No. 8 Loyola Beats No. 9 Georgetown 11-6
from press release
BALTIMORE - Loyola University Maryland scored
four goals in the third quarter while holding No. 9 Georgetown
scoreless for the first time in a period all season, and the No. 8
Greyhounds rolled on to an 11-6 non-conference victory on Saturday
afternoon on Awalt Field at Ridley Athletic Complex.
The win is Loyola's fifth-straight, marking the first time since
March 2007, that the Greyhounds have won five in a row.
"This team prepares for games as well as any team I've ever
coached," Head Coach Charley Toomey said. "They put in the time in
the office watching film, and they buy into their scouting reports.
We are becoming a good practice team, too, with the way that we're
preparing for games on the field."
Tied 4-4 at halftime, Collin Finnerty took a Taylor Ebsary pass on
the right side and ripped his third goal of the game, putting
Loyola (8-2 overall) in front with 11:50 to play.
Matt Langan added a goal 51 seconds later, as he curled around the
crease and slipped a shot past C.T. Fisher.
Eric Lusby then scored a pair of goals over a 1-minute, 24-second
stretch - on assists by Cooper MacDonnell and Chris Basler - to
stake the Greyhounds to an 8-4 lead with 8:34 to go in the
third.
Georgetown (7-4) snapped a 19:30 scoreless stretch early in the
fourth quarter as Travis Comeau caught a Scott Kocis pass on the
right side of the crease and scored his only goal of the game with
12:31 to play.
Loyola, however, responded almost right away. Stephen Murray found
Chris Hurst on the right side, and the senior midfielder scored his
second goal of the game, 1:58 after Comeau's. Hurst's two-goal game
was the second of his career with the first coming just two weeks
ago against Ohio State.
MacDonnell pushed Loyola's lead to five with 4:49 remaining, making
a strong dodge after a Langan pass.
Max Seligmann added an unassisted tally for the Hoyas 48 ticks
later, but MacDonnell recorded his third goal of the game with 3:25
on the clock, providing the final difference.
Although the Hoyas outshot the Greyhounds, 41-32, Loyola had a
strong advantage in just about every other statistical
category.
Loyola recorded more ground balls (45-33), saves (14-7) and faceoff
wins (15-5), and the Greyhounds were a perfect 24-of-24 when
clearing the ball. The 45 ground balls were a season-high for
Loyola, and it was the first time this season the Greyhounds did
not have a turnover on a clearing attempt.
Jake Hagelin had his fourth-straight game with 13 or more saves for
Loyola, tallying 14 on the afternoon. Hagelin now has 56 saves in
the Greyhounds' last four games.
Steve Layne matched his career-high with five ground balls, and he
added two caused turnovers. He had primary defensive responsibility
for Dowd, the Hoyas' leading scorer, holding him to a single
goal.
John Schiavone won 15-of-20 faceoffs for Loyola, and he tied Steve
Dircks for team-high honors with six ground balls. Kyle Cottrell
matched up defensive with Comeau who had 19 goals entering the
game, but Cottrell limited him to one.
"I thought that we won our defensive matchups today," Toomey said.
"Steve Layne, Kyle Cottrell and Steve Dircks did an excellent job
in their matchups, and the rest of our defensive unit was
terrific."
Four players scored multiple goals, led by three each from
MacDonnell and Finnerty. Six players recorded assists, and Ebsary
had two.
MacDonnell opened scoring less than three minutes in, taking a
Lusby pass and curling around the crease for the first goal. Rickey
Mirabito, who tied with Seligmann to lead Georgetown with a pair of
goals, evened the score at 1-1 with 11:02 to play in the first
quarter.
Back-to-back goals by Finnerty and Hurst put Loyola up 3-1 before
Seligmann and Mirabito tied it up at 3-3 for Georgetown.
Finnerty tallied his second of the game with 3:26 to go before
halftime, but Craig Dowd evened it up going into the locker room
with a tally 2:01 before the break.
Georgetown's six goals were the fewest this season by the Hoyas and
just the second time (9 vs. St. John's) that they were held under
10. Loyola's man-down defense held the Georgetown EMO unit
scoreless on four opportunities.
