Maryland over Georgetown & Duke over Cornell Hopkins over UMass & Virginia over Navy 
May 21 & 22, 2005  VIRGINIA 10
NAVY 8 Billy Looney scored four points (3 g, 1 a), but it wasn't enough as Virginia topped Navy, 10-8, in the NCAA Quarterfinals. BALTIMORE, Md. -- Virginia's Matt Poskay scored four goals and the Cavaliers scored the game's final two goals to defeat the third-ranked Navy lacrosse team, 10-8, in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Homewood Field at Johns Hopkins University. The loss ends Navy's season at 12-4 overall and sends the Cavaliers into the NCAA semifinals next weekend at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia against top-seeded Johns Hopkins. It also ends the careers of 14 Navy seniors.  Virginia got on the board first just over three minutes into the game when Ben Rubeor was left alone in the right slot and fired a shot low past goalie Matt Russell (Madison, Conn.), who had come out to cut off the angle for a 1-0 lead. However, Graham Gill (Medford, N.J.) answered just two minutes later when he scored from in close at the 9:58 mark to knot the score at one. The Cavaliers would score the next two goals for a 3-1 cushion, including an EMO goal by Rubeor, but Billy Looney (Silver Spring, Md.) stopped the run with a goal as he was falling down to cut the margin to 3-2. Virginia answered right back with an unsettled goal following a Navy turnover that Kyle Dixon deposited into the top of the net on a one-on-one breakaway with Russell and a 4-2 lead. Gill would tally his second goal of the quarter with an EMO goal with just 13 seconds left in the frame. Gill picked up a loose ball in the middle of the field and rifled a shot past Virginia keeper Kip Turner to cut the lead to 4-3 after one quarter.  Both teams had EMO chances midway through the second quarter, and both teams had excellent looks at the cage, but the goalies stood firm keeping the score tied at four. Poskay tallied his second goal of the day with just over a minute to play in the half for a 5-4 Cavaliers' lead. Navy then threatened with an EMO chance in the last minute of play, but a last-second Dan Harris (Manlius, N.Y.) shot was gobbled up by Turner and Virginia took a one-goal advantage into the halftime break. Virginia opened the second half with a transition goal by John Christmas for a 6-4 lead with 12:54 to play in the third quarter, then Poskay secured his hat trick at the 11:23 lead and 7-4 cushion when Navy started its rally. Billy Looney stopped the bleeding with his 21st goal of the year 27 seconds later as he beat his defender and ripped a shot past Turner into the right corner to cut Virginia's lead to 7-5 with 10:56 to play in the third quarter. Navy continued its surge as Ben Horn found Nick Mirabito (Binghamton, N.Y.) in transition, and the freshman ripped a shot from in front to cut the margin to 7-6 at the 9:12 mark. Virginia stopped the Navy rally as Poskay scored on an assist from Rubeor at the 6:22 mark and an 8-6 lead. But the Mids got a huge goal with three seconds left in third quarter when Russell made a big save on a Matt Ward shot starting a Navy fast-break. Gill found Horn in the front, who caught the ball in mid-air and scored past Turner with just three seconds left in the frame, which trimmed the lead to one again, at 8-7.  "When it was tied at 8-8, I felt that if we could have gotten the lead, we would have won," said Meade. "It would have shifted momentum." Virginia retook a one-goal lead on a Drew Thompson goal with 5:21 to play. Rubeor added an empty-net goal with 1:40 to play for a 10-8 advantage. The Mids had two good looks late in the fourth quarter, but couldn't capitalize and fell in their bid for a second straight semifinal appearance, 10-8. "Their last goal was more of a great play rather than a poor play on our part," said Meade. "They made a play when they needed to." Navy won the battle at the "X", winning 16-of-22 face-offs and had 46 ground balls to Virginia's 38. Matt Russell had a stellar game in the cage for the Mids, stopping 12 shots for Navy. "The most disappointing part of the loss was looking at the seniors, who are my best friends, and realizing that I will never play with them again," said the Navy junior goalie, Russell. Navy ends its season with a 12-4 record. Video Highlights*
