March 11, 2005

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The Game: Johns Hopkins aims for its third straight 3-0 start as the Blue Jays (2-0) host Hofstra (0-2)

These are the Facts: Johns Hopkins enters this week’s game with an all-time record of 835-263-15 (.757) in 118 seasons of play. The Blue Jays own seven NCAA Championships, 29 USILA titles and six ILA titles for a total of 42 national championships.

Hitting the Century Mark: The game against Hofstra will be Dave Pietramala’s 100th game as a college head coach. He sports a 72-27 (.727) record in just over seven years.

Fastest 50: Dave Pietramala enters this week’s game against Hofstra with a 49-10 (.831) record in just over four years as the head coach at Johns Hopkins. With a win he’ll become the eighth coach in school history to reach the 50-win mark and he’ll tie Ray Van Orman as the third-fastest to 50 wins. Don Zimmerman (1984-90) won 50 of his first 57 games, while Henry Ciccarone (1975-83) won 50 of his first 59. Van Orman needed 60 games to get 50 wins, a mark Pietramala would tie with a win over Hofstra.

Brother Act: The Blue Jays have one set of brothers on this year’s team, while five other players have older brothers who previously played at Hopkins. Junior midfielder Greg Peyser is the older brother of freshman midfielder Stephen Peyser, while senior attackman Peter LeSueur (Paul), junior midfielder Joe Benson (Bobby), junior goalie Scott Smith (Todd), junior defenseman Andrew DiConza (P.J.) and freshman attackman Michael Doneger (Adam) all followed older brothers to Johns Hopkins.

Chip Off the Old Block: Freshman attackman Kevin Huntley doesn’t have an older brother who played at Hopkins, but he is following in the footsteps of his dad, Dave Huntley, who was a standout midfielder for the Blue Jays from 1976-79. Dave Huntley earned All-America honors three times during his career and was the national midfielder of the year as a senior. Dave Huntley is JHU’s career goal-scoring leader among midfielders with 100.

Another Family Tie: Senior goalie James Maimone-Medwick is the nephew of Bob Maimone, who played at Johns Hopkins from 1974-77. Bob Maimone ranks among JHU’s all-time leaders in ground balls and is one of the top faceoff specialists in school history as well.

Home Sweet Home: Johns Hopkins enters this week’s game riding the crest of a 28-game home winning streak. No current member of the Blue Jay lacrosse team has ever lost a game at Homewood Field and the 28-game run is just three shy of the school record of 31 straight home wins. Below is a list of JHU’s all-time longest home winning streaks.

Johns Hopkins All-Time Longest Home Winning Streaks

From Until # of Games

April 24, 1982 May 19, 1985 31

April 29, 1978 March 20, 1982 30

April 3, 2001 Active 28

Pulling Rank: Johns Hopkins is ranked first in this week’s GEICO/STX Coaches Poll (first poll of the season). Johns Hopkins ended the 2004 regular season ranked number one for the third consecutive season. The Blue Jays were ranked number one for nine weeks last season (out of 11), including the last five. Since the beginning of the 2002 season, Johns Hopkins has spent 22 of 32 weeks ranked number one. From 1996-2001 the Blue Jays were ranked number one for a total of one week.

The Johns Hopkins Sports Information Office use the GEICO/STX Coaches Poll as the official poll when listing a team’s ranking.

Anytime, Anywhere: Last week’s game against Princeton was the 36th in JHU’s last 38 away from Homewood Field against a team ranked in the top 20.

Regular-Season Roll: Johns Hopkins is 38-3 (.927) in its last 41 regular season games. This is the best 41-game regular season run for Johns Hopkins since JHU won 38-of-41 regular season games covering a span from 1982-86.

More Rolls: Dating back to the 2002 season, Johns Hopkins is 38-5 (.884) in its last 43 games (including the NCAA playoffs). Hopkins’ five losses during that time have come by a total of 12 goals.

One-Goal Turnarounds: JHU is 16-4 in one-goal games under head coach Dave Pietramala and the Blue Jays won 4-of-5 one-goal games last season. From the final game of the 1994 season through the 2000 season Johns Hopkins was 11-9 in one-goal games.

Overtime Notes: The Blue Jays are 5-2 in overtime under head coach Dave Pietramala.

Tough: Johns Hopkins will once again play the most difficult schedule in the nation. For the second consecutive year the Blue Jays top the Face-Off Yearbook/Under Armour Strength of Schedule Rankings. The Blue Jays’ S.O.S rating of 165 edged second-place Virginia, which had a rating of 161.

A quick look at this week’s GEICO/STX Coaches Poll reveals just how difficult the Blue Jays’ schedule is. Hopkins will play eight teams currently ranked in the top 10, including second-ranked Navy, third-ranked Virginia, fourth-ranked Duke and fifth-ranked Syracuse.

Hopkins may also have the most difficult road schedule in the country as trips to Syracuse (5th in this week’s poll), North Carolina (10th), Maryland (T6th) and Towson (9th) remain, while last week’s opener was against now eighth-ranked Princeton.

A Game of Runs: Johns Hopkins scored the first six goals in last week’s 9-6 win at third-ranked Princeton. This is the latest in a long line of game-turning scoring runs the Blue Jays have used since the beginning of the 2003 season. Last season the Blue Jays had a run of 6-0 or better in eight games and a run of 8-0 or better in five games.

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