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BALTIMORE, MD - The 19th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team got a hat trick from freshman Shannon Fitzgerald and 13 saves from senior KC Emerson as the Blue Jays beat the visiting Georgetown Hoyas, 8-6, on Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays win their fourth straight as they improve to 6-2 on the season while the Hoyas slip to 1-6.

Hopkins scored the game's first three goals over a span of 26 minutes with goals from three different players. Fitzgerald put the Blue Jays on the board with the first of her three goals at the 16:48-mark. She weaved through the Hoya defense and beat Maddy Fisher low. Nearly seven minutes later, Hopkins scored in transition to push the lead to two. Freshman Emily Kenul found her classmate CeCe Finney in the slot and she scored with several defenders on her.

Junior Dene' DiMartino made it a three-goal game with 4:06 to play in the half as she cashed in off a failed Hoya clear. Georgetown got on the board and ended a scoreless drought that had reached nearly 27 minutes when Sammy Giordano scored. From right goalline extended, Corinne Etchison found Giordano in the slot and she scored on a sidearm shot. Hopkins answered just eight seconds later however to go up 4-1. Senior Jen Cook found Finney on a fastbreak off the draw and Finney got her second of the game.

Junior Kristen Cannon didn't need long to open the second-half scoring as she beat Fisher off a hard dodge just 46 seconds in. Thirty-six seconds later, Kenul scored in traffic, low to the left post, off a nice feed from Finney. Fitzgerald pushed the lead to 7-1 at the 23:51-mark when she used a pick as she dodged from the left side and beat Fisher from close range.

Georgetown wasn't going away however, scoring four straight to make it a two-goal game with 8:09 to play. Georgia Tunney got the run going with her only goal of the afternoon with 22:11 to play. Kristen Bandos dumped the ball to Tunney cutting down the right alley, and she beat Emerson for the score. Bandos then sandwiched a pair around a strike from Etchison and the lead was two.

Just 20 seconds after Bandos' second goal, Fitzgerald answered for Hopkins with her third of the afternoon. Off the draw, she went right to the cage and with no one near her, picked the lower left corner to stake Hopkins to an 8-5 lead. In the final seven minutes, Hopkins got a pair of turnovers and a save from Emerson to secure the win.

Fitzgerald led the Blue Jays with her second career hat trick while also controlling a pair of draws. Finney also had three points (2g, 1a) and Kenul had two (1g, 1a). Emerson's 13 saves are a season high and three shy of her career best. Bandos led the Hoyas with three goals and four points while Giordano had three points (1g, 2a). Fisher finished with three saves in the loss. Hopkins held Georgetown scoreless for 26:57 in the first half, that is the eighth time this season that JHU has held an opponent scoreless for more than 19 minutes.