CHARLOTTE, NC – Johns Hopkins held off a furious rally from 12^th-ranked Stony Brook to beat the Seawolves, 14-12, in the third game of the Crown Lacrosse Classic Saturday night at American Legion Memorial Stadium. The Blue Jays win their fourth straight and improve to 7-2 overall while the Seawolves fall to 5-1.
 
Hopkins looked to be in control of the game late in the third quarter as the Blue Jays led 13-5 with 5:21 to play. Stony Brook wasn't going away however. Kailyn Hart scored twice just two minutes apart to spark a seven-goal rally that spanned 11 and a half minutes and saw the lead cut to just one. Erin MacQuarrie and Charlotte Verhulst followed with a pair of goals in the final 17 seconds of the third quarter and JHU led 13-9.
 
Stony Brook scored three goals in less than four minutes to open the fourth and just like that the lead was down to one with 7:23 to play. The Blue Jays got a Madison Doucette save and a Reagan O'Brien takeaway on the next two Seawolves' possessions and after running the shot clock down, Abbey Hurlbrink rifled home an eight-meter shot at 1:58 to put JHU up 14-12. Hopkins won the ensuing draw and ran 90 seconds off the clock. The Seawolves had one last run in them with Ellie Masera earning a free position shot with one tick on the clock. Doucette made the save and Jordan Carr corralled the rebound to end the game.
 
The Seawolves took an early 2-0 lead on goals from Hart and Isabella Caporuscio in the opening four minutes. Maeve Barker got the Blue Jays on the board when she took a pass from Bailey Cheetham in the right alley and fired home the first of her three goals at 10:17. That ignited a five-goal run that saw the Blue Jays push out to a 5-2 lead. Campbell Case sandwiched a pair of goals around an Ava Angello strike and it was 4-2 after one. MK Lescault then scored off a give-and-go with Charlotte Smith at 10:31 in the second.
 
Hart ended the run with her second of the afternoon just 43 seconds later. Angello answered when she took a pass from Hurlbrink in traffic, dropped her stick and beat Emily Manning to put Hopkins up 6-3. Stony Brook responded with goals from Jaden Hampel and Masera to make it a one-goal game at the half.
 
Ashley Mackin scored on a quick-stick off the Cheetham helper to kick-start a seven-goal run that gave Hopkins a 13-5 lead. Cheetham then scored on a free position shot, followed by two each from Mackin and Barker before Hurlbrink capped the run at 5:21 to stake the Blue Jays to that eight-goal lead.
 
Mackin (3g, 1a), Hurlbrink (2g, 2a) and Cheetham (1g, 3a) finished with four points apiece. Barker (3g) and Angello (2g, 1a) tallied three points each and Case added the two goals. O'Brien had three caused turnovers and three ground balls, while Kacie Riggs also had three takeaways. Jennifer Barry had a game-high eight draw controls and Hurlbrink had four. Doucette finished with a season-high 14 saves.
 
Masera (2g, 3a) and Hart (4g, 1a) led the Seawolves with four points each, while Masera also controlled seven draws. Caporuscio (2g), Alex Finn (1g, 2a) and Molly LaForge (2a) also had multi-point games. Caporuscio added two caused turnovers and two ground balls.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, March 16 as the Blue Jays open Big Ten play at top-ranked Northwestern. Opening draw at Ryan Fieldhouse is slated for 1:00 pm.
 
Notes: Hopkins beat Stony Brook for the first time since 2015, snapping a six-game losing streak in the series • Barker now ranks 19^th in JHU history with 127 career points • This was Barker's first hat trick of the season and 11^th of her career • Mackin notched her sixth hat trick of the season.