Loyola outscored Johns Hopkins 7-1 in the second half Saturday, and the 14th-ranked Greyhounds turned a 5-4 halftime lead into a 12-5 victory over the 10th-ranked Blue Jays at Ridley Athletic Complex.

A crowd of 4,074 braved a cold day and steady second-half snow, while more than 193,000 watched the game on Facebook Live.

Loyola went up 5-3 on a Pat Spencer extra-man goal with 6:00 left in the first half, but Johns Hopkins (1-1) tallied the half’s last two goals to get within one when Shack Stanwick scored with 52.4 seconds left before the break.

The Greyhounds gained possession to start the third quarter off a Johns Hopkins faceoff violation, and after drawing a 30-second clock warning 80 seconds later, Aidan Olmstead split his defender from the right side and scored his first collegiate goal at 13:28, launching the Greyhounds’ run.

John Duffy scored off a Spencer assist at 9:53, and Brian Begley tallied the first of his two goals at 8:11, pushing Loyola in front by four, 8-4.

Both teams had offensive opportunities, as well as extra-man chances, over the next five minutes, but Loyola’s man-down defense killed a penalty with a Johns Hopkins penalty, and Begley picked up the ground ball to possess for the Greyhounds.

Begley and Duffy played a two-man game on the left side, and Begley threw to Duffy for an eight-yard look that he converted to push the advantage to five. The Blue Jays got back within four, however, just 11 seconds later as Jared Reinson took a Hunter Moreland pass off the faceoff to score at 1:50.

That goal, however, would be Johns Hopkins’ only of the second half. Jacob Stover made seven of his 12 saves in the second half, including four in the final quarter.

Loyola went on extra-man to start the fourth quarter after Johns Hopkins was offsides at the end of the third, and Logan Devereaux fired a hard shot that was saved by the Blue Jays’ Brock Turnbaugh. The rebound caromed directly to Jay Drapeau on the left side of the crease where he picked it up, firing it in for his third goal of the afternoon.

Johns Hopkins had a good look at the goal minutes later, but Jacob Stover saved a Joel Tinney shot at 12:18, and the Greyhounds cleared to their offensive end.

After a Zac Davliakos transition shot went off the post, Loyola restarted and Spencer took the ball behind the cage. He drew space from his defender with a change-of-direction and skipped a pass over the defense to Alex McGovern who scored on a sidearm shot with 11:35 left, giving the Greyhounds an 11-5 cushion.

Just over three minutes later, Ryder Harkins caused a turnover, and Begley cleared himself to score his second with 8:26 left for the final margin of victory.

Begley finished with two goals and two assists, matching Spencer for game-high honors with a goal and three assists. Drapeau scored a game-best three times, while Duffy and McGovern each had two goals.

Loyola forced 22 Johns Hopkins turnovers, 13 that were caused by the Greyhounds. Foster Huggins caused seven turnovers, good for second-most in school single-game history; Harkins and Matt Higgins each had two caused turnovers

Moreland finished 14-for-20 on faceoffs to go with one goal and one assist and Turnbaugh made 11 saves in the loss. The Blue Jays were 0-for-5 on extra-man opportunities.

ALBANY CRUSHES SYRACUSE

Is Albany for real? You bet.

The No. 3 Great Danes opened a season of high expectations with a 15-3 blowout of No. 9 Syracuse at the Carrier Dome. Freshman sensation Tehoka Nanticoke scored five goals in his collegiate debut, finishing around the goal with a variety of release points and angles. Last year’s freshman sensation, meanwhile, fueled Albany’s high-powered offense with possessions, as TD Ierlan finished 16-for-21 on faceoffs.

Jakob Patterson scored four goals and Tewaaraton finalist Connor Fields added two goals and two assists for the Great Danes, who held the Orange to their fewest goals since 1991. Goalie JD Colarusso earned the victory with 10 saves.

Read more about Nanticoke’s sparkling debut and Albany’s convincing victory here.

SEIBEL SLAM AT THE STAR

Villanova did it again.

Two weeks after shocking then-No. 9 Penn State in overtime, the Wildcats took down No. 5 Yale in the same fashion Saturday.

Danny Seibel slipped a low-to-low shot past Bulldogs goalie Jack Starr with 20 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Villanova to a 10-9 victory in the Patriot Cup at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

Read more here.

OHIO STATE SENIORS DELIVER

When their team needed them the most, senior captains John Kelly and Colin Chell delivered. The duo scored back to back goals with inside of six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter to lift No. 7 Ohio State (3-0) to a gritty 9-7 win over No. 15 Hofstra on Saturday afternoon in front of a sold-out crowd at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

Kelly and Chell's goals were backed up by a fourth quarter defensive effort — led by seniors Erik Evans and Ben Randall — that held Hofstra scoreless for nearly 14 minutes. The Buckeyes raced out to an early 5-0 lead after one quarter and never trailed, but needed the momentum-changing scores from Kelly and Chell in the fourth quarter to secure its third win of the season. Ohio State improved to 22-0 all-time at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center and improved its overall home record to 34-10 since 2013.

ARMY SILENCES RUTGERS

No. 16 Army scored the game’s final two goals to upend No. 8 Rutgers 9-7 on Saturday in a game between teams spurned by the NCAA tournament selection committee last May.

The Black Knights (3-0) were dominant with the exception of a two-minute stretch in the second quarter, when a 5-1 lead evaporated. Jules Heningburg’s goal with two seconds left before halftime capped a four-goal rally for the Scarlet Knights (2-1) that tied it at 5.

