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Hopkins Tops Stick Poll,
Cavs Remain In Fourth

By JOHN MARKON

Virginia's Cavaliers, 15-9
winners over Towson State last
Saturday, have held on to
fourth spot in this week's
USILA lacrosse coaches poll
while the rest of the top ten
deck was shuffled a little by a
few upsets.

Biggest stunner was a 10-9
win over number one Maryland

by Army. The West Pointers
vaulted from seventh to fifth
after edging out the victory
while the Terps, Virginia's
opponent this weekend, fell to
second position.

New kings of the lacrosse
hill are the Johns Hopkins Blue
Jays, authors of an almost
unbelievable 17-3 destruction
of third-ranked Navy. The
Jays, led by attackman Jack
Thomas, the nation's leading
scorer, and goalie Les
Matthews, received all nine
first place votes.

CD/Jay Adams

Blue Jays' Les Matthews

Second-place Maryland
garnered 169 votes with Navy
holding third tenuously with
154 votes. The Cavaliers are
three points behind Navy and
one ahead of Army with 151
votes.

As for the other Top
Tenners, Cornell, last year's
NCAA champ, held sixth place
with a big 16-1 win over Yale.
The Big Red pulled in 141
votes but face a key game with
eight-ranked Brown to defend
their Ivy League title.

Washington & Lee of
Lexington, Va. is presently
ranked seventh but is not a
threat to the leaders with only
117 points. Last Saturday the
Generals edged ACC
third place team North
Carolina, 12-11.

Brown's Bruins are, as
stated, eighth with 108 votes.
Princeton was Brown's foe last
weekend and the Bruins
dispatched the Tigers, 8-5.

Hobart College of Long
Island is presently ranked ninth
with 106 points and did little
to endanger that ranking by
whipping the Madison, N.J.
branch of Fairleigh-Dickinson
University, 12-7, last weekend.
Towson, the Cavaliers' victim,
is tenth with 102 points.

Maryland is the team facing
the toughest schedule in the
immediate future, tangling
with Virginia this Saturday and
with Hopkins next week. The
Cavs' game next week is with
W&L.