BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins volleyball team hosted McDaniel in its regular season home finale Wednesday night, sweeping the Green Terror (25-18, 25-10, 25-12) to complete an undefeated home slate and secure at least one more match at home in the upcoming Centennial Conference Tournament. The win is the Blue Jays' 13^th straight dating back to September 27th and keeps their perfect record against Centennial Conference opponents — Hopkins hasn't dropped a single set in a conference match this season — intact.
 
The Blue Jays had their way with McDaniel all night, hitting .364 compared to -0.053 for the visitors to mark the fourth time this season Hopkins has held its opponent to a sub-zero hitting percentage. Simone Adam finished with a match-high 10 kills while Helena Swaak (15) and Kate Danaher (14) both eclipsed double figures in assists. Defensively it was Chidinma Onukwugha registering a season-high four blocks followed closely by Virag Murphy and Brooklyn Pater at three apiece, with Roxy Karrer also tying her season-high mark in aces with four.
 
Karrer struck early with a pair of service aces to help Hopkins go up 4-0 in Wednesday's opening set. The Green Terror settled into its attack, keeping the score close at 7-4 before a service error kickstarted a 6-0 run that was capped off by the first of Ivy Swafford's five kills in the frame to balloon the Blue Jays' lead to 13-4. McDaniel chipped away at the deficit, getting as close as six on four different occasions, the final being 24-18 before Adam struck for her fifth kill of the stanza to close out Set 1, 25-18.
 
Set 2 saw Hopkins jump in front 6-1 for the second time before a Green Terror kill was answered by a Jilienne Widener-Onukwugha block that would ignite an 8-0 run to turn a four-point advantage into a 12-point lead at 14-2. The sides traded points until the score read 22-10, where an Onukwugha finisher sparked a set-closing 3-0 run.
 
As was the case in the first two sets, the Blue Jays jumped out to a 6-1 lead in Wednesday's final frame off a trio of Adam kills as well as one apiece from Elysa Pulliam and Simrin Carlsen. The lead remained five at 9-4 following a Green Terror kill by Kailey Young before Onukwugha tallied her fourth kill of the night to start a 7-0 burst to shoot the hosts in front 16-4. Errors began to plague McDaniel — the Green Terror hit -.107 in the set — building Hopkins' lead to 14 at 22-8 before attempting one final comeback. A 4-0 run cut the lead to 10, but that is as close as the visitors would get before Pamela Chiakpo and Anna Pantano added kills in a set- and match-closing 3-0 run to wrap up festivities in sweeping fashion.
 
The Blue Jays will now take part in a four-match road trip to conclude the regular season, starting with a non-conference bout against Stevenson Thursday, Oct. 31. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m.