The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-54, Mount Saint Mary College (NY)-57
• Records: JHU (22-5) • MSMC (24-3)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gym
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's basketball season came to a close on Friday evening as the Blue Jays dropped a hard-fought contest with Mount Saint Mary College, 57-54.
 
How it Happened
After trailing by five at halftime, Mount Saint Mary outscored Johns Hopkins 30-22 in the second half to advance to Saturday's NCAA Second Round. Morina Bojka scored 15, Annie Keenan had 14 and Katie Smith had 11 to lead the Knights. 

The Blue Jays came out red-hot, taking a 15-4 lead after a Diarra Oden three with 3:44 left in the first quarter. Oden and Christine Corpuz combined for 13 of the team's initial 15 points. The teams traded buckets before Keenan hit a three with 34 seconds left to cut the deficit to eight after one quarter. 

With 8:20 to play in the first half, Oden knocked down another three, giving her nine points and giving the Jays a nine-point lead. Exactly halfway through the second period, Kristin Ralston scored her first bucket of the contest and the Jays led by 12, their largest lead of the contest. Now trailing 30-20 with 2:47 left in the half, the Knights hit a 7-0 run to cut it to 30-27 with 1:11 left in the second. Erin Walsh scored the final points of the half, sending Hopkins to the locker room with a 32-27 lead. 

The Knights flipped the script in the third quarter, using a 9-0 spurt over nearly six minutes to take a 36-32 advantage. With 4:01 left in the third, Natalie Mann hit a massive three off a feed from Oden, giving the Jays their first points of the quarter and cutting the deficit to one. Smith scored for MSMC with 2:51 to go, but Mann hit another three 40 seconds later to tie the contest at 38-38. Bojka put the Knights back on top, but Ralston completed an and-one to retake the lead for JHU with 1:10 left in the third. Bojka scored 15 seconds later and the Knights took a one-point lead into the fourth. 

MSMC led by seven with as little as 3:39 to play in the contest. but the Jays began to chip away. Oden took it to the bucket and cut it to five with 3:19 to play, giving her 17 for the game. A minute later, Oden was fouled shooting a three and sunk all three free throws to cut it to 54-52. Smith and Oden traded free throws in the final minute with Smith giving the Knights a three-point lead with 15 seconds left. With time running down, Greta Miller got a look at three, but it didn't fall. Michaela O'Neil grabbed the offensive board and was fouled. O'Neil hit the first and nearly executed a missed free throw to set up a game tying attempt, but Smith came away with the board and the Knights took it 57-54 after a free throw with 0.3 on the clock. 
 
What it Means
• The Blue Jays fall in the NCAA Tournament's First Round for just the second time in program history. The Jays are now 8-2 in First Round Games. 
 
• This was the first ever meeting between these two teams with the Knights taking the inaugural matchup. 
 
Inside the Box Score
• Oden led the game with 21 points, pulled down eight rebounds and nabbed four steals in her final game as a Jay. Oden moves into 12th on the Jays all-time scoring list with 1,073 career points. 
 
• Miller gutted through an ankle injury to grab a career-high 13 rebounds. 
 
• Johns Hopkins out-rebounded the Knights by 12, but the Knights had the advantage by 12 in the turnover department. 
 
Up Next
• JHU's season comes to a close at 22-5 overall. Mount Saint Mary and Christopher Newport will play a Second Round matchup in Goldfarb tomorrow evening at 6 pm.