COLUMBUS, OH – Ava Angello finished with a career-best eight goals and 11 points to lead fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 16-6 win at Ohio State Thursday evening. The Blue Jays improve to 10-3 overall and 4-1 in the Big Ten while the Buckeyes fall to 8-5 and 1-5 in the B1G.
 
Hopkins jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opening two minutes with goals from Lacey Downey and Taylor Hoss, but Ohio State answered with a pair to tie the game at 2-2 with 7:55 to go in the quarter. Downey opened the scoring just 26 seconds in when she took a pass from Angello, turned, and fired one under the crossbar. Ashley Mackin then found Hoss in the right alley for the quick stick to put JHU up 2-0. Maeve Simonds got the Buckeyes on the board at 10:12 off a helper from Brynn Ammerman. Zoe Coleman then buried an eight-meter shot from the top of the fan to knot the score.
 
Angello scored with a bouncer on an eight-meter at 3:40 in the first to spark a 5-1 Blue Jay run to end the half. Mackin and Samantha DiCarlo capped the first quarter with a pair of goals in the final 43.4 seconds to make it a 5-2 game after one.
 
Angello opened the second-quarter scoring when she took a pass from Hoss and scored on the doorstep at 5:18. Annie Hargraves got one back for Ohio State when she scored with just two seconds on the possession clock to make it 6-3. Angello capped a first-half hat trick and sent the Blue Jays into the half with a 7-3 lead when she scored off a Hoss helper at the 2:39-mark.
 
The defenses continued to lead the way in the third quarter as the teams combined for just three goals. Kate Tyack dodged from goal line extended, dropped her stick and scored in tight just 2:32 into the third. Angello answered at 9:06 with an unassisted tally. Coleman then scored on a quick-stick at 2:27 and it was 8-5 after three.
 
It was all Hopkins in the fourth quarter as the Blue Jays outscored the Buckeyes 8-1 in the final 15 minutes. Downey needed just 17 seconds into the quarter to score her second, taking a behind-the-back pass from Angello and firing home a shot from eight meters out. Angello then scored four of the next five, sandwiched around a Hoss strike, as Hopkins pushed out to a 14-5 lead.
 
Ammerman halted the Jays' run with a free position tally at the 5:02-mark. But Hopkins would close the game with a Megan Kielbasa to Hoss connection at 3:40 and then the first career goal for Laurel Gonzalez to cap the win.
 
Angello led all scorers with her eight goals and 11 points and is the second Blue Jay this season with a double-digit point performance. Hoss finished with six points, one shy of her career high, on three goals and three assists. Mackin (1g, 1a) and Downey (2g, 1a) also had multi-point games. Reagan O'Brien led the defense with seven caused turnovers, tying the school single-game record. She now has 54 caused turnovers on the season, tying the single-season record.
 
Downey had a career-high five ground balls and five draws, to go with two caused turnovers and her three points. Hannah Johnson had a game and career-high six ground balls and tied her career-best with four caused turnovers. Morgan Giardina tied her career high with 10 saves while allowing just the six goals.
 
Ammerman (1g, 1a), Coleman (2g) and Leah Sax (2a) led the Buckeyes with two points each. Abby Boyle had a game-high six draws. Jocelyn Torres finished with 11 saves and four ground balls in the cage.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Sunday, April 13 as the Blue Jays visit 17^th-ranked Michigan. Opening draw at U-M Lacrosse Stadium is slated for 12:00 pm.
 
Notes: Angello extended her goal-scoring streak to 32 games. She also moved into a tie for ninth in school Division I history with 182 career points.