Johns Hopkins wraps up its five-game home stand on Wednesday afternoon against Saint Joseph's in the first meeting between the two programs in two decades. Hopkins is coming off a 20-6 win over Furman last Saturday while Saint Joseph's has won back-to-back games after an 0-2 start.
  Hopkins got six points each from senior Miranda Ibello, junior Mackenzie Heldberg and sophomore Aurora Cordingley as the Blue Jays rolled to a 20-6 win over visiting Furman. JHU actually trailed 3-2 with 17:14 to play in the first half, but a Cordingley goal sparked an 8-0 run that gave Hopkins a 10-3 lead at the half. The Paladins scored to open the second half, but the Blue Jays answered with a 10-goal run to put the game away.
  Hopkins is 19-7 (.730) in season openers under head coach Janine Tucker and 30-13-1 (.693) all-time. The Blue Jays have won 11 straight and 15 of the last 16 opening day games.
  Freshman Georgia Esmond was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week Tuesday afternoon after a three-point performance against Furman. She scored her first career goal with 18:08 to play in the second half and 10 minutes later, she had her first career assist. Just four minutes after that, Esmond got her second helper of the game, on classmate Sam Leva's first career goal.
  Sophomore Keegan Barger notched her first career hat trick in the season-opening win at Drexel. In fact, it was the first three goals of her career as she was a defensive midfielder last season. Barger made the transition to a true two-way middie in the offseason and the move paid off in the first game. 
 
Junior Maggie Schneidereith leads the Blue Jays with three hat tricks, while redshirt senior Ellie McNulty and sophomoer Aurora Cordingley have two hat tricks each. Sophomores Shelby Harrison and Keegan Barger also have one hat trick apiece this season.
  Redshirt senior Ellie McNulty tallied a game-best five points in the win at Drexel, including the 100th of her career. The midfielder transferred from Princeton, where she totaled 95 points (72g, 23a) in 55 games for the Tigers. She now has 110 career points and joins senior Miranda Ibello (134 points) and junior Maggie Schneidereith (121) in the 100-point club.
  Seniors Nicole DeMase and Haley Crosson have been selected in a vote of their teammates as captains for the 2019 season.
  Johns Hopkins was picked to finish fourth in the 2019 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll of the league's seven head coaches, it was announced January 28. Defending champion Maryland was the unanimous pick to win the 2019 title, followed by Northwestern, Penn State, and Hopkins. Michigan (5th), Ohio State (6th) and Rutgers (7th) round out the poll.
  Junior Mackenzie Heldberg and sophomores Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris were named Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch.
 
Harrison and Kachris return after earning All-Big Ten honors a year ago. Harrison led the Blue Jays and set a school freshmen record with 91 draw controls. Her 91 draws are also the second most in school single-season history and ranked second in the Big Ten. Kachris started all 19 games on a defense that ranked second in the Big Ten in scoring defense (10.53) and caused turnovers (8.68). She led the Blue Jays in caused turnovers (22) and ranked fourth in ground balls (32). Heldberg had a breakout sophomore campaign, scoring a team and career-best 41 goals. She also ranked third on the team in points (52) and ninth in the Big Ten in goals.
  Hopkins dropped one spot in this week's IWLCA Coaches Poll and is ranked 17th with 253 points. The Blue Jays are also ranked 8th in the Nike/Lax Magazine Poll and 10th in the Cascade/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. Nine of the Blue Jays' 2019 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including four teams in the top 10 (Maryland, Northwestern, Penn and Loyola).
  Several Blue Jays are making their move up the Johns Hopkins Division I record book. Here's a look at where they rank:
 
Keegan Barger (So. • M):
• Needs 3 draws to rank 18th and 7 to rank 17th (has 69)
 
Haley Crosson (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 19 saves to rank 6th (has 207)
 
Nicole DeMase (Sr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 9th (has 21)
 
Shelby Harrison (So. • M):
• Needs 14 draws to rank 7th (has 108)
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 14th and 7 to rank 13th (has 134)
• Needs 15 assists to rank 3rd (has 76)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Jr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 17th and 6 to rank 16th (has 121)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 8th and 5 to rank 7th (has 50)
  Senior Miranda Ibello led the Blue Jays in both points (64) and assists (40) last season. Her point and assist totals were the most by a Blue Jay since Taylor D'Amore put up 105 points and 53 assists in 2014. In addition, her 40 assists are the fifth most in school Division I history and sixth most all-time at JHU. Ibello ranks fourth in school DI history, and seventh overall, with 76 career assists. She needs 24 assists to become just the fifth player in the 44-year history of the program to total 100 helpers. Her eight assists this season are tied for the team lead.
  Sophomore Shelby Harrison made an immediate impact for the Blue Jays in 2018 as she led the team and ranked second in the Big Ten with 91 draws on the season. That total is the most in school history by a freshman and the second most by any player in school single-season history. In fact, Harrison already ranks eighth in JHU DI history, and 10th all-time at Hopkins, in career draws with 108. Against Penn, she became only the 11th player, in 44 years, to reach 100 career draws. She also holds the school single-game record with 11 draws, which she did twice last year.
 
