BALTIMORE, MD –
Ava Angello and
Taylor Hoss combined for 12 goals to lead eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 20-5 win over visiting USC in Big Ten action Thursday. The Blue Jays improve to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the conference, while the Trojans fall to 6-5 and 0-3.
Hopkins needed just 94 seconds to grab a 2-0 lead as
Laurel Gonzalez opened the scoring at 14:26 and exactly 60 seconds later,
Lacey Downey cashed in on an eight-meter. Downey made it two in a row a little past the mid-way point of the first before Hoss and Angelo went back-to-back in a 63-second span to give the Blue Jays a 5-0 lead.
The Blue Jays struck quickly in the second, scoring three goals in the opening 1:55 to push its lead to 8-0. Hoss scored in the slot off a feed from Downey just 28 seconds in. Less than a minute later,
McKenzey Craig scored on the doorstep and then Angello scored in traffic at the 13:05-mark and the lead was eight. Angello blew home a sidearm shot from eight meters out at 10:29 and just 30 seconds later, went high-to-low from distance and JHU led 10-0.
USC got on the board with a Kaylee Fravert power-play goal at the 7:12-mark and then Alex May made it back-to-back with a sidearm less than two minutes later. Angello and Hoss answered with back-to-back goals and just like that, the lead was back to 10 with 3:41 left in the half. Vivian Leuthold got one back for the Trojans, scoring on the run in the waning seconds to make it a 12-3 game at the break.
Angello then opened the third quarter scoring 59 seconds in as the Blue Jays capitalized in transition. Fravert answered for the Trojans but a Hoss goal in-tight sparked a seven-goal JHU run. That run spanned nearly 17 minutes and saw six Blue Jays score, capped by a
Sally Zinser strike at the 6:08-mark in the fourth. Anna Regan would close out the scoring late in the game with a goal in transition.
Angello scored a game-high seven goals and tied her career high with 11 points to lead the Blue Jays. Hoss scored a career-best five goals and tied her career high with seven points. Downey tallied six points, including the 100
th of her career, and tied her career high with four assists. Craig (1g, 2a), Gonzalez (1g, 1a),
Samantha DiCarlo (1g, 1a) and
Sienna Chirieleison (1g, 1a) also had multi-point games.
Reagan O'Brien led the defense with six caused turnovers and with her second of the day became just the fourth player in NCAA Division I history with 200 in a career. She is now tied for third in NCAA history with 204 career caused turnovers. Fravert led USC with two goals and Reese Robinson had a team-best two assist. Jenna Lundstedt controlled a game-high eight draws.
Hopkins returns to action on Sunday, March 22 as the Blue Jays host 25
th-ranked Ohio State. Opening draw is set for 12:02 pm for the Big Ten contest.
Notes: Angello needs three goals to become only the third player all-time in JHU history with 200 career goals • This was the third time in JHU Division I history that three players had six or more points (Angello, Hoss, Downey).