Army and Rutgers exchanged goals in the third quarter and early in the fourth. Christian Mazzone tied it at 7 with a diving goal at the 12:39 mark, but the Scarlet Knights would not put another shot on goal for the rest of the game. The Black Knights outshot Rutgers 11-3 in the fourth quarter and pulled away on goals by Connor DeWitt and Austin Colvin.

UNC SURVIVES AGAIN

North Carolina keeps playing with fire.

For the second straight week, the Tar Heels survived an upset bid with a late equalizer and some overtime heroics from a sophomore midfielder.

This time, it was William Perry who delivered 36 seconds into overtime to lift No. 11 North Carolina to a 15-14 win Saturday over Lehigh at Kenan Stadium. (Justin Anderson clinched a victory in the same fashion last Saturday against Furman.)

Perry had a career-high four goals to pace the Tar Heels, who are 3-0 but have in this weaker portion of their schedule. Timmy Kelly added three goals and Andy Matthews tied his career high with five points (two goals, three assists).

Andrew Pettit led Lehigh with four goals, the last of which put the Mountain Hawks ahead 11-10 with 3:04 remaining.

North Carolina tied it 31 seconds later when Matthews found Kelly in front for a goal.

The Tar Heels committed two turnovers in the final two minutes of regulation, and Lehigh had a chance to win it, but Tristan Rai’s shot from in close hit the pipe.

After Charles Kelly (15-for-26) won the opening faceoff of overtime and North Carolina called timeout, Chris Cloutier drew three defenders and sent a pass over the top to a wide-open Perry, who buried the a 10-yard shot from the left alley.

TERPS HOLD OFF HIGH POINT

Maryland survived its first road test of the season. Barely.

The defending NCAA champion and second-ranked Terps coughed up a seven-goal lead at High Point, then held on for a 16-14 win Saturday.

After Maryland (3-0) went up 10-3 late in the second quarter, the Panthers (0-3) stormed back with four unanswered goals in the final 2:14 of the first half.

High Point pulled within one on three different occasions in the second half, but the Terps answered when it mattered most. Fifth-year senior midfielder Tim Rotanz provided needed insurance with his third goal of the game with 2:10 remaining. Rotanz added three assists for a career-high six points.

Sophomore attackman Jared Bernhardt also had six points on four goals and two assists, while senior defenseman Michael Adler caused six turnovers, the most by a Maryland player since 2010.

But the Terps defense was otherwise uncharacteristically penetrable. High Point's 14 goals were the most allowed by Maryland in a regular-season game under coach John Tillman.

Panthers senior Connor Robins scored three of his team-high four goals during High Point’s five-goal run in the middle of the game.

QUINNIPIAC IN OT

Mike Fletcher scored his fourth goal of the game less than two minutes into overtime to lift Quinnipiac to a 12-11 victory over No. 20 Brown. Fletcher added an assist in the win, which came just six days after the Bobcats fell in overtime against UMass-Lowell. Will Vitelli went 19-for-27 on faceoffs.

PRINCETON IN 2OT

On a day where the Princeton offense was carried by two unlikely players for the first 60 minutes, it was the bread-and-butter in the second overtime that ultimately was the difference.

Freshman Chris Brown had two goals and three assists in his college debut and sophomore Phillip Robertson had three goals in his first start. Then, in that second overtime, No. 19 Princeton went back to more familiar sources, as Michael Sowers set up Riley Thompson perfectly for the game-winning layup as Princeton survived Monmouth 9-8 in the season opener for both teams.

COLGATE UNDEFEATED

Griffin Brown scored six goals to lead undefeated Colgate to a 14-11 win over Cornell on Saturday, snapping the Raiders’ 12-game losing streak against the Big Red. Brown’s big day really got going late in the third quarter. He scored with 19 seconds left to tie the game at 10. Then he added three unanswered goals, including two in a span of 18 seconds, as Colgate (3-0) took control in the fourth quarter. Nicky Petkevich (two goals, four assists) assisted on all three of Brown’s fourth-quarter goals, then scored on his own with 6:30 left to make it 14-10.

Nike/US Lacrosse Top 20 Scoreboard

No. 2 Maryland 16, High Point 14
No. 4 Albany 15, No. 9 Syracuse 3
No. 12 Villanova 10, No. 5 Yale 9 (OT)
No. 7 Ohio State 9, No. 15 Hofstra 7
No. 16 Army 9, No. 8 Rutgers 7
No. 14 Loyola 12, No. 10 Johns Hopkins 5
No. 11 North Carolina 12, Lehigh 11 (OT)
No. 13 Virginia 13, Drexel 8
No. 17 Penn State 15, Stony Brook 8
No. 18 Penn 12, Michigan 9
No. 19 Princeton 9, Monmouth 8 (2OT)
Quinnipiac 12, No. 20 Brown 11 (OT)

Other Scores

Air Force 8, Marist 7
Bellarmine 13, Cleveland State 9
Colgate 14, Cornell 11
Dartmouth 13, Canisius 12
Delaware 11, NJIT 6
Fairfield 11, St. Joseph’s 6
Georgetown 12, Robert Morris 11
Harvard 10, UMass-Lowell 9
Manhattan 12, VMI 7
Marquette 11, Jacksonville 10
Navy 7, UMBC 5
Providence 13, Bryant 8
Richmond 9, Bucknell 8
Sacred Heart 17, Furman 13
Siena 12, Hobart 11
St. John’s 14, Hartford 12
Towson 15, Mount St. Mary’s 13
Vermont 15, Holy Cross 3