Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - The 17th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team jumped out to an 8-1 lead, held off a second-half rally by visiting Navy and got a combined six goals and four assists from brothers Wells and Shack Stanwick in a 13-8 victory at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays never trailed in running their winning streak against Navy at Homewood Field to 23 games.

The Blue Jay offense, which netted 15 goals against Princeton last week, picked up right where it left off a week ago as Hopkins scored twice in the first 3:21, built a 5-1 lead by the end of the first quarter and pushed the lead to 8-1 midway through the second quarter.

In crafting the 8-1 margin, Hopkins spread the wealth on offense as six different players scored for the Blue Jays during the spree. Junior attackman Ryan Brown netted both of his goals in an 11-second span late in the first quarter to quickly turn a 3-1 lead into a 5-1 advantage, while Shack Stanwick scored two of his three on the day during the run.

Navy needed just 69 seconds late in the second quarter to grab some momentum heading into the half as Jack Ray used his size to get in tight on the edge and beat Blue Jay goalie Eric Schneider from the doorstep, while Patrick Keena added an extra-man goal with 2:03 left to account for an 8-3 score at the half.

Any momentum Navy had built late in the first half was gone quickly in the third quarter as Hopkins scored three times in span of 20 seconds less than two minutes into the period to turn the 8-3 lead into an 11-3 advantage.

Shack Stanwick was on the back-end of a perfect skip pass from fellow freshman Joel Tinney and scored into an open net with 14:08 on the clock, while Tinney added an unassisted goal 11 seconds later right off the faceoff. When Wells Stanwick polished off the third goal of the three goal spree 15 seconds later - on a play that saw four different Blue Jays move the ball forward after the faceoff - Hopkins had what appeared to be a comfortable 11-3 lead.

Navy had other ideas and controlled the final nine minutes of the third quarter to pull within 11-7. A T.J. Hanzsche goal with 9:06 on the clock started the run, which later included goals by Keena, Colin Flounlacker and Kevin Wendel in the final 4:13 of the third quarter to pull the Mids within four.

While Hopkins put the game away with a two-goal surge in a 90-second span early in the fourth quarter on goals by Tinney and Wells Stanwick, it was the play of Schneider in the final 15 minutes that stood out.

Schneider was replaced in goal for the final 3:30 of the third quarter after allowing the back-to-back goals by Keena and Flounlacker in a span of just 43 seconds. He returned for the fourth quarter and made six saves in the final 15 minutes, including several of the point-blank variety.

Wells Stanwick paced the Blue Jays with three goals and three assists, while Shack Stanwick added three goals and one assist. Brown and Tinney each added two goals and one assist and junior Conor Reed, who opened the scoring in the game with an unassisted goal early in the first quarter, added one goal and one assist.

Keena scored the two goals and added one assist, while Ray added two goals. Flounlacker and Wendell added one goal and one assist, but Navy went more than 22 minutes without scoring in the first half and tallied just once in the fourth quarter in falling to Johns Hopkins for the third straight year.

Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, March 14 when the Blue Jays travel to Syracuse to take on the top-ranked Orange.

Notes: Wells and Shack Stanwick are the first brothers at Johns Hopkins to post hat tricks in the same game since Dan and Conor Denihan did it against Notre Dame in the 2000 NCAA Quarterfinals (Dan Denihan had three goals that day - Conor Denihan had three) ? Johns Hopkins is now 68-10 under head coach Dave Pietramala against teams from the state of Maryland ? Wells Stanwick's six points give him 159 and he moves past Peter Scott (1981-84) and Matt Panetta (1988-91) into 18th-place on JHU's career scoring list ? Brown extended his goal-scoring streak to 22 games with his two goals today, while Wells Stanwick extended his point-scoring streak to 25 games with his six-point effort.

Navy (3-3) 1-2-4-1/8
#17 Johns Hopkins (3-3) 5-3-3-2/13

Goals: N: Keena-2, Ray-2, Flounlacker, Wendel, Hanzsche, Plumer. J: W. Stanwick-3, S. Stanwick-3, Brown-2, Tinney-2, Reed, Dismuke, Eissler. Assists: N: Spencer, Flounlacker, Gaine, Keena, Wendel. J: W. Stanwick-3, Brown, Crawley, Reed, S Stanwick, Tinney. Saves: N: Connors-6. J: Schneider-10, Ryan-0. Shots: N-30. J-30. EMO: N: 1-for-4. J: 2-for-6. Attendance: 1,484.

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