Kimmel Saves Hopkins with Last-Minute Goal
from press release
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Siena midfielder Mic DeBellis gets off a shot Sunday in the Saints' 8-7 loss to No. 5 Johns Hopkins at Homewood Field. © John Strohsacker/LaxPhotos.com |
BALTIMORE, Md. – Senior midfielder
Michael Kimmel (Towson, MD/Loyola) scored an extra-man goal with 48
seconds remaining to break a 7-7 tie and lift the fifth-ranked
Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse team to an 8-7 win over visiting
Siena at Homewood Field Sunday afternoon. The win, the ninth
straight in the regular season for the Blue Jays, improves
JHU’s record to 3-0 on the year. The Saints slip to 0-2
with the loss.
Hopkins held a three-goal lead early in the third quarter and
still led by a score of 7-5 with less than six minutes remaining in
the fourth quarter before Siena’s Chris Roth (East Northport,
NY/Northport) struck for back-to-back goals in a span of just over
80 seconds to draw the Saints even. He was on the back-end of
some quick ball movement and was able to get his hands free for a
10-yarder that skipped home and added his second straight goal a
short time later after sweeping across the top of the box and
getting a step on his defender before letting go with the
game-tying goal with 4:21 remaining.
Both teams had chances down the stretch, but it was a failed Siena
clear that eventually led to Kimmel’s game-winner.
After forcing the failed clear, junior Kyle Wharton (Garnet Valley,
PA/Haverford School) found senior Steven Boyle (Derry, NH/Pinkerton
Academy) alone 10 yards in front of the goal, where he was pushed
from behind by Siena goalie Brent Herbst (Plainview, NY/Plainview
JFK). Herbst was assessed a 30-second penalty and Kimmel
scored 29 seconds into the man advantage on a nice skip pass from
Boyle. Siena had one final possession in the Blue Jay end of
the field, but turned the ball over and JHU was able to kill the
last few seconds.
After a scoreless first quarter that saw the teams combine for
twice as many turnovers (18) as shots (9), Siena broke through just
32 seconds into the second quarter on an unassisted goal by Chris
D’Alberti (Northport, NY/Northport). Wharton answered
just 12 seconds later and Boyle scored the first of his three goals
on the day just over three minutes after that to give the Blue Jays
a 2-1 lead.
Siena’s John Rogener (Dix Hills, NY/Half Hollow Hills West)
and Boyle traded goals midway through the second quarter to account
for a 3-2 halftime lead for the Blue Jays, who then got
back-to-back goals from freshman John Ranagan (Yorktown,
NY/Yorktown) and senior Tom Duerr (Manasquan, NJ/Christian Brothers
Academy) in the first four minutes of the third quarter to make it
5-2. Ranagan worked his way through traffic and beat Herbst
while falling to the ground, while Duerr’s polished off an
extra-man opportunity with his first goal of the season.
D’Alberti, Rogener and Bryan Neufeld (Virgil,
Ontario/Niagara District) all scored in the final 9:09 of the third
period for Siena, goals that were matched only by a Boyle tally
during that stretch for the Blue Jays. Neufeld’s goal
came with just one second remaining in the third quarter and made
it 6-5, but Kimmel scored the first of his two fourth-quarter goals
just over two minutes into the period to make it 7-5. That
score held for nearly seven minutes before Roth’s
back-to-back goals set the stage for Kimmel’s
game-winner.
Boyle led the Blue Jays with three goals and one assist, while
Kimmel (2g) and Wharton (1g, 1a) also registered multi-point
games. Senior Michael Gvozden (Millersville, MD/Severna Park)
posted nine saves in goal for the Blue Jays.
D’Alberti, Rogener and Roth were the only multi-point
scorers for Siena as they each scored two goals, while Herbst
matched Gvozden’s nine saves in goal for Siena.
Siena (0-2) 0-2-3-2/7
#5 Johns Hopkins (3-0) 0-3-3-2/8
Goals: S: D’Alberti-2, Roth-2, Rogener-2,
Neufeld. J: Boyle-3, Kimmel-2, Wharton, Ranagan,
Duerr. Assists: S: Dunn. J: Boyle,
Wharton. Saves: S: Herbst-9, Kelly-0.
J: Gvozden-9. Shots: S-28. J-28.
EMO: S: 2-for-3. J: 0-for-1.
Attendance: 1,750.
