BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins defense held sixth-ranked Michigan to half its scoring average as the Blue Jays beat the Wolverines, 13-6, in Big Ten action Sunday afternoon. JHU improves to 12-3 overall and 5-2 in the B1G, while Michigan falls to 10-4 and 4-2.
Lacey Downey opened the scoring with an eight-meter goal just over two and a half minutes in. Michigan answered with goals from Caroline Byrd and Calli Norris to grab a 2-1 lead at the 8:36-mark. Less than two minutes later, Downey hit a cutting
Samantha DiCarlo and she fired home a left-handed shot from the middle of the fan. Downey then gave the Blue Jays back the lead when she faked a pass to
Ava Angello and then blew home a low shot from seven meters out at 3:05.
DiCarlo and Downey went back-to-back to open the second quarter and Hopkins led 5-2 with 8:25 to go in the half. Byrd then picked the back post from the alley at the 3:27-mark to end a U-M scoreless drought of more than 20 minutes. JHU had the final say of the half when
Paige Willard cashed in on an eight-meter with 14.1 ticks on the clock.
Angello scored in-tight off a Downey helper to make it 7-3 Blue Jays less than four minutes into the third. Ava Class got one back for the Wolverines, scoring on the doorstep at 9:19. Just 73 seconds later, Angello scored a short-handed goal after an
MK Lescault takeaway.
Taylor Hoss and
Eleri Colon then scored back-to-back goals in a 43-second span and just like that it was 10-4 Hopkins with 2:45 to go in the third.
Michigan battled back, getting goals from Truus van Wees and Byrd to open the fourth and cut the deficit to four. But Downey answered with a pair of goals just 41 seconds apart to put JHU up 12-6 with 6:09 on the clock. The Blue Jays held the Wolverines to just one shot in the final six minutes and
Sienna Chirieleison added one more goal for JHU at the 3:07-mark.
Downey led Hopkins with five goals and two assists, to go with four caused turnovers and three ground balls. Hoss (1g, 2a) and Willard (1g, 2a) add three points apiece, while Angello and DiCarlo each scored a pair.
Reagan O'Brien caused four turnovers and Lescault added a pair.
Ashley Langdon tied her career high with nine saves.
Kendal Crawford picked up a career-high four ground balls and
Hannah Johnson had three.
Byrd scored a team-high three goals for Michigan and Class added two points (1g, 1a). Emma Burke controlled 12 draws and Jordyn Harrison caused four turnovers and picked up three ground balls.
Hopkins closes out the regular season on Thursday, April 16 at 18
th-ranked Penn State. Opening draw at Panzer Stadium is scheduled for 6:00 pm.
