Virgina Men’s Lacrosse defeats Hopkins in OT

This past weekend, Hopkins took on the University of Virginia Cavaliers in their seventh game of the season. For the third consecutive year, the Hopkins-Virginia matchup went into overtime, and for the third consecutive year, Hopkins walked away without a win. Coming off an overtime win against Syracuse, Hopkins went into the overtime period with confidence, knowing they had the ability to dominate, but fell short.

For the majority of the first period, Hopkins held a 4-0 lead with two goals from junior Wilkins Dismuke, and a goal each from seniors Ryan Brown and Holden Cattoni. With about two minutes left in the first period, Virginia got on the board with a goal from senior James Pannell.

In the second period, Virginia managed to take the lead, scoring five goals before Hopkins answered back with a goal from junior John Crawley with three minutes left before halftime, allowing the Blue Jays to end the half with a 6-5 lead over Virginia.

In the third period, Virginia and Hopkins kept the scoring going, and neither team lead more than two goals for the rest of the game. Sophomore Shack Stanwick scored two goals for Hopkins; Shortly after, senior teammate Craig Madarasz scored one to tie the score. Blue Jay freshman Patrick Foley managed to add in another goal just before the period ended to take an 8-9 lead over Virginia.

In the final period of play, Virginia opened up the scoring early on with a goal from sophomore Matt Emery. The rest of the period was back to back scoring for both teams. Hopkins freshmen Drew Supinski answered Virginia’s first goal and Cattoni and junior Cody Radziewicz also scored bringing the Hopkins lead to 12-11 with about two and a half minutes left in regulation time. In the last 20 seconds of the game, Virginia’s senior Greg Coholan scored a goal that tied up the score to 12-12, forcing the game into overtime.

In overtime, it was only 19 seconds before Virginia’s sophomore Mike D’Amario scored the game-winning goal, and for the third year in a row Virginia walked away with an overtime win against the Blue Jays.

“Anytime you play in overtime there is a lot of pressure since [the] next goal wins,” junior Joe Carlini said. “This weekend we felt pretty confident going into overtime having been in overtime games before this season and just winning a game in overtime last weekend against Syracuse. Despite the outcome it is a great learning experience for us as we move into Big-Ten games.”