Mt. St Mary's lose to Hopkins in stadium debut
Written by Corey Atkinson, Sunday April 26 2009
No. 8 Johns Hopkins scored seven of the game’s final eight goals to pull away from Mount St. Mary's for a 12-5 victory at Waldron Family Stadium on Monday night. Mount St. Mary's senior Geery Grant scored a pair of goals in the first-ever night game at the stadium.
Johns Hopkins (8-4) started the game quickly, scoring a pair of goals in the opening 5:50. Chris Boland converted a Brian Christopher pass to give the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead just 1:23 into the game. Josh Peck's goal with 9:10 left in the opening quarter extended the lead to 2-0.
The Mount (5-9) fought back to even the score at 2-2 after one quarter of play. Freshman Christian Kellett scored on a feed from fellow freshman Cody Lehrer to cut the lead in half midway through the first. Freshman Mike Adkins then converted a feed from Brendan Harrison off a fast break to even the score with 1:37 left in the opening quarter.
Mount St. Mary's grabbed its first lead of the game when Grant scored in front of the cage on a nice feed from Eric Ososki) with 9:13 left in the half.
The Blue Jays, however, scored two goals in a span of 19 seconds late in the half to grab a 4-3 advantage. Kyle Wharton scored the first goal on a pass from Boland while Boland tallied his second goal of the game on a feed from Peck.
Johns Hopkins opened the scoring in the second half on a Christopher tally 1:59 into the third quarter, bu the Mount's Anthony Golden cut the deficit to 5-4 with 9:44 left in the third. Wharton posted an extra-man goal just 30 seconds later to restore a two-goal advantage for the Blue Jays while Christopher posted his second goal of the quarter to make it 7-4.
Grant posted his second score of the game on a pass from Lehrer to make the score 7-5 heading into the final quarter. The Blue Jays, however, scored all five goals in the final period to pull away for the win. Wharton posted a pair of goals, Peck, Max Chautin and Will McCance also scored to round out the scoring in the game.
Mount St. Mary's goalkeeper T.C. DiBartolo was again sensational in the cage, making 15 saves while allowing 10 goals in 50:40 of action. Defender Justin Schmidt picked up a team-high four ground balls. Grant paced the Mount with two goals while Lehrer had two assists in the contest.
Wharton finished with a game-high four goals while Boland chipped in two goals and four assists in the victory. Christopher and Peck added multiple-point games as well. Mike Gvozden made six saves in 56:02 while allowing five goals to earn the win.
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