BALTIMORE, MD –
Sarah Chilton had a hand in four goals to lead Johns Hopkins to a 6-0 win over visiting Gettysburg Wednesday night in Centennial Conference action. The Blue Jays improve to 13-4 overall and 8-1 in the conference, while the Bullets fall to 9-7 and 3-6.
Eliza Vander got the Blue Jays on the board early when she tipped a hard hit from
Ada Farmer into the back of the cage 5:51 into the first. Chilton doubled JHU's lead just 2:37 into the second with the first of her three goals. She collected a rebound off an Ava Spear save and then chipped the ball over Spear's outstretched pads.
The Blue Jays then erupted for three goals in an eight-minute span in the third to grab control of the game. Chilton blasted home a loose ball from about eight yards out at 6:21 for her second straight goal. Just five minutes later,
Catherine D'Arcy sent a long ball into the circle that was played by Bullets' goalie Langley Benson. The ball came right out to
Ava Zimmerman, who rifled it into right side of the cage. Chilton capped the three-goal third quarter with her 11
th penalty stroke goal of the season with 1:01 to go.
Emma Scheckner punctuated the scoring with 2:33 to play in the game with her first career goal. Chilton collected a corner insert from
Sophia Albano, spun on her defender and passed the ball to Scheckner. She settled the ball and then backhanded a shot under Benson from in-tight.
Hopkins outshot Gettysburg, 15-9, and had a 10-4 advantage in corners.
Aubrey Kilgore and
Jessica Lapidus split time in the cage and finished with three saves each. Spear tallied four saves in the first half before giving way to Benson, who notched one save in the second half.
Hopkins wraps up the regular season on Saturday at Muhlenberg. The Centennial Conference contest is slated for a 1:00 pm start.
