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Navy Overcomes Johns Hopkins 15-10 in CWPA Southern Division Action
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Visiting Navy used an 8-1 second period to pull away for a 15-10 win at Johns Hopkins in CWPA Southern Division action Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. The loss drops Hopkins to 14-14 overall and 2-6 in the CWPA in the Blue Jays regular-season finale. The Midshipmen improve to 16-8 overall and 5-2 in the league.
Holding a slim 3-2 lead after the first quarter, Navy exploded for eight goals in the second, while holding Hopkins to just one. Senior Kyle Gertridge (Gunn Prep, Calif./Paolo Alto) scored at the start of the second to knot the score at 3-3. Johnny Meiners answered for the Midshipmen just 32 seconds later to ignite a 9-0 run that would stretch into the early part of the third period. Six different players scored for Navy during the run, led by Meiners, who notched a hat trick in the second period.
Trailing 12-3 with over seven minutes to play in the third quarter, sophomore Mark Strickland (Houston, Texas/Strake Jesuit) scored to kick-start a 4-0 Blue Jay run. Freshman Kielan Crow (Portola Valley, Calif/Lick-Wilmerding) sandwiched a pair of goals around a strike from Gertridge as Hopkins cut the deficit to five at 12-7 early in the fourth. Luke Baldwin ended the run with his second of the day, pushing the Midshipmen's lead to 13-7. But Crow answered with a pair of goals and the deficit was four (13-9) with 3:07 remaining. That's as close as Hopkins would get as the teams traded goals over the final three minutes to account for the 15-10 final.
Crow's four goals and five points were a career high. Gertridge was the only other Blue Jays with multiple goals. For the Midshipmen, Meiners (4), Baldwin (4), Kyle Wertz (3) and Stevie Ray (2) all had multi-goal games. Junior Jeremy Selbst (Old Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) finished with eight saves in three quarters of action, while freshman Alex Gastevich (Chicago, Ill./St. Ignatius College Prep) made two saves in the fourth.
Release courtesy Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications
