BALTIMORE – Matthew Benus scored the last goal of the first half for Loyola University Maryland, and he then assisted on a Joey Kamish score to put the first points on the board in the second, but after that No. 16 Boston University would score five in a row to pull away for a 14-9 victory over the host Greyhounds in Patirot League action.
 
Benus, a graduate student short-stick defensive midfielder, entered the game without any points in his career, but his goal with 1:58 in the second quarter starts a stretch where he'd post three points with the goal and two more assists.
 
Ryan McNulty started the sequence when he picked up a ground ball off a faceoff and spun out of traffic at the 'X.' Once on the offensive end, he stepped in as if to shoot but threw to Benus on the high right side, and Benus's high-to-low shot found the netting to tie the game at 5-5 with 1:58 left in the half.
 
The teams would go to the locker room at that score, and it would hold for nearly five minutes in the second until Matt Hughes caused a turnover and got the ball ahead to Benus. He quickly threw it to Kamish on the left side, and he ran in for a one-on-one shot against the goalie, scoring to put Loyola in front, 6-5.
 
Loyola's lead would hold for less than two minutes, however, when Vince D'Alto assisted a Timmy Ley goal at 8:12 to tie the game for the fourth time.
 
Matt Baugher then caught a Louis Perfetto skip pass and scored at 6:30 to provide the Terriers' with their second-straight goal and shift the lead for the fifth time in the game. That would be the second of a 5-0 run that would stretch the Boston University lead to 10-6 on a Thomas Niedringhaus goal with 2:56 left in the third quarter.
 
Loyola broke the run 51 seconds later after Davis Lindsey was hung up behind the goal. He waited until Adam Poitras flashed open on the left side of the crease, throwing to the midfielder for a one-timer goal.
 
D'Alto, however, scored off of a Perfetto assist at 1:19, starting another Boston University run of three-straight goals with Ley's third of the day making it 13-7 Terriers with 13:43 left in regulation.
 
Lindley would take a Benus feed to score at 9:39, and 50 seconds later Aidan Olmstead threw from the top of the offensive set to Poitras inside for a goal that would get Loyola back within four, 13-9. That was the Greyhounds' final goal of the game, however.
 
The first half was evenly played with each team using 3-0 runs. After Olmstead assisted Lindley for the game's first goal at 12:57, Tommy Borque tallied a goal for the Terriers at 6:46. Those would be the first quarter's only goals before the Terriers got tallies in the first seven minutes of the second from D'Alto and Ley.
 
Lindsey posted an unassisted goal at 7:34, beginning the Greyhounds' 3-0 run that would include goals from Lindley and Evan James, giving them a 4-3 lead with 4:54 to play in the first half.
 
Conor Calderone came back to to win the faceoff to himself and score four seconds later, and D'Alto added a goal with 2:13 on the clock before Benus's tally would tie it going into halftime.
 
Lindley, Olmstead and Benus all had three points to lead the Greyhounds. Lindley's came on three goals, Olmstead's on three assists and Benus's on a goal and two assists. Poitras posted two goals, while Lindsey had a goal and an assist.
 
Bailey Savio had a strong effort on faceoffs for the Greyhounds, winning 17 of 27 from Calderone after the Boston University specialist entered winning 60 percent of draws. Savio also had a game-high 12 ground balls.
 
Hughes posted a career-high five turnovers for the Greyhounds and also picked up four ground balls and had a transition assist.
 
Loyola will not have to wait long to play its next game as the Greyhounds head to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown University at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, in a game broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network.