Box Score March 24, 2004
Box Score
Baltimore, MD - Blue Jay senior Heidi Pearce (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew's-DE) scored three goals and added three assists as the 12th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team remained undefeated with a 13-7 victory over American Wednesday afternoon at Homewood Field.
Hopkins, which improved to 8-0 on the year, struck first at the 27:47 mark when freshman Steph Janice (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) scored an unassisted goal, but the Eagles, who fell to 3-4 and had a three-game winning streak snapped, answered as Rebecca Copeland scored off a feed from Nicole McCarthy with 24:53 remaining.
However Pearce won the ensuing draw control and scored 10 seconds later, and 14 seconds after that sophomore Meagan Voight (Sykesville, MD/Liberty) added an unassisted goal to give Hopkins a 3-1 lead. Tara Michael scored on a free position shot with 21:06 left, but Pearce answered with an unassisted goal at the 20:28 mark.
Michael found Katy Zaweski for a goal with 18:09 remaining, but JHU freshman Mary Key (Stevensville, MD/St. Mary's of Annapolis) scored a free position goal with 15:10 on the clock and junior Erin Riordan (Bay Shore, NY/Bay Shore) added an unassisted goal 43 seconds later to make it a 6-3 game.
Lynn Brandon answered for American by scoring off a pass from Moriah Linnell at the 5:33 mark, but Pearce found Janice for a goal 21 seconds later and Key added a goal off an assist from freshman Alex Nolan (Baltimore, MD/Roland Park) to give the Blue Jays an 8-4 lead with 4:41 to play.
Brandon scored a free position goal for the Eagles with 50 seconds remaining, but Pearce responded with an unassisted goal with 18 seconds left to give Hopkins a four-goal lead at the break.
The second half remained scoreless for the first 10 minutes before Voight scored off an assist from Riordan with 19:22 left. Michael found Copeland for a goal with 13:09 to play, but Key answered with a free position goal at the 11:00 mark to put Hopkins up 11-6. Pearce then found sophomore Molly Burnett (Auburn, NY/Auburn) and Riordan for late goals before McCarthy scored off a feed from Lindsay Cartin with 1:22 remaining to cap the scoring.
Hopkins sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Riddick (Crozet, VA/St. Anne's-Belfield) stopped eight shots in goal for the Blue Jays, whose eight-game winning streak ties for the longest since Hopkins moved to Division I. Eagles goalie Kathleen Finnegan made 13 saves for American, which fell to the Blue Jays for the fifth straight year.
Hopkins held a 33-23 advantage in shots and a 29-26 edge in ground balls while winning 13 of the 22 draw controls. Junior Lacey-Leigh Hentz (Hampstead, MD/North Carroll) picked up five ground balls, won two draw controls and caused two turnovers, while senior Kate Gilland (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) also collected five ground balls and Key won a game-high four draws.
The Blue Jays look to remain perfect Tuesday when Hopkins travels to Pennsylvania for a 7 p.m. game with the Quakers.
American (3-4) 5 2 -7#12 Johns Hopkins (8-0) 9 4 -13
GOALS: JHU- Pearce 3, Key 3, Riordan 2, Voight 2, Janice 2, Burnett. AU- Brandon 2, Copeland 2, Michael, McCarthy, Zaweski. ASSISTS: JHU- Pearce 3, Nolan, Riordan. AU- Michael 2, Cartin, Linnell, McCarthy . SAVES: JHU- Riddick (8 sv, 7 GA); AU- Finnegan (13 sv, 13 GA).
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