The Hopkins men’s lacrosse team took part in two scrimmages these past two weekends, first travelling to the University of Denver to scrimmage against the defending world champion Pioneers and then making the short trip down the Beltway to Washington, D.C. to play the Georgetown University Hoyas.
In the scrimmage against Denver, the Jays were unable to dig out of an 8-1 first quarter hole and fell 14-10. Leading scorers for the Jays were senior attack Ryan Brown and junior attack Wilkins Dismuke. Official results from the Georgetown scrimmage were not reported.
The Jays then opened their regular season slate with a thrilling 12-11 double overtime win against the Navy Midshipmen in Annapolis, Md. on Tuesday night.
The Jays jumped to an early 3-0 lead within the first six minutes of the first quarter, backed by two back-to-back goals from junior midfielder John Crawley and a goal right off the faceoff by senior faceoff specialist Craig Madarasz, seeing his first game action in over a year after missing last season after suffering an injury in the pre-season.
Hopkins held the three-goal lead until the Midshipmen took advantage of a man-up situation to cut the lead to two and then immediately followed that effort with another tally just 14 seconds later. Brown then brought the lead back to two to conclude the first quarter, scoring off the wing on an assist by sophomore attack Shack Stanwick, immediately following a restart at the 3:34 mark.
Brown scored again from 12 yards out to make the score 5-2 at the 11:03 mark in the second quarter.
The Jays held this lead until the 4:24 mark, when Navy cut the lead to one after goals from senior Kevin Wendel and junior Matt Rees. Hopkins got one of those back following a strike from the left wing by freshman midfielder Drew Supinski, the first of his young college career, giving the Jays a 6-4 lead going into the second half.
Brown opened up the third quarter with a man-up goal, giving Supinski a hat trick on the game. Navy, however, fought back, pulling within one again at the 2:45 mark following goals from sophomore Jack Ray and freshman Greyson Torain.
The Midshipmen then quickly tied the score to open the fourth quarter, following another Torain strike.
The teams traded goals until the 6:55 mark, when senior attack Holden Cattoni gave the Jays a 10-9 lead with Brown adding its sixth goal of the game to give Hopkins a two-goal lead.
Ray got one of those back at the 3:28 mark but Hopkins still clung to the one-goal lead until the 0:27 mark, when sophomore Casey Rees tied the game up at 11 and sent it to overtime.
Both teams had scoring opportunities in the first overtime period but both goalies stepped up to send the game into a second overtime.
The Jays had shots on goal from Cattoni and Stanwick but both were turned away by Navy’s goalie, senior John Connors. Sophomore goalie Brock Turnbaugh, making his first career start for the Jays after winning a three-way battle for the starting role this pre-season, made a key stop with just a second remaining in the first overtime period, giving him 13 saves in the game.
The Jays opened the second overtime period with a man advantage after an unnecessary roughness against Navy. They quickly capitalized after junior John Crawley found an open Stanwick on the right side of the net and put it past Connors to give Hopkins the 12-11 victory in the season opener 39 seconds into the second overtime period.
Hopkins next travels down to Baltimore County to face off against the UMBC Retrievers on Saturday, Feb. 13. The game is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
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