SYRACUSE, NY – The 19^th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team rode a 7-1 first quarter to a 19-8 win over 16^th-ranked UMass in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday afternoon. The Blue Jays improve to 9-8 while the Minutewomen end the season at 16-3.
 
With the game tied at one, Hopkins scored five goals in the final 5:04 of the first to take a 7-1 lead into the second. Campbell Case sparked the run when she scored from a tough angle off a restart. Ava Angello then scored back-to-back goals just 45 seconds apart, followed by a transition goal from Ashley Mackin. Campbell blew one home off a flip pass from Angello and Mackin put the punctuation on the run when she grabbed a ball of the post and deposited it with 29.4 ticks on the clock.

Charlotte Clavelli scored just 35 seconds into the second to get UMass back on the board. Hopkins answered with a pair of free position goals from Angello and Georgie Gorelick and it was 9-2 with 9:55 left in the half.
 
The Minutewomen answered with a 3-1 spurt to pull within five just 1:10 into third quarter. The Blue Jays answered with a 5-1 run that spanned nearly 13 minutes as they stormed out to a 15-6 lead after three. Angello got things going when she beat Catrina Tobin on a back-hand in traffic at 13:07. Marielle McAteer then scored on the run after a failed UMass clear. Case used a couple of screens to get free and scored on a sidearm shot in the middle of the fan to put Hopkins up 13-6. Jordan Carr then picked the bottom left corner from in-tight and Maeve Barker capped the spurt when ripped a right-handed shot from eight yards out.
 


Charlotte Wilmoth and Ashley Mackin traded a pair of scores over an eight-minute span of the fourth quarter and Hopkins led 17-8 with 4:05 to go. Abbey Hurlbrink scored on a free position and Carly Steinlauf wrapped up the scoring with a shot from goal line extended in the final minute.
 
Mackin led the Blue Jays with a game-high six points on four goals and two assists. That's tied for the second most points in an NCAA Tournament game in JHU history. Case (4g, 1a) and Angello (4g, 1a) also had five-point games, while Angello's four goals are the most by a freshman in an NCAA game. Barker (1g, 2a), Hurlbrink (1g, 2a) and Bailey Cheetham (1g, 1a) also had multi-point games as 11 Blue Jays had at least one point. Annie Marshall and Hurlbrink had six draws each, tying the program record for draws in a tournament game.
 
Wilmoth scored four goals to lead the Minutewomen, while Alex Finn had a game-high four assists. Jordan Dean controlled a game-high eight draws for UMass. Gina Carroll and Tobin combined for eight saves in the cage.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Sunday, May 14 as the Blue Jays take on host and second-seeded Syracuse. Opening draw at SU Soccer Stadium is slated for 3:00 pm.
 
Notes: Hopkins' 19 goals, 10 assists and 17 draw controls are the most in an NCAA Tournament game in program history • JHU has tallied 117 assists on the season, the second most in school history • Angello now ranks third in JHU history in points (51) and fourth in goals (38) by a freshman • Hurlbrink notched the 100^th draw of her career.