March 6, 2015 
Senior
Gabe Voumard has produced 6 points on 4 goals and 2 assists in three previous games against Johns Hopkins.
Game Preview • With back-to-back wins over ranked opponents for the first time since 2009, the Midshipmen (3-2, 1-1 PL) will look to ride that momentum into the weekend when they make the short trip to Baltimore to battle 17th-ranked Johns Hopkins (2-3). Faceoff is set for 12:00 pm at the historic Homewood Field.
• Saturday's contest will be aired on ESPN3 (internet) with Mark Dixon (play by play) and Quint Kessenich (analyst) calling the action. The game can also be seen on ESPNU on Sunday at 10:00 am.
• The game will also be carried live by 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV with Pete Medhurst handling the call. Coverage begins with the Navy lacrosse pregame show at 11:45 am. Live stats will be available on NavySports.com.
• Navy's defense held Towson scoreless for nearly 25 minutes en route to building a 5-3 lead, but the Tigers scored 4 of the next 6 goals in the game, including an extra-man goal with 23 seconds left to force the game into extra minutes. Towson goalkeeper Tyler White attempted to intercept a pass between
Gabe Voumard and
T.J. Hanzsche, but was unsuccessful as Hanzsche powered in the goal on an empty net with 16 seconds left in the third overtime to lead the Mids to an 8-7 win.
• Princeton raced out to a 7-0 lead last Saturday against Johns Hopkins, but the Blue Jays rallied and scored six in a row, all a man up. The Blue Jays owned a 15-14 advantage when Princeton's Ryan Ambler buried a goal with seven seconds left to send the game into overtime. Gavin McBride would go on to score an extra-man goal to lead the Tigers to a 16-15 victory.
Countdown to Faceoff 10 - Navy has lost just 5 games (59-5) when scoring 10 or more goals since the start of the 2004 season ... Navy is 13-0 under Sowell when scoring 10 or more goals (5-0 in 2012, 3-0 in 2013, 4-0 in 2014, 1-0 in 2015).
9 - The Mids have won more draws than their opponent in each of their five games this season and stand eighth nationally in winning percentage (63.6). However, Navy has lost 9 in a row when the opposition wins more faceoffs.
8 - The Midshipmen have held all 5 of their opponents to single digits this season and are ranked 5th nationally in scoring defense (7.20). All 5 foes have scored 8 or fewer goals.
7 - Junior attack
Patrick Keena dealt out 7 assists in the win over VMI in the opener, marking the most assists by a Navy player since Jon Birsner produced 7 in a win over Colgate on March 19, 2005.
6 - Senior midfielder
Gabe Voumard is 1 of just 3 players on the team who has scored points against Johns Hopkins. He owns 6 points on 4 goals and 2 assists.
T.J. Hanzsche has scored 2 goals, while
Patrick Keena has an assist in the series.
5 - Junior attack
T.J. Hanzsche is the only player on the roster to score a point in all 5 games this season. He has scored a goal in each of the five. His 6-game scoring streak, however, dates back to last year's Maryland contest where he scored a goal.
4 - Sophomore
Brady Dove, who became just the fifth player in school history to win 200 draws over the course of their career on Tuesday behind a 13-for-19 effort, is ranked #4 in the country in faceoff winning percentage (48-68, 70.6).
3 - Navy's defense has held each of its last 3 opponents (Bucknell - 20:18, Holy Cross - 29:55, Towson - 24:38) to scoring droughts of over 20 minutes.
2 - Navy has scored just 2 extra-man goals on 13 attempts in its 5 games, while Johns Hopkins has punched in goals on 18 of its 37 attempts this season.
1 - Over the last eight seasons (2008-present), 34 of the Mids' 104 contests have been decided by one goal. Over the last five seasons (2011-present), the Mids are 4-12 in one-goal games. The Mids are 2-1 in one-goal contests this season.
Scouting the Blue Jays • In his 15th season at Johns Hopkins, head coach Dave Pietramala directed the Blue Jays to a 2-3 mark. Hopkins has wins over UMBC and Villanova and losses to Towson and nationally-ranked programs North Carolina and Princeton. The Blue Jays head in to the weekend on a two-game losing skid by a combined 3 goals.
• After playing as an independent from 1883-2014, Johns Hopkins is in its first season as a member of the Big Ten. The Blue Jays' first conference game will be against Rutgers on March 28.
• Johns Hopkins is ranked among the top 20 in 6 statistical categories, including scoring offense where it stands 16th, averaging 12.00 goals per game. The Blue Jays have been held to single digits just once this season, a 7-5 loss to Towson on the road.
• The Blue Jays are also ranked among the nation's best in ground balls per game (11th), scoring offense (16th), points per game (16th), assists per game (17th), turnovers per game (17th), extra-man offense (19th) and scoring margin (19th).
• On the opposite side of the rankings, JHU is ranked 67th in saves per game (67th) and caused turnovers per game (56th).
• Among the nation's top point producers is junior attackman Ryan Brown who is ranked eighth with his 4.60 points per game. He has 23 points on 19 goals and 4 assists with 2 of the 19 come on extra-man.
