BALTIMORE, MD – The #14/#17 Johns Hopkins women's basketball team got 20 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists from junior guard Macie Feldman and outscored Saint Joseph by 18 in the second and third quarters combined as the Blue Jays eased into the second round of the 2025 NCAA Division III Tournament with a 75-50 victory Friday evening.  Johns Hopkins will take on Carnegie Mellon, which topped Bridgewater State, 69-58, earlier in the day, in the second round on Saturday at 7:15 pm.
 
After battling evenly through the first 10 minutes, Johns Hopkins took control by outscoring the Saint Joseph, 41-23 in the second and third quarters to combined to pull away.
 
Up 11 at the half (36-25), the Blue Jays pushed out to an 18-point lead at the end of the third quarter (55-37) and were never seriously threatened in the fourth quarter as the lead grew to as many as 27 in the final period.
 
Saint Joseph (19-10) was within nine at 38-29 with just over six minutes remaining in the third quarter after a Taylor Verboven jumper, but Kendall Dunham answered with a layup at the other end to spring Johns Hopkins on a 17-8 run that put the game away.  Five different players scored during the run for Johns Hopkins, which hit 8-of-13 shots from the floor and got five Dunham points and four each from Feldman and Jadyn Murray to fuel the spurt.
 
Neither team could get in the flow offensively early in the game and the first 10 minutes solved nothing as teams were tied at 14 after one quarter.  Jordan Ouellette scored eight first-quarter points to lead the way for Saint Joseph and Greta Miller (5) and Feldman (4) combined for nine of Hopkins' 14 points in the first period.  Neither team led by more than three in an opening 10 minutes that saw five ties and five lead changes.
 
Johns Hopkins (23-4) found its grove down the stretch in the second quarter as the Blue Jays used a 17-6 run over a five-minute span late in the period to turn a 19-18 lead into a 36-24 advantage.  Grace Soltes dropped in eight points, including six on a pair of three-pointers, and Layla Henderson also hit one from beyond the arc to fuel the run.  After hitting just 6-of-20 shots in the first quarter, the Blue Jays went 7-of-8 from the floor and hit all three of their three-point attempts during the 17-6 run that helped them to a 35-26 halftime lead.
 
Verboven answered a second-half-opening bucket for the Blue Jays with back-to-back baskets to make it a nine-point game, but Dunham's basket a short time later ignited the 17-8 run that jumped started Hopkins on its way to a second-round date with Carnegie Mellon.
 
Feldman led the Blue Jays with her 20 points and Miller and Murray joined her in double figures with 10 points apiece.  Miller also joined Feldman with a double-double as she added 10 rebounds to her 10 points.  Soltes (9), Dunham (8), Henderson (7) and Michaela O'Neil (7) also contributed to a deep scoring punch for the Blue Jays.
 
Johns Hopkins outrebound the Saint Joseph 51-36, had a 20-0 advantage in bench scoring a set a program single-game NCAA Tournament record with 33 field goals in the victory.
 
Verboven (16), Maya Slisz (16) and Ouellette (14) combined for 46 of to 50 points for Saint Joseph.  Olivia Heslin had a team-high nine rebounds and Oulettee added seven to go along with her 14 points.
 
Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon will be meeting for the 16^th time in a series that dates to a Tartan victory in 1989, but this will be the first meeting since November 19, 2005.  Johns Hopkins is 11-4 all-time against Carnegie Mellon and has won the last 10 matchups after the Tartans took four of the first five games in the series.