The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-13, #14 Penn State-10
• Records: JHU (3-4, 3-4 B1G) • PSU (3-6, 3-6 B1G)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Homewood Field
• The Short Story: Senior Aurora Cordingley poured in a career-high six goals to lead the Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team to a 13-10 win over 14^th-ranked Penn State in Big Ten action at Homewood Field.

 How it Happened
• It was back-and-forth early as Olivia Dirks and Gretchen Gilmore sandwiched goals around a Cordingley strike and Penn State led 2-1 at the 25:10-mark. Graduate student Maggie Schneidereith converted a free position goal, followed by a low sidearm shot by Cordingley to put Hopkins on top 3-2 with 18:03 to play in the half.
• Quinn Nicolai answered with a free position goal three minutes later and the score was knotted at three. Sophomore Maeve Barker scored on a jump shot off a feed from Schneidereith to give the lead back to the Blue Jays, but again the Nittany Lions answered with a Kristin O'Neill high-to-low goal and it was 4-4 with 6:49 on the clock.
• Senior Shelby Harrison scored on a free position shot less than a minute later to spark a five-goal Blue Jay run that bridged halftime and saw JHU go up 9-4. Schneidereith followed with a left-handed rocket from eight yards out. Cordingley completed her first-half hat trick, capitalizing off a Trinity McPherson takeaway, by tip-toeing the crease and beating Taylor Suplee from in-tight.
• Cordingley picked up right where she left off with back-to-back free position goals to cap the five-goal rally and stake Hopkins to a 9-4 lead with 25:23 left. The teams then traded goals over an 11-minute span and the Blue Jays led 11-7 at the 10:29-mark.
• Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink pushed the lead back to five when she scored off the run from the right alley at 9:30. Just 63 seconds later, graduate student Mackenzie Heldberg dodged from behind the cage, spun on her defender and beat Suplee over the top to put JHU up 13-7.
• Maria Auth would pull the Nittany Lions back within three scoring three straight goals in a span of just three minutes and 27 seconds. But that's as close as Penn State could get as Hopkins closed out the win.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins snaps a five-game losing streak to Penn State and earns its first win over the Nittany Lions at Homewood Field since April 27, 2007.
• The win is the 298^th for head coach Janine Tucker as she is just two wins shy of 300 for her career.
 
Inside the Box Score
• Cordingley led all scorers with her career-high six goals, coming on just eight shots. She also had a career-high five draw controls and caused three turnovers. Her fifth goal of the game was the 150^th point of her career and she now ranks 13^th in school Division I history with 151 points. She is also tied for 16^th with 95 career goals.
• Schneidereith (2g, 1a) and Harrison (1g, 1a) were the only other multi-point scorers for the Blue Jays. Harrison also had a game and season-high eight draw controls.
• Junior Annika Meyer led the defense with a career-high five caused turnovers, the most by a Blue Jay since Keegan Barger set the school-record with seven on April 2, 2019. McPherson matched her career-high with four takeaways. Senior Kathleen Garvey finished with 10 saves and three ground balls for her fourth double-digit save performance of the season.
• Auth led Penn State with three goals and four points, while Dirks added a pair of goals and four draw controls. Suplee made seven saves in the loss.
 
 Up Next
• Hopkins returns to Homewood Field on Sunday, April 11 to take on 23^rd-ranked Rutgers in the Blue Jays' final regular season home game. Opening draw is slated for 12:02 pm.