The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-17, Ohio State-14
• Records: JHU (9-7, 1-4 B1G) • OSU (9-6, 2-3 B1G)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Homewood Field
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team used a 6-1 run over the second and third quarters to take control in a 17-14 win over Ohio State on Saturday afternoon in Big Ten action.

 How it Happened
• Ohio State jumped out to a 4-0 in the game's opening 11 minutes with goals from four different Buckeyes. Junior Madison McPherson got Hopkins on the board at the 3:09-mark as she took a pass from fifth-year Shelby Harrison and scored to the lower left corner.
• McPherson's tally sparked a six-goal Blue Jay run and they grabbed a 6-4 lead with 10:28 to play in the second. Senior Claire Mills and sophomore Georgie Gorelick followed with three straight free position goals and it was a 4-4 game at less than three minutes into the second. Gorelick found Abbey Hurlbrink cutting and she picked the far post on the run to put JHU up 5-4. Jordan Carr then collected a loose ball and scored on a left-handed shot to the far post.
• Chloe Jordan ended the run and a scoreless drought of 9:32 with a shot off the dodge. Hurlbrink answered with a free position goal and Hopkins led 7-5 at 5:58 in the second. The Buckeyes responded with three goals in less than two minutes to go back up 8-7 with 3:26 to go in the half. Hopkins wasn't done however. A Jeanne Kachris interception on the defensive end led to a transition goal with Hurlbrink finding Carr open down low for the tying score.
• The third quarter started the same as the second ended. Senior Annika Meyer intercepted a Buckeye pass at inside the eight-meter and ended with a Gorelick goal in transition just 25 seconds into the half. Nicole Ferrara answered when she spun in the slot and scored to knot the score at nine.
• Hopkins answered with a four-goal run to go up 13-9 after three. Junior Maeve Barker ignited the run when she scooped up a loose ball and scored from in-tight. Harrison then scored back-to-back goals less than two minutes apart, followed by another Gorelick strike.
• Ohio State opened the fourth with three straight goals to pull within one with 10:29 to play. JHU ended the run when McPherson found Carr on the crease and she scored from the doorstep to make it 14-12. Just 63 seconds later, Harrison cashed in on a free position shot and the lead was three.
• The Buckeyes weren't going away as Ferrara scored a transition goal to make it a 15-13 game with 3:36 to play. Fifty seconds later, the Blue Jays answered with a transition goal of their own, that ended with a Barker hitch-and-score on the crease. Ali Beekhuizen got one back for Ohio State with a free position goal at 2:03 to again cut the lead to two. Gorelick sealed the win when she grabbed a loose ball near the restraining line and raced to the cage for the late score with 17.9 seconds left.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins improves to 15-6 all-time against Ohio State and wins its sixth straight over the Buckeyes. JHU also grabs its first Big Ten win of the season to remain in contention for a spot in the conference tournament.
• Saturday's game is the final home game for head coach Janine Tucker, who is retiring after 29 years. She won her first game at Homewood Field on March 15, 1994 and finishes with a win in her final game – a span of 10,266 days.
 
Inside the Box Score
• Gorelick led all scorers with a career-high five goals and six points. Harrison (3g, 1a) and Carr (3g) also had hat tricks as seven different Blue Jays scored in the win.
• Carr also had a game and career-high five ground balls to go with a pair of caused turnovers. McPherson had a career-high three assists and added a goal, three ground balls and two draws.
• Kachris and Meyer each had two caused turnovers while senior Mia Farnella had a career-high seven draws, two caused turnovers and a ground ball.
• Ferrara led the Buckeyes with four goals while Beekhuizen added three goals and four points. Chloe Johnson had a game-high 11 draws to go with three points (2g, 1a).
 
 Up Next
• Hopkins wraps up the regular season on Thursday, April 28 at Penn State. Opening draw at Panzer Stadium is slated for 6:00 pm.
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