Sophomore Keegan Barger was also a threat on the draw circle last year, as she ranked second on the team with 54. Her 54 draws are the fourth most by a freshman in school history and are tied for 12th in school Division I history. She had a game-high six draws in the win over Georgetown and is now tied for 19th with 69 career draw controls.
 
Harrison and Barger picked up right where they left off at the end of last season. Harrison had six draws while Barger had four in Hopkins' season opener at Drexel. In addition, redshirt senior Ellie McNulty tied Harrison with a game-high six draws versus the Dragons. McNulty ranked second at Princeton last year with 59 draws and she ranks fourth all-time with 115 career draws. The trio of Harrison, McNulty and Barger combined for 16 of the team's 18 draws at Drexel and have 50 of the team's 62 (.806) draws on the season.
  Head coach Janine Tucker welcomes 11 freshmen and a transfer to the Blue Jays this season. Joining Hopkins are Georgia Esmond, Mia Farnella, Carli Freeman, Kylie Kempe, Sam Leva, Annika Meyer, Claire Mills, Kaitlyn Pham, Nadiya Roy, Rachel Scheinberg, Caroline Somerville and Ellie McNulty.
  Hopkins and Saint Joseph's meet for just the third time in series history and the first in two decades. The Blue Jays won the first two meetings in the series. 
  After opening the season with three of four games at home, Saint Joseph's kicks off a three-game road swing at Hopkins on Wednesday. After dropping their first two games, the Hawks have won two straight while scoring a combined 33 goals. Wednesday's game will be the third against a ranked opponent for Saint Joseph's as the Hawks have already faced 22nd-ranked Georgetown and 13th-ranked Navy.
 
Senior Rebecca Lane became just the second player in program history, and first in more than two decades, to tally 200 career points in the win over Villanova. Senior Francesca Donato enters Wednesday's game needing just one point to reach 100 for her career. The Hawks' starting attack (Donato, Lane and sophomore Stephanie Kelly) have combined for 52 of the team's 86 points. The trio combined for an impressive 20 points in the win over Villanova on Saturday.
  Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Wednesday's game versus Saint Joseph's. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Aurora Cordingley (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 9 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Nicole DeMase (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 20 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 15 straight games
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Ellie McNulty (R-Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 14 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 10 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 6 straight games
  Janine Tucker is now in her 26th season at Homewood. The winningest coach in program history, she sports a record of 285-154 (.649), including a 217-138 (.611) mark in Division I. Tucker took over the Blue Jay women's lacrosse program in August 1993 and coached five seasons in Division III before successfully guiding the program's transition to Division I in 1999. A 1989 graduate of Loyola (MD) and a member of the Greyhound Athletic Hall of Fame, Tucker has led the Blue Jays to double-digit win totals in 20 of her 24 years on the bench. She has also guided Hopkins to six NCAA Division I Tournament appearances, three ECAC Division I championship games, and four NCAA Division III Tournament appearances. Tucker became the 14th coach in NCAA history to reach 250 wins on February 12, 2016 and she currently ranks eighth in NCAA Division I history in wins. She coached her 400th career game at Loyola on February 22, 2017.
  Junior goalie Robyn Lipschultz made her first career appearance for the Blue Jays on March 3, 2018 versus Furman and made one save. With that save, she became the first goalie in 21 years to register a save in multiple sports in the same academic year. Lipschultz is also a member of the Johns Hopkins women's soccer team and made 14 saves in 10 games in the fall of 2017. The last to do so was Kelly Hoffman, who turned the same trick for both the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams in 1996-97. Lipschultz is just the second to do so for both women's soccer and women's lacrosse, joining Amanda Miller (1992-93). This past fall, Lipschultz started 17 games for head coach Leo Weil's Blue Jays, making 55 saves and posting a 0.775 save percentage.
  This marks the 44th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 435-275-4 (.612) and a 217-138 (.611) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays have posted 32 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, including seven in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). Last year was the 22nd double-digit win season under head coach Janine Tucker and the 28th all-time.
  Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 130-61 (.680) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 37-14 (.750) at home since the start of the 2014 season. Hopkins will play 10 of its 17 regular season games, including five straight from February 16 to March 6, at Homewood this spring. 
  Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair as a pair of Blue Jays have followed in their fathers' footsteps at the Homewood campus while two more are following in their sisters' footsteps.
 
Junior Miranda Ibello is not only following in the cleats of her sister, Paige '10, but also of her brother-in-law, Max Venker '10, who was a four-year standout on the JHU men's soccer team. Junior Shannon Logan joined the Blue Jays and played alongside her older sister, Holly, for two seasons. The Logans are the 11th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black and the first to do so at the same time since Sam and Megan Schrum played together in 2009.
  Junior Maggie Schneidereith will not be playing alongside her sister or sisters for that matter, in her collegiate career. Schneidereith, who hails from nearby Towson, is a quadruplet and all four sisters are playing Division I lacrosse. Midfielders Jamie and Lucy are playing at Drexel while goalie Georgia is playing for Albany.
  Hopkins hits the road for the first time in nearly four weeks as the Blue Jays travel to Hempstead, NY to take on Hofstra. Opening draw is slated for a 3:00 pm start at Shuart Stadium.