BALTIMORE - Leading 8-9 with 10:53 remaining in the second period, 19th-ranked Hofstra tallied three consecutive goals, and held off a surging Johns Hopkins team to claim a 12-10 decision over the No. 18 Blue Jays on Sunday in non-conference women's lacrosse action at Homewood Field. Sophomore midfielder Kathleen Mikowski scored four goals--three in the second half--and added one assist to lead the Pride (9-1, 2-0 America East) to its eighth-straight victory. Hopkins' junior attacker Erin Wellner (East Williston, NY/Sacred Heart Academy), who recorded three goals on the day, also notched three assists for the Blue Jays (6-4) to move into a tie for sixth-place all-time in assists at JHU with 52 in her career.

Hofstra opened with a 3-0 lead at 21:54 before Wellner put the Blue Jays on the board at 20:45. Mikowski fed junior midfielder Kristin Marshall 40 seconds later to give the Pride a 4-1 advantage. Freshman midfielder Kate Gilland (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) and junior attacker Jamie Larrimore (Chestertown, MD/Kent County) registered back-to-back goals for JHU to move to within 3-4 at 19:33, before Mikowski struck again at 16:33 to make it 5-3 in favor of Hofstra. The Blue Jays fought back as freshman midfielder Heidi Pearce (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew's) posted two consecutive goals, and Larrimore notched one to put the Blue Jays ahead 6-5 at 8:23 in the period. The Pride's Kelly Dodson tied the contest at 6-6 off a feed from senior Kathleen McPike with four minutes left in the frame. Neither team connected in the final minutes and headed into halftime knotted at 6-6.

Larrimore opened the second period with her third tally of the afternoon at 28:51 for a 7-6 JHU margin. Hofstra then took the lead off three unanswered goals from Mikowski's back-to-back tallies and McPike's netter to stake a 9-7 advantage at 18:18. JHU's Wellner found Pearce in front of the net at 10:53 to trim the advantage to 9-8. The Pride went on another three goal run, led by sophomore attacker Jessica Horbert who posted two straight goals to move the Pride even further into the lead at 12-8 with 6:59 remaining in the game. Wellner recorded the Blue Jays final two scores, her last with 1:56 left in the contest, as she tried to rally the team back. The Blue Jays would get several good looks at the net, but Hofstra goalkeeper Jackie Carroll, who had 15 saves in the game, prevented Hopkins from getting the come-from-behind victory. JHU sophomore goalkeeper Jen McDonald (Garden City, NJ/Garden City) also made some big saves in the contest, finishing with 11 on the day.

Johns Hopkins will be in action again on Saturday, visiting six-time defending national champion Maryland in a game which will be part of a men's and women's double-header, televised by WMAR-TV 2 in Baltimore, beginning at 5:00 p.m.

GOALS: HU- Mikowski 4, Horbert 2, Dodson 2, McPike 2, Marshall, Melissa Hedrick; JHU- Wellner 3, Pearce 3, Larrimore 3, Gilland. ASSISTS: HU- McPike 2, Hedrick, Dodson, Mikowski; JHU- Wellner 3. SAVES: HU- Carroll (15 sv, 10 GA); JHU- McDonald (11 sv, 12 GA).

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