BALTIMORE, MD –
Kaitlin Coward scored the game's first three goals, including two in a four-goal second quarter, to lead Johns Hopkins to a 6-0 win at Washington College Wednesday night. The Blue Jays improve to 11-4 overall and 6-1 in the Centennial Conference. The Shorewomen fall to 3-12 and 1-7.
Coward scored her first goal midway through the first quarter, blasting a low shot into the middle of the cage off a long pass from
Ada Farmer. She then scored twice in a span of less than two minutes in the second quarter to stake Hopkins to a 3-0 lead. Just 77 seconds after Coward completed her first career hat trick,
Sarah Chilton scored on a penalty stroke.
Hopkins wasn't done yet and with 3:10 to play in the second,
An Tran took a centering pass from
Eliza Vander, spun on her defender and backhanded a shot past Charlotte Scherman. Chilton capped the scoring just 5:10 into the third with her second penalty stroke goal of the game. It is her ninth of the season and 10
th of her career, breaking
Emily Amsden's career record of nine.
Aubrey Kilgore played the first quarter in the cage without facing a shot.
Jessica Lapidus made one save in the second and third quarters,
Emma Walsh then finished in the fourth and did not have to make a save. Schurman finished with 17 saves for the Shorewomen.
Hopkins outshot Washington College, 41-1, and had a 17-2 advantage in corners. Coward is the fourth different Blue Jay to notch a hat trick this season – a first in program history.
Hopkins returns to action on Saturday, October 24 versus Haverford. The Centennial Conference contest is scheduled for a 12:00 pm.
