Baltimore, Md. – First-year goalkeeper Sydney Larkin (Salisbury, Md./Parkside) recorded a season-best 11 saves as the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's soccer team dropped a hard-fought 2-0 decision at No. 14 Johns Hopkins University Wednesday night.

Larkin extended her scoreless streak to 292:01 before junior Issy Berkey (Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) received a pass from first-year forward Bailey Monaco (South Salem, N.Y./John Jay) and shot into the bottom left corner for a 1-0 Hopkins lead at 33:57.

The Blue Jays (6-2), who extended their win streak to four with tonight's win, were awarded five corner kicks and fired off 10 shots in the first half but Larkin stood her ground and held JHU to a one-goal lead at halftime.

Hopkins picked up the pace in the second half, taking 16 shots in which Larkin denied eight of them. The hosts added an insurance marker late in the half as senior Sydney Teng (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) found the  back of the net at 73:37 off an assist by senior forward Hannah Kronick (Westfield, N.J./Westfield).

Two of Larkin's eight second-half stops were point-blank saves off the foot of Kronick, Hopkins' all-time leading scorer and two-time All-American.

JHU posted a 26-3 shot advantage and a 10-0 corner kick margin. Junior forward Gillian Sawyer (Columbia, Md./Wilde Lake) and sophomore midfielder Claire Kostelnik (Los Angeles, Calif./Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy) tested junior keeper Sarah Bennett (Mountain View, Calif./Mountain View) with a pair of on-frame shots in the second half.

With their four-game unbeaten streak snapped tonight, the Seahawks (3-3-1) will look to start a new streak on Saturday, September 20th when St. Mary's travels to Ashland, Virginia to face Randolph-Macon College (4-1) in non-conference action at 12:00 p.m.

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