BALTIMORE, MD – Just one week after Johns Hopkins came from behind to beat Penn State in overtime, the Blue Jays went wire-to-wire in a 13-8 win over the Nittany Lions in the Big Ten      Quarterfinals. Hopkins improves to 12-5 on the season while Penn State falls to 7-9.
 
Hopkins grabbed an early 2-0 lead with goals from Samantha DiCarlo and Megan Kielbasa in a 36-second span. DiCarlo opened the scoring at 13:47 when she went coast-to-coast after a Penn State turnover and fired home a shot from the left alley. After winning the draw, Taylor Hoss found Kielbasa wide open on the crease and she turned and scored. Erika Ho answered with an eight-meter goal at 5:47 to get the Nittany Lions on the board.
 
Ava Angello pushed the lead back to three less than 80 seconds later when she caught a pass from Laurel Gonzalez, hitched and went low on Sydney Manning. Hopkins opened the second quarter with a stop on defense and then got a DiCarlo goal off a Charlotte Smith helper to put JHU up 4-1. Ho and Payton Wainman scored back-to-back goals in a 57-second span to pull back within one at 11:30. The score would remain 4-3 until the waning seconds of the quarter when Campbell Case was on the receiving end of some quick passing, scoring from the doorstep to send Hopkins into the half with a 5-3 lead.
 
Emma Kelly and Brooke Hoss sandwiched goals around a strike from Lacey Downey to open the third and once again make it a one-goal game. Smith answered with a goal off the dodge at 12:22 to spark a three-goal Blue Jay run as they pushed out to a 9-5 lead late in the quarter. Kielbasa and Downey scored twice just 34 seconds apart, off helpers from Taylor Hoss, to give the Blue Jays that four-goal cushion.
 
Penn State wasn't going away however as a Brooke Long goal with 2:06 left in the third ignited a 3-1 Nittany Lions spurt as they pulled with two. Hoss hit a cutting Angello in the slot to open the fourth quarter scoring. Maggie Rezza and Delaney Radin followed with back-to-back goals and Hopkins led 10-8 with 9:03 to play.
 
It was all Hopkins for the final nine minutes as the Blue Jays closed the game on a 3-0 run. The JHU defense held Penn State to just two shots and forced four turnovers in those final nine minutes. Hopkins answered Radin's goal with a Case goal off a failed Penn State clear at 3:57. Just 46 seconds later, Hoss scored off a dodge from behind to make it a four-goal game. Hoss made it two in a row when she got open in front and fired home a feed from Smith.
 
Hoss finished with a game-high four assists and six points and now has 22 points in her last five games. Angello added two goals and three assists while Smith had a three-point (1g, 2a) effort. Case, DiCarlo, Kielbasa and Downey all had two-goal games. Reagan O'Brien led the defense with a school-record 10 caused turnovers, to go with a career-best eight ground balls. Hannah Johnson had four ground balls and caused a turnover. Morgan Giardina made a career-high 11 saves. Gonzalez finished with a game-high seven draw controls.
 
Ho led the Nittany Lions with three points (2g, 1a) and six draw controls. Wainman also had a three-point day (1g, 2a) while Kelly MacKinney added a pair of assists. Manning finished with 12 saves and three ground balls.
 
Hopkins advances to the Big Ten Semifinals and will face top-seeded Northwestern for the second straight year. Opening draw at Maryland's Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex is slated for 5:00 pm.
 
Notes: O'Brien now has 78 caused turnovers on the season, second most in NCAA history and four shy of the record • Angello pushed her goal-scoring streak to 36 games and needs just three points to reach 200 for her career • Hoss' six points are tied for the most by a Blue Jay in a Big Ten Tournament game • JHU's 10 assists are the most in a conference tournament game in school history.