A rocky beginning to the 2021 season put Penn State in desperate need of a win to stay relevant in the Big Ten. Against a Johns Hopkins team that beat the Nittany Lions by seven goals just two weeks ago, Penn State recovered.
Mac O’Keefe scored four times and TJ Malone, Dylan Foulds and Jack Traynor each scored twice as Penn State ended its two-game losing streak with an 11-8 win at Panzer Stadium. Both Penn State and Hopkins are now 2-4.
A 7-4 halftime lead evaporated early in the fourth quarter, as Garrett Degnon tied the score at 8 for Hopkins with 12:52 to play. The Penn State offense, which looked significantly improved throughout, scored the game’s final three tallies (all assisted) — Jackson Reynolds to O’Keefe, Foulds to O’Keefe and Malone to Traynor.
Next up for Penn State is Maryland on April 3.
MARYLAND RECOVERS AFTER FIRST QUARTER
Rutgers came out firing, scoring the game’s first three goals and finishing the first quarter with a three-goal lead, but Maryland scored seven straight goals en route to a 13-9 win.
In a rematch of the Big Ten’s top teams, Maryland again proved its might. Trailing 4-1, Anthony DeMaio kickstarted the seven-goal spurt with a man-up goal with 10:31 left in the first half. Jared Bernhardt (four goals, two assists) scored three times during that run — Daniel Maltz, John Geppert and Kyle Long also scored in the stretch — as Maryland (6-0) took control of the game.
Rutgers (4-2) twice cut the deficit to two goals (Brennan Kamish made the score 9-7 and Adam Charalambides made it 11-9), but Maryland never relinquished its lead.