Virginia's Drew Thompson   Navy's Billy Looney  Navy's Billy Looney again!  Virginia's Ben Rubeor to John Christmas  Virginia's Ricky Smith to John Christmas  Navy's Billy Looney to Ben Horn  Navy's Graham Gill  Virginia's Brendan Gill to Ben Rubeor  Virginia's Drew Garrison to Matt Poskay  JOHNS HOPKINS 19
MASSACHUSETTS 9 BALTIMORE, Md. -- No. 1 seeded Johns Hopkins (14-0) proved to be too much for No. 8 UMass (13-3) this afternoon at Homewood Field in the NCAA quarterfinals, topping the Minutemen 19-9. Senior Jeff Zywicki (Napean, Ontario) tallied two man-up goals to finish the season with 44 and added an assist, and ended his career with 146 points, 15th best in UMass history, while senior Gene Tundo (Orchard Park, N.Y.) tallied a goal and dished two assists to end his career with 125 points. Senior Chris Doyle (Putnam Valley, N.Y.) found the back of the cage twice on the afternoon, wrapping up his career with 76 points.  Matt Rewkowski finished the game with 4 goals for the Blue Jays, while Kyle Harrison found the back of the cage twice and dished three assists. Nine goals were scored in the final stanza, with tallies for UMass coming from Zywicki, Tundo, Doyle and Morris. The fourth quarter was the only period that UMass outshot the Blue Jays, holding a 15-7 shot advantage. Hopkins finished the third quarter on a 4-0 run in the final 1:23 of the, giving the Blue Jays a 14-5 lead after three quarters of play. Goals from Rewkowski, Byrne, and two from Stephen Peyser would push the lead to eight. Morris bounced a shot between Blue Jays keeper Jesse Schwartzman's legs, 40 seconds later, to cut the lead to five. Zywicki notched his first goal of the game, UMass' third extra-man goal of the game, when he ripped his shot into the top right hand corner off a feed from Tundo. Rewkowski found the back of the cage for the second time on the afternoon after he received a terrific pass from Harrison, putting Hopkins up, 10-3. Peyser tallied his second goal of the game with 8:55 left in the quarter, when he was left all alone 12 yards out. UMass opened the scoring in the third quarter, as Doyle received a pass from Zywicki, at the 12:28 mark on an extra-man opportunity to end four answered goals from Hopkins.  Kyle Barrie ended the scoring in the first quarter, tallying a goal with 10 seconds left on the clock to put the Blue Jays up, 5-2. Pat Larmon (Chesterfield, Mo.) answered back, bouncing a shot into the bottom left hand corner of the net, to cut the lead to two. Harrison found Peter LeSueur behind the goal and LeSueur wrapped around the cage to push the lead to 4-1. Brett Garber (Avon, Conn.) scored the first goal of the afternoon for the Minutemen on an extra-man opportunity off a feed from Ryan Connolly with 7:16 left in the quarter. After Bill Schell (Mahopac, N.Y.) saved a Jake Byrne shot, Greg Peyser picked up the groundball and found the back of the cage at the 8:57 mark to put Hopkins up, 3-0. Harrison tallied his second goal of the game when he fired the ball over Schell's left shoulder. Johns Hopkins jumped on the scoreboard first when senior Kyle Harrison found the back of the cage from 15 yards out. Senior Bill Schell made X10 saves on the afternoon, finishing his career with 547, fourth best in school history. Seniors Aaron Paskalis (Gloucestor, Mass), Rich Guyre (Landing, N.J.), Matt Garcia (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Greg Scott (Westport, Conn.), Connolly, Doyle, Zywicki, Schell, and Tundo, led the Minutemen 13 wins on the season, tied for best in school history, and to it's 10th NCAA Quarterfinal. Video Highlights*
UMass' Brett Garber  Hopkins' Kyle Barrie  UMass' Pat Larmon  Hopkins' Kyle Harrison  Hopkins' Kevin Huntley  Hopkins' Benson Erwin  UMass' Gene Tundo to Jeff Zywicki  Hopkins' Matt Rewkowski  UMass' Sean Morris  UMass' Jeff Zywicki  Hopkins' Kyle Harrison to Matt Rewkowski  UMass' Jeff Zywicki to Chris Doyle  DUKE 11
