Sept. 13, 2006

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - The Johns Hopkins field hockey team suffered a 3-0 loss to three-time defending NCAA Champion Salisbury on Wednesday night at Homewood Field. The Blue Jays fall to 1-3 on the season, while the Sea Gulls remain unbeaten at 6-0.

Hopkins held the potent Salisbury offense scoreless for the first 28 minutes of action. But Megan Powell finally broke through to put the Sea Gulls up 1-0 at 28:39. She collected a loss ball with her back to the goal, spun around and fired a shot to the bottom left corner of the goal. Just under two minutes later, Lauren Correll gave the Gulls a 2-0 lead. Powell shot the ball across the mouth of the goal and Correll tapped it in.

Correll and Powell connected again 11 minutes into the second half to give Salisbury a three-goal cushion. Powell fired a shot on goal that went past the mouth and appeared to be going out of bounds. Correll caught up to the ball and fired it back towards the goal, where it just slipped underneath Hopkins senior goalie Dayna Eng (Ellicott City, MD/Centennial).

Eng finished with seven saves in the game, including several sprawling stops to keep her team in the game. Salisbury goalie Maria Ramoundos made four saves in the win. Salisbury outshot Hopkins 18-11, while Hopkins held the edge in penalty corners 12-8. The Sea Gulls, averaging nearly six goals per game, were held to half that by Eng and the Hopkins defense.

The schedule does not get any easier for Hopkins as #3 The College of New Jersey visits Homewood on Saturday. The game is set for 1:00 p.m.