April 15, 2006

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - Maryland senior attackman Joe Walters (Rochester, NY/Irondequoit) matched his career-high with six goals and posted a personal-best eight points to lead the sixth-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team to a convincing 11-4 win over eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins before 9,778 at Homewood Field Saturday night. The win is the first for Maryland against Johns Hopkins since 2001 and improves the Terps' record to 7-3, while Hopkins had a modest two-game winning streak snapped and falls to 5-4.

Maryland jumped to 2-0 lead at the end of the first quarter on a Travis Holmes (Marriottsville, MD/McDonogh) goal at the 9:44 mark and an extra-man goal by Walters seven minutes later. Walters assisted on Holmes' goal as he had a hand in the first five Maryland goals. An extra-man goal by Johns Hopkins freshman Tom Duerr (Manasquan, NJ/Christian Brothers Academy) less than two minutes into the second quarter pulled the Blue Jays to within 2-1, but Maryland reeled off the next three goals to take a 5-1 lead and JHU was never closer than three the rest of the way.

Walters sandwiched a pair of goals around a Xander Ritz (Wayne, PA/Radnor) goal to ignite the 3-0 run. Walters slipped past his defender and came from behind the goal to beat Blue Jay goalie Jesse Schwartzman (Owings Mills, MD/Pikesville) to make it 3-1 before feeding Ritz with a slick side-arm pass from the side of the goal for the fourth goal. Walters' extra-man goal exactly one minute later pushed the lead to 5-1 before Hopkins freshman Brian Christopher (Springfield, PA/Springfield) answered with a an unassisted goal four minutes later. Christopher came from behind the goal and beat Maryland goalie Harry Alford (Washington, DC/St. Albans) up high to the near post for his eighth goal of the year.

Senior midfielder Bill McGlone (Swarthmore, PA/Ridley) erased any hopes of a Blue Jay comeback as he scored back-to-back goals to push the lead to 7-2 early in the third quarter. He tallied with just 15 seconds remaining in the first half to make it 6-2 at intermission and opened the second-half scoring with a goal just 64 seconds into the third period to push the lead to five.

Hopkins' Stephen Peyser (Lloyd Harbor, NY/Cold Spring Harbor), playing in his first game of the season after missing the first eight games with a broken jaw, gave the Blue Jays life with an unassisted goal with 11:04 remaining in the period, but after winning the ensuing faceoff the Blue Jays turned the ball over and never seriously threatened again.

The first of Walters' three second-half goals eight minutes later ignited a 4-0 Maryland run that pushed the lead to 11-3 before an unassisted goal by Hopkins' Jake Byrne (Potomac, MD/Landon) closed out the scoring late in the fourth quarter. A Brendan Healy (Great Falls, VA/Landon) goal with 13:09 remaining was followed by the fifth and sixth goals of the night for Walters, who inched to within seven goals of Maryland's all-time record of 149.

McGlone was the only other multi-goal scorer for Maryland, which also got two-assist showings from Drew Evans (Ithaca, NY/Ithaca) and Michael Phipps (Severna Park, MD/Severn). Alford was solid in goal for the Terps as he registered nine saves before exiting the game with just over two minutes remaining.

Byrne had one goal and one assist and was the only Johns Hopkins player to pick up more than one point. Schwartzman registered 11 saves and Peyser won 4-of-5 faceoffs to go with his goal on the night.

Johns Hopkins will return to action next Saturday when the Blue Jays travel to Navy, while Maryland will host Sacred Heart on Tuesday afternoon.

#6 Maryland (7-3) 2-4-2-3/11
#8 Johns Hopkins (5-4) 0-2-1-1/4

Goals: M: Walters-6, McGlone-2, X. Ritz, Healy, Holmes. J: Byrne, Duerr, S. Peyser, Christopher. Assists: M: Evans, Phipps, Walters, M. Ritz. J: Byrne. Saves: M: Alford-9, Carter-0. J: Schwarztman-11, Locey-0. EMO: M: 2-for-3. J: 1-for-2. Attendance: 9,778.

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