WASHINGTON, DC – The 13^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team used a 7-3 spurt midway through the game to break a 4-4 tie and the Blue Jays pulled away for an 11-9 win at Georgetown Saturday afternoon.  With the victory, Johns Hopkins improves to 2-1 on the year, while the Hoyas slip to 0-2.
 
The teams traded the first eight goals of the game in the first 22 minutes as the Blue Jays jumped to leads of 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 only to have the Hoyas answer each time.  Eight different players found the back of the net during the 22-minute run that solved nothing.  Johns Hopkins' Jacob Angelus was the only multi-point producer during this time as he scored once and added an assist.
 
The Blue Jays used a four-goal run that bridged the second and third quarters to turn the 4-4 tie into an 8-4 lead.  Garrett Degnon scored the first two of the goals in the five minutes before halftime as he scored off a quick restart with 4:52 on the second-quarter clock and then blew home a 12-yarder off Johnathan Peshko feed 81 seconds before the break.

The two-goal lead doubled in a 32-second span early in the third quarter. Angelus scored his second of the game at the 9:35 mark when he dunked a cross-crease feed from Matt Collison and Casey McDermott found the net 32 ticks later as Russell Melendez found him along on the wing and he had time and room to step down and pick the far post.
 
The Hoyas jumped back in the game a short time later when they cashed in twice on a two-minute, non-releasable Blue Jay penalty to shave the 8-4 deficit to 8-6.  TJ Haley found Aidan Carroll all alone on the backside to make it 8-5 and Graham Bundy, Jr. took a skip pass from Cade Caggiano and rifled home his first of the year to make it a two-goal game with 6:30 remaining in the third quarter.
 
The 8-6 score held for more than three minutes before senior Brendan Grimes scored his second of the game when he swept across the field and snuck one past Georgetown's Anderson Moore and Degnon completed the 20^th hat trick of his career 63 seconds later to make it 10-6 at the end of three quarters.
 
Carroll capped a long Hoya possession to open the fourth quarter as added his second of the game just under three minutes into the period to trim the margin to 10-7.  Both teams had chances over the next nine minutes to extend the lead (JHU) or cut the deficit (GU), but the three-goal spread held until Degnon scored off a rebound with 3:37 on the clock to give Hopkins an 11-7 lead.
 
A pair of Bundy, Jr. goals in the final minute accounted for the 11-9 final.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• Degnon's four goals give him 123 in his career.  He needs two goals to became the seventh player in school history to score 125 goals.  With four goals today, he is now the 10^th player in school history with 20 or more career hat tricks.
• Degnon extended the nation's longest goal-scoring streak to 33 games with his four goals today.
• Angelus punched up two goals and two assists; he is now just four points shy of becoming the 26^th player in school history to reach 150 career points.
• Junior Logan Callahan took all 23 faceoffs in the game for the Blue Jays and won 15 of the 23 with nine ground balls.  He was 10-of-14 in the second and third quarters, when the Blue Jays outscored the Hoyas, 8-4.
 
Inside the Box Score – Georgetown
• Carroll and Bundy, Jr. led the Hoyas with three goals apiece and Haley ended the game with a goal and three assists.
• Moore posted 11 saves, including seven in the first half.
• The Hoyas held a slight advantage in ground balls (30-28) and were outshot 44-43 in the game.
 
Up Next
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, February 17 when the Blue Jays welcome Loyola Maryland to Homewood Field (1 pm).