CORNELL 8 PRINCETON, N.J. - A furious fourth-quarter rally proved to be too little, too late for the Cornell men's lacrosse team, as the Big Red had its remarkable season come to a close with an 11-8 loss to second-seeded Duke in the NCAA quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon in front of 6,315 at Princeton Stadium. The Blue Devils (16-2), which were led by sophomore Matt Danowski's five-goal effort, used a dominating seven-goal run in the third quarter to build an insurmountable lead and advance to the national semifinals for the first time since 1997. The Big Red, which finished the year with an 11-3 mark, scored the last five goals of the afternoon and got 13 saves from sophomore Matt McMonagle, but fell short in the quarterfinal round for the third time in four seasons. Senior attackmen Sean Greenhalgh and Kevin Nee each recorded two goals for Cornell, while junior Derek Haswell registered a goal and two assists. Cornell, which had a nine-game win streak snapped, finished with 11 wins for only the second time in the past 18 seasons. Sunday's game marked the final contest in the careers of 11 Cornell seniors, including half the team's starting lineup. Danowski added an assist to record a game-best six points, while freshman Zack Greer netted a hat trick to boost the Blue Devils' offense. Junior Dan Flannery tallied two goals and two assists and senior netminder Aaron Fenton recorded 12 saves, including nine in the second half. Each team claimed 11 faceoffs in the contest, while Cornell held advantages in shots (40-33) and ground balls (34-25). Playing in just its third game on grass this season, Cornell struggled to find its rhythm in the early goings, scoring on only one of its first nine shots. The Blue Devils scored the first three goals of the game and held a 4-3 halftime lead before opening up the contest with a 7-0 shutout in the third quarter. Cornell did its best to get back into the contest in the fourth, beginning with a unassisted goal by junior Joe Boulukos that came 2:20 into the quarter. Greenhalgh followed with back-to-back goals, to cut the deficit to 11-6 with just over six minutes left in regulation. On a fast break with under five minutes to play, senior co-captain Kyle Georgalas took a pass from junior Cameron Marchant before launching a shot with his long-stick past Fenton. The goal, which was the first of the season for Georgalas, gave the large contingent of red-shirted Cornell fans hope that the run would continue. Senior J.D. Nelson, who claimed wins in nine of his 18 faceoff tries, claimed the ensuing faceoff, but Fenton made saves on the Big Red's next three shots on goal, leaving just 1:30 left with a four-goal deficit. Georgalas assisted on a goal by Haswell with a minute left and Duke was flagged for a tripping penalty on the next faceoff, but Cornell could get no closer than three goals, as Fenton made his 12th and final save with 26 seconds left. Duke took over possession and ran out the clock, claiming the fourth and final ticket to the semifinals in the process. Duke notched the first goal of the game at the 7:40 mark when Greer picked up a high rebound off a McMonagle save and flipped the ball behind his back and into the net just outside the crease. Two goals by Danowski within a span of 1:13 helped the Blue Devils take a 3-0 advantage entering the second quarter. With 2:32 left in the opening quarter, Danowski crept around the back of the goal and sent a bouncer into the cage and scored again on a fast break chance with an assist from Flannery. A one-minute illegal stick penalty on Duke to open the second quarter opened the door for the Big Red to the score its first two goals of the afternoon. However, the Blue Devils snuck a man-down goal in between the two Cornell tallies. Haswell fed Nee for both Cornell goals, including one that came just six seconds after Danowski completed his first-half hat trick with a man-down marker. With 9:24 left before intermission, Redd dodged hard past his defender before whistling a shot past Fenton from 12 yards out, making it a one-goal affair at 4-3. Cornell came up with the ball after a lengthy unsettled situation in the back right corner of the Duke zone and called timeout with 2:12 left before halftime. Nee picked up a loose ball right behind the cage nearly a minute later, but his attempt at a empty net was directed wide. Possession changed hands often in the other end of the field during the final minute of the half, but McMonagle came up with two of his six first-half saves to keep it a one-goal contest heading into the locker rooms. Duke long-stick Casey Carroll came up with the ball after an extended scramble on the second half's opening faceoff and after not attracting a Cornell defender, he rushed to the cage and flung the ball to the back of the net for his first career goal. On the Blue Devils' next possession, Danowksi was able to beat a double team from five yards out, scoring his fourth goal of the afternoon and pushing his team's lead to 6-3. The Blue Devils continued its run with five more tallies before the end of the third quarter, including three by Greer, to take its commanding 11-3 advantage. Video Highlights*
