Box Score March 26, 2006
Final Stats
BALTIMORE, MD - Junior Mary Key (Stevensville, MD/St. Mary's) and sophomores Kirby Houck (Baltimore, MD/Garrison Forest) and Kadie Stamper (Bel Air, MD/C. Milton Wright) all tallied hat tricks to lead the #3 Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team (6-0) to a 15-7 win over American University (3-6) Sunday afternoon. The win was the 300th all-time as Hopkins is just the seventh Division I school to reach the 300-win mark.
Hopkins jumped on American early, with a 10-0 run to start the game. Stamper got things rolling just 2:03 into the game on an unassisted shot. Key and senior Meagan Voight (Sykesville, MD/Liberty) would combine for five goals in less than five minutes to give the Jays an early 6-0 lead.
Jackie Lane would score the first of her four on the afternoon for American with 8:01 to play, ending Hopkins run. But Houck would answer right back at 6:27 to give the Blue Jays an 11-1 lead heading into the half.
Sophomore Annie Wagner (Annapolis, MD/St. Paul's) tallied her second of the afternoon and 10th of the season just 3:26 into the second to push Hopkins lead to 12-1. Chelsea Kapp and Lane would score back-to-back to trim the lead to 12-3 temporarily. Stamper and Houck responded with goals at 16:51 and 13:28, pushing the lead back up to 14-3. But the Eagles would score four of the final five goals to account for the final scoring.
Freshman Amelia Harris (Clifton, VA/J. W. Robinson) in her first career start, made four saves for her first career win. Kathleen Finnegan made six saves in nearly 50 minutes of play for American. Kristine Vida played the final 10:02 in net and made just one save. Houck's three goals and four points are career highs.
Key reached yet another milestone with her five-point effort as she became just the fourth player since Johns Hopkins moved to Division I in 1999 to reach the 200 career point mark. Her five points today improve her career total to 203 as she also eased past Heidi Pearce (201) into third place on JHU's Division I points list. Her 131 career goals rank third at Hopkins in the Division I era, while her 72 assists rank second. Overall, Key ranks seventh in school history with her 203 points and she is the first player to reach the 200-point mark as a junior since Hopkins moved to Division I.
Hopkins is 6-0 to start the season for just the fifth time in 31 seasons and second in eight Division I seasons. The Blue Jays will look to make it 7-0 when they visit Penn on Wednesday, March 29. Game time at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, PA is set for 7:00 p.m.
