NEW LONDON, Conn. — Division III No. 9-ranked Johns Hopkins University got back in the win column with a 20-9 defeat of host Connecticut College. The Blue Jays improve to 6-7 on the season, while the Camels fall to 4-3.
The opening four minutes were back-and-forth, and the teams were tied at two after a Jesse Ellis goal. Senior Ian Raley and sophomore Max Blecher scored twice in the final two minutes to put the Blue Jays up 4-2 after eight minutes. Keegan Kosiba and Ellis sandwiched goals around a score from Raley to open the second and it was 5-4 in favor of Hopkins.
Blecher and freshman Patrick Rooney answered with a pair of goals in a 50-second span to push the lead to three. Kosiba had the final say of the half, however, scoring a six-on-five goal for the Camels to make it a 7-5 game at the break.
Hopkins came out of the half with three unanswered goals to push out to a 10-5 lead just over two minutes in. Jeffrey Harrington halted the run with a score at the 4:21-mark, but Raley answered just 19 seconds later to spark an 8-1 run. That run spanned nearly eight minutes and saw the Blue Jays’ lead balloon to 18-7. Seven different players scored during the run for JHU, led by senior Mark Poisler with a pair. The teams traded scores over the final four minutes and 11 seconds and Hopkins won 20-9.
Raley led the Blue Jays with four goals while Rooney handed out five assists to go with a score. Freshman Phillip Long added four points (two goals, two assists) with sophomore Alec Baker and freshman Andrew Lee both chipping in three points with a goal and two assists. Sophomore Chris Poisler finished with six saves in the win.
Release courtesy Johns Hopkins University Athletics Communications
