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Stickmen Edge
Vaunted Jays

By Jim Wilson
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Johns Hopkins payed homage to
the potency of the Virginia lacrosse
team last Saturday in Baltimore.
They stalled. They also almost won
the game too.

The Cavaliers took the opening
faceoff, scored, and then faced the
Hopkins' stall for two periods.
Holding the ball in their attacking
zone for up to three minutes at a
time, the Blue Jays frustrated the
Cavaliers. With Hopkins
occasionally using four attackmen
and two middles, they waited for
Cavaliers to overplay them or relax.
Then at the right moment they
would run a play and oftentimes
they scored.

Hopkins Leads

By using this method of
calculated frustration, the Blue Jays
took a 3-1 lead by the end of the
half. After halftime the tempo of
the game sped up as the Cavaliers
scored four goals in a burst.
Hopkins tried to stall intermittently
during the period, but the score was
too close to chance another scoring
spree by the Cavaliers.

With the tempo speeded up
more to its liking, Virginia tied the
score at five all by the end of the
third period. The teams traded a
pair of goals in the last period to
send the game into overtime.

Dave Pickall scored for the Blue
Jays in the first overtime period;
but Doug Cooper's goal tied the
game up again early in the second
period. After assisting Cooper, Pete
Eldridge scored with only a minute
left in the second and last overtime
to give the Cavaliers a very tense
and frustrating come-from-behind
victory.

Little Ball Control

The Cavaliers had the statistics
edge in every area but ball control.
While only controlling the ball for
no more than twenty-five of the
sixty-eight minutes played, Virginia
outshot Hopkins 42-33 and had a
56-44 ground ball advantage for the
game. Indicative of Hopkins'
slow-down style of play, Cavalier
goalie Al Hirsh and Blue Jay goalie
Tom Dauses each had eleven saves
despite Virginia's nine shot
advantage.

Virginia Second

As a result of this apparently
ignominious Virginia victory and
Maryland's thrashing of lacrosse
fledgling ECU, the Terps were
ranked first in the nation, one
slender point ahead of Virginia, by
the Baltimore Sun. The AP Coaches
poll, however, placed Virginia first
with 176 points and Maryland
second with 174.

Two points behind Virginia in
the Sun poll is Navy. This weekend,
the Midshipmen are coming to
Charlottesville to take on the
Cavaliers. After defeating
nationally-ranked Washington and
Lee last Saturday 10-8, Navy will
certainly be up for their biggest
game of the year. Navy also cannot
forget their loss to the Cavaliers
which cost them sole possession of
the National title.

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Virginia	1	0	4	2	0	2	-9
Johns Hopkins	3	0	2	2	1	0	-8

Goals:

Virginia- Duquette 3, Beach 2,
Copper, Eldredge, Prout

Johns Hopkins - Krohn 3, Bergovsky
2, Donovan, Handle,
Pickall