BALTIMORE, MD – Fourteen Blue Jays scored as the Johns Hopkins water polo team beat visiting Conn College, 22-8, on Sunday.
 
It was a tight first quarter before Hopkins erupted in the second quarter. JHU jumped out to a 2-0 lead with goals from seniors Seth Berke and Paul Gensbigler. Jeffrey Harrington got CC on the board with 21 seconds left. But sophomore Jason Mihalopoulos answered with a six-on-five goal with two just ticks on the clock to put the Blue Jays up 3-1 after one.
 
Sophomore Quint Steffey opened the second quarter scoring to push the lead to three, but Cormac Stevens responded for the Camels and it was 4-2 with 4:48 to play. Sophomore Dado Soares book-ended a five-goal run as the Blue Jays pushed out to a 9-2 lead at the 2:03-mark. Siaki Nelson and Jesse Ellis halted the run with a pair of goals to cut it to 9-4 early in the third.
 
Berke scored back-to-back goals to push the lead to seven with 5:41 to play in the third. Harrington then sandwiched a pair of goals around scores from junior Chris Lo and freshman Max Blecher and it was 13-6 just three minutes later. Steffey and freshman Owen Bartlett answered with a pair of scores just 22 seconds apart and the lead grew to nine at the end of three quarters.
 
Stevens and Harrington opened the fourth with two scores. Senior Shayan Sadiq answered with a goal at 4:57 to ignite a seven-goal run to end the game.
 
Berke led the Blue Jays with four goals while Soares had a team-high five points (2g, 3a). Sophomore Gavin Brooke also handed out three assists and finished with four points. Lo, Steffey, Gensbigler and Blecher also had two-goal games. Graduate student Saahil Naik finished with 12 saves.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, October 14 at Bucknell.