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Key Leads Hopkins To 12-8 Win Over Hofstra in NCAA First Round
May 13, 2007
HEMPSTEAD, NY - Senior attacker Mary Key (Stevensville, MD/St. Mary's) tallied eight points to lead seventh-seeded Johns Hopkins to a 12-8 win at Hofstra in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday. For the Blue Jays, it is their first ever win as a Division I program in the NCAA Tournament. With her eight points, Key moved into third place in NCAA history with 381 career points. Hofstra struck first when Corrine Gandolfi and Kimberly Hillier connected at 2:36 in the first. From behind the Hopkins cage, Hillier threaded a pass to Gandolfi who snuck a shot just inside the left post. The Pride took a 2-0 lead at 6:22 when Lauren Whitcomb scored off a feed from Gandolfi. Just 22 seconds later, Hofstra held a three-goal lead after K'Leigh Vanaman scored on a low shot. The Blue Jays responded with six unanswered as they pushed out to a 6-3 lead. Key got things going with her 63rd of the season with 15:34 to play. On the restart after Hofstra lost the ball out of bounds, freshman Sam Schrum (Pasadena, MD/St. Mary's) found Key alone at half field. Key took the ball all the way to the goal and scored on a bounce shot. Junior middie Lauren Schwarzmann (Sykesville, MD/Century) cut the Pride's lead to one when she dodged around the Hofstra cage and scored on a low shot with 10:06 to play. Freshman Brett Bathras (Severna Park, MD/Severn) knotted the score at three just 21 seconds later on a free position goal. Hopkins took its first lead of the day with 5:01 to play after Key found fifth-year senior Sarah Walsh (Port Washington, NY/P.D. Schreiber) for a quick shot to make it 4-3. Less than a minute later, Key found the twine for the second time off a feed from Walsh. The lead became three when Walsh dodged from behind the cage and fired a low shot past Maisie Osteen with 2:53 to play. Casey McGrath ended the Blue Jays run less than a minute later dodging from the top of the arc and scoring on a low shot to the left post.
The Pride came out firing in the second half, tying the game at 6-6 just 6:04 in. Gandolfi scored her second of the day when she snuck the ball between the left post and the shoulder of Hopkins goalie Amelia Harris (Clifton, VA/J.W. Robinson). Whitcomb then tied the game for the Pride with her second of the afternoon after a failed clear attempt by the Blue Jays. The two teams then went back-and-forth, with Hofstra twice responding to Hopkins goals. Freshman Sam Schrum (Pasadena, MD/St. Mary's) broke the 8-8 tie with 11:56 to play for the Blue Jays. Key was cradling just to the left of the Pride's goal. Schrum broke free of the Hofstra defense, cut through the middle of the arc and found the twine for her 29th of the season. That started a four-goal Hopkins run as the Blue Jays closed put the game away. Walsh finished with a game-high four goals to lead the Blue Jays. Harris finished with four saves in goal before being replaced by freshman Lizzie O'Ferrall (Baltimore, MD/Mount De Sales), who also had four saves. Osteen finished with eight saves in the loss for the Pride. Gandolfi, Whitcomb and McGrath each had two goals for the Pride. Hopkins advances to the NCAA Quarterfinals and will play the winner of the Duke-Lemoyne game on Saturday, May 19. Details of Saturday's quarterfinal match-up will be announced on Monday. |
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