Hopkins Starts Fast and Drills UMBC
from press release
BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins got a goal from
senior Kyle Wharton just five seconds into the game and the Blue
Jays never looked back in a 16-5 victory over UMBC in the third
game of the fifth annual Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T
Bank Stadium Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays improved to 5-1 on
the year, 3-2 all-time in Face-Off Classic and 9-0 all-time against
UMBC. The Retrievers, who were playing their first-ever game at
M&T Bank Stadium, slip to 1-3 on the year.
Hopkins led 5-1 early in the second quarter after the second of
Chris Boland's five goals, but UMBC trimmed the deficit to 6-3 as
Rob Grimm and Dave Brown sandwiched goals around a Zach Palmer
tally for Johns Hopkins midway through the quarter. Brown's goal,
an unassisted strike with 8:28 remaining in the first half, would
be the last for the Retrievers for more than 20 minutes and Hopkins
put the game away with a 7-0 run during that time that turned the
6-3 lead into a 13-3 advantage late in the third quarter.
Senior Mark Goodrich opened the spree with an unassisted goal less
than 90 seconds after Brown scored and sophomore John Ranagan and
Wharton scored back-to-back goals in a span of just 11 seconds late
in the period to make it 9-3 at the half.
The Retrievers held the Blue Jays scoreless for nearly six minutes
at the start of the third quarter, but Boland's third goal of the
game with 9:02 remaining opened the floodgates as Palmer scored 54
seconds later off a nifty feed from Ranagan and Boland added his
fourth of the day - this one off an assist from Palmer - to make it
12-3. An unassisted goal by junior Marshall Burkhart with 2:29
remaining capped the 7-0 run, which was finally halted by Joe
Lustgarten's transition goal with 1:14 remaining in the third
quarter.
Hopkins fired home the first three goals of the fourth quarter to
extend the lead to a game-high 12 at 16-4 with more than six
minutes remaining before Brown closed the scoring with an extra-man
goal with just under three minutes to play.
Wharton's game-opening goal came after the first of senior Matt
Dolente's career-high 15 faceoff wins on the day for the Blue Jays,
who held decisive advantages in shots (44-30), ground balls (39-24)
and faceoffs (20-5). It was 3-0 after freshman Rob Guida and Boland
added first-quarter strikes, but a Scott Hopmann goal with 1:10
left trimmed the deficit to 3-1.
Ranagan and Boland scored back-to-back goals to account for the 5-1
lead early in the second quarter, only to have the Retrievers make
it a three-goal game with the Grimm and Brown goals midway through
the period. That set the stage for the game-turning 7-0 run, which
include goals by six different players for the Blue Jays.
Boland led Johns Hopkins with five goals and the one assist, while
Ranagan added a career-high five points on two goal and three
assists. Dolente won 15-of-20 faceoffs and grabbed 11 ground balls,
while Wharton (2g) and Palmer (2g, 1a) also had multi-point games
for the Blue Jays. Sophomore Pierce Bassett posted eight saves and
allowed just four goals in just under 54 minutes before giving way
to junior Steven Burke.
Brown led UMBC with two goals and Lustgarten added one goal and one
assist, while Adam Cohen posted 11 saves in goal for UMBC.
