The Game
• Johns Hopkins (5-2) returns to Homewood Field for the first time since February 17 as the Blue Jays welcome Navy (3-3) to Baltimore. The game will air live on ESPN+ (7 pm).
When Last We Saw Them
• Johns Hopkins had its five-game winning streak snapped last Saturday night in Charlotte, North Carolina as the Blue Jays dropped a 14-13 decision to then ninth-ranked Syracuse.
• Navy slipped to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in the Patriot League as the Midshipmen fell at Lehigh, 12-10, last Saturday.
The Facts
• This is the 137th season of Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse. JHU first fielded a team in 1883.
• Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 1,021-372-15 (.730).
• Johns Hopkins is the only men's lacrosse program in the nation with 1,000 or more all-time victories. The Blue Jays picked up the program's 1,000th victory with an 11-10 win over Loyola on February 19, 2022.
• JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.
Poll Position
• Johns Hopkins is ranked in the top 10 in the nation in both major national polls as the Blue Jays are tied for eighth in the USILA Coaches Poll and rank seventh in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll this week.
• Navy is not ranked this week by either the USILA or Inside Lacrosse.
Poll Notes of Interest
• Including this week's poll, the USILA has issued 537 polls since the debut poll in 1973. Johns Hopkins has appeared in the top 20 in 517 of those 537 polls and has been ranked in the top 10 in 439 of the 537.
• The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications office uses the USILA Poll to reflect JHU's official national ranking at the time of a game. The poll dates to 1973 and is the longest-running, continuous men's lacrosse poll in the nation.
Series History
• Johns Hopkins and Navy will be meeting for the 93rd time this week. The series dates to a 6-1 Johns Hopkins victory in 1908 and the Blue Jays are 63-28-1 against the Midshipmen.
• A complete look at the series history can be found on page 16.
Against the Patriot League
• This week's game against Navy will be the 259th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a team currently in the Patriot League.
• Johns Hopkins is 195-62-1 (.758) all-time against current Patriot League members.
• 221 of the 258 games the Blue Jays have played against Patriot League members have come against Army (69), Loyola (60) and Navy (92).
On This Date
• This week's game will be the eighth all-time for Johns Hopkins on March 15. The Blue Jays are 3-4 all-time in games played on this date.
Showing Our Depth
• The Blue Jay depth has been on display in the early season as 22 different players have appeared in all seven games and 25 have appeared in six of the seven.
• In four of the five games that Johns Hopkins has played that have been decided by four goals or less, at least 26 players appeared for the Blue Jays (Denver-27, Georgetown-27, North Carolina-27, Syracuse-26), while 24 players appeared in the game at Virginia.
Attack Oriented
• Johns Hopkins has started the same three attackmen - Jacob Angelus, Garrett Degnon & Russell Melendez - in each of the first seven games of the season.
• Through seven games, the trio has combined for 41 goals and 26 assists for 67 points. Translated, they are averaging 5.86 goals and 3.71 assists for 9.57 points per game, which is a slight increase in their production from 2023.
• Last season, the trio also started together on attack and combined for 95 goals and 65 assists in 17 games (each player missed one game). Translated, they averaged 5.59 goals and 3.28 assists for 9.41 points per game in 2023.
Offensive Notes of Interest
• Since the start of the 2022 season, the Blue Jays are 22-5 when they score 12 or more goals.
• In 100 full quarters since the start of the 2023 season (does not include overtime periods), the Blue Jays have scored two or more goals in 81 quarters and four or more in 45 quarters.
• Johns Hopkins is averaging 13.0 goals per game this season (T20th in the nation) with at least 11 goals scored in each outing thus far. This is the first time since 1995 that JHU has scored 11+ goals in each of the first seven games of a season. That year, JHU scored at least 11 goals in its first 13 games of the season.
• In seven games, the Blue Jays have gotten goals from 15 different players and 19 different players have at least one point.
• Johns Hopkins averaged 12.56 goals per game in 2023. That output was the highest scoring average for the Blue Jays since 2015, when Hopkins averaged 13.0 goals per game. The 12.56 goals per game are also the second-best mark at JHU since 2004.
