Posted 12:21 PM by Marco

From the Sun, to JHU Sports, to your humble reporter, seeing his first lax game of the year (and one of the best in years):
The forecast was foreboding, with dark clouds passing overhead, and rain soaking historic Homewood field, where the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays were preparing to face the unbeaten and number 1 ranked Syracuse Orangemen.
True to form, the Orangemen started quickly with a fast-break goal off the opening face-off, and then another tally before the Jays could narrow the gap to 2-1.
The Orangemen appeared to be in control most of the game, generally leading by one or two goals. Hopkins could never seem to string together a run, since they lost last year's senior face-off specialist to graduation.
With 7 minutes left, and the score 7-4, the Blue Jay faithful were beginning to lose hope.
But then Jays scored once, then twice, then three times.
They finally went ahead with one minute to play, but the game never seemed in hand, as they were man-down with 17 tics left.
But one great save by Nick Murtha (who was useless in the third quarter), and a final Syracuse heave fell short as time expired.
Hat tricks to Conor Ford and Kevin Boland.
The Jays visit Virginia next Saturday night in Charlottesville.