Second quarter underway, and Dionne gets his 4th to make it 8-3 with 13:25 left in the half. He set up near the middle of the zone but to the right and took a perimeter feed, then he faked right before making a clockwise Kareem sky hook move and whipping it in at the peak of his leap.
EDIT - Make it 9-3 as Jordan Wolf makes an explosive first step from behind the net to lose his defender, sprints for the left post, then turns and fires it in low and left. Poor job of sealing the gap there by JHU goalie Eric Schneider.
EDIT - Another Duke penalty, another EMO goal for the Jays. Guida with the hat trick, and it's 9-4 Blue Devils with under 11:00 to play in the half.
EDIT - Jones draws the double-team and dishes it down low to Walsh who rips it in for his 2nd of the day. The big man is like a much more mobile version of Shaq relative to the rest of the nation's LAX players. 10-4 Duke with 7:31 left in the half.
EDIT - Keenan with the quick overhand shot while leaning left toward the net. 11-4 with 6:45 left.
EDIT - Blue Jays respond as Mike Pellegrino battles hard for the face-off win and gets it to Ryan Brown on the right doorstep. 11-5 Duke with 6:00 to play.
EDIT - Jones is downright frightening. Fakes the shot, gets his defender (Pellegrino) to commit, then dodges left and moves in for the close-range assault. 12-5 with 5:15 on the clock.
EDIT - Holden Cattoni scores for JHU off a critical ground ball pickup by Wells Stanwick. 12-6 with 3:41 until the half, and Duke takes a time-out.
EDIT - Sweet goal by Connor Reed, running from center to right, jumping and firing into the top of the net past a screen. 12-7 Duke, and now the Jays win the face-off as we approach the 2:00 mark.
EDIT - And another JHU goal, their 3rd straight, and it's 12-8 with 1:38 to play. John Crawley with a strong move from behind the net past the left post, and he nails it southpaw.
EDIT - After JHU won the face-off, they lose the ball and there's a ground ball scrum. Duke gets it and moves it downfield to set up a Dionne shot. And as he plants facing to the left of the field, with his weight going down on his right leg, he's absolutely nailed on his left side by Guida. An extremely ugly impact but a perfectly legal hit. Jays break the other way with Dionne still down and in agony, and the refs finally blow it dead after a shot over the JHU net. Looks like either a knee or ankle. He was able to get up and leave the field on his own power, but very gingerly. The half ends with Duke still up 12-8, but Dionne could prove a huge loss.
EDIT - Strong response by Hopkins after allowing Duke to run roughshod over the first 7+ minutes of the game. They outscored the Blue Devils 8-6 the rest of the half, closing on a 4-1 run.