Box Score April 17, 2010
Box Score
BALTIMORE, MD - The fourth-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team used an 8-1 run that bridged the second and fourth quarters to turn a 4-1 deficit into a 9-5 lead and the Terps held off a furious late-game rally by 15th-ranked Johns Hopkins to post a 10-9 win over the Blue Jays in the second game of the Smartlink Day of Rivals at M&T Bank Stadium Saturday evening. Maryland improves to 8-2 with the win, while Johns Hopkins slips to 5-6 with the loss.
Maryland trailed 4-1 less than 17 minutes into the game, but goals by Ryan Young and Adam Sear just over two minutes apart midway through the second quarter sliced the deficit to 4-3 at the half. The one-goal deficit could have been much worse, but Maryland was able to kill off six man-down situations in the opening 30 minutes - a figure that would come back to haunt the Blue Jays in what was eventually the one-goal margin of defeat.
The lead and any momentum the Blue Jays built in crafting the 4-1 lead were gone less than three minutes into the second half as junior Travis Reed scored from a nearly impossible angle along the goal line just 1:51 into the third quarter and sophomore Drew Snider added an unassisted goal 62 seconds later when he got a step on his defender on a dodge from the top and fired home his seventh goal of the year.
Senior Michael Kimmel used a hesitation move on a dodge of his own from the top of the box to knot the game at 5-5 six minutes later, but Maryland would score three straight extra-man goals in a span of just under six minutes to push out to an 8-5 lead less than a minute into the fourth quarter.
Joe Cummings got the first of the three straight extra-man goals for Maryland with 4:55 remaining in the third quarter and Reed and Grant Catalino posted extra-man markers in a 21-second span in the first minute of the fourth period. When Will Yeatman split a double team and bulled his way to goal and fired home his 12th of the year with 12:12 on the clock, it looked like the Terps might run away with it. The Blue Jays had other ideas and Maryland's attempt to run out the clock nearly cost the Terps.
An extra-man goal by Steven Boyle just over a minute after Yeartman's tally made it 9-6 and sophomore Marshall Burkhart got to the middle of the field and fired home his first of the year four minutes later to make it 9-7.
Maryland got what looked like it would be the insurance goal just eight seconds after Burkhart's goal as Jesse Bernhardt scooped up the loose ball on the ensuing faceoff, raced into the offensive zone and blew home his second goal of the year to make it 10-7 with 6:56 remaining.
The Terps had possession several times over the final seven minutes and tried to run out the clock, but Hopkins forced three turnovers in the final 2:30 and cashed in twice to make it interesting.
Boyle's third goal of the game with 1:55 remaining made it a two-goal game and Kimmel capped off a slow developing transition opportunity 55 seconds later to make it 10-9 with exactly one minute remaining.
The Terrapins won the ensuing faceoff and milked more than 40 seconds off the clock before freshman Tucker Durkin forced a turnover and senior Sam DeVore came up with the loose ball and raced up field. The Terps did a good job of cutting off the Blue Jay attack and with time winding down DeVore had the ball checked out of his stick and it rolled harmlessly away as the final seconds ticked away.
A late-game rally didn't seem like it would be necessary in the first 17 minutes of the game as the Blue Jays - their freshman class in particular - struck early and built a pair of three-goal leads.
Freshman John Ranagan opened the scoring off a nice cross-field dodge that never drew a slide from the Terps and classmate John Greeley scored off an assist from Ranagan just over five minutes later to make it 2-0.
Boyle's first of the game came just under two minutes later off a nifty no-look pass from Kimmel to the doorstep, but Catalino answered with a one-timer from just off the Crease off a nice feed from Young.
Greeley added his second goal of the game - also off an assist from Ranagan - 69 seconds into the second quarter, but the Blue Jays went cold for the next 23 minutes. By the time Kimmel broke the scoreless drought with 5:51 remaining in the third quarter, the Terps had taken a 5-4 lead and would never trail again.
Eight different players scored for Maryland with Catalino and Reed netting a pair to lead the way. Both added an assist to go along with their two goals. Young also added a three-point night as he had the one goal and two assists.
Boyle paced the Blue Jays with his 14th career hat trick and he also became the 19th player in school history to reach the 150-point mark. He now now has 152 in his career. Kimmel (2g, 2a), Greeley (2g) and Ranagan (1g, 2a) also recorded multi-point games for the Blue Jays, who will return to action next Saturday at Navy.
