Ryan Tucker had an incredible homecoming to Baltimore and Homewood Field, where his mother is the Hopkins Women’s Lacrosse Coach, leading the Virginia Cavaliers to a come from behind victory with eight points on five goals, three assists.
Virginia jumped out to a 3-0 lead early in the first quarter. Ryan Tucker assisted Greg Coholan’s extra man goal to open the scoring in the contest. AJ Fish and Tucker both scored unassisted goals to take the early three-goal lead.
Hopkins would answer with four goals of their own to take one lead late in the first quarter. Shack Stanwick assisted the Jays first two goals. First by Joel Tinney, second by Cody Radziewicz. Tinney would score his second, found by Connor Reed.
Tinney’s goal was tied the game and the offense of the Blue Jays was in rhythm. The comeback continued as the Jays took their first lead with Kieran Eissler’s tally. The quarter would end with the home team in the lead at 4-3.
After a frenzied transition sequence opening the second quarter, Hopkins would take a two-goal lead at 5-3 when Ryan Brown scored an unassisted goal. Hopkins completed a six-goal run when Radziewicz got his second of the game. Matt Barrett saved a Wells Stanwick shot, but Eissler collected the rebound and scored behind-the-back.
Virginia would start a run of their own after Ryan Tucker beat Hopkins goalie Eric Schneider on an extra man opportunity. Tyler German scored on a deflected shot, assisted by Owen Van Arsdale, to cut the lead to one goal. Tucker continued his strong half by completing the hat trick to tie the game at six.
Both goalies stood tall during the first half of play to keep the score even at six. Face offs were largely in favor of Johns Hopkins. Drew Kennedy and Hunter Moreland held the advantage for the entire half.
The second half opened with Hopkins scoring just after the release of a UVA pushing penalty from the first half. Joel Tinney found sophomore John Crawley in front, where he pushed it past Barrett. Holden Cattoni scored his sixth goal of the year, giving the Jays a two-goal lead for the second time of the game.
Virginia cut the lead in half when sophomore Will McNamara scored in transition, cutting the Hopkins lead to 8-7. Ryan Tucker got his fourth goal of the game to tie it then at 8, tying the game a third time.
Sophomore midfielder Zed Williams gave the lead back to UVA, scoring on a screened bounce shot. Wells Stanwick found his brother, Shack, to tie the game at nine and on the following possession he scored to get Hopkins to 10 goals at the 4:48 mark of the 3rd quarter.
After a Hopkins turnover on the clear, Williams would get his second goal of the game to tie the game again at 10. With 23.7 seconds remaining in the quarter, Tyler German scored his second goal. A wild possession following the ensuing face off led to Joel Tinney completing his hat trick to tie the score leading to the final stanza.
Williams scored his third of the game to start the fourth quarter. Hopkins has been able to answer each Virginia goal with a face off win. After this win, Hopkins Tinney found Cattoni to answer the Cavaliers goal.
Both teams traded goals again to tie the game at 13. After UVA collected an out of bounds shot, Williams scored his fourth goal when no one picked him up to start the possession. Hopkins won the next possession and earned an extra man penalty. Wells Stanwick found Cattoni open on the doorstep.
With 5:48 left in the game, Connor Reed scored on a drive down the right hand alley to give the Jays the 14-13 lead. Following another face off victory, Cattoni scored his fourth goal of the game to give Hopkins a two-goal advantage.
Virginia survives a two-man disadvantage and with just over ninety seconds left, Virginia gets within one. Tyler German gets his third of the contest and Hopkins led UVA by a score of 15-14.
Ryan Tucker would tie the game at 15 with 45.7 seconds left after Hopkins turned possession over trying to run out the clock.
To begin overtime, Virginia was awarded possession after they held the ball at the end of regulation during an extra man opportunity. Greg Coholan would score just after the man advantage to end the contest without Hopkins getting a possession in overtime. Virginia overcame a late two-goal deficit to take the game into overtime.
Virginia heads back to Charlottesville and a midweek contest against Virginia Military Institute, The Doyle-Smith Trophy stays with Virginia after the Cavaliers won it during the regular season contest in 2014. Johns Hopkins awaits the opening of their Big Ten schedule against Rutgers next Saturday.
