Strong Second Half Lifts #4 Maryland Over Johns Hopkins - Johns Hopkins University Athletics (2024)

BALTIMORE, MD – Fourth-ranked Maryland outscored host and eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins, 8-3, in the second half en route to a 13-8 win Wednesday night in Big Ten action. The Blue Jays see their three-game win streak snapped as they fall to 10-4 overall and 2-2 in the conference. The Terps improve to 11-3 and 4-1 in the B1G.

The first 30 minutes solved nothing in the top-10 matchup as the teams traded runs and went to the break deadlocked at 5-5.

The Blue Jays needed less than four minutes to jump out to a quick two-goal lead as Ava Angello struck twice in the first 3:15.She opened the scoring just 59 seconds into the game on a back-hander from eight yards out and got her hands free in the slot just over two minutes later to give Hopkins the early two-goal lead.

Maeve Barker capped a three-goal, game-opening run for the Blue Jays at the 6:32 mark when she bounced one home off a feed from Bailey Cheetham, but the Terps would answer Hopkins' three-goal run with a four-goal spurt to close the opening quarter.

It took the Terps just over two minutes after Barker's strike to pull even as Kori Edmondson struck twice in a 28-second span to make it 3-2 and Lauren LaPointe added her first career goal 73 seconds later to cap the lightning-quick three-goal spurt that drew the Terps even.

Maryland grabbed the lead late in the period as Libby May scored the first of her two straight goals after the Terps forced a Blue Jay turnover and she opened the second-quarter scoring with a free-position goal at the 10:45 mark to make it 5-3.

The Blue Jay scoreless drought dripped past 16 minutes before they took advantage of a Maryland green card. Shortly after the Blue Jays went a player up, Angello fed Ashley Mackin inside and Mackin scored in traffic to trim the deficit to 5-4. The one-goal margin held until the final minute of the half, when the Blue Jays turned the seventh of Madison Doucette's eight first-half saves into Mackin's second goal. Cheetham hit Mackin on the run and Mackin quick-sticked one home from in tight to account for the 5-5 tie.

Maryland opened the third quarter with back-to-back goals from Chrissy Thomas and LaPointe and the Terps led 7-5 at the 12:23-mark. Angello completed her 10^th hat trick of the season just 62 seconds later when she curled around a Campbell Case screen and blew home a right-handed shot from seven yards out. Doucette then posted six straight saves for the Blue Jays before a Thomas unassisted tally put Maryland up 8-6 with 2:13 to play in the third.

Thomas' goal sparked a 6-2 Terps' spurt that ate up the final 17 minutes and 13 seconds. Angello broke up the run with her fourth and fifth goals of the night. Following a Doucette save and a Blue Jay clear, Case found Angello on goal line extended and she dropped her stick to beat Sterling on the doorstep at 8:28. Maryland answered with goals from Maisy Clevenger and Edmondson to push out to a 12-7 lead. Angello then took a Marielle McAteer pass at her knees before whipping a behind-the-back shot past Sterling at 2:49. Eloise Clevenger capped the scoring just 41 seconds later.

Angello led all scorers with five goals and six points for her fifth career game with five or more goals. Mackin added the two goals, while Cheetham and McAteer had two assists each. Jordan Carr had a game-high four caused turnovers and five ground balls, while Paris Colgain had three takeaways and three ground balls. Doucette finished with a career-high 19 saves, tying the program Division I single-game record. Edmondson and LaPointe led the Terps with three goals each, while Eloise Clevenger (1g, 2a), Leubecker (1g, 2a) and Thomas (2g, 1a) had three points each. Sterling finished with 11 saves and Shannon Smith had a game-high 11 draw controls.

Hopkins returns to action on Sunday, April 14 when the Blue Jays host sixth-ranked Michigan. Opening draw for the Blue Jays' final regular season home game is slated for 12:00 pm.