The Basics
• Score: #4 Northwestern-17, Johns Hopkins-8
• Records:  JHU (0-2, 0-2 B1G) • NU (2-0, 2-0 B1G)
• Location:  Baltimore, MD • Homewood Field
• The Short Story:  The Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team led fourth-ranked Northwestern for the first 19 minutes of the game, but a 12-0 Wildcats' run turned the tide and the visitors grabbed a 17-8 win Friday afternoon in Big Ten action.
 
How it Happened
• Hopkins scored three goals in the game's opening four minutes to jump on top of Northwestern early. Graduate student Mackenzie Heldberg gave the Blue Jays the early lead, scoring just 90 seconds in off the feed from senior Aurora Cordingley. Just 37 seconds later, senior Keegan Barger checked the ball out of the Wildcats' goalie stick, Cordingley scooped up the ground ball and scored on an open cage. Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink followed with a free position goal to push the lead to three.
• Luaren Gilbert got Northwestern on the board at the 26:13-mark, scoring off the dodge on a right-handed shot. But Hopkins came right back with a goal from Cordingley off a give-and-go with Heldberg to stake the Blue Jays to a 4-1 lead with 22:31 to play. Gilbert answered with her second of the day to cut the deficit in half, scoring from the left alley at 19:48. Just 13 seconds later, the lead was back to three when Heldberg beat Madison Doucette from the doorstep.
• Izzy Scane found Erin Coykendall on goal line extended and she cut to the crease and shot over the top of Blue Jays' goalie Kathleen Garvey. Cordingley responded with her third of the half, dodging from behind and going low on Doucette to push Hopkins' lead to 6-3 with 15:26 to go in the half.
• Scane went high-to-low from the left alley to cut the deficit to two and spark that 12-goal Northwestern run. Taylor Pinzone and Sammy Mueller followed with goals just 27 seconds apart and the score was knotted at six at the 10:41-mark. The Wildcats would add five more over the final nine minutes of the half to take an 11-6 lead at the break.
• Northwestern scored the first four goals of the second half to push its lead to 15-6 with 18:07 to play. Hurlbrink snapped the run with back-to-back goals, including her second free position goal, in just over two and a half minutes to pull the Blue Jays back within seven. Scane scored an unassisted tally at the 10:45-mark and then tacked on another with just 6.3 seconds remaining to close out the scoring.  
 
What it Means
• Hopkins falls to 4-15 all-time against Northwestern, which has now won four straight in the series.
 
 Inside the Box Score
• Cordingley led the Blue Jays with three goals and an assist for her 16^th career hat trick. She also extends her point-scoring streak to 31 games. Hurlbrink finished with three goals for her first career hat trick. Heldberg added a pair of goals and an assist.
• Seniors Keegan Barger and Trinity McPherson led the defense with three caused turnovers each, while senior Shelby Harrison and junior Annika Meyer had two apiece. Harrison also had a team-high four draw controls , while Meyer picked up a team-best four ground balls. Garvey made a career-best 14 saves and also picked up three ground balls.
• Scane (4g, 2a) led nine Wildcat scorers and Gilbert added four points (3g, 1a). Pinzone, Mueller and Leah Holmes also had multi-goal games, notching two apiece. Brennan Dwyer controlled a game-high 10 draws for Northwestern. Doucette finished with five saves in the loss.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins and Northwestern square off again on Sunday, February 28 with opening draw at Homewood Field set for 12:00 pm.