Carcaterra

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team craved redemption.But the Blue Jays' hunger didn't revolve around overtime losses that ended their previous two seasons in the NCAA quarterfinals or restoring their program to final four prominence. Yesterday, the motive was more personal and immediate.Redeeming itself after an embarrassing loss at Hofstra only two weeks ago, No. 2 Hopkins made the plays in the second half instead of fumbling them, advancing to its first final four since 1996 with an 11-7 victory over the No. 7 Flying Dutchmen at Hofstra Stadium.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Johns Hopkins proved that to beat Princeton, you've got to play like Princeton.Reversing fortunes with the three-time defending national champions, the top-ranked Blue Jays thrived on their opponent's mistakes and elevated their game in the fourth quarter to come back from six goals down and shock the No. 5 Tigers, 12-11, yesterday on a rainy afternoon before 2,398 at Class of 1952 Stadium.Need a clutch goal? The usually suffocating Princeton defense flinched with 2: 49 left in the game, allowing Blue Jays midfielder A. J. Haugen to zip a virtually unstoppable shot just inches inside the right post for the game-winner.

A star lacrosse player who helped lead the Johns Hopkins University to the national tournament last year has been charged with raping a student early Saturday at her off-campus apartment.Brian Joseph Carcaterra, 21, a senior majoring in political science and an All-America lacrosse player, was arrested Monday night by police and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. He was being held last night at the city detention center in lieu of $25,000 bail.The woman told police she believes she was drugged, and investigators said they found an unknown sediment in the bottom of a glass partially filled with white wine that the woman said she had been drinking from.

Rape charges against Brian J. Carcaterra, an All-America lacrosse goalie for Johns Hopkins, were dropped yesterday by city prosecutors."After a thorough look at the facts, we have decided there is insufficient evidence to proceed," said Francine Stokes, spokeswoman for the state's attorneys office, which brought the case.Carcaterra, 22, a senior political science major from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., was arrested Sept. 20 and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault for an incident involving a female student at an off-campus apartment.

The Johns Hopkins lacrosse team played at Hofstra the past five years. It was an impromptu homecoming for some of the Blue Jays, and a chance for coach Tony Seaman to make a recruiting pitch to more New Yorkers.It's a pity the folks on Long Island didn't catch the exhibition staged by one of the nation's hottest teams last night.Hofstra came to Homewood Field for the first time since 1992, and the Flying Dutchmen dragged themselves home after a 16-10 loss that wasn't that close. Hopkins had leads of 6-0 and 15-3, got six goals from Gilman grad Dylan Schlott and another spectacularly routine game from sophomore goalie Brian Carcaterra.

Brian Carcaterra fondly reminisces about his lacrosse initiation.He flashes a grin as he recalls those carefree afternoons as a 7-year-old when he would follow his older brothers, Paul and Steve, to the back of the neighborhood general store. They'd chalk up the perimeter of a goal on the wall, hand their younger sibling an attackman's stick and fire away -- at him.Shot after shot would whiz toward him. Some blazed right by him. Others hammered off his legs.But Carcaterra didn't budge, trying to stop every blistering shot.

While unbeaten and second-ranked Maryland continues to loom large for Johns Hopkins, with the annual game 13 days away, the slow-starting Blue Jays came out yesterday in the second half and put on an impressive show against North Carolina for a 16-9 victory before a festive home-coming crowd of 4,489 at Homewood Field.Fourth-ranked Hopkins (4-2) had to score the final two goals of the first half just to gain a tie at 5 with the Chase Martin-led Tar Heels. But a few choice words at halftime from Hopkins coach Tony Seaman changed the game in the second half.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- As the final buzzer sounded, Johns Hopkins goalkeeper Brian Carcaterra ripped off his helmet and waved on his teammates, yelling, "Come and get me!"The entire Blue Jays team then converged on the field, mobbing Carcaterra to celebrate one of the most impressive individual efforts of the lacrosse season.Carcaterra made nine of his career-high 21 saves in the first 8 1/2 minutes to set the tone and silence one of the nation's top shooting teams as No. 6 Hopkins pulled off a 13-10 upset of No. 2 Virginia yesterday before 2,135 at Klockner Stadium.

Johns Hopkins lacrosse goalie Brian Carcaterra was misidentified yesterday in a photo caption on Page 1A.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 5/19/98

As the United States played its first game at the World Championships last night, the world's best player watched in white polo shirt and baseball cap.Casey Powell, whom many coaches regard as the premier player in lacrosse, is still recuperating from a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee, which he suffered in a national team scrimmage on June 28. The injury occurred when his shoe got caught in the turf on a sudden stop.But Powell, 22, a two-time Division I Player of the Year and the leading scorer in Syracuse history, has been rehabilitating his knee twice daily and still attends every practice as an observer.

