Box Score The Basics 
• Scores: #1 Johns Hopkins-3, Washington College-0 (25-7, 25-21, 25-15)
• Records: #1 Johns Hopkins (26-0, 9-0 CC), WAC (9-12, 2-7 CC)
• Location: Chestertown, MD • Cain Athletic Center
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays broke the NCAA Division III record for consecutive victories, winning a 61st straight game with a 3-0 sweep of Washington College. 

How it Happened 

1st Set
• Hopkins used a 10-2 run early on in the first set to really crack it open early before throttling the Shorewomen 25-7 . 

• After a Danielle Norman kill gave service to the Blue Jays and Natalie Aston, Johns Hopkins took 10 of the next 12 points early in the match. During the run, Aston had an ace, Sarah Khan had an ace and four Blue Jays registered kills as Hopkins took a 12-4 lead. 
 
 • The Shorewomen made it 12-6 with a kill from Angelina Schaber and an ace from Lauren Zedlar, but they would score just once more over the duration of the first set. 

• Leading 12-6, Hopkins took off on a 10-0 run, getting contributions from all over. Sydney Portale added a kill to make it 13-6, giving Roxy Karrer the serve. Karrer had an ace and a kill, Aston called her own number three times and Lauren Anthony and Elayna Williams each had a kill to make it 22-6. Another Anthony kill made it 23-7 before Evelyn Batista ended the set with a pair of aces. 

2nd Set
• The Jays played a mostly new crew for the second set, getting a longer battle from the Shorewomen before a 25-21 set victory. 

• An attack error put the Blue Jays behind 7-3 early before they began to chip away. Karrer mixed in an ace among a trio of Washington College errors to tie things up at 7-7. 

• Two more attack errors put the Jays ahead 9-7, but the Shorewomen ripped off a quick 3-0 run to retake the lead. Brooklyn Pater scored the next three points for Hopkins, getting a kill and two aces to put JHU up 12-10.

• The back-and-forth continued as Norman picked up a kill to tie the contest back up at 14-14. Norman fired an ace and Virag Murphy picked up a kill and Hopkins was back up by two, but Washington College took the next two points and it was once again tied. 

• Karrer broke the tie with a kill for Hopkins and the Blue Jays never gave the lead back. A pair of attack errors gave Hopkins a 19-16 lead. Sylvia Johnson's kill for Washington College cut it to 21-20, but Pater and Murphy went back-to-back to make it 23-20. Norman added another kill to extend the lead to 24-21 before Annelisa O'Neal ended the set with an ace. 

3rd Set 
• Hopkins jumped ahead quickly in set number three, doing its best to make quick work of the Shorewomen and make history. 

• Norman and Pamela Chiakpo had kills right off the bat as Hopkins took a quick 4-0 lead. A collection of Shorewomen errors put the Blue Jays ahead 8-4. 

• Chidinma Onukwugha scored the next three points for Hopkins, picking up a kill and a pair of aces to give JHU an 11-4 lead. 

• Chiakpo got back in the mix, adding a pair of kills to put the Jays ahead 15-9. The Shorewomen cut it back down to 15-11, but Hopkins took the next four points, getting a kill from Onukwugha and an ace from Batista. 

• Adalee Lynch picked up a kill to inch the Blue Jays closer to history and after a pair of attack errors from Washington College, it was Norman who finished the job and immortalized the Blue Jays with a 61st consecutive victory, the most in Division III history.  

Inside the Box Score
• The Hopkins starters played just one set for the most part, but they made it count, hitting .448 en route to a 25-7 set win. The Blue Jay attack slowed down later on, as they hit .207 for the match. 

• 11 different Blue Jays had a kill with 10 of the 11 registering at least two. Norman led the team with seven kills for the match. 

• Hopkins had 13 service aces, led by three from Batista.

• Washington College hit -.024 for the match, never getting above .000 in a single set. 
 
What It Means
 
• Johns Hopkins is 26-0 on the season in 2021. In those 26 matches, 18 have been sweeps. The Blue Jays have gone to five sets just twice and have won 78 out of 88 total sets this season. 
 
• Over the course of the record setting 61-match winning streak, Hopkins has produced 46 sweeps, gone to five sets just three times, and won 183 out of 201 sets played. 

• During the streak, Johns Hopkins is 26-0 at home, 18-0 on the road and 17-0 in neutral site matchups. The Jays have lost just four sets in 26 home matches during the streak. 

• Hopkins now sits third all-time among all divisions and 14 wins behind Concordia-St. Paul for second-place. 

• During the time of the Blue Jays 61-match win streak, no other Division III team has dropped less than five matches. 

 
What's Next
 
• Johns Hopkins will finish out the regular season on Saturday inside Goldfarb Gymnasium vs. Bryn Mawr. The match will begin at 1 pm.