April 21, 2005

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The Game: Top-ranked Johns Hopkins (9-0) hosts fifth-ranked Navy (9-2) at Homewood Field on Saturday, April 23 at 1:00 pm.

Last Time Out: Hopkins improved to 9-0 with an 11-6 win at Maryland last Friday night, while the Mids picked up their second straight win over a top-10 team with a 12-9 win over rival Army.

These are the Facts: Johns Hopkins enters this week’s game with an all-time record of 842-263-15 (.758) 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.

75 and Counting: The win over Virginia was Dave Pietramala’s 75th as a college head coach and he now sports a 79-27 (.745) overall record. His record at Johns Hopkins is 56-10 (.848) and he posted a 23-17 record in three seasons as the head coach at Cornell.

Fastest 50: With the win over Hofstra, Dave Pietramala tied Ray Van Orman (1926-34) as the third-fastest coaches to reach 50 wins in Johns Hopkins history. 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 tied with the 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.

Classic Comeback: The Blue Jays’ come-from-behind win over Syracuse on March 18 was Hopkins’ biggest come-from behind victory in over six years. JHU trailed 7-1 late in the second quarter before rallying for a 12-11 overtime victory. The last time JHU had erased a six-goal deficit to win a game was on March 6, 1999, when the Blue Jays erased a 9-3 deficit and beat Princeton, 12-11. That game was the first in current North Carolina coach John Haus’ two-year stint as the head coach at Johns Hopkins.

Home Sweet Home: The win over Duke was Hopkins’ school-record 32nd straight win at Homewood Field. The last time the Blue Jays lost a game at home was on March 24, 2001 when Virginia slipped past the Blue Jays, 9-8 in quadruple overtime. That game ranks as the longest in both Johns Hopkins and Virginia history.

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 3, 2001 Active 32

April 24, 1982 May 19, 1985 31

April 29, 1978 March 20, 1982 30

More Home Sweet Home: In addition to boasting the longest active home winning streak in the nation and the longest home winning streak in school history, JHU’s current 32-game home winning streak is the second-longest in Division I history (since 1971). Since 1971, when the NCAA began tracking such records, Johns Hopkins boasts three of the four all-time home winning streaks of 30 or more games. Below is the list of the five longest home winning streaks in Division I history:

All-Time Longest Division I Home Winning Streaks (1971 - Present)

Team Dates Wins

Syracuse April 24, 1982 - March 18, 1987 37

Johns Hopkins April 3, 2001 - Active 32

Johns Hopkins April 24, 1982 - May 19, 1985 31

Johns Hopkins April 29, 1978 - March 20, 1982 30

Syracuse April 18, 1987 - May 20, 1990 26

Other Home Notes of Interest

• Johns Hopkins has defeated three teams during its current 32-game home winning streak that entered the game ranked number one in the nation.

• Johns Hopkins has defeated nine teams during its current 32-game home winning streak that entered the game ranked in the top five in the nation.

• Johns Hopkins has defeated 14 teams during its current 32-game home winning streak that entered the game ranked in the top 10 in the nation.

• Johns Hopkins has defeated 20 teams during its current 32-game home winning streak that entered the game ranked in the top 20 in the nation.

• Johns Hopkins has won eight, one-goal games during its current 32-game home winning streak.

• Johns Hopkins has won three overtime games during its current 32-game home winning streak.

• The current seniors on the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team are 28-0 at home

• During the current 32-game home winning streak the Blue Jays have outscored the opposition, 424-224

• Over the last 25 seasons (1980-present) Johns Hopkins is 161-25 (.866) at home

Pulling Rank: Johns Hopkins is ranked first in this week’s GEICO/STX Coaches Poll. Johns Hopkins has ended the regular season ranked number one in each of the last three years. 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 29 of 39 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 uses the GEICO/STX Coaches Poll as the official poll when listing a team’s ranking.

April Reign: The win last week over Maryland was Hopkins’ 20th straight in the month of April. The Blue Jays last lost a game in April on April 14, 2001 (10-9 at Maryland). Since the beginning of the 1997 season the Blue Jays are 46-1 in the month of April.

Anytime, Anywhere: Last week’s game against Maryland was the 39th in JHU’s last 41 away from Homewood Field against a team ranked in the top 20.

Regular-Season Roll: Johns Hopkins is 45-3 (.938) in its last 48 regular season games. This is the best 48-game regular season run for Johns Hopkins since JHU won 45-of-48 regular season games covering a span from 1982-86.

More Rolls: Dating back to the 2002 season, Johns Hopkins is 45-5 (.900) in its last 50 games (including the NCAA playoffs). Hopkins’ five losses during that time have come by a total of 12 goals.

One-Goal Turnarounds: JHU is 18-4 in one-goal games under head coach Dave Pietramala and the Blue Jays have won nine of their last 10 one-goal games. In its previous 22 one-goal games (from late in the 1992 season through the 2000 season), Hopkins was 11-11.

Overtime Notes: Including the double overtime victory over Duke, the Blue Jays are 7-2 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 topped 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 plays five teams ranked in the top 10 in this week’s poll and eight teams ranked in the top 20.

A Game of Runs: Johns Hopkins scored five of the last seven goals against Duke and 6-of-7 to start the second half against Maryland. These are 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.

Blue Jays Reach Season High: The 19 goals the Blue Jays scored in the win over Albany are a season-high and the most Hopkins has scored since the 2003 NCAA Semifinals, when Hopkins knocked off Syracuse, 19-8.

Player Notes of Interest Included in PDF Version