DURHAM, NC – The 13^th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team outscored host and 25th-ranked Duke, 11-5, over the second and third quarters to take control of the game en route to a 17-13 win Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays improve to 3-0 on the season while the Blue Devils fall to 1-2.
 
Trailing 6-4 after one, Campbell Case and Ashley Mackin scored back-to-back goals in a 41-second span to open the second and tie the game. Duke answered with a pair of goals just two minutes apart to go up 8-6 with 11:32 to go in the half.
 
A Mackin goal on a quick-stick shot at the 10:49-mark sparked a three-goal Blue Jay run that gave them a 9-8 lead. Alayna Costa then tied it when she dodged from behind, hitched and then went low for the score at 7:59. Ava Angello capped the spurt when she weaved through the defense and scored on a side-arm shot from the middle of the fan.
 
Katie DeSimone knotted the score at nine with a goal in traffic with 4:39 on the clock. Bailey Cheetham had the final of the half, however. Angello found her cutting down the middle and she went over the top of Courtney Kaufman to put Hopkins up 10-9 at the half.
 
Carly Bernstein scored less than two minutes into the third to tie the game seventh time. The Blue Jays responded with a 6-1 run to push out to a 16-11 lead early in the fourth. Cheetham got things going when she used a Costa pick to get free in the right alley for the score. Just 72 seconds later, Mackin came off a screen and slipped a shot past Kaufman. Taylor Hoss got free in the middle of the fan, took a pass from MK Lescault and scored on a left-handed shot to make it 13-10.
 
Duke halted the run temporarily with a Caroline DeBellis score with 3:52 on the clock to make it a two-goal game. Mackin and Charlotte Smith scored twice in a 43-second span to make it 15-11 at the end of three. Hurlbrink then put the punctuation on the 6-1 run with her third of the afternoon just 2:02 into the fourth.
 
The Blue Devils pulled back within three with goals from DeSimone and Kerry Nease with 11:25 still to play. That's as close as they would get however. Angello completed her hat trick when she took a pass from Cheetham, dipped under her defender and scored on a low shot with 9:56 to play. As it turned out that was the last goal of the game as JHU held Duke to just two shots in the final 11 minutes.
 
Angello and Hurlbrink sandwiched goals around a Bernstein strike in the game's opening three minutes as Hopkins took an early 2-1 lead. The Blue Devils then went on a 4-1 run, with all four goals scored by DeBellis, as the home team went up 5-3 with 4:48 on the clock. Maeve Barker cut the deficit to one when she was left all alone in the left alley and ripped a shot to the upper left corner. Nease answered for Duke just over a minute later and the Blue Devils led 6-4 after one.
 
Mackin led the Blue Jays with four goals and five points, while Angello (3g, 1a) and Hurlbrink (3g) each had hat tricks. Cheetham led JHU with two assists, to go with two goals. Kacie Riggs had a team-high four draws while Jennifer Barry controlled three. Madison Doucette finished with 12 saves and three ground balls to earn the win.
 
DeBellis scored a game-high five goals to lead Duke, which also got five points from DeSimone (3g, 2a). Bernstein added four points (2g, 2a) and Mattie Shearer handed out three assists.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Wednesday, February 21 as the Blue Jays host seventh-ranked Loyola. The Blue Jays home opener is scheduled for a 4:00 pm start at Homewood Field.