Senior Ryan Brown became the 10th player in program history to reach 200 career points.
BALTIMORE, MD — With the game tied at six, third-ranked Maryland used a five-goal run that bridged the third and fourth quarters to take control en route to an 11-8 win over host Johns Hopkins in the 114th rendition of “The Rivalry”. Senior Ryan Brown led the Blue Jays (8-5, 3-2 B1G) with five points (3g, 2a) and became the 10th player in the storied history of Hopkins lacrosse to reach 200 career points.
Brown and sophomore Shack Stanwick combined for back-to-back goals, exactly three minutes apart midway through the third quarter, to pull the Blue Jays even at 6-6. On the extra man thanks to a slashing penalty on the Terps, the Blue Jays moved the ball around until Stanwick found Brown up top with time and room for his second of the day at 11:54. Three minutes later, the pair combined again when Stanwick sent a quick pass to Brown cutting in the slot for the tying goal.
Maryland made Hopkins pay on a failed clear with 3:48 to play in the third quarter when Bryan Cole got free on the back door and scored from in tight to spark the deciding five-goal run. Just 88 seconds later, the Terps doubled their lead to two as Cole and Matt Rambo combined for the second time on the afternoon. With the timer on, Cole dumped the ball to Rambo on the crease and he ducked inside the defense and scored from the doorstep.
The Terps quickly pushed their lead to three 71 seconds into the fourth quarter when Connor Kelly from goal line found Henry West 10 yards out with time and room. Kyle Bernlohr then stopped senior Holden Cattoni in a one-on-one to keep it a three-goal game and keep the momentum on the visitors’ side. The offense rewarded Bernlohr with goals from Kelly and Colin Heacock to swell the lead to five with 6:23 to play. Rambo sent a cross-crease pass to Kelly, who was all-alone on the doorstep for his second of the day. Heacock capped the run when he dodged from behind and scored from in tight to stake the Terps to the 11-6 lead.
Hopkins wasn’t going away however and got goals from Cattoni and sophomore Patrick Fraser in a 27-second span to trim the deficit to three. Cattoni took a cross-crease pass from Brown and scored into an open net at 1:37. Brown then found Fraser, who blew a shot past Bernlohr, on the extra man to make it 11-8. Senior Craig Madarasz, who had been dominant at the faceoff x, won the ensuing faceoff but the Blue Jays were unable to capitalize and eventually turned the ball over with 30 ticks on the clock.
Fraser opened the scoring 3:24 into the contest, scoring on a rocket from the wing to give Hopkins what turned out be its only lead of the game. Maryland answered with goals from Tim Rotanz and Kelly to put the Terps’ on top, 2-1. Freshman Kyle Marr tied the game at the 1:29-mark, when he dodged from behind and beat Bernlohr from seven yards out with the timer on. Rambo had the final say of the quarter however as he gave Maryland back the lead with just one tick on the clock. In transition after a Blue Jays’ turnover, Bryan Cole rifled a pass to Rambo, who scored while falling to the ground at the doorstep.
The teams traded goals in the opening five and a half minutes of the second and Maryland led 5-4 at the half. Heacock doubled the Terps’ lead when he scored from the slot with the timer on at 13:43. Brown answered for the Blue Jays just 86 seconds later when he picked up a ground ball and went five-hole on Bernlohr from nine yards out. Dylan Maltz pushed the lead back to two, taking a quick feed from Rotanz and scoring in tight. Just six seconds later, it was a one-goal game as Madarasz won the faceoff clean and sprung junior Wilkins Dismuke for the fast-break goal. The defenses took over for the final 9:38 of the quarter and Maryland took the 5-4 lead into the half.
Maltz opened the third-quarter scoring, taking a skip pass from Cole on the backside and beating sophomore Brock Turnbaugh from close range. Brown and Stanwick then combined for the next two goals and the teams were knotted up at six with nearly 24 minutes to play.
Brown led the Blue Jays with his game-high five points and his 26th career hat trick. Stanwick added two assists and Fraser recorded two goals, both on extra man. Madarasz tied his career high, which he set in last week’s win at Michigan, with 17 faceoff wins and added a career-high nine ground balls. Turnbaugh finished with 11 saves, including four each in the second and fourth quarters. The Terps got two goals from four different players while Cole finished with a game-high three assists and Bernlohr made seven stops in the cage, including three in the fourth quarter.
Hopkins returns to Homewood Field on Thursday, May 5 in the Big Ten Semifinals. The Blue Jays are the three seed and will face the second-seeded Rutgers Scarlet Knights.
Notes: Ryan Brown’s three goals give him 154 for his career, tying him with Brian Piccola for second in school history • Brown is now tied with Franz Wittelsberger with 26 career hat tricks.