Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Basics
• Scores:
#4 Stanford-23, Johns Hopkins-6
Johns Hopkins-20, Iona-12
• Records: JHU (3-3) • SU (3-0) • IC (1-6)
• Location: Princeton, NJ • DeNunzio Pool
• The Short Story: Freshman Jayden Kunwar scored a school-record 10 goals as the Johns Hopkins water polo team beat Iona, 20-12, on Saturday night at the Princeton Invitational. Earlier in the day, Hopkins lost to fourth-ranked Stanford, 23-6.
 
How it Happened • Stanford
• Stanford jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the opening three minutes of the game. Kunwar got Hopkins on the board when he sandwiched a pair of goals around a strike from Dylan Woodhead. Ben Hallock answered with a goal for the Cardinal and the lead was back to three. Freshman Emerson Sullivan got one back for the Blue Jays, scoring with 1:40 to play in the quarter to make it a 5-3 game.
• The Cardinal came out firing in the second and third quarters, outscoring the Blue Jays, 15-1, to storm out to a 20-4 lead. Duncan Mactavish pushed the lead to 22-4 with the first two goals of the fourth. Hopkins got goals from junior Finn Banks and sophomore Nico Ivanov, while Mactavish got a third to account for the 23-6 final score.
 
How it Happened • Iona
• Hopkins turned the tables in the second game, scoring the first three goals with just over three minutes gone. The Gaels answered with a goal at the 2:26-mark, but the Blue Jays responded with one of their own to take a 4-1 lead after one.
• Iona struck first in the second quarter to cut the deficit in half, but Hopkins answered with a 5-1 run to push out to a 9-2 lead. The Gaels would get a pair of goals in the final 29 seconds to make it a 9-4 game at the half.
• Hopkins opened the third-quarter scoring to push the lead to six. The teams then traded two-goal runs and Iona cut the deficit to four, 12-8, late in the quarter. The Blue Jays had the final say of the period however, scoring with 46 seconds remaining to make it a five-goal game.
• JHU scored just 22 seconds into the fourth to make it a 14-8 game, but Iona answered with a 3-1 spurt to make it 15-11 with 5:46 to play. The Blue Jays responded with a 5-1 run to close out the game and secure the win.  
 
What it Means
• Hopkins falls to 0-3 all-time against Stanford with today's game the first meeting in the series since 2009.
• JHU wins its 16^th straight over Iona, improving to 18-10 in the series. This is the third time in the last four meetings that the Blue Jays have scored 20 goals against the Gaels.
• This is Hopkins' second 20-goal game this season. The last time the Blue Jays had multiple 20-goal games was in 2015.  
 
Inside the Box Score
• Kunwar led the Blue Jays with three goals against the Cardinal while Banks and Ivanov had two points (1g, 1a) each. Sophomore Olin Shipstead drew seven ejections and also had an assist. Senior Spencer Witte made 11 saves in the cage.
• Kunwar followed that with a school-record 10 goals, breaking Wes Hopkins' record of nine set on October 20, 2013. He also had an assist to finish with a career-best 11 points.
• Banks had a hat trick and an assist while Shipstead totaled four points (1g, 3a) and three ejections drawn. Witte finished with 15 saves, two shy of his career-best. Witte now has 157 career saves, moving him into sixth place in school history.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to the pool on September 28 as the Blue Jays open league play at home against George Washington. The MAWPC match is slated for a 7:00 pm start at the Newton White Athletic Center.