BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins' five seniors combined for 22 goals and 10 assists to lead the Blue Jays to a 24-9 win over Washington & Jefferson Sunday in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) action. The Blue Jays improve to 15-6 overall and 4-0 in the MPSF, while the Presidents fall to 0-11 and 0-4.
Just like its first game of the day, Hopkins scored the game's first four goals to grab an early lead. This time it was seniors
Alex Baker (3g) and
Max Blecher (1g) doing the honors. Dillon Parker go W&J on the board at the 2:46-mark, but Blecher answered with a pair of goals, including the 100
th of his career, to put JHU up 6-1 after one.
Timothy Deutsch cashed in on a six-on-five opportunity to open the second, but the Blue Jays answered with two from senior
Ethan Babel and another Blecher goal to push out to a 9-2 lead. Brody Souder got one back for the Presidents with a five-meter score at 3:36. Blecher and Baker scored back-to-back goals to close out the second and send Hopkins into the break with an 11-3 lead.
Parker scored to open the third for the Presidents, but a pair of Baker and
Phillip Long extra-man goals gave the Blue Jays a 13-4 lead at 6:25. W&J answered with a 3-1 spurt to cut the deficit to seven less than three minutes later. JHU came right back with four straight, including a five-meter goal from senior goalie
Chris Poisler and just like that the lead was 18-7 with 1:22 to play in the third.
Topher Mitchell broke up JHU's four-goal run with a goal for the visitors at 1:04. Just 17 seconds later, senior
Owen Bartlett scored to kick-start a game-ending 6-1 run for the Blue Jays.
Baker led Hopkins with seven goals, to go with two assists, seven steals and three blocks. Babel notched a career-best six goals and eight points and Bartlett finished with a career-best nine points on four goals and five helpers. He also drew three ejections and grabbed four steals. Poisler tallied six saves in the cage, along with two steals and the score.
Hopkins returns to action in two weeks at the MPSF Conference weekend in Rock Island, IL. JHU will take on host Augustana on Friday, November 6 to kick-off the weekend.
