LANCASTER, PA – After entering halftime down four in their matchup against Franklin & Marshall Wednesday night, the Johns Hopkins women's basketball team outscored the Diplomats 38-17 in the second half to secure the 59-42 road win and remain undefeated in Centennial Conference play.
 
Greta Miller was the bright spot in Wednesday's contest, recording her second double-double of the season with an 18-point, 10-rebound effort, both of which were game-highs. The junior also paced the team in steals with a season-best three, while Kendall Dunham racked up a team-high three assists. As a team the Blue Jays held the strong advantages in second-chance points (22-4), bench points (21-9) and points in the paint (34-10).
 
Neither side had much going offensively, with Hopkins (7-1, 5-0 Centennial) shooting 28.2% compared to just 22.8% for Franklin & Marshall (3-4, 1-4 Centennial), but a third quarter in which the Blue Jays scored a game-high 23 and held the Diplomats to a game-low five points was the difference in the Hopkins' sixth straight win.
 
Points were few and far between in an opening quarter in which the two sides combined to shoot a lowly 5-34 (14.7%) from the field, but free throws allowed the Jays to gain a slight edge. Despite shooting just 67% as a team entering the contest, Hopkins went 9-11 — including a perfect 5-5 from Dunham — from the stripe to take a 13-10 lead into the break.
 
Franklin & Marshall opened up the second quarter on a 5-0 run to take its first lead of the night before Michaela O'Neil finally got the Blue Jays on the board with a jumper to tie it at 15-15. Hopkins' offense stalled once again allowing the Diplomats to go on a 10-2 run to take a 25-17 lead, with layups from Miller and Grace Soltes cutting it to a 25-21 game at halftime.
 
As has been the case all season, however, the Blue Jays' adjustments at the break worked the perfection, with Hopkins putting together their strongest shooting quarter to that point (35%) while holding Franklin & Marshall to five points on one made field goal — both the fewest they have allowed in a quarter this season.
 
A Miller layup ignited what would grow into an 18-0 run to start the half— Jadyn Murray, Macie Feldman, Elisabeth Peebles and Layla Henderson also scored in the run — to take a commanding 39-25 lead halfway through the quarter. The Diplomats ended their drought with a 3-pointer before putbacks from Kara Milliken and Feldman closed the stanza on a 4-0 run to turn a four-point deficit into a 14-point lead heading into the final frame.
 
The fourth quarter belonged to Miller, who hit two of her three 3-pointers in the quarter en route to scoring eight points. Franklin & Marshall cut the lead to as little as 12 at the start of the quarter, but timely deep balls from Miller and Feldman as well as a pair of layups from Murray kept the Jays comfortably in the lead, with the final buzzer sounding to hand Hopkins' the 59-42 win, its fourth straight by double digits.
 
The Blue Jays return for their final game of the calendar year Saturday, Dec. 9 when they host Dickinson, with tip-off set for 2 p.m.