Following an uninspired road loss against No. 19 Ohio Sate in which the Knights scored only seven goals, Rutgers looked to get back on track in a top-10 matchup against No. 7 Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on a sunny early spring afternoon. The Blue Jays are always a tough out at Homewood Field and if there was a bad omen to start this game, it was the women’s team falling to the Blue Jays on this same field earlier in the day after Hopkins staged a huge comeback.
Things did not go well for Rutgers in the first quarter, giving up seven goals while netting five.