No. 5 Johns Hopkins scored all 10 goals in the second half to
defeat Mount St. Mary's, 15-3, at the Mount's Waldron Family
Stadium on Monday afternoon. Leading 5-3 at the half, the Blue
Jays (8-4) outscored the Mount 7-0 in the third quarter to take
control of the game.
The Blue Jays scored 21 seconds into the contest when Micheal
Kimmel beat Mount goalkeeper Joe Zolezzi for his 15th goal of the
year. Stephen Peyser added a goal at the 9:53 mark to make the
score 2-0 before the Mount (4-10) responded. Joe Bello and Eric
Seifert each scored their 21st goals of the season to knot the game
at 2-2 with 1:48 left in the opening quarter. The Blue Jays,
however, got a key goal with 0.3 seconds left in the quarter from
Jake Byrne on a nice feed from Paul Rabil.
Rabil scored 2:02 into the second quarter to make it 4-2, but
the Mount's Dave Orban answered with his 12th goal of the year with
8:29 left in the half to cut the deficit to one. Kevin Huntley
gave Johns Hopkins a 5-3 lead at the break withen he scored on a
Rabil assist at the 4:52 mark of the second quarter.
The first half was evenly played as each team had 18 shots while
the Mount had a 14-12 edge in ground balls. Mount goalkeeper Joe
Zolezzi made three saves in the first half.
The turning point in the game came with 10:16 left in the third
quarter. The Mount's Shaun Moran had a goal taken away when he was
penalized for an illegal crosse for a 3:00 unreleable penalty.
Instead of cutting the deficit to 6-4, the Mount saw the Blue Jays
take advantage of the mistake with a pair of extra-man scores on
the penalty to take an 8-3 lead. Kimmel and Steven Boyle converted
during the extra-man opportunity for Johns Hopkins.
Johns Hopkins took control from that point, getting goals from
Rabil, Kimmel, Boyle and Huntley over the final 3:59 of the quarter
to take a commanding 12-3 lead. The Blue Jays outshot the Mount
22-3 in the decisive third quarter.
Johns Hopkins added three goals in the final quarter for the
final score of 15-3. Max Chautin and Andrew Jaffe each tallied
their first goals of the year while Michael Doneger chipped in his
fourth of the season as well in the quarter for the Blue Jays.
Michael Gvozden relieved starting goalkeeper Jesse Schwartzman
after the Mount tied the game at 2-2 in the first quarter and made
nine saves in 43:49 of action to earn his first collegiate win in
the cage. Chris Channing played the second half in goal for the
Mount, making seven saves.
Rabil led Johns Hopkins with three goals and three assists for a
six-point game while Kimmel (3g) and Huntley (2g, 1a) added
three-point efforts in the contest.
The game was the final game of the 2007 season for the Mount,
which missed the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference playoffs by one
game this season.