Tim Paul is considered one of the most accurate shooters in college lacrosse. So it's probably no surprise that the junior attackman for No. 12 Navy is just as precise when it comes to the status of his sprained left ankle. "Right now, I'd probably say it's around 88 percent, and hopefully, we'll get it into the 90s by game time on Saturday," he said Tuesday. "We're getting there. Baby steps. We're doing a lot of things to get this thing ready." A less-than-100 percent Paul is still a bonus for the Midshipmen (11-4)

The Bayhawks were taught by the Long Island Lizards last year that the regular season means little. The Bayhawks handled the Lizards in two regular-season games before Long Island turned the table and beat the Bayhawks in the Major League Lacrosse title game. That may go a long way in explaining why the mood surrounding the team was still pretty upbeat after it suffered an 18-13 loss to the league-leading Lizards before 4,296 last night at Ravens Stadium. The Lizards rode Casey Powell (two goals, three assists)

First game No. 4 Johns Hopkins (9-3) vs. No. 1 Syracuse (13-1) Time: Noon Site: Byrd Stadium, College Park TV/Radio: ESPN2/WJFK (1300 AM) Attack: Syracuse has the most dangerous attack unit in the nation, led by the remarkable Ryan Powell, a Player of the Year candidate who can be flashy around the cage yet is unafraid to sacrifice his body in traffic. Michael Springer leads the team with 43 goals and has been a tremendous finisher since midseason, while Liam Banks has scored at least one goal in every game.

He speaks brashly, and he carries a potent stick that amplifies gifts most goalies only dream of having. Pound for pound, few players in collegiate lacrosse have sturdier shoulders than Johns Hopkins goalie Brian Carcaterra. Few players can negate the so-called limitations of the position like the 5-foot-8, 165-pound redshirt senior. Few teams ride a keeper's unflinching confidence like the Blue Jays lean on their little big man. When fourth-seeded Hopkins faces off against Notre Dame in tomorrow's NCAA tournament quarterfinal round, Carcaterra will take the Homewood Field stage for the last time, with a Final Four wish in College Park weighing heavily on his mind.

By his own admission, Johns Hopkins goalkeeper Brian Carcaterra has not performed up to his standards during much of this, his final season. But the Carcaterra of old, the two-time All-America stopper, showed up yesterday in the Blue Jays' biggest game of the spring. And after Carcaterra recorded a season-high 25 saves to lead No. 6 Hopkins to a 16-12 victory over No. 3 Loyola before 6,142 at Curley Field, the future looked bright for the Blue Jays. Hopkins won its seventh consecutive game, handed Loyola its first loss at home since the second game of the 1998 season, and most likely earned a first-round bye in the NCAA tournament while denying the Greyhounds a week off in the postseason.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- After getting pounded by a relentless Virginia offense during a fourth quarter his team would rather forget, all Johns Hopkins goalkeeper Brian Carcaterra could do was salute the Cavaliers. Carcaterra was far from the only one to blame for a crunch-time collapse that underscored yesterday's 16-8 rout by No. 2 Virginia before 3,428 at Klockner Stadium. No one had a better vantage point from which to view Virginia's dominance than Carcaterra. He weathered an unanswered six-goal burst over the final 6: 17 that closed out the scoring and sent the No. 6 Blue Jays home on an embarrassing note.

Johns Hopkins coach John Haus wants to see more of the good defense the Blue Jays showed a week ago. He does not wish for a high-scoring shootout. Syracuse coach John Desko would never take the storied fast break, run-and-gun style out of the Orangemen's makeup. But he wants to see more of the settled attack and balanced scoring that have marked his top-ranked team this season. And going into tonight's showdown between Syracuse and No. 3 Hopkins at the Carrier Dome, both coaches figure the goalies -- Syracuse's Rob Mulligan and the Blue Jays' Brian Carcaterra -- could play the deciding roles.

Rape charges against Brian J. Carcaterra, an All-America lacrosse goalie for Johns Hopkins, were dropped yesterday by city prosecutors."After a thorough look at the facts, we have decided there is insufficient evidence to proceed," said Francine Stokes, spokeswoman for the state's attorneys office, which brought the case.Carcaterra, 22, a senior political science major from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., was arrested Sept. 20 and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault for an incident involving a female student at an off-campus apartment.

A star lacrosse player who helped lead the Johns Hopkins University to the national tournament last year has been charged with raping a student early Saturday at her off-campus apartment.Brian Joseph Carcaterra, 21, a senior majoring in political science and an All-America lacrosse player, was arrested Monday night by police and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. He was being held last night at the city detention center in lieu of $25,000 bail.The woman told police she believes she was drugged, and investigators said they found an unknown sediment in the bottom of a glass partially filled with white wine that the woman said she had been drinking from.

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team craved redemption.But the Blue Jays' hunger didn't revolve around overtime losses that ended their previous two seasons in the NCAA quarterfinals or restoring their program to final four prominence. Yesterday, the motive was more personal and immediate.Redeeming itself after an embarrassing loss at Hofstra only two weeks ago, No. 2 Hopkins made the plays in the second half instead of fumbling them, advancing to its first final four since 1996 with an 11-7 victory over the No. 7 Flying Dutchmen at Hofstra Stadium.