Nov. 28, 2009
Recap | Box Score
Johns Hopkins at #10 Thomas More
? NCAA 2nd Round ?
Game Notes
? Johns Hopkins improved to 10-2 with the 31-29 win at Thomas More. The 10 wins ties the school record for wins in a season (2003).
? JHU is now 5-2 all-time in the post-season and 2-1 in the NCAA Playoffs.
? JHU is the first Centennial Conference team to win two games in the NCAA Playoffs since 1985, when Gettysburg won twice to advance to the NCAA Semifinals.
? JHU's two road victories in the NCAAs this season match the total number of road victories by Centennial Conference teams in the playoffs from 1983-2008.
? JHU improved to 6-5 all-time against teams ranked in the top AFCA Top 25. JHU is 3-0 this season against nationally-ranked teams with all three wins coming on the road (23-12 at #25 Dickinson, 23-7 at #14 Hampden-Sydney and 31-29 at #10 Thomas More).
? Johns Hopkins is now 6-1 on the road this season and 14-3 away from Homewood Field since the start of the 2007 season.
? The Blue Jays are now 4-0 in the month of November this season and 23-4 in their last 27 games in the month of November.
? With a 414-yard effort today, Johns Hopkins has now totaled 400 or more yards of total offense in five straight games. This is the first time in school history that the Blue Jays have gone over 400 yards in five straight games.
? The Johns Hopkins defense forced three turnovers in the victory and has now generated at least two turnovers in 13 straight games dating back to last season.
? Junior Alex Lachman's 43-yard field goal as time expired was his 16th field goal of the season. That ties the Centennial Conference single-season record.
? The game-winner was Lachman's second career winner as time expired. He beat Dickinson with a 40-yard field goal at the gun as a freshman in 2007.
? Lachman became JHU's career leader in kick-scoring with his seven points today. He now has 200 career points.
? The 146 yards the Blue Jays generated on the ground are the most allowed by Thomas More this season. The Saints entered the game allowing just 51 yards per game on the ground and the previous high they had allowed was 97.
? Senior Andrew Kase became the first running back to top 100 yards against the Saints this season as he rushed for 107 yards and two touchdowns. The 100-yard effort is the 25th of his career.
? Kase's two touchdowns pushed him past 50 overall TDs for his career (51). He also topped the 300 career point mark (307) to become just the third player in Centennial Conference history to do that.
? Kase's two touchdowns give him a Centennial Conference single-season record 24 this season.
? Hewitt Tomlin broke JHU's single-season record for passing yards with 205 on the day. He now has 2,556.
? Sophomore Tyler Porco hit junior Dan Crowley for a 63-yard touchdown on JHU's third play of the game. The play is the longest in JHU post-season history.
