Johns Hopkins at UMBC Game Notes (March 30, 2016)
The UMBC men's lacrosse team welcomes 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins to UMBC Stadium in the first night contest of the Retrievers' season on Wednesday, March 30. The opening face-off between the Retrievers and Blue Jays is slated for 7 p.m.
-The first 250 fans will receive UMBC "Blackout" t-shirts. Both the UMBC Down and Dirty Dawg Band and the JHU Band will be rockin' the Dawg House! There is also UMBC Sports Marketing's halftime contest of a shot from midfield, which is now up to $9,000! Moreover, it's Fan Appreciation Night, with $1 hot dawgs!
-The contest will be broadcast on Q1370AM/www.q1370.com and streamed on www.umbcretrievers.tv, a part of the America East digital network. The live video and live stats will be available via www.umbcretrievers.com and fans can also follow via the men's lacrosse program's Twitter feed (UMBC_MLacrosse). Access is also available via UMBC Front Row, UMBC Athletics' mobile website.
UMBC update
-Senior attackman Nate Lewnes scored a team season-high six goals and spearheaded a furious comeback, but the Retrievers (1-5, 0-2 America East) could not complete the rally and fell, 14-11, to 12th-ranked Stony Brook (6-2, 1-1 AE) on Saturday in an America East Conference contest at UMBC Stadium.
-The Retrievers trailed, 10-3, at the midpoint of the second quarter, but cut the deficit to 13-11 early in the fourth quarter and had four shot attempts to try to trim the margin to 13-12 before SBU scored a late insurance marker.
-For the second straight week, UMBC set a season high for goals scored. In those games, the Retrievers have hit on 21 of 54 shot attempts (38.9%) and 17 of the 21 goals have drawn assists.
-Lewnes' six-goal, seven-point effort is one off of his career best seven-goal, eight-point effort at Vermont in April of 2014. It is his tenth career game with three or more goals. Lewnes is now 19th on UMBC'a all-time goals list with 84 and 29th on the all-time scoring chart with 107 career points.
-Senior midfielder Jack Gannon and junior attackman Max Maxwell each recorded for points, as Gannon added three assists to his one tally and Maxwell tied his career-best with four helpers. Freshman attackman Jack Andrews added a goal and two helpers, while sophomore middie Max Haldeman scored a pair for the second consecutive week.
-Despite having played only three games, Lewnes leads UMBC with eight goals scored. Maxwell is the club leader with 16 points (7g, 9a), while Gannon paces the squad with 10 helpers. Senior defender Zach Esser is eighth in the nation with 1.83 caused turnovers per game and his 67 CT's are second all-time to Mike Camardo, '10 (87).
-Head Coach Don Zimmerman enters his 23rd season at UMBC and his 30th as a collegiate head coach. Amongst Division I head coaches, the Retriever mentor stood eighth with 233 victories and is 17th in winning percentage at .591 entering the 2016 campaign. In the all-time coaching annuals of Division I lacrosse, Zimmerman is 26th in total victories.
-Zimmerman piloted the Retrievers to four consecutive NCAA Division I tournament appearances from 2006-09, a feat accomplished for the first time in the school's Division I lacrosse history.
-Zimmerman was named America East Conference Coach of the Year by his colleagues in both 2008 and 2009. The Retriever mentor was the 2008 Coach of the Year in LaxPower men's lacrosse Fan Awards, He led UMBC to its first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 1998 and 1999.
Zimmerman's Records
Career Record: 234-166 (30th season)
at UMBC: 161-151 (23rd season)
scouting the blue jays
-For the third straight year and the fourth time in the last five years, the Johns Hopkins-Virginia regular-season men's lacrosse game ended in overtime; and for the third consecutive year it was the host Cavaliers who came out on top as Mike D'Amario's goal just 19 seconds into the extra session was the difference in a 13-12 Virginia victory Sunday afternoon.
-The contest was JHU's second straight in OT, as they rallied to edge Syracuse, 11-10, on March 27. Four of the 11th-ranked Jays' contests have been decided by one goal .
-Sophomore attackman Shack Stanwick paced the Blue Jays with two goals and two assist and junior linemater Wilkins Dismuke chipped in with the two goals and one assist.
-Stanwick leads JHU with 32 points, scoring 11 times and adding a team-best 21 helpers. His 3.0 assists per game is ranked third in the nation. Senior attackman Ryan Brown, who netted six goals versus UMBC in 2015, tops the Jays with 17 goals to date. Hopkins has outscored its foes, 23-12, in the third quarter in 2016 and has hit on 14 of 24 man up opportunities.
the series, etc.
-Johns Hopkins is one of just two programs that UMBC has faced more than one time that the Retrievers are winless against. UMBC is 0-13 vs. the Blue Jays and 0-2 vs. Robert Morris. The Retrievers are 0-8 at Homewood Field, 0-3 at UMBC Stadium and 0-2 vs. JHU at M&T Bank Stadium.
-In the 2015 season opener, fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins sprinted out to a 6-0 lead and defeated visiting UMBC, 16-4, at Homewood Field. Gannon had a pair of assists for UMBC and Esser contributed five ground balls and three caused turnovers.
up next
-UMBC will compete in another non-conference contest on Saturday, when they travel to Easton, Pa., to take on Lafayette. The opening face-off is set for 1:00 p.m.
