ANNAPOLIS, MD – Host Navy used a 6-2 second quarter to break open the game en route to a 12-7 win over Johns Hopkins in Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays fall to 11-21 overall and 3-11 in the conference, while the 20
th-ranked Mids improve to 20-9 and 10-4 in the MAWPC.
Hopkins grabbed an early 2-0 lead with goals from
Jason Mihalopoulos and
Patrick Rooney, but Navy answered with two goals just 42 seconds apart to tie the game. That sparked a four-goal run that bridged the quarter break and saw the Mids go up 4-2 just 47 seconds into the second.
Max Blecher scored an even strength goal at 6:07 to end the run and cut the deficit in half. Navy responded with three unanswered to push out to a 7-3 lead 90 seconds later.
Ian Raley made it a four-goal game with a five-meter goal at 3:12, but Maddox Garrahy scored with just 1:01 to play to make it 8-4 at the half.
Austin Kahn scored early in the third to stake Navy to a 9-4 lead, but JHU answered with a
Phillip Long man-up goal at 5:18. Matt Mai-Prasarnsuk and Jack Clark scored back-to-back goals to end the quarter and put the Mids up 11-5.
Andrew Lee opened the fourth-quarter scoring at 5:34 and then Raley added a six-on-five goal at 1:34 and the lead was down to four. That's as close as the Blue Jays could get however as the Mids tacked on a late goal from Sean O'Boyle to account for the 12-7 final.
Raley led the Blue Jays with two goals and now has 150 for his career. Rooney (1g, 1a), Long (1g, 1a) and Lee (1g, 1a) each finished with two points. Lee also drew four ejections and grabbed a steal.
Kyle Pearson made 11 saves in the cage and had a steal.
Hopkins returns to action on Friday, November 22 at the MAWPC Championships in Annapolis, MD.
Notes: Raley is the 20
th player in program history to score 150 goals • Raley now ranks 18
th with 220 career points • Long now has 84 points on the season – tied for the second most by a freshman in JHU history • Long also has 17 blocks, the most by a freshman and tied for the third most overall in a season • Mihalopoulos ranks 12
th in program history with 104 career drawn ejections