Seven-Goal Spurt Gives Hopkins Win at Stony Brook
from press release
STONY BROOK, N.Y. - The Johns Hopkins women's
lacrosse team scored seven unanswered goals to turn a 4-3 deficit
into a 10-4 lead en route to a 15-8 win over host Stony Brook
Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays improve to 3-1 on the season for
the first time since 2008, while the Seawolves drop to 2-2. Junior
Colleen McCaffrey paced the Blue Jays with four goals and two
assists, while classmate Candace Rossi tallied five points
including the 100th of her career.
It was a back-and-forth affair over the game's first 30 minutes, as
neither team could take more than a one-goal lead. Hopkins got on
the board first courtesy of a Rachel Ballatori goal 6:52 in off a
Rossi feed. Stony Brook answered less than three minutes later with
Kaila Gottlick's only goal of the game. McCaffrey and Samantha
Djaha then traded goals and the game was tied 2-2. Freshman Sammy
Cermack scored off a Cami Kramer feed to put Hopkins back on top,
but Stony Brook answered with back-to-back goals from Melissa Cook
and Alyssa Cardillo in a 62-second span to take its first and only
lead of the game at 4-3. ¬¬
Senior Brooke Foussadier would tie the game at 4-4 with 1:16 to
play on a free position goal as the teams went into the half all
knotted up. Hopkins continued where it left off as senior Brianna
Cronin put Hopkins on top for good with a free position goal just
2:21 into the second stanza. Cronin's goal was the first of four
Blue Jay goals in a span of just 2:45 as Hopkins pushed out to an
8-4 lead. McCaffrey punctuated the seven-goal run with her third of
the day at 19:55 that saw the Blue Jays lead grow to six.
Djaha kept the Seawolves in the game as she sandwiched a pair of
goals around a strike from sophomore Katie Duffey to make it an
11-6 game with 15:16 still to play. Djaha ended a scoring drought
of 22:40 with her goal at 17:05. Hopkins came right back with three
goals in less than three minutes, including a pair from Rossi. Her
second goal was the 74th goal of her career and the 100th point,
making her the 12th player in school Division I to reach the
milestone.
Stony Brook got a pair of quick goals from Cook and Cardillo to cut
the deficit to 14-8, but junior Jen Fox would tack one more on with
1:05 to play to account for the 15-8 final.
McCaffrey's six points and four goals led all scorers, while Rossi
(2g, 3a), Ballatori (3g), Foussadier (2g, 1a) and freshman Taylor
D'Amore (2a) all had multi-point games. Sophomore Cosette Larash
made seven saves with two ground balls in the win. For the
Seawolves, Djaha led the way with a hat trick, while Cook and
Cardillo each had two. Mickey Cahill finished with a season-high 15
saves, including nine in the first half, for Stony Brook.
Hopkins returns to action and wraps up a three-game road swing on
Wednesday, March 9 at Towson. Opening draw from Johnny Unitas
Stadium is set for 4:00 pm.
