The Basics
• Score: #20 James Madison-9, #14 Johns Hopkins-6
• Records: JHU (8-7) • JMU (12-4)
• Location: Chapel Hill, NC • Dorrance Field
• The Short Story: James Madison jumped out to a 6-1 lead and held off a late rally to defeat the Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team, 9-6, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday night at North Carolina.  

 How it Happened
• Taylor Marchetti struck first when she came from behind the cage and scored on a low shot at 24:15 to give the Dukes the early lead. Brittany Bill followed with back-to-back goals less than two minutes apart and James Madison led 3-0 with 14:35 to go in the first half.
• Graduate student Lexi Souder got the Blue Jays on the board when she took a pass from senior Aurora Cordingely and scored on a quick-shot from the left alley at the 12:11-mark. Charlotte Haggerty answered with a pair of goals just 70 seconds apart, followed by a strike from Daria Lucchesi and JMU led 6-1 with 8:43 to play.
• Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink halted the Dukes' run when she picked the bottom left corner from the doorstep off a feed from Cordingley at 7:37.
• Haggerty opened the second-half scoring with a free position goal to push JMU's lead to 7-2. Hopkins answered when freshman Eliza Bowman got free in the right alley and blew one past Molly Dougherty at 16:22. Haggerty and Katelyn Morgan added two more over a nearly nine-minute span and the lead was 9-3 with 5:03 to go.
• Cordingley got things going late for the Blue Jays, scoring back-to-back goals just 55 seconds apart to cut the deficit to four. Senior Shelby Harrison then converted a free position shot and it was 9-6 with 29 ticks on the clock, but that's as close as Hopkins could get.   
 
What it Means
• Hopkins falls to 0-2 all-time against James Madison with both meetings coming in the NCAA Tournament. This was the first meeting between the two schools since 2004.
• Senior Kathleen Garvey now ranks ninth in school Division I history with 198 career saves. Senior Keegan Barger moves into a tie for 11^th with 62 career caused turnovers.
• Cordingley extended her point-scoring streak to 44 games, the fifth longest in school Division I history.
 
Inside the Box Score
• Cordingley led the Blue Jays with four points (2g, 2a) and a game-high six draw controls. Souder and Bowman had two  points (1g, 1a) apiece.
• Sophomore Madison McPherson caused three turnovers and picked up four ground balls, while junior Annika Meyer had five ground balls and one takeaway. Garvey finished with seven saves and one ground ball.
• Haggerty had a game-high four goals, while Bill added a pair as the only multi-point scorers for the Dukes. Emma Johnson had three caused turnovers and five ground balls and Mairead Durkin had a game-high four takeaways. Dougherty made seven saves in the cage.