Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - The 20th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team got a hat trick and six draw controls from junior Dene' DiMartino as it defeated visiting Vanderbilt, 13-3, on Wednesday afternoon at Homewood Field. The Blue Jays win their fifth straight game as they improve to 7-2 on the season, while the Commodores slip to 3-7. The Hopkins defense held Vanderbilt scoreless for stretches of 20:28 and 29:00 minutes while holding the `Dores to their lowest goal total since May 4, 2008.

Hopkins struck first as sophomore Alexis Maffucci took a pass at left goal-line extended, dodged to the front of the goal, hitched and went low on Maddie Kratz just 62 seconds into the game. Vanderbilt answered when Margaret Free dumped a pass down to Meggie Ramzy on the doorstep. With a defender on her back, Ramzy turned and fired a shot over the left shoulder of senior KC Emerson to knot the score at the 25:25-mark.

The Blue Jays would score the next three goals, in a span of less than two minutes to push out to a 4-1 lead. DiMartino put Hopkins back on top with a free position goal at 20:44 and then Maffucci got her second of the afternoon just 70 seconds later. In transition, Maffucci got an open look on Kratz, who made the save. However, the ball went right back to Maffucci, who caught it and fired it past Kratz. Junior Jenna Reifler completed the three-goal burst when she took a pass from Kenul and went low to the right corner from in tight.

The paced slowed from there and it was Vanderbilt that broke the stalemate at the 4:57-mark, snapping a 20:28 scoreless drought for the visitors. From behind the cage, Fee passed to Doherty, who caught it sidearm and picked the lower left corner to make it 4-2. Hopkins answered with 2:39 to play to take a 5-2 lead into the half. Freshman CeCe Finney fed a pass from goal-line extended to senior Jen Cook in the slot, who quick-sticked a shot past Kratz.

Hopkins came out of the half with three unanswered goals to push out to an 8-2 lead with 19:29 still to play. Junior Kristen Cannon got the second-half scoring going at the 25:12-mark when she dodged from behind the goal and went high stick-side. Just over three minutes later, DiMartino dodged down the right alley and blew a shot inside the left post to stake Hopkins to a 7-2 lead. DiMartino completed her hat trick at the 19:29-mark as she took a pass from Reifler in the slot and picked the same spot for her team-leading 20th goal of the season.

Just like the first half, the pace slowed and it was Vanderbilt that ended the deadlock. Amanda Lockwood dodged across the top of the fan and then down the middle before slipping a shot inside the left post with 5:57 to play. Just 19 seconds later however, the lead was back to six, when Kenul beat her defender and then went stick-side high to make it 9-3. Less than a minute later, Cannon scored off a face-dodge from behind the goal for her second of the afternoon.

Finney pushed the lead to eight with 3:13 to play when she snagged a loose ball out of mid-air, beat a defender and beat Kratz stick-side for the first of her two on the afternoon. As the clock ticked under one, Hopkins got a pair of goals from sophomore Haley Schweizer and Finney to complete the 10-goal win.

DiMartino finished with her 22nd career hat trick while also controlling a game-high six draws. Cannon, Maffucci and Finney added two goals each as eight different players scored in the win. Fee had a pair of assists for Vanderbilt, the only Commodore player with multiple points. Emerson had eight saves in earning the win, while Kratz finished with 12.

Hopkins returns to action and wraps up a three-game homestand on Saturday, March 28 as the UC Davis Aggies visit Homewood Field. Opening draw for the first-ever meeting between the teams is slated for 6:00 pm.