficit may been larger if not for the play of Gvozden, who posted 14 of his career-high 20 saves in the first half. Rabil opened the scoring with an unassisted goal on an ally dodge as he blew a left-handed laser past John Galloway to polish off a long possession for the Blue Jays. That lead held for just over three minutes before the Orange got going with an extra man goal by freshman Stephen Keogh. Keogh scooped up a loose ball after an original shot had been deflected and went behind-the-back to put SU on the board. Rabil gave the Blue Jays a one-goal lead with 5:13 remaining as he took advantage of miscommunication in the Syracuse defense and beat Galloway from 10 yards out. The three goals scored in the first 14 minutes of the first half were then matched in a 25-second span late in the period as Hopkins sandwiched a pair of goals around an SU tally in the final 35 seconds. Senior Kevin Huntley tied JHU s career NCAA goal-scoring mark (a mark that Rabil would eventually surpass with his six-goal effort) when he scored from the doorstep in transition after Gvozden stuffed Leveille from in tight at the other end. Syracuse faceoff specialist Danny Brennan scored the first goal of his career 6.1 seconds later as he won the faceoff after Huntley s goal cleanly and beat Gvozden from seven yards out. A faceoff win by the Blue Jays followed Brennan s goal and Stephen Boyle dodged from behind the goal and beat Galloway and a late slide from in close. Syracuse took advantage of miscommunication on the Blue Jay defensive zone to slice the deficit to 4-3 as Joel White found Keogh alone in front while the Blue Jays were checking up and he fired one home from five yards out with 9:01 on the first half clock. A five-star save from Gvozden with 8:10 remaining jumpstarted a transition opportunity for the Blue Jays that freshman Kyle Wharton cashed in on with 7:59 remaining. Gvozden stuffed Keogh from two yards away after a Blue Jay turnover and quickly worked the ball up field and sophomore Michael Kimmel found Wharton to give Hopkins a 5-3 lead. The Orange closed the first half with a 3-0 run to build the 6-5 lead at the half. Nims made the Blue Jays pay for a turnover while playing with the extra man as Leveille came up with a loose ball behind the JHU goal and fed Nims out in front, where he had time and room to shot before finding the back of the net. A pair of goals in the final four minutes gave SU the halftime lead as Pat Perritt dodged from the top and got inside his defender before scoring from in tight with 3:46 remaining and Hardy scored from 10 yards out with 1:34 left after Steven Brooks drove the ally and dumped it back to him. The Orange came out of the halftime break running as Hardy came in nearly unmarked from the top of the box after Syracuse won the opening faceoff of the third quarter and pushed the lead to 7-5, while Brooks scored 58 seconds later when he worked to his left from 10 yards away and picked the far post to make it 8-5. Rabil and Huntley scored back-to-back goals in a span of just over two minutes a short time later to make it 8-7 and the Blue Jays were still within 9-8 after Loftus and Rabil traded goals later in the period, but Hardy jump-started the deciding run a short time later to end Hopkins hopes of claiming its second straight national championship. #4 Johns Hopkins (11-6) /10 #3 Syracuse (16-2) /13 Goals: J: Rabil-6, Huntley-2, Boyle, Wharton. S: Hardy-3, Loftus-2, Nims-2, Keogh-2, Leveille, Brooks, Perritt, Brennan. Assists: J: Huntley, Kimmel, Peyser, Rabil. S: Brooks-2, Leveille-2, Niewierroski, White. Saves: J: Gvozden-20. S: Galloway-7. Shots: J-38. S-46. EMO: J: 1-for-5. S: 1-for-2. Attendance: 48, Game-by-Game Recaps 71

14 2008 Results and Statistics 2009 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse Results (Home games in bold) Date Opponent W/L Score Overall Attend Goalie Site 2/23 #11 Albany W ,993 Michael Gvozden (1-0) Baltimore, MD 3/1 #9 Princeton + W ,165 Michael Gvozden (2-0) Baltimore, MD 3/4 UMBC W Michael Gvozden (3-0) Baltimore, MD Hofstra (OT) L ,741 Michael Gvozden (3-1) Hempstead, NY 3/15 #5 Syracuse (OT) L ,563 Michael Gvozden (3-2) Baltimore, MD #2 Virginia (OT) L ,579 Michael Gvozden (3-3) Charlottesville, VA 3/29 #9 North Carolina L ,250 Michael Gvozden (3-4) Baltimore, MD #2 Duke L ,291 Michael Gvozden (3-5) Durham, NC 4/12 #7 Maryland W ,626 Michael Gvozden (4-5) Baltimore, MD #10 Navy W ,042 Michael Gvozden (5-5) Annapolis, MD 4/23 Towson W ,741 Michael Gvozden (6-5) Baltimore, MD 4/28 Mount St. Mary s W Michael Gvozden (7-5) Baltimore, MD #17 Loyola W ,410 Michael Gvozden (8-5) Baltimore, MD 5/11 #16 Hofstra (NCAA 1st. Rd.) W ,864 Michael Gvozden (9-5) Baltimore, MD #14 Navy (NCAA QF) W ,017 Michael Gvozden (10-5) Annapolis, MD 5/24 #1 Duke (NCAA SF) W ,224 Michael Gvozden (11-5) Foxborough, MA 5/26 #3 Syracuse (NCAA Final) L ,970 Michael Gvozden (11-6) Foxborough, MA + Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Classic (M&T Bank Stadium) Individual Statistics (Returning Players in Bold) No. Name GP/S G A Pts Sh Shot% GW UP DN GB Faceoff Pct Pen Min 9 Paul Rabil 17/ Kevin Huntley 17/ Steven Boyle 17/ Michael Kimmel 17/ Stephen Peyser 17/ Michael Doneger 17/ Brian Christopher 17/ Mark Bryan 16/ Austin Walker 17/ Tom Duerr 16/ Kyle Wharton 17/ Andrew Miller 17/ George Castle 17/ Matt Bocklet 17/ Mark Goodrich 8/ Matt Dolente 17/ Dave Spaulding 17/ Tim Donovan 15/ Josh Peck 10/ Andrew Jaffe 3/ Nathan Matthews 3/ Matt Drenan 17/ Garrett Stanwick 13/ Mike Maydick 10/ Sam DeVore 17/ Max Chautin 6/ Zach Tedeschi 4/ Michael Evans 17/ Orry Michael 1/ Trey Sheain 4/ Val Washington 9/ Will Jawish 5/ Nick Donoghue 2/ Nolan Matthews 3/ Conor Cassidy 5/ Lorenzo Heholt 1/ Eric Zerrlaut 17/ Ben O Neill 17/ Michael Gvozden 17/ Michael Powers 10/ Max Levine 4/ JHU Totals Opponent Totals Team Statistics JHU OPP SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored average Shot pct Shots on goal-attempts SOG pct Shots/Game Assists MAN-UP OPPORTUNITIES Goals-Opportunities Conversion Percent GOAL BREAKDOWN Total Goals Man-up Man-down 1 1 Unassisted Overtime 0 3 GROUND BALLS TURNOVERS FACEOFFS (W-L) Faceoff W-L Pct CLEARS Clear Pct PENALTIES Number Minutes 38:30 40:00 ATTENDANCE Total 25,633 51,080 Dates/Avg Per Date 8/3,204 6/8,513 Neutral Site #/Avg 3/38, Goalie Statistics (Returning Players in Bold) No. Name GP/S Minutes GA GAA Saves Pct W L 6 Michael Gvozden 17/17 1,007: Trey Sheain 4/0 15: Nolan Matthews 2/0 3: JHU Totals 17 1,026: Opponent Totals 17 1,026: First Team All-Americans 64 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductees 11 National Players of the Year

15 Johns Hopkins Men s Lacrosse USILA Coaches Poll May 5, 2008 Rk. Team Rec. Points 1. Duke (10) Virginia Syracuse Johns Hopkins Notre Dame UMBC Cornell Maryland North Carolina Colgate Georgetown Ohio State Brown Navy Drexel Hofstra Denver Loyola Army Princeton JHU Week-by-Week in the Polls USILA Coaches Nike/Media Preseason 1st 1st February st February 25 1st 1st March 3 1st 1st March 10 4th 4th March 17 T6th 4th March 24 8th 6th March 31 11th 10th April 7 13th 15th April 14 7th 10th April 21 6th 6th April 28 5th 5th May 5 4th 4th May nd Johns Hopkins Record... In Under Curr Petro Streak Overall: L1 At home: W4 On the road: W3 At a neutral site: L1 On artificial turf: W2 On grass: L2 On Sportexe / Fieldturf: L1 During the day: L1 At night: W2 In overtime: L Miscellaneous Stats / Polls / Awards Others Receiving Votes: Bucknell, Army, Penn In one-goal games: W1 Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll May 28, 2008 On television: L1 Rk. Team Rec. Points 1. Syracuse (17) Johns Hopkins Duke Virginia Maryland Notre Dame Ohio State T. Navy UMBC Colgate North Carolina Georgetown Cornell Brown Hofstra Loyola Denver Drexel Army Princeton In weekday games: L1 On the weekend (Sat/Sun.): W6 Against teams ranked 1-5: L1 Against teams ranked 6-10: W2 Against teams ranked 11-20: W8 Against unranked teams: W2 Leading after one quarter: L1 Leading at the half: W7 Leading after three quarters: W7 Trailing after one quarter: W3 Trailing at the half: L5 Trailing after three quarters: L7 Others Receiving Votes: Albany-10, Bucknell-9, Siena-1, Canisius-1. Tied after one quarter: L1 Tied at the half: W Honors and Awards Tied after three quarters: W1 Matt Bocklet (Sr./D): Third Team USILA All-American Scoring first: L1 Michael Evans (Jr./D): Third Team USILA All-American, NCAA All-Tournament Team Opponent scores first: W1 Scoring 10 or more goals: L1 Michael Gvozden (So./G): NCAA All-Tournament Team Scoring less than 10 goals: W1 Allowing 10 or more goals: L5 Kevin Huntley (Sr./A): Third Team USILA All-American, NCAA All-Tournament Team Allowing less than 10 goals: W8 Stephen Peyser (Sr./M): Third Team USILA All-American Getting more ground balls: W6 Getting less ground balls: L1 Paul Rabil (Sr./M): First Team USILA All-American, Tewaaraton Finalist, Lowe s Senior CLASS Award Finalist, Second Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American, First Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District, NCAA All-Tournament Team RABIL Ground balls equal: W5 Winning more faceoffs: W5 Opp. wins more faceoffs: W3 Faceoffs equal: L2 73