BALTIMORE – In an odd game, the Johns Hopkins women's basketball team transformed from a squad that couldn't score to one that kept putting the ball in basket against Haverford in a Centennial Conference showdown Wednesday night.

Shooting as if the polar vortex invaded Goldfarb Gym, the Blue Jays scored five points in the opening 12 minutes. Johns Hopkins added 60 points over the last 28 minutes to claim a 65-48 victory and hand the Fords their first loss of the season. By the time the both teams lined up for the postgame handshake, the 10-point deficit that Johns Hopkins faced was a distant memory as was its frigid shooting.

With the win, the Blue Jays (9-3 overall) are 7-0 in conference play for the first time since the 2005-06 season. Guard Katie Clark led a balanced Blue Jay scoring effort with a game-high 13 points and four assists. Stacy Fairey added 11 points for Hopkins, which had 11 players score.  After a scoreless first half, senior leader Fatu Conteh finished with eight points. Ciara McCullagh and Maggie Fruehan helped Hopkins win the rebounding battle, 49-31, by grabbing seven rebounds each.

Meanwhile, a trio of Haverford (8-1, 4-1) players (Shannon Smith, Nina Voith, and Jacquelyne Pizzuto) scored 11 points. The Fords entered the contest receiving votes in ths week's d3hoops.com Top 25 poll after winnng their first eight games for the first time in school history.

The Blue Jays made their first basket of the game and then proceeded to make one of their next 12 shots. Hopkins missed five straight and then another seven in a row while the Fords methodically constructed a nice advantage by running crisp offense, finishing around the basket and limiting the Blue Jays to one shot.

"It seemed like we were sleepwalking and we weren't bringing any intensity during the first five minutes," Conteh said. "When we realized that we were up three at halftime, it gave us a lot of confidence in the second half and we started hitting our passes, making our layups and running the floor. We fed off each other as a team."

Haverford opened its largest lead at 15-5 following a Pizzuto layup. Then the fun ended for the Fords, who had a hard time scoring as they scored five points over a 12-minute stretch that bridged the first and second halves. During that time, the Blue Jays found their groove and amazingly scored 36 of the game's next 46 points to open a 41-25 bulge with 12 minutes remaining.

"The shots we took in the first half, for the most part, were good ones, but then we were one and done," Johns Hopkins coach Nancy Funk said. "Then we started to panic a little bit and we were shooting early in the possession. Somewhere around the eight-minute mark, we kind of woke up from whatever fog we were in and we started to contest more shots and weren't losing many defensive assignments. We understood what needed to get done on offense and played more at ease. We didn't come out ready to play for whatever reason."