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Johns Hopkins Overwhelms Stickmen
With Impressive Display Of Strength

By Bob Cullen
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Dreams of national supremacy
in lacrosse were shattered Saturday
in Scott Stadium as Virginia
fell to Johns Hopkins by a score
of 17-9. The loss to the number
one ranked Bluejays was Virginia's
first to collegiate opposition this
year, leaving the Cavaliers with a
4-1 record.

Hopkins demonstrated a clear
superiority in every facet of the
game except hustle. Their greatest
advantage was in midfield depth.
The Baltimore contingent could
field four separate midfield alignments
as opposed to two for the
Cavaliers and in Saturday's heat
the Hopkins speed advantage was
soon magnified. Virginia could not
keep up at both ends of the field,
and in trying to do both they failed
at each.

All-American attackman Joe
Cowan set the pattern for the game
early. Cowan scored on a fast break
with only 1:08 gone in the game,
using his speed and shooting power
to get past the Cavalier defense and
shoot the ball by Goalie Jim Eustace
from close range. It was the
first of five scores he was to record
for the afternoon.

After Cowan's initial goal, the
Virginia defense settled down and

for the next ten minutes the midfield
was able to assist in keeping
the ball away from the Cavalier
goal. But the attack got nowhere
against a tough and quick
Hopkins defense. Their passes were
not quick enough to keep All-America
goalie Geoff Berlin from
getting an angle on and blocking
half a dozen hard shots from Virginia
sticks.

But after those ten minutes of
even play, the roof fell in. Within
four and half minutes Hopkins
scored five times. Attackman
Downey McCarty took advantage
of an extra man situation to score
with 4:16 left in the first period.
Tad Joerdens took the ensuing
face-off but an offsides penalty
gave Hopkins the ball again and
Joe Cowan flipped a shot behind
his back and into the goal.

Almost before the Bluejay supporters
could reload their cannon
and finish playing their victory
march they had to do it again.
This time it was Charles Goodell
with the goal, assisted by the
ubiquitous Cowan. Then with only
seconds remaining in the first
period, midfielder Andy Fisher put
a long low shot past the
beleaguered Eustace to make the
score 5-0 at the break.

The Cavaliers couldn't light the
scoreboard until 3:22 had gone by
in the second period which was
long enough for Downey McCarty
to rack up the sixth Hopkins goal.
The Virginia score came after Captain
Scott Montgomery cleared the
ball from the midfield, and passed
to Sandy Archibald in front of
the visitor's goal. Archibald flipped
to Jim Potter who shot it by goalie
Berlin.

But Hopkins came right back,
adding two goals from the stick
of Mike Kniep. Charlie Rullman,
guarded all day by All-American
Mike Clark, finally broke loose
for three goals late in the second
period, but Cowan and McCarty
matched them. At the half,
the issue was all but settled with
Hopkins in front 11-4.

Virginia failed to crack the Bluejay
net at all in the third quarter,
and it was only after the Hopkins
coach emptied his bench in the
final minutes that the Cavaliers
scored five goals to bring the score
to 17-9.

......And So Was Joe Cowan