April 29, 2006

Box Score

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - The #9 Johns Hopkins University women's lacrosse team (11-3, 3-2) could not hold off an upset-minded Penn State (8-8, 4-1) team on Senior Day on Saturday afternoon. The #20 Nittany Lions battled back for a 15-14 win at Jeffrey Field in American Lacrosse Conference action. Junior Mary Key (Stevensville, MD/St. Mary's) tied the Hopkins Division I career points record when she notched her 253rd career point.

Sophomore Kadie Stamper (Bel Air, MD/C. Milton Wright) gave Hopkins an early lead with her 18th of the season just 2:49 in. Key fed Stamper who beat Cammie Jurkowsky up high stick-side. The assist added another record to Key's list, as she became Hopkins D-I career assists leader with the 93rd of her career. Penn State answered at 4:25 when Aly Carter picked up a loose ball and beat senior Lauren Riddick (Crozet, VA/St. Anne's-Belfied). The Blue Jays scored back-to-back goals off Key and sophomore Annie Wagner (Annapolis, MD/St. Paul's) to take a 3-1 lead.

The Nittany Lions rallied with five unanswered to take a 6-3 lead. It was then the Blue Jays turn for a five-goal rally, kick started by Stamper's second of the day. Senior Meagan Voight (Sykesville, MD/Liberty) scored her first of the game to cut the Lions' lead to one. Just over a minute later, junior Steph Janice (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) scored to tie the game. Just 18 seconds later Wagner then gave Hopkins the lead with her second of the day. Stamper would add her third of the day to give the Jays an 8-6 lead iwth 6:41 to play. Lori Havrilla ended the Hopkins run with her third of the day just uner a minute later, cutting the lead to one.

But Hopkins answered when Stamper scored again, her fourth of the day, tying a career high with 2:30 in the half. The Jays won the ensuing draw and held it in the Penn State zone until time elapsed, getting off two shots.

The teams traded goals to start the second half to make it an 11-10 game for the Jays. Penn State tied it at 11-11 off a strike from Lauren Bryan with 15:57 to play. The teams resumed trading goals as Hopkins held a 13-12 lead with 10:20 to play on Key's 50th goal of the season. However, Penn State responded with back-to-back goals to take a 14-13 lead with 7:44 remaining. The Lions pushed their lead to 15-13 off a free position goal from Jessi Lieb. Hopkins cut the lead to 15-14 with Key's record-tying goal with 3:51 to play, giving her 253 career points. But it was as close as the Jays would get. Hopkins would have one last chance with time ticking down, but could not find the back of the net to tie the game.

Key finished with a game high eight points (4g, 4a). Stamper also had four for Hopkins. Riddick finished with six saves in net. Jurkowsky finished with 12 saves for the Lions.Havrilla, Lieb, Dutch, and Long all tallied hat tricks for Penn State.

Hopkins returns home to face Towson on Tuesday, May 2 in Baltimore, MD. Game time is set for 4:00 pm at Homewood Field.