No. 1 Maryland men’s lacrosse dominates Johns Hopkins, 22-7, completes perfect regular season

With No. 1 Maryland males’s lacrosse already off to a different sizzling begin at Johns Hopkins, the newly-minted program profession factors file holder made extra historical past. Fifth-year attacker Logan Wisnauskas despatched a cross over to graduate midfielder Roman Puglise, who ripped a shot into the highest of the web to place the Terps up 3-0.

That help was the three hundredth level of Wisnauskas’ completed profession, making him the primary Maryland participant and nineteenth participant in faculty lacrosse historical past to succeed in the 300-point threshold.

The Terps, led by eight factors from Wisnauskas, completed off their second consecutive undefeated common season with its most dominant efficiency of 2022, a 22-7 victory over Johns Hopkins.

The Terps, who will enter the postseason with a 12-0 file, gained their fourth-straight recreation over Johns Hopkins, the longest profitable streak in “The Rivalry” since 2018. The Blue Jays fell to 6-8 in 2022.

After taking subsequent week off, the Terps would be the high seed within the Large Ten match, which is about to start Could 5.

With a big swath of supporting followers behind them at a packed Homewood Area in Baltimore, Maryland jumped out to a blazing begin.

Senior midfielder Kyle Lengthy kicked off the scoring simply 29 seconds into the sport, utilizing his velocity to blow previous his defender and beat Johns Hopkins graduate goalie Josh Kirson for the primary objective of the sport. Sophomore attacker Owen Murphy, who transferred from Hopkins following the 2020 season, doubled the Terps’ lead after senior long-stick midfielder John Geppert pressured a turnover on the defensive finish.

Junior midfielder Jack Brennan had a clear have a look at objective, however his shot was kicked away by Kirson. An opportunistic Keegan Khan was well-positioned, nevertheless, and the graduate attacker collected the rebound and deposited the ball within the open internet to make it 4-0 Maryland three and a half minutes into the primary quarter.

Johns Hopkins’ first objective got here after a Maryland penalty gave them a person benefit. Graduate attacker Connor DeSimone scored an unassisted objective with 10:15 left within the quarter, however the Blue Jays have been unable to capitalize and carry that momentum any additional.

The final two targets of the primary quarter belonged to Maryland. Fifth-year midfielder Anthony DeMaio made it 5-1 with 3:15 remaining, and sophomore midfielder Jack Koras subsequently prolonged Maryland’s result in 5 heading into the second quarter of play.

After the transient intermission, Maryland continued their run with an extra-man objective. Graduate midfielder Jonathan Donville flipped a stupendous cross throughout the crease, proper to Khan who scored. Khan then picked up a floor ball after the Terps pressured a failed clearance, and dished to Murphy who fired a shot over his left shoulder and made it 8-1 Maryland with 12:55 remaining within the first half.

Johns Hopkins scored the sport’s subsequent two targets over the course of practically 5 minutes. First, senior defenseman Owen McManus scored with 12:10 on the clock, after which sophomore midfielder Brendan Grimes struck with 7:34 left earlier than halftime.

Maryland was far much less methodical with its subsequent string of consecutive targets. The Terps discovered the again of the web thrice within the span of 10 seconds, with top-shelf rockets coming from DeMaio and Wisnauskas, and junior faceoff specialist Luke Wierman racing in direction of the web proper after a faceoff win.

Senior attacker Joey Epstein ended the 3-0 Maryland run with a objective, however Wisnauskas answered along with his second objective of the second quarter.

After one half of play, the Terps led, 12-4. They didn’t let their foot off the fuel there.

Maryland scored two targets within the third quarter’s first two minutes. Wisnauskas secured his hat trick with 13:32 left within the quarter, and Murphy bought his with 13:01 to go.

Then, Wisnauskas ripped a shot from virtually 20 yards out and beat the Hopkins goalie, good for his fourth objective of the sport to place the Terps up by 12 targets.

The final eight minutes of the third quarter have been nothing in need of full annihilation by the Terps.

Keegan Khan added two extra targets and tallies by Lengthy, Murphy, Donville and Wisnauskas put Maryland up by an astounding 22-4 benefit heading into the fourth quarter.

As they’ve been capable of do a number of instances this season, the Terps have been capable of cycle in lots of gamers within the fourth quarter. Johns Hopkins stored a lot of its beginning lineup in, and sophomore midfielder Johnathan Peshko ended the 11-0 Maryland run with 9:29 remaining.

Senior midfielder Garrett Degnon added a objective of his personal, reducing the Terps’ result in 16. The final objective of the sport belonged to Johns Hopkins senior short-stick midfielder Alexander Mabbet.

The ultimate rating was 22-7. Saturday marked the most important margin of defeat in Johns Hopkins males’s lacrosse historical past, which was beforehand 13.

Three issues to know

1. Extra historical past for Logan Wisnauskas. The Terps’ No. 1 put collectively an unbelievable five-goal, three-assist efficiency within the final common season recreation of his profession. He grew to become the primary Maryland participant ever to succeed in the profession 300-point threshold and in addition moved to 3rd all-time in assists, passing Charles Wicker, who performed from 1953-56.
2. One other nice efficiency by Maryland’s protection. Logan McNaney had one other improbable exhibiting, leaving the sport after three quarters with 11 saves and solely permitting 4 targets. The protection made Hopkins uncomfortable all recreation lengthy, because the Blue Jays have been by no means capable of get right into a rhythm on offense. Graduate goalie Drew Morris made some nice saves as effectively, accumulating seven in whole.
3. Luke Wierman was dominant as normal. Luke Wierman gained 17 faceoffs in yet one more improbable efficiency, and he additionally scored a objective. Wierman is placing collectively among the finest seasons Maryland has ever seen on the faceoff “X.” He now has the third-most faceoffs gained in a single season by a Terp with 206, and he’s effectively on tempo to interrupt the present file of 222, set by Curtis Holmes in 2011.