BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins graduate student attackman Jacob Angelus grew up attending Hopkins-Loyola men's lacrosse games, a rivalry that reached game number 60 Saturday and dates back to 1939.  After missing last year's meeting with an injury, Angelus left his mark on the rivalry as he punched up seven points and had a hand in the first four goals of a 6-1 game-ending run that gave the Blue Jays a 13-7 win over the Greyhounds at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon.
 
After opening the season with an overtime loss, the Blue Jays have now won three straight and improve to 3-1 on the year, while the 'Hounds dropped their second straight and slip to 1-2.
 
The Blue Jays led 7-4 late in the third quarter before Loyola got back-to-back goals in a five-minute span from Matthew Minicus and Joey Kamish to pull within one at 7-6 with 12:40 remaining in regulation.  Angelus then took over as he ignited the game-ending spree that saw the Blue Jays score six times in the final 10:30.
 
As quickly as Loyola had shaved the lead to one, the Blue Jays built the margin up to four as they scored three straight in just over five minutes to extend the lead to 10-6.
 
Angelus picked up his third and fourth assists of the game on back-to-back goals from freshman Hunter Chauvette and sophomore Matt Collison.  After drifting above the goal line to the right of Loyola goalie Luke Staudt, Angelus found Chauvette in the middle of the field and he went low to the far corner.  Two minutes later, he drove above the goal line and dumped a pass back to Collison, who came topside and picked the far corner.  When Angelus polished one off three minutes later off a feed from Dylan Bauer, the Blue Jays had their biggest lead of the game.
 
Loyola halted the run 32 seconds after the Angelus strike when Evan James found Adam Poitras alone in the slot and he finished from eight yards out, but Johns Hopkins would score three goals in a 76-second span late in the game with the 'Hounds chasing to secure the victory.  Angelus scored the first of those three goals with Bauer and Russell Melendez adding tallies of their own to account for the final scoring.
 
An intense first 30 minutes of the game saw the defenses control things as the first half ended at 3-3 with the teams combining for 20 turnovers, including 12 by Loyola. Staudt posted six first-half saves and his counterpart, Chayse Ierlan, made three for the Blue Jays.
 
Johns Hopkins scored the first two goals of the second half – tallies from Bauer and Brendan Grimes – in a span of just 41 seconds and answered a Henry Haberman goal for the Greyhounds with back-to-back goals from Angelus and Garrett Degnon to grab the 7-4 lead late in the third quarter.    Loyola answered the Degnon goal with the Minicus and Kamish strikes that made it a one-goal game, but Angelus took over from there to help the Blue Jays to their 50^th win in 60 all-time meetings against the Greyhounds.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• The seven points for Angelus were one shy of his career high and boosted his career totals to 62 goals and 91 assists for 153 points.  He is the 10^th player in school history to amass 60 goals and 90 assists and the 26^th player to reach the 150-point mark.
• Degnon finished with three goals to extend his goal-scoring streak to 34 games (longest active streak in the nation).  He also became the seventh player in program history to score 125 career goals as his three today give him 126.
• Senior Tyler Dunn saw his most extensive action of the season and was 11-of-17 on faceoffs with five ground balls.
• The Blue Jay defense killed off 6-of-7 man-down chances, held the Greyhounds scoreless for stretches of 12:09 and 11:35 and allowed just one goal in the final 12:40.
• Johns Hopkins was credited with 12 caused turnovers on the day; the 12 CTs are tied for the second-highest single-game total in school history (CTs became an official statistic in 2009).
 
Inside the Box Score – Loyola
• Poitras posted two goals and two assists and Minicus added two goals and one assist to lead the way offensively for the 'Hounds.
• Loyola got 17 saves from Staudt, including 11 in the second half.
• Eric Pacheco, who entered the game having won less than 40% of his faceoff attempts, was 11-of-24 at the X with four ground balls.
• The 'Hounds turned the ball over 20 times and were just 19-of-26 on clears.
 
Up Next
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, February 24 when the Blue Jays travel to Chapel Hill to take on North Carolina (12 pm).