Johns Hopkins is on the road again, traveling to the Buckeye State to take on Ohio State in Big Ten action Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays are seeking their second league win of the year, while the Buckeyes are 0-3 in the league.
  Visiting and 20th-ranked Stony Brook scored the final three goals of the game to break a 9-9 tie and take a 12-9 win over Hopkins Tuesday night. The game featured three ties in the first 22 minutes before a three-goal run by the Seawolves gave them a 7-5 lead just 45 seconds into the second half. Hopkins battled back and tied the game at eight-all and nine-all, but Stony Brook had the final say with three goals in the final 13 minutes to earn the win. Junior Maggie Schneidereith led the Blue Jays with three goals, including the 100th of her career, and four points. Sophomore Aurora Cordingley tied her career-high with three assists and senior Haley Crosson made 12 saves.
  Hopkins caused 19 turnovers in the win at Towson last Tuesday, the most by the Blue Jays since they had 19 in a 15-4 win over George Washington on April 25, 2003. In addition, sophomore Keegan Barger broke a school record with seven caused turnovers. Senior Morgayne Rix tied her career-high with three takeaways. Barger is the Blue Jays' active leader with 39 career caused turnovers. Sophomore Aurora Cordingley leads the team with 20 caused turnovers, while Barger is second with 19 and junior Caroline Hoeg is third with 18.
  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. Junior Maggie Schneidereith leads the Blue Jays with nine hat tricks, while sophomore Aurora Cordingley has five and redshirt senior Ellie McNulty has four.
  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 127 career points and joins senior Miranda Ibello (157 points) and junior Maggie Schneidereith (163) in the 100-point club. Senior Nicole DeMase needs just seven points to join Ibello, Schneidereith and McNulty with 100 career points.
   On Tuesday versus 20th-ranked Stony Brook, junior Maggie Schneidereith scored the 100th goal of her career. She is the 13th player in school Division I history, and 27th overall, to reach the milestone. This is the third straight year that a Blue Jay has reached the mark, as Emily Kenul and Shannon Fitzgerald each did so in 2018, and Haley Schweizer hit the mark in 2017.
  Senior Miranda Ibello is also chasing a milestone as she needs just 10 assists to reach 100 for her career. She would be just the third player in school Division I history, and fifth overall, to reach the milestone.
  Seniors Nicole DeMase and Haley Crosson have been selected in a vote of their teammates as captains for the 2019 season.
  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.
  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.
  Hopkins remains 19th in this week's IWLCA Coaches Poll with 185 points. The Blue Jays are also ranked 13th in the Nike/Lax Magazine Poll and 17th in the Cascade/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. Eight of the Blue Jays' 2019 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including five teams in the top 10 (Maryland, Northwestern, Michigan, Penn and Loyola). Hopkins currently ranks 11th in the nation in strength of schedule.
  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 2 draws to rank 9th and 22 to rank 8th (has 100)
 
Haley Crosson (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 11 saves to rank 5th and 55 to rank 4th (has 282)
 
Nicole DeMase (Sr. • M):
• Needs 7 points to reach 100 for her career (has 93)
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 5th (has 23)
 
Kathleen Garvey (So. • GK):
• Needs 6 saves to rank 11th and 107 to rank 10th (has 13)
 
Shelby Harrison (So. • M):
• Needs 48 draws to rank 4th (has 154)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 18th and 2 to rank 15th (has 14)
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Needs 2 points to rank 9th (has 157)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 3rd and 59 to rank 2nd (has 90)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Jr. • A):
• Needs 13 points to rank 8th (has 163)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 11th and 9 to rank 10th (has 101)
• Needs 28 assists to rank 4th (has 61)
 
Lexi Souder (Jr. • M):
• Needs 3 draws to rank 16th and 9 to rank 14th (has 82)
  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 sixth overall, with 90 career assists. She needs 10 assists to become just the fifth player in the 44-year history of the program to total 100 helpers. Ibello handed out a season-best five assists at Michigan in what was her fourth game this season with at least three assists. She leads the Big Ten in assists (22) and assists per game (1.57).
  Sophomore Shelby Harrison led the team and ranked second in the Big Ten with 91 draws a year ago. 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 fifth all-time at Hopkins, in career draws with 154. 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. On March 23, Harrison had more draws (9) than the entire Rutgers team (7).
 
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. On Tuesday, Barger joined Harrison in the 100-draw club and she now ranks 10th in school DI history with 100 career draws.
 
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 the Tigers with 115 career draws. She had a career-best 10 versus Northwestern, one shy of the school record, and now has 169 draws in her career. The trio of Harrison, McNulty and Barger account for 163 of the team's 195 (.836) draws on the season.
  Five Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at Ohio State. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Aurora Cordingley (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 18 straight games
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Ellie McNulty (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at leaste one goal in 2 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 23 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 19 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Lexi Souder (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
  Hopkins and Ohio State meeet for the 18th time in a series that began in 2002 with the inception of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC). The Blue Jays lead the series, 11-6, and have won the last two meetings. Hopkins is 3-5 against Ohio State in Columbus. 
  Ohio State is back in Columbus for the first time since March 24 and is coming off back-to-back losses to Penn State and Louisville. The Buckeyes lead the Big Ten in ground balls (21.21) and rank third in caused turnovers (10.29) and save percentage (.477).
 
Jill Rizzo has played all but 26 minutes in the cage this year and boasts a .481 save percentage, which ranks 24th in the nation. She also ranks seventh in the nation in saves per game (11.07) and eighth in ground balls per game (3.43). Rizzo ranks second in school history in career saves (525) and is just 44 shy of the program record.
Baley Parrott leads the offense with 34 goals and ranks second with 44 points. She needs just seven goals to break into the top-10 in school history and she also ranks seventh with 108 career draws. Liza Hernandez leads the team with 51 points and 21 assists and ranks second in the Big Ten in assists per game (1.50) and sixth in points per game (3.64). Riley Ewing leads the Buckeyes, and ranks sixth in the league with 3.86 draws per game.
  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.
  Janine Tucker is now in her 26th season at Homewood. The winningest coach in program history, she sports a record of 290-158 (.647), including a 222-142 (.609) 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 seven 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.
  This marks the 44th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 440-279-4 (.611) and a 222-142 (.609) 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 133-64 (.675) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 41-17 (.707) 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 returns to Homewood Field to take on Penn State on Friday, April 19. Opening draw for the Big Ten contest is slated for 5:00 pm.