Feb. 26, 2005

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD -- Sophomore Mary Key (Stevensville, MD/St. Mary's) scored a career-high six goals and added two assists to lead the Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team to a 15-4 victory over visiting Davidson at Homewood Field Saturday evening. The Blue Jays have now won all seven meetings against the Wildcats by at least eight goals.

Key wasted little time getting the Blue Jays started as she opened the scoring just 19 seconds into the game, assisted on a Steph Janice (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) goal 10 seconds later and added her second goal of the game at the 24:44 mark to stake Hopkins to a quick 3-0 lead. Freshman Lauren Schwarzmann's (Sykesville, MD/Century) first career goal five minutes later was followed by Key's third goal as the Blue Jays built a 5-0 lead less than 13 minutes into the game.

Davidson's Whitney Diefendorf (Laurel Hollow, NY/Cold Spring Harbor) temporarily halted the barrage with her first goal of the season off an assist from Lindsay Frank (Columbia, MD/Howard) at the 12:38 mark, but Sarah Walsh (Port Washington, NY/P.D. Schreiber), Meagan Voight (Sykesville, MD/Liberty), Key and Schwarzmann all scored in a span of less than seven minutes to push the lead to 9-1 late in the first half. Frank fed Eloise Grose (Baltimore, MD/Park School) for Davidson's second goal with just under two minutes remaining in the first half, but that would be as close as the Wildcats would get.

Key sandwiched her fifth and six goals around Walsh's second goal of the game and freshman Kirby Houck's (Baltimore, MD/Garrison Forest) first career goal in the first 14 minutes of the second half and senior Anne Crisafulli (Garden City, NY/Garden City) tallied twice to give Hopkins its biggest lead of the game at 15-2. Davidson's Kiften Stephens (Potomac, MD/Holton Arms) and Missy Gilbert (Pittsburgh, PA/Shady Side Academy) both scored in the final three minutes to account for the final scoring.

Key had scored five goals in a game four times as a freshman last season. Her eight points were also one better than her previous career high of seven, which she posted in a 13-5 win over Ohio State last season. Crisafulli matched her career high with the two goals and added an assist for a personal-best three points. Walsh and Schwarzmann both finished with the two goals and Voight chipped in with the one goal and one assist to account for the Blue Jays' multi-point performers.

Stephens had one goal and one assist and Frank added the two assists to lead the way for the Wildcats, who were outshot, 36-9 and controlled just 12-of-32 draws.

Johns Hopkins will face one of its biggest challenges of the season next Saturday when the Blue Jays travel to New Jersey to take on perennial power Princeton. The Tigers have played in the last three national championship games and won the title in 2002 and 2003. This will be the first-ever meeting between Johns Hopkins and Princeton in women's lacrosse.

Davidson (1-1) 2-2/4

Johns Hopkins (1-0) 9-6/15

Goals: D: Stephens, Diefendorf, Grose, Gilbert. J: Key-6, L. Schwarzmann-2, A. Crisafulli-2, Walsh-2, Voight, Janice, Houck. Assists: D: Frank-2, Stephens. J: Key-2, A. Crisafulli, Putnam, Riordan, Voight. Saves: D: Smith-11, Johnson-1. J: Riddick-3. Shots: D-9. J-36.

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