Oct. 31, 2009

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - Visiting Navy used an 8-1 second period to pull away for a 15-10 win at Johns Hopkins in CWPA Southern Division action Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. The loss drops Hopkins to 14-14 overall and 2-6 in the CWPA in the Blue Jays regular-season finale. The Midshipmen improve to 16-8 overall and 5-2 in the league.

Holding a slim 3-2 lead after the first quarter, Navy exploded for eight goals in the second, while holding Hopkins to just one. Senior Kyle Gertridge (Gunn Prep, CA /Paolo Alto) scored at the start of the second to knot the score at 3-3. Johnny Meiners answered for the Midshipmen just 32 seconds later to ignite a 9-0 run that would stretch into the early part of the third period. Six different players scored for Navy during the run, led by Meiner, who notched a hat trick in the second period.

Trailing 12-3 with over seven minutes to play in the third quarter, sophomore Mark Strickland (Houston, TX/Strake Jesuit) scored to kick-start a 4-0 Blue Jay run. Freshman Kielan Crow (Portola Valley, CA/Lick-Wilmerding) sandwiched a pair of goals around a strike from Gertridge as Hopkins cut the deficit to five at 12-7 early in the fourth. Luke Baldwin ended the run with his second of the day, pushing the Midshipmen's lead to 13-7. But Crow answered with a pair of goals and the deficit was four (13-9) with 3:07 remaining. That's as close as Hopkins would get as the teams traded goals over the final three minutes to account for the 15-10 final.

Crow's four goals and five points were a career high. Gertridge was the only other Blue Jay with multiple goals. For the Midshipmen, Meiners (4), Baldwin (4), Kyle Wertz (3) and Stevie Ray (2) all had multi-goal games. Junior Jeremy Selbst (Old Greenwich, CT/Greenwich) finished with eight saves in three quarters of action, while freshman Alex Gastevich (Chicago, IL/St. Ignatius College Prep) made two saves in the fourth.

Hopkins will now have the week to prepare for the CWPA Southern Division Championship. Bucknell is slated to host the championship from November 6-8.