• Brothers Wells and Shack Stanwick have been outstanding in the early weeks, as well. Wells has produced 16 points on 5 goals and 11 assists, while Shack has 13 points on 7 goals and 6 assists.
• The Blue Jays have had 37 extra-man opportunities already, scoring 18 goals. Freshman Patrick Fraser leads the team with 7 man-up goals, while junior middie Holden Cattoni has 5.
• Grad student Eric Schneider directs the defense from between the pipes where he owns a 9.87 goals-against average and has stopped just 41.0 percent of the shots he has faced this season. The defense has surrendered double digits in each of the last three games.
• Following Hopkins tradition, Pietramala once again has one of the premiere faceoff men in the country. Senior Drew Kennedy owns a 56.9 winning percentage and is ranked 24th nationally. Kennedy has also picked up a team-best 21 ground balls and stands 45th in the country, grabbing 4.20 a game.
Navy vs. Johns Hopkins - The Series • Saturday's contest marks the 89th meeting between Navy and Johns Hopkins. It's the 66th-consecutive year the two programs have battled and it is the third-longest continuous series between Navy and another team on the lax field behind Army-Navy and Navy-Maryland.
• The Blue Jays own a commanding 60-27-1 advantage in the series, however Johns Hopkins' amazing 36-game winning streak was snapped in 2010, when the Mids dealt the Blue Jays a 9-8 overtime loss.
• While Navy has won 2 of the last 5 games in the series, the Mids have not beaten the Blue Jays in Baltimore since May 10, 1969 in a 9-6 decision.
• Eight of the last 16 games between Navy and Johns Hopkins have been decided by one goal, including last year's contest that saw the Blue Jays avoid three straight losses in Annapolis thanks to a 6-5 victory. Additionally, four of the eight one-goal games have gone into extra minutes.
• Fourth-year Navy head coach
Rick Sowell is 1-2 all-time against the Blue Jays.
2014 Johns Hopkins Recap • Despite a spectacular defensive effort anchored by starting goalkeeper
John Connors, the upset-minded Mids fell a goal short as Johns Hopkins senior attackman Brandon Benn scored four goals to lead the sixth-ranked Blue Jays to a 6-5 victory over the Mids in 2014.
• Benn scored Hopkins' first three goals, including an extra-man stroke just 44 seconds into the game.
• Navy answered when senior
Sam Jones fed midfielder
Gabe Voumard for a 12-yard strike at the 10:19 mark.
• Deadlocked after the first quarter of play, the Blue Jays went on a 2-0 run that featured back-to-back goals by Benn just 28 seconds apart.
• The Mids trimmed the Hopkins lead to one when attackman
Patrick Keena sent a nifty pass to
T.J. Hanzsche just two yards off the crease and Hanzsche tucked it in.
• The Blue Jays pushed their lead to two (4-2) when second-year attackman Ryan Brown buried an unassisted extra-man goal with 3:21 to play in the opening half.
• Just over a minute later senior
Tucker Hull scanned the field and while looking for an open teammate, he fired in a 10-yarder to get the Mids to within one at the break.
• Just 42 seconds into the second half, sophomore Holden Cattoni drilled his high-to-high shot off an assist from Connor Reed. The Blue Jays took their largest lead of the game with 8:04 to play in the third when Brown fed Benn for his fourth goal of the game to give them a 6-3 advantage. That goal, however, would be Hopkins' final goal of the game, as the Mids kept the Blue Jays off the scoreboard for the final 23 minutes of the contest.
• Jones and Hull scored the final two goals of the game, but it was enough.
On the Road Again • Navy has played just one of its five games to date away from Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The Mids will eventually play six of their 13 games away from its home venue - at #19 Holy Cross (2.28 - W, 7-6), at #17 Johns Hopkins (3.7), at Lafayette (3.10), at Colgate (3.21) and at Air Force (5.2).
• Since the beginning of the 2004 campaign, Navy has lost 32 of its 63 road games (neutral sites not included).
• Navy had lost 10 straight games on the road dating back to 2012, but finally got a check in the win column last March at Boston U. The Mids dropped back-to-back games to Maryland and Army in 2012, were 0-5 in 2013 and dropped contests at Bucknell (9-6), Towson (14-9) and Lehigh (13-2) a year ago before dealing the Terriers a 13-7 loss.
• Navy has had a losing record on the road in four of its last six years. The Mids were 2-4 in 2010, 1-6 in 2011, 3-2 in 2012, 0-5 in 2013, 1-6 in 2014 and 1-0 in 2015. Under
Rick Sowell, Navy is 5-13 on the road.
• The last time Navy won two straight on the road was in 2012 when the Mids beat Lafayette (12-7), Towson (10-6) and Colgate (12-11) on the road.
• Navy's 7-6 win over #19 Holy Cross a week ago marked its first win over a ranked team on the road since defeating #12 Colgate, 12-11, on March 24 2012. It hasn't beaten two consecutive ranked teams on the road since 2009 when the Mids dealt #17 Colgate a 9-8 loss in triple overtime in Lewisburg, Pa. and #15 Bucknell a 9-8 loss in Lewisburg to win the Patriot League Championship.
