BALTIMORE, Md. – The Kenyon College field hockey team picked up its first signature win of the season after downing the John Hopkins University Blue Jays, 4-3, at Homewood Field. The Saturday afternoon victory was the Ladies' second in as many games and first-ever over the Blue Jays, who slipped to 1-1 with the loss.

Kenyon didn't waste much time in attacking the Johns Hopkins cage. The Ladies fired off the game's first two shots. The Blue Jays retaliated with the next six shots, but two were off target and Kenyon keeper Sarah Speroff, a sophomore, saved the other four.

Surviving that barrage, the Ladies went back on the attack. Sophomore Katelyn Hutchinson helped break the scoreless tie when she struck a cross-cage pass that was redirected over the line by freshman Abbey Roswell. The goal was the second of the season for Roswell, a freshman who just came off the bench five minutes prior to scoring the goal at the 9:41 mark.

The Blue Jays outshot Kenyon 11-6 throughout the first half, but none of those 11 shots yielded goals and Kenyon maintained a 1-0 advantage.

In the second half, the floodgates opened. Kenyon senior Maddie Breschi started the offensive onslaught ten minutes into the period. She rang up her second goal of the season after dribbling through the circle and launching a laser into the Johns Hopkins cage.

Seven minutes later, the Blue Jays finally solved Speroff and tallied a goal from Grace Hillman. The Ladies, however, responded quickly with a Shannon Hart goal that put Kenyon ahead 3-1. Hart took a shot that was initially saved by JHU's Greta Helvie, but the rebound came right back to Hart, who punched it home.

Following Hart's goal, the Blue Jays answered again, only this time they answered twice. Back-to-back goals from Victoria Piscopo and Morgan Pothast knotted the game up at 3-3 with less than six minutes remaining in regulation.

Breschi, a 2014 All-American, then took matters into her own hands. Off a penalty corner sent in by Hannah Drake, Breschi controlled the ball at the top of the circle and blasted in the game-winner with 1:16 left on the clock. The goal was Breschi's third of the season and the 39th of her career. It also gave her 99 career points, just one point shy of Carrie Moore '99, who ranks second all-time at Kenyon with 100 career points.

The Ladies will get right back to work tomorrow, as they head to York College to take on the Spartans at 1 p.m.