Cornell's Justin Redd  Cornell's J.D. Nelson to Derek Haswell to Kevin Nee  Duke's Nick O'Hara to Matt Danowski  Duke's Aaron Fenton  Duke's Zack Greer  Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh  Cornell's Sean Greenhalgh again!  Cornell's Peter Cannizzaro  Duke's Dan Flannery to Zack Greer  Duke's Matt Danowski to Dan Flannery  Duke's Casey Carroll  MARYLAND 9
GEORGETOWN 8 (OT) PRINCETON, NJ - In dramatic fashion Georgetown tied its NCAA Quarterfinals game against Maryland at Princeton University's Princeton Stadium at eight apiece with one minute remaining in regulation on a man-up goal by Pete Cannon (Haverford, PA/The Haverford School). Maryland looked as if it had locked up the game when Bill McGlone hit an open net with 1:33 remaining in regulation to give the Terps a 9-7 margin, but Georgetown head coach Dave Urick asked for a stick check and the referees deemed McGlone's stick illegal, awarding a three minute unreleaseable penalty after which Cannon netted the tying score. The three minute penalty extended into the overtime period that saw Georgetown unable to score and then fend off an extra man opportunity by Maryland. With both teams even and :56 seconds left in the period the Terps' Andrew Schwartzman netted the game winner to make the final score 9-8.  The first face-off of the game was a sign of things to come as Corno won his opening attempt. Hoya freshman Scott Kahoe (Villanova, PA/Radnor) gave GU its only lead of the day and the first score of the game at the 11:26 mark. GU's defense held Maryland on its first possession as close defenseman Reyn Garnett (Mt. Kisco, NY/Deerfield Academy) stripped Maryland but after a Rich D'Andrea (Belle Mead, NJ/The Peddie School) save UM's Joe Walters stuck his first of four at 9:03. The Terps hit one more to take a 2-1 first quarter lead. Maryland's Xander Ritz hit one less than a minute into the second quarter before GU's Trevor Casey (Bethesda, MD/Georgetown Prep) scored off a Brendan Cannon assist to cut the Maryland lead to 3-2 which held until halftime. The third quarter once again saw the Terps score the first goal, to rebuild a two-goal cushion. With 5:31 in the quarter it looked like the Hoyas' Pete Cannon scored a goal as the ball rolled on the goal line but it was deemed not to have crossed the line and Maryland goalie Harry Alford attempted a clear. In a little change of fate the Terps turned the ball over on an offsides and after a Nick Miaritis (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville) shot went wide freshman Matt McBride (Ridgewood, NJ/Delbarton) snuck around the right side and buried a shot. Maryland's Brendan Healy advanced the Terps cause with a score at 1:48 but with Maryland on an EMO with 1:21 to go in the quarter Merrill stripped Healy and then drew a pushing penalty. After both penalties expired GU's Brendan Cannon swooped around the outside of the cage and netted an underhanded shot to cut the lead to 5-4.  Georgetown ends the year with a 10-5 record, reaching double digits in the win column for the ninth consecutive year. For the third time in four year the Hoyas lost by one goal in the NCAA Quarterfinals and is the only team outside of Johns Hopkins to have made it to the quarterfinals in each of the past four seasons. Video Highlights*
Maryland's Joe Walters  Georgetown's Matt McBride  Maryland's Brendan Healy  Georgetown's Brendan Cannon  Georgetown's Brendan Cannon again!  Maryland's Andrew Schwartzman to Xander Ritz  Georgetown's Matt McBride to Pete Cannon  Illegal Stick Call - a must see!  Georgetown's Pete Cannon  Maryland's Andrew Schwartzman to  Maryland's Andrew Schwartzman wins it in OT!  * Licensed NCAA video |
