Box Score ROCK ISLAND, IL – Johns Hopkins held off upset-minded Penn State Behrend, 15-10, in both teams' regular season finale Sunday morning. The Blue Jays improve to 19-6 overall and 8-0 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). JHU finished undefeated in conference play for the second straight year.
 
The Lions grabbed an early 2-0 lead on goals from Freddy Browarski and Owen Kroh. Mason Hofmann got the Blue Jays on the board at 5:25 and then Phillip Long tied it 94 seconds later. Kroh put Penn State Behrend back on top at the 3:23-mark but a David Edelman with 2:02 to play in the first knotted the score at three and sparked a 3-0 Blue Jay run. Mendelsohn beat the first-quarter clock to give Hopkins its first lead at 4-3.
 
Hofmann pushed the lead to two as the Blue Jays capitalized on a turnover. The lead was short-lived however as Browarski and Ivo Tagliana scored back-to-back goals to tie the game at five with 3:16 to go in the half. Edelman and Hofmann answered with scores to send JHU into the half with a 7-5 lead. Long opened the scoring 72 seconds into the third to push the Blue Jays' lead to three.
 
Kroh got one back for Behrend but strikes from Alec Baker and Ben Lucas to end the third put Hopkins on top 10-6 heading into the fourth. The teams traded goals over the first five minutes of the final stanza and Hopkins led 12-9. Luke Mendelsohn then sandwiched a pair of goals around a Lucas tally and just like that the lead as six with 22 ticks on the clock. After calling timeout, Penn State got one last goal from Zach Bradshaw in the waning seconds.
 
Hofmann, Mendelsohn and Long each tallied a hat trick to lead the Blue Jays. In addition, Hofmann and Ethan Babel had two assists apiece. Baker had a team-best three steals while Mendelsohn had two and Long had a pair of blocks.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Friday, November 20 at the MPSF Championship in Los Angeles, CA.