• As a team, Johns Hopkins shot 32.9% in 2023, a mark that ranked 14th in the nation. The 32.9% shooting percentage was the highest for JHU since 2015 (.331).
- Longest Goal-Scoring Streaks -
Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse History |
| 37 Gms. |
Garrett Degnon (Active) |
| 37 Gms. |
Ryan Brown (2013-16) |
| 37 Gms. |
Terry Riordan (1993-95) |
| 28 Gms. |
Bill Morrill (1957-59) |
| 26 Gms. |
Brian Piccola (1994-85) |
37 Straight For Degnon
• Graduate student attackman Garrett Degnon will carry a school-record-tying 37-game goal-scoring streak into this week's game against Navy after he scored five goals in the game last week against Syracuse. The streak is currently the longest active streak in the nation.
• During his 37-game goal-scoring run, Degnon has scored 97 goals and has 30 multi-goal games and 23 games with 3+ goals to his credit.
• Degnon's 37-game run is tied for the longest in school history. Terry Riordan originally set the mark at 37 games from 1992-95 and Ryan Brown matched that with a 37-game run from 2013-16.
• The 37-game goal-scoring runs for Degnon, Brown and Riordan are the only three streaks of 30+ games in Johns Hopkins history.
Collison, Peshko Net Four
• Senior Johnathan Peshko and sophomore Matt Collison both netted four goals (and one assist) in the recent 16-14 win at Virginia. The four goals matched Peshko's career high and were a personal best for Collison.
• Peshko and Collison are the first pair of Hopkins midfielders to score 4+ goals in the same game since March 27, 1999, when Conor Denihan (5) and Matt O'Kelly (4) turned the trick in a 16-15 win over, ironically, Virginia.
• Since 1981, there have been just five instances where Johns Hopkins has had two midfielders score four or more goals in the same game.
Strength of Schedule
• The Blue Jays' 13 regular season opponents are currently a combined 60-25 (.767), which ranks as the second-highest cumulative opponent winning percentage in the nation (does not include results against Johns Hopkins).
• Using this week's USILA Poll as a gauge, the Blue Jays will play nine games against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation. The nine include Virginia (4th), Maryland (5th), Syracuse (6th), Denver (7th), Penn State (T8th), Georgetown (11th), North Carolina (17th), Michigan (18th) and Rutgers (19th). In addition, Towson and Ohio State are listed as receiving votes.
Causing Trouble
• In seven games thus far, the Blue Jays have 59 caused turnovers to their credit (8.43/game) with 10 coming in the 13-5 win against Towson, nine in the 11-9 win at Georgetown, 12 against Loyola and 11 at Virginia. The 12 CTs against Loyola are tied for the second-most in program history, while the 11 at UVA marked the 22nd time in program history that the Blue Jays have been credited with 10 or more CTs in a game (CTs became an official stat in 2009).
• The 135 CTs the Blue Jays amassed last season are a JHU single-season record, while the 7.50 CTs/game narrowly missed the school-record of 7.63 (2022). Caused turnovers were first kept as an official statistic in 2009.
Defensive Notes of Interest
• The Blue Jays have held their first seven opponents scoreless for a period of 10 minutes or longer a total of 13 times. Six of those 13 streaks have been 12+ minutes in length.
• In the last six games, the opposition has gone scoreless for a stretch of 10 minutes or longer 12 times with four of those coming against Towson and two each against Georgetown, Loyola and North Carolina.
• Dating back to the start of the 2023 season, the Blue Jays have held their 25 opponents scoreless for a period of at least 10 minutes 37 different times - 28 of those have come in the last 18 games.
• The five goals the Blue Jays allowed against Towson were the fewest JHU has surrendered since Hopkins topped Ohio State, 6-5, in the 2018 Big Ten Semifinals.
• Including the recent 13-9 win at North Carolina, Johns Hopkins is 19-0 under head coach Peter Milliman and defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer when holding the opposition to 10 goals or less.
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