Box Score COLUMBUS, OH – The ninth-ranked Ohio State men's lacrosse team outscored visiting Johns Hopkins 4-1 in the fourth quarter to fuel a 12-10 win over the Blue Jays at Ohio Stadium Saturday afternoon.  The win improves The Buckeyes' record to 8-3 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten, while the Blue Jays slip to 5-7 overall and 1-2 in the B1G.
 
Johns Hopkins had 9-8 lead at the end of the third quarter after Ryan Evans scored in transition, but the Buckeyes needed less than a minute of the fourth quarter to tie things up and took the lead for good two minutes after that.
 
After the Blue Jay defense got a fourth-quarter-opening stop, Ohio State's Jackson Reid intercepted a clearing pass and scored into an open net to ignite the game-ending run for the Buckeyes.  Scott White then scored on a step-down two minutes later and Jack Myers found Connor Mitchell all alone on the backdoor after fighting through a double team to cap the three-goal run – the only three-goal run of the game for either team.
 
Johns Hopkins sliced the 11-9 deficit to one with 7:57 on the clock when Garrett Degnon got to the middle after a quick head fake, but Johnny Wiseman's second of the day less than a minute later closed out the scoring as neither team found the net in the final seven minutes.
 
A back-and-forth first half saw five ties before the Buckeyes scored three of the final four goals before intermission to turn a 4-3 deficit into a 6-5 lead at the half.
 
After spotting the Buckeyes a one-goal lead and going more than 10 minutes without a goal to open the game, the Blue Jays struck for three goals in the final 4:29 of the period to grab a 3-2 lead at the end of the first.  Keogh scored on the run at the 4:29 mark to break the ice and Emmett Jennings found Jacob Angelus alone in the middle of the field after a failed OSU clearing attempt to give JHU a 2-1 lead.  The teams traded goals in the final minute of the opening quarter with Degnon's 25^th goal of the season with 9.3 seconds left in the period giving JHU a 3-2 lead at the end of one.
 
The Blue Jays had a 4-3 lead when Evans finished a nice two-man game with Angelus with just over 11 minutes showing on the second-quarter clock, but back-to-goals from Reid in a three-minute span midway through the period gave the Buckeyes a 5-4 lead.  Johnathan Peshko and Myers then traded goals in the final six minutes of the half to account for the 6-5 Buckeye lead at halftime.
 
Johns Hopkins outscored the Buckeyes 4-2 in the third quarter to grab the 9-8 lead.  After Keogh and Wiseman traded goals to open the period, the Blue Jays got consecutive goals from Degnon and Connor DeSimone in a 78-second span to go up 8-7.  Reid's fourth of the game followed 48 seconds after the DeSimone extra-man goal before Evans gave the Blue Jays their fifth and final lead of the game with his transition goal with 30 seconds left in the third quarter.
 
What It Means
• Ohio State has won four straight against the Blue Jays.
 
• Johns Hopkins will host Penn State next Saturday at Homewood Field.  The winner of that game is the likely number four seed in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• Keogh (2g, 2a), Angelus (2g, 2a), Degnon (3g), Evans (2g) and DeSimone (1g, 1a) all had multi-point game for the Blue Jays.
 
• Josh Kirson posted 10 saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who held the Buckeyes nearly three goals below their season scoring average.
 
• This is the sixth straight game the JHU defense has held the opposition below its season scoring average.
 
Inside the Box Score – Ohio State
• Jackson (5g, 1a) and Myers (1g, 4a) paced Ohio State offensively.
 
• Justin Inacio won 14-of-25 faceoffs and the Buckeyes held advantages in shots (44-41) and ground balls (36-29).
 
Up Next
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, April 16 when the Blue Jays return to Homewood Field to take on Penn State.  Faceoff against the Nittany Lions is set for 6 pm (ESPNU).