BALTIMORE, MD – Ninth-ranked Loyola outscored host Johns Hopkins, 7-4, in the fourth quarter to top the 12^th-ranked Blue Jays, 17-14, Wednesday afternoon. The Blue Jays suffer their first loss of the season as they fall to 3-1 overall while the Greyhounds improve to 3-0.
 
Senior Marielle McAteer scored a free position goal with 2:35 to play in the third quarter to stake Hopkins to a 10-9 lead. Sydni Black answered for Loyola with an eight-meter goal of her own at the 1:03-mark to spark a four-goal Loyola run. Georgia Latch capped the run with a pair of goals less than a minute apart to put the Greyhounds up 13-10. Junior Ashley Mackin got one back for the Blue Jays when she took a pass from senior Abbey Hurlbrink and scored from in-tight with 8:22 to play.
 
Chase Boyle answered 23 seconds later to push Loyola's lead back to three. Junior Charlotte Smith and Mackin then sandwiched goals around a strike from Catie Corolla and it was 15-13 with 4:45 on the clock. Black scored back-to-back goals in a 40-second span to push the Greyhounds lead back to four at the 2:58-mark. Smith converted a free position shot with 52.2 seconds on the clock to pull the Jays within three, but they could get no closer.
 
Hopkins jumped out to a 3-1 lead with goals from McAteer, senior Campbell Case and junior Alayna Costa. Loyola responded with a 5-1 run that spanned nearly 11 minutes and saw the 'Hounds go up 6-4. JHU halted the run when Costa passed on an eight-meter shot and instead fed a wide-open Mackin for the score at 5:51. Sophomore Ava Angello scored on a back-handed shot just 27 seconds later and the game was tied at six. Angello made it two in a row, and put the Blue Jays back on top, at 3:23. Costa put the punctuation on the four-goal run when she dodged through several defenders and beat the 'Hounds goalie over the right shoulder at 1:58.
 
Boyle bridged the halftime break with consecutive goals to knot the score at eight just 33 seconds into the third. Case gave the lead back to Hopkins when she took a pass from McAteer, stepped down and blew home her second of the game. Boyle came right back for the Greyhounds and tied the game at nine with 3:55 left in the third.
 
 Mackin led Hopkins with four points (3g, 1a) and Angello also had a hat trick. McAteer, Case and Costa all had two-goal, one-assist performances. Hurlbrink handed out two assists and controlled five draws. Graduate student Jennifer Barry controlled eight draws and classmate Madison Doucette finished with 10 saves. Boyle scored a game-high six goals and had 10 draws. Latch tallied five points (4g, 1a) while Anna Ruby (4a) and Black (3g, 1a) had four points. Spence finished with eight saves in the cage.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, February 24 at 14^th-ranked Penn. Opening draw at Homewood Field is slated for 12:00 pm.