Adams Has Record-Setting Night Against Hopkins
April 14, 2001
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland women's lacrosse team beat 19th-ranked Johns Hopkins, 24-5, tonight at Byrd Stadium in the opening game of a twinbill with the Terrapin men's team.
In the win, Jen Adams set the school record for points with 12 as she had eight goals and four assists. The 12 points breaks the record of 11 set four other times (one of which was by Adams a year ago). It is also the fourth time this season that the two-time national player of the year has notched double-digit points in a game.
In addition to the points record, the Brighton, So. Australia native set a personal record for goals (8) and moved into second on the NCAA career points list as she now has 392 (95 this season). She now needs just 29 points to become the most prolific scorer in collegiate lacrosse history, surpassing the total of 420 set by Karen Emas of Delaware who played from 1981-84.
Although Maryland's winning margin was its second largest of the season, the game did not start out looking like it would end that way. The Terps (13-0, 3-0 ACC) jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, but Hopkins came back and posted four of the next five goals to cut the score to 5-4 in Maryland's favor. The Terrapins then closed out the half scoring three of the next four and just missing another as Adams had a goal called back as it left her hands before the clock hit zero, but did not find the net before time expired. The Terps took an 8-5 lead to the locker room.
The second half was all Maryland -- literally. The Terrapins scored 16 times and held Hopkins without a goal for the final 31:07. The Blue Jays' 10 shots in the game were the second-lowest this season by a Maryland opponent.
Joining Adams at the top of the scoring column were junior Courtney Hobbs (four goals, two assists), senior Allison Comito (two goals, three assists) and sophomore Sonia Judd (three goals, one assist). For Hobbs, it marked the fifth time in the last six games that she has notched at least a hat trick. In that six-game span, she has scored 18 goals.
After sweeping four Top 20 teams in seven days, Maryland will now get a five-day break before playing in next week's ACC Tournament in Orlando, Fla., at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex. The Terps will square off with fourth-seeded Virginia at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. Should they advance, the championship game will be against the winner of the UNC/Duke game at Noon on Sunday.
GAME SCORING #19 JOHNS HOPKINS 5 0 -- 5 #1 MARYLAND 8 16 -- 24Half-Time Team, Goal (Assist) JHU-UM 1-29:17 Maryland, Jen Adams (Comito) 0-1 1-25:35 Maryland, Jen Adams (Hobbs) 0-2 1-21:22 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (Carney) 0-3 1-18:34 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 0-4 1-15:21 Johns Hopkins, Heidi Pierce (Wellner) 1-4 1-12:18 Johns Hopkins, Jamie Larrimore (unassisted) 2-4 1-12:02 Maryland, Katie Robinson (Carney) 2-5 1-9:23 Johns Hopkins, Heidi Pierce (FPS) 3-5 1-6:37 Johns Hopkins, Erin Wellner (unassisted) 4-5 1-2:23 Maryland, Meg McNamara (unassisted) 4-6 1-1:25 Maryland, Allison Comito (unassisted) 4-7 1-1:08 Johns Hopkins, Meghan Burnett (FPS) 5-7 1-0:31 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 5-8 2-28:07 Maryland, Jen Adams (McNamara) 5-9 2-27:22 Maryland, Meg McNamara (Judd) 5-10 2-23:55 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 5-11 2-22:55 Maryland, Sonia Judd (Hobbs) 5-12 2-22:05 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 5-13 2-21:49 Maryland, Allison Comito (Adams) 5-14 2-20:40 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (Comito) 5-15 2-19:45 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (Adams) 5-16 2-18:31 Maryland, Sonia Judd (Robinson) 5-17 2-16:30 Maryland, Kelly Coppedge (Adams) 5-18 2-14:50 Maryland, Jen Adams (Comito) 5-19 2-9:40 Maryland, Meredith Egan (Adams) 5-20 2-5:25 Maryland, Molly Lambert (Carney) 5-21 2-4:10 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (unassisted) 5-22 2-2:10 Maryland, Meredith Egan (unassisted) 5-23 2-0:44 Maryland, Sonia Judd (unassisted) 5-24
TEAM STATS Category Johns Hopkins Maryland Shots 5-5--10 17-22--39 Saves 7-4--11 3-3--6 Draw Controls 6-3--9 8-11--19 Groundballs 14-9--23 15-10--25 Turnovers 6-2--8 5-1--6 Caused Turnovers 3-1--4 5-3--8 Free Position Shots 4-1--5 2-1--3 Fouls 11-6--17 4-7--11
INDIVIDUAL SCORING Maryland Scorers Goals-Asst.-Pts. Jen Adams 8-4-12 Courtney Hobbs 4-2-6 Allison Comito 2-3-5 Sonia Judd 3-1-4 Meg McNamara 2-1-3 Quinn Carney 0-3-3 Katie Robinson 1-1-2 Meredith Egan 2-0-2 Kelly Coppedge 1-0-1 Molly Lambert 1-0-1
Johns Hopkins Scorers Goals-Asst.-Pts. Heidi Pierce 2-0-2 Erin Wellner 1-1-2 Meghan Burnett 1-0-1 Jamie Larrimore 1-0-1
GOALIES Maryland Goalies Saves GA Min. Alexis Venechanos 6 5 54:07 Virginia Solomon 0 0 5:53
Johns Hopkins Goalies Saves GA Min. Jen McDonald 11 24 60:00
ATTENDANCE: 1,966
