Princeton Upends Johns Hopkins 14-8

BALTIMORE -- Bill Tierney began to talk about how hard it can be to play with a big lead. Then he paused and chuckled.

“The only thing harder,” said Princeton’s Hall-of-Fame men’s lacrosse coach, “is to play with a huge deficit.”

Tierney saw both ends of the equation in his last two appearances in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic games against Johns Hopkins, and he liked the 2009 version much better.

Jack McBride scored four goals and Tyler Fiorito made 11 saves to lead Princeton to a 14-8 win over Johns Hopkins in the third annual Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The game was almost a mirror image of the meeting between the teams in the same stadium 52 weeks earlier.

Princeton (ranked ninth in the coaches’ poll and 11th in the media poll) improved to 2-0 on the young season by sprinting past the Blue Jays (ranked sixth and third), who played in the NCAA championship game a year ago and returned almost its entire highly rated defensive unit.

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