The Cavalier daily :: Tuesday, April 18, 1972 :: University of Virginia Library

Virginia's number one
ranked lacrosse team threw a
little Easters Weekend party
for the visitors from Johns
Hopkins and, to the surprise of
a rather large crowd, proved
generous hosts, as they
suffered a 13-8 defeat.

Hopkins' small, quick
attackmen were the difference
as Messrs. Jack Thomas, Bill
Nolan and Ken Winegrad were
able to control the ball through
the last three periods while
their Cavalier defenders kept a
respectful distance.

Blue Jay strategy was keyed
to setting-up one-on-one
situations involving one of
their outside attackmen,
usually Thomas, and either Ed
Spencer or Boo Smith, the
Cavalier defensemen.

After every Hopkins clear
the ball would be passed to
Thomas or Nolan deep near
one of the sidelines where the
ball-carrier would simply pace
back and forth, effectively
stalling the clock and forcing
the Wahoo defense into
occasional rash actions.

Some of those mistimed
moves left poor Cavalier
netminder Scotty Howe
defenseless against the eager
Blue Jay shooters. Some of the
shots Howe let get by in what
was, all-around, a good
performance he probably never
even saw.

Goals by Jay Connor, Doug
Cooper and Pete Eldredge gave
the home team an early 3-2
lead in the second quarter
before the Jays' ball-control
offense got in high gear.
Proving that you can't score
without the ball, the Cavs were
without a goal in the last half
of the second quarter and were
down, 5-3, at intermission.

In the second half the
Wahoos kept trying to slice
into the Hopkins lead, but
again it was a case of not
having the ball and instead
they watched the advantage
grow steadily larger.

"Hopkins controlled the
ball and kept it away from us
and, when we did get it, we
threw it away," said Coach
Glenn Thiel after the game,
adding that he "never thought
they would slow it down."

Another reason for the
Cavs' demise was that they
picked up only 38 of 99
ground balls, always seeming
just a step behind the nearest
Blue Jay but occasionally just
missing the bouncers
altogether. The amazing
quickness displayed by
Hopkins, now 7-0 and sure to
improve their previous number
four ranking, was not confined
to their attack unit.

Faceoffs were divided
evenly, each team winning 12,
while Hopkins outshot
Virginia, 34-29. Howe was
credited with 14 saves, some of
them almost impossible stops
on shooters at point-blank
range, and Jays' goalie Les
Matthews stopped nine shots.

Very little encouraging can
be said about the contest
except that the Cavs were put
entirely out of their element
by Hopkins' slow-down tactics.
Allowing the opposition to
gain such total control of
future games would certainly
fall under the heading of "bad
business."

HOPKINS	1 4 5 3- 13
VIRGINIA	2 1 3 2- 8

FIRST QUARTER

Connor (V), 0:53

Kowalchuk (H), 2:03

Cooper (V) from Connor, 3:07

SECOND QUARTER

Sinram (H), 5:45

Eldredge (V) from Connor, 6:33

Nolan (H) from Thomas, 7:49

Winegrad (H) from Thomas, 8:45

Thomas (H), 11:49

THIRD QUARTER

Thomas (H), from Nolan, 2:21

Barker (V) from Duquette, 5:23

Nolan (H) from Thomas, 7:06

Ulman (V) from Connor, 5:33

Krohn (H) from Bergofsky, 13:44

Thomas (H), 14:46

FOURTH QUARTER

Cooper (V), 0:41

Nolan (H), 0:51

Ulman (V) from Barker, 4:53

Kowalchuk (H), 10:25

Cooper (V), 11:35

Sinram (H), 12:38

Nolan (H), 14:35

CD/Jay Adams

Hopkins Player Scoops Up One Of 61 Blue Jay Ground Balls

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