Men's Lacrosse Falls to Johns Hopkins, 16-15
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March 27, 1999
BALTIMORE – Dylan Schlott, Matt O’Kelly and Conor Denihan combined for 14goals to lead Johns Hopkins to a 16-15 win over visiting Virginia today atHomewood Field in Baltimore. The loss snapped Virginia’s four-game winningstreak as the Cavalier fall to 4-2 this season. The third-ranked Blue Jaysimproved to 3-1 with the win.
The two teams battled through two lead changes and eight ties, beforeO’Kelly and Dan Denihan tallied back-to-back goals midway through thefourth quarter to give the Blue Jays a 16-14 lead with 5:48 to play.Virginia attackman Tucker Radebaugh scored his fifth goal of the game with34 seconds remaining to pull Virginia within one at 16-15. After Hopkins’Eric Wedin won the ensuing faceoff, Virginia got the ball back after anillegal stick against Hopkins, setting the stage for one final Cavalieropportunity with 21 seconds remaining.
The Cavaliers worked the ball around for nearly 15 seconds looking for ashot, only to have Brandon Testa stick-check the ball away from DrewMcKnight with time expiring as the ball rolled loose.
The Blue Jays jumped to an early 3-1 lead on a goal by Conor Denihan andtwo by Schlott. But the Cavaliers struck back quickly, scoring six of thenext seven goals to take a 7-4 lead. Radebaugh scored twice during the run,which also included goals by Conor Gill, Aaron Vercollone, Hanley Holcomband David Baruch.
Holcomb’s goal was the first one for Virginia during the run, but provedcostly as he was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty. O’Kelly made theCavaliers pay for the penalty with an extra-man goal just 22 seconds in theman advantage. The goal ignited a three-goal run for Hopkins before thehalf as Schlott and Conor Denihan tallied to tie the game at seven atintermission.
Radebaugh scored two goals during a 4-2 Virginia surge to open the thirdminute, but Hopkins tied the game at 11 on back-to-back goals by ConorDenihan and Schlott less than a minute apart late in the third quarter andneither team would have more than a one-goal advantage before O’Kelly andDan Denihan’s goals midway through the fourth quarter gave JHU the 16-14lead it wouldn’t relinquish.
Radebaugh tied his career high with his second five-goal game in a row. Healso scored five goals in UVA’s 21-0 win over Ohio State on Tuesday. Inaddition, Virginia got two goals and two assists from Gill and two goalsfrom Baruch.
The Cavaliers return to action a week from today at home against Maryland.The game is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
UVA 4 3 5 3 - 15JHU 3 4 5 4 - 16
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Scoring: Goals-UVA: Tucker Radebaugh 5, Conor Gill 2, David Baruch 2, David
Bruce, Henry Oakey, Drew McKnight, Michael Leahy, Hanley Holcomb, Aaron
Vercollone. JHU: Dylan Schlott 5, Conor Denihan 5, Matt O’Kelly 4, Dan
Denihan, Justin Shablerly.
Assists-UVA: Oakey 2, Gill 2, McKnight, Jay Jalbert, Leahy. JHU: D. Denihan
3, O’Kelly 3, Dave Rabuano, Sol Kumin, Rob Doerr.
Saves-UVA 11 (Derek Kenney 10, Ben O’Neil 1). JHU: 15 (Brian Carcaterra 15).
Shots-UVA 51. JHU 44.
Ground Balls-UVA 31. JHU 41.
Faceoffs-UVA 17. JHU 15.
Clearing-UVA 17 of 19. JHU 21 of 27.
Penalties-UVA 8-8:00. JHU 7-5:30
Extra-Man Scoring-UVA 1 of 7. JHU 3 of 7.