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BALTIMORE, MD - The host Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team had 10 different players score goals, 16 different players register at least one point and the Blue Jays held visiting Princeton to just one goal in a 28-minute span midway through the game in a 17-7 victory at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win evens Hopkins' record at 2-2 and the 10-goal margin of victory is the Blue Jays' largest against Princeton since 1990.

Hopkins' victory is also the first for the home team in the Johns Hopkins-Princeton game since the Blue Jays topped the Tigers 14-5 in 2004. Since then, the visiting had won seven straight in the series (the teams played four consecutive games at a neutral site from 2007-10).

An evenly-played opening 19 minutes saw the Tigers and Blue Jays split the first six goals of the game, but an extra-man goal by Johns Hopkins freshman Kyle Marr ignited a five-goal run that extended into the second half and gave JHU an 8-3 lead. Five different players scored for the Blue Jays during the run and Marr and senior Holden Cattoni both had extra-man strikes during the spree.

Princeton finally stopped the run when Gavin McBride took a feed from Sean Connors as he came from behind the goal and scored at the 10:12 mark of the third quarter, but the Blue Jays responded with a 4-0 run that put the game away.

It took the Blue Jays just nine seconds to answer McBride's goal as senior co-captain Derrick Kihembo scored in transition off the ensuing faceoff and Kieran Eissler, Patrick Fraser and Wilkins Dismuke added goals of their own during a run that pushed the 8-4 lead to 12-4 early in the fourth quarter.

Again Princeton got a lone goal to stop the spree as Austin Sims went top shelf on a slow-developing ally dodge just under two minutes into the final period, but freshman Drew Supinski blew one home on the run 25 seconds later to jump-start another four-goal run for the Blue Jays. Cattoni sandwiched his second and third goals of the game around Dismuke's career-high fourth to account for the other scoring in the Hopkins' final run of the game.

Unlike Johns Hopkins, Princeton never strung together consecutive goals as the Blue Jays dominated the faceoff and ground ball battles. Fueled by sophomore Hunter Moreland (13-of-19) and senior Craig Madarasz (5-of-7), the Blue Jays controlled 20-of-28 faceoffs on the day and won the ground ball war 32-14. Moreland had a game-high six ground balls, while sophomore Thomas Guida grabbed five and added an assist in the most extensive playing time of his career.

Hopkins' balanced offensive effort was led by Shack Stanwick's two-goal, three-assist effort, while Dismuke (4g), Cattoni (3g), Marr (2g, 1a) and John Crawley (1g, 2a) all posted at least three points on the day. Senior Ryan Brown added two assists to extend his point-scoring streak to 38 games, but his 37-game goal-scoring streak did come to an end. In all, 14 of Hopkins' 17 goals were assisted and the Blue Jays also got 10 saves in goal from sophomore Brock Turnbaugh, who played just over 56 minutes before turning things over to junior Ryan Feit.

Sims was the only multi-goal scorer for Princeton, which also got two assists from Ryan Ambler. Junior goal Tyler Blaisdell played well in goal for the Tigers as he registered 20 saves, including eight in the second quarter when he kept the Tigers in the game with several from point-blank range.

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