For the first time in the 60-year-old Charles Street rivalry, Loyola can strut back away from Homewood Field victorious.

Blitzing Johns Hopkins with the game's premier offense, the No. 4 Greyhounds seized neighborhood bragging rights as well as the nation's attention by pummeling top-ranked Hopkins on the Blue Jays' turf, 14-5, on before 3,125 freezing fans last night.

Loyola (2-0) won for only the third time in a series that dates to 1939 and won at Homewood for the first time. Hopkins (1-1) suffered its largest margin of defeat in five years and recorded its lowest offensive output since 1984.

Loyola won consecutive games for the first time in this rivalry, which Hopkins still owns, 36-3.

"We have good offensive players and once they start flying around, we're pretty hard to defend," Loyola coach Dave Cottle said. "I could see it in practice that we were starting to click."

Let's start with balance. Tim Goettelman led with four goals, and Tim O'Shea and Todd Vizcarrondo each added three goals each for Loyola, which had seven players score.

And don't forget about shooting. The Greyhounds singed the corners, scoring on 14 of 37 shots, missing the cage only 10 times and forcing Brian Carcaterra, the nation's best goalkeeper, on his heels.

"We knew we would get our shots off. The question was: Would we get them past Brian?" Cottle said. "We kept getting our shots and we shot the ball hard. We felt like if we played our best game, we had a chance to win."

Loyola pounced early, closing the first half with a 7-1 flourish. The Blue Jays, who trailed by six goals six days ago at Princeton, never retaliated last night as a five-goal halftime deficit expanded to eight goals late in the third quarter.

"We got thoroughly outplayed," Hopkins coach John Haus said. "If you don't put forth a good effort against a team like Loyola, you're going to get whipped like that."

After Hopkins scored 49 seconds into the game, the Greyhounds began dominating on faceoffs, winning six of seven draws and patiently manipulated the Blue Jays defense. Watching the pattern in which Hopkins slid, the Greyhounds waited for a lapse and delivered the ball to the open man.

Loyola tied the game with 12: 24 left, when Goettelman noticed the double team closing in and fed a wide-open Gewas Schindler in front of the goal. After Hopkins took only its third shot of the game, the Greyhounds worked the ball quickly around the perimeter, finding O'Shea, who had enough room to wind up a 10-yard shot into the high right corner for a 2-1 lead with 7: 40 left in the first.

Continuing to move the Blue Jays with short, quick passes, Loyola again capitalized against a defense in flux five minutes later. Curling from behind the crease, Goettelman converted an O'Shea pass in close.

"I think we kind of screwed them up a little bit," O'Shea said. "They were switching a lot and didn't seem all that sure."

"I think we set the tone early," Goettelman said. "We made that extra pass. We played very unselfish."

While Loyola clicked, Hopkins flickered.

The Blue Jays turned the ball over repeatedly and had only four shots over a 13-minute span in the opening period. Dan Denihan's extra-man goal helped Hopkins close to within 3-2 late in the first, but were shut out for the next 19: 45 and would never reduce the margin below five goals the entire second half.

For the first time in six decades, the Greyhounds made that one-mile trip back to Evergreen with their heads held high.

"Our defense didn't step it up," Hopkins defenseman Rob Doerr said. "They played tough and didn't let down. There were up two goals and just kept pumping it down our throats. They deserve to win."

Loyola 3 4 4 3 -- 14

Johns Hopkins 2 0 2 1 -- 5

Goals: L--Goettelman 4, O'Shea 3, Vizcarrondo 3, Frye, Battista, Schindler, Haas; JH--O'Kelly 3, Schlott, D. Denihan. Assists: L--O'Shea 3, Frye 2, Schindler, Goettelman, Horsey; JH--D. Denihan, C. Denihan, Kumin. Saves: L--Brown 10; JH--Carcaterra 13.

Pub Date: 3/13/99