Loyola-Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse Box Score - 2/18/17BALTIMORE – Johns Hopkins University's Joel Tinney got free eight yards out on the right side, and he stuck the game-winning show midway through overtime Saturday to give the fifth-ranked Blue Jays a 14-13 win over visiting No. 9 Loyola University Maryland at Homewood Field.
Johns Hopkins (3-0 overall) won the opening faceoff of overtime, but Zac Davliakos picked off a Blue Jays pass and transitioned the ball to the Greyhounds' (0-2) offensive end of the field. After running a settled six-on-six possession, Brian Sherlock's high-to-high shot was saved by Blue Jays goalkeeper Gerald Logan.
The home team cleared the ball successfully, and Tinney faked a flip to teammate Patrick Fraser while running around a pick, drawing space to score his only goal of the game and send the Blue Jays to the win.
The game featured seven tie scores as the teams combined for 77 shots in front of an announced crowd of 5,222 fans.
Loyola jumped out to a 4-1 lead just over 11 minutes into the first quarter as Zack Sirico scored twice, and John Duffy and Brian Sherlock added goals for the Greyhounds. Duffy broke a 1-1 tie off a Pat Spencer assist with 8:31 on the clock, and after Sirico's second of the game, Sherlock score an extra-man goal on the doorstep at 3:57.
Sherlock matched his career-high with four goals and also had an assist for five points. Spencer recorded a goal and four assists, while Sirico and Alex McGovern each had two goals and an assist.
The Blue Jays, however, rallied quickly as Craig Madaraz won the faceoff, ran into the box and scored four ticks after Sherlock's first goal.
Shack Stanwick then finished a Joe Carlini transition run with a goal at 2:19, and John Crawley tallied his lone goal of the game at 1:28, tying the score at 4-4.
It was not tied for long as Graham Savio won the faceoff forward for the Greyhounds and ran in to score his third goal of the season and fourth of his career to put Loyola in front.
Loyola carried the 5-4 advantage into the second quarter where Spencer used a McGovern feed to score at 11:36, and it was a two-goal Greyhounds' advantage before Kyle Marr and Fraser tallied back-to-back unassisted goals for the Blue Jays.
Fraser's score knotted the game at 6-6 with 3:21 to go in the opening half, but Romar Dennis buried an 18-yard rip off a Sherlock assist less than a minute later, and Sherlock scored his second of the game with 15.1 ticks left before halftime, sending the Greyhoudns into the locker room up, 8-6.
Just nine seconds into the second half, Savio won the faceoff but was stripped of possession in the box. McGovern picked up the ground ball and in one motion scored over his shoulder to stak the Greyhounds to a 9-6 lead.
Stanwick, who led Johns Hopkins with four goals and one assist, responded for the Blue Jays, scoring his second goal off a Carlini assist. The Greyhounds stretched it back to a three-goal lead, however, at 10:53 in the third when Mike Perkins caught a Spencer feed and scored on a step-down look to put Loyola up, 10-7.
The Blue Jays, however, reeled off a 4-0 run and went ahead, 11-10, on a Forry Smith goal with 2:35 to go in the third, giving Johns Hopkins its first lead of the afternoon.
Loyola came back, however, just 44 seconds later to tie on a McGovern goal from Spencer, and the game went to the final quarter of regulation tied, 11-11.
Sherlock broke the deadlock 1:21 into the fourth when Sirico skipped a pass across the Johns Hopkins zone, and Sherlock found the net from 12 yards out. The Blue Jays, however, drew even 4:29 later on a Wilkins Dismuke goal.
Less than three minutes later, both teams went a man-down due to offsetting penalties, and Loyola took possession in a five-on-five situation. Sherlock beat a double at the top of the box and came free down the middle to score at 6:16, staking the Greyhounds to a 13-12 advantage.
After more than three minutes of scoreless play, Smith collected a rebound off a saved Johns Hopkins shot and dumped the ball into the goal, tying the contest at 13-13 with 2:49 left in regulation. Neither team scored from there until the fourth-quarter horn, and the game went into overtime.
Johns Hopkins outshot the Greyhounds, 41-36, but the Greyhounds had a 30-29 advantage in ground balls. Savio led Loyola in that respect, picking up 10 while winning 19-of-31 faceoffs. 
Jacob Stover made 14 saves in goal for Loyola, including several with Hopkins shooters within five yards. Logan finished with eight stops for the Blue Jays.
Loyola opens Patriot League action on Saturday, Feb. 25, when it travels to Easton, Pennsylvania, for a 12 noon game at Lafayette College.