Lynchburg, Va. -- Kayla Brady made a Herculean effort in goal with 16 saves, Sydney Rowe and Emily Yanes scored goals, and University of Lynchburg's field hockey team upset No. 3-ranked Johns Hopkins, 2-0, in front of a raucous crowd Saturday on Shellenberger Field.

It was the Hornets' first win over Johns Hopkins since 2003 and snapped a three-game losing skid to the Blue Jays.

Brady's play in front of the cage was terrific for all 60 minutes, but her first-quarter heroics set the tone. Johns Hopkins out-shot the Hornets by a 10-0 margin in the opening period and earned four penalty corners, controlling all aspects of the game. But the Blue Jays couldn't get past Brady. She saved all six shots-on-goal to keep the game scoreless through 15 minutes.

Lynchburg earned its first opportunity at the start of the second. Gaining field position on a quartet of JHU fouls, Olivia Muir found a wrinkle in the defense and shoved the ball forward to Sydney Rowe. The freshman threaded the needle between goalkeeper and defender from the right side of the cage and scored in the 19th minute. Neither team mounted much offense in the rest of the quarter, and Lynchburg went into the half with a 1-0 lead.

Johns Hopkins came out of halftime in control again, but Brady made three more saves early in the third period to keep the Hornets' lead. Then, on a counterattack in the 39th minute, Sarah McCollum hit a big ball into the arc that Emily Yanes deflected into the cage for a second Lynchburg goal.

The Blue Jays nearly halved the lead with pressure late in the third, most threateningly in the final few seconds of the period when a well-timed pass to the left side of the field found a Hopkins player unguarded with what appeared to be a one-on-one with Brady in front of the goal. Hornets senior Kessa Romero tracked the opponent down, however, and stalled the attack long enough for the quarter horn to sound, negating the threat.

Brady continued to dominate the fourth, making three more in the final 15 minutes to preserve her first shutout of the 2022 season. The Delaware native's 16 saves were a career-high, eclipsing her 14-save effort against Washington and Lee last season. It was the first time Johns Hopkins has been shut out since Nov. 4, 2018 in the Centennial Conference championship, a game the Blue Jays won over Franklin & Marshall in a shootout.

Lynchburg (5-1) has won six straight home games against nationally ranked opponents, a streak dating back to 2017. The Hornets will not have long to celebrate the big win, though; Dickinson visits Shellenberger Field for another non-conference contest Sunday afternoon at 1.

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