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The Basics
• Scores: #1 Johns Hopkins-3, Haverford-0 (25-10, 25-16, 25-15)
• Records: JHU (29-0) – Haverford (23-5)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gymnasium
• The Short Story: The Blue Jays put forth one of their most dominant performances in recent memory, sweeping Haverford to win a fifth straight Centennial Conference Championship on Sunday afternoon.
How it Happened
1st Set
• Hopkins wasted zero time asserting themselves in Sunday’s championship game, jumping out to a 7-2 lead in set number one. Kills from Lauren Anthony and Sydney Portale along with a duo block from Simone Bliss and Eleni Panagopoulos quickly made it 4-1 in favor of the Jays. Bliss added another kill and an ace as the Jays extended the lead to 7-2.
• Despite two more kills from Portale, Haverford fought back to 9-6 before a 4-0 Johns Hopkins run. Danielle Norman racked up a pair of kills and Bliss added another to extend the Blue Jay lead to 13-6. Haverford took two of the next three, but Hopkins went on another run, this time 6-0, to make it 20-8.
• During the 6-0 run, Bliss racked up three kills, Norman and Panagopoulos had a kill each and Natalie Aston picked up an ace. Haverford was unable to put an end to the run for long as Hopkins finished the set on an 11-2 run. Bliss, Portale and Panagopoulos all had kills in the final stretch for a 25-10 set win.
2nd Set
• After a very competitive start to the set that saw Haverford take a 9-8 lead, the Blue Jays ripped off another 11-2 run to jump ahead 19-11 in the second set before winning it 25-16.
• Hopkins took the first three points of the set with a pair of kills from Bliss and an additional kill from Anthony. Kendall Otridge earned a pair of kills for Haverford and Taylor Jones and Sara Hunsberger added kills as the Fords tied it at 4-4 early on.
• Panagopoulos, Bliss and Portale had kills for the Jays as they jumped ahead 8-5 before Haverford answered with a 4-0 run.
• That’s when the next run started for Hopkins as they took the next five points, getting two kills from Norman, one from Panagopoulos and a pair of aces for Sarah Khan. Now leading 13-9, Haverford made it 13-11 with a pair of kills from Dina Kosyagin, but it was another 6-0 run for Hopkins on the backend.
• Norman added two more kills, Portale chipped in with an ace and the Fords had three straight attack errors to put…
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