Miller's Career Day Lifts Blue Jays Past Ursinus, 67-58

BALTIMORE, MD – Greta Miller was a one-woman wrecking crew in the Johns Hopkins women's basketball team's win over Ursinus Saturday afternoon, setting career-highs across the board to lead the Blue Jays to a 67-58 victory at Goldfarb Gym. The win extends Hopkins' streak to 10 dating back to November 14, marking the program's best start to a season since 2011-12.
 
Miller did it all in Saturday's win, scoring 25 points, hauling in 17 rebounds and dishing out five assists, all of which were game-highs and represent career-best marks. The junior is the first Hopkins women's basketball player in at least the last 25 years to have a 25/15/5 game, adding two steals and a rejection in what was undoubtedly the best game of her career.
 
Also making an impact in the scoring column were Macie Feldman (14) and Michaela O'Neil (9), with Feldman adding nine boards and five assists while O'Neil tacked on five rebounds and three helpers. Both had two steals on the defensive end, combining with Miller for six of the team's eight thefts.
 
The Blue Jays (11-1, 7-0 Centennial) also notably held Ursinus' Chinwe Irondi, the Centennial Conference's leading scorer and rebounder, to just seven points and eight rebounds, marking her first game of the season in which she was held under 10 points.
 
The Bears (7-5, 3-3 Centennial) held an early 4-2 lead before Miller would score the next four points to take give Hopkins the two-point lead. The Jays' extended that stretch to a 15-0 run with buckets coming from O'Neil, Miller and Zoe Soule to fly ahead 17-4 just over eight minutes into the contest. Ursinus scored four straight to cut it back to single digits before Grace Soltes went on a personal 4-0 run to make it 21-8, with a Bears made basket on the final possession of the quarter sending Hopkins into the first break up 21-10.
 
Ursinus scored the opening points of the second at the 8:50 mark, but a 10-0 run with the first seven points coming from Miller and capped off by a 3-pointer from Kara Milliken, made it a 19-point game at 31-12. Unwilling to go down, however, the Bear's Natalie Mehl put the team on her back toward the end of the period, outscoring the Blue Jays 9-0 in just over a two-minute span before Miller's second three of the night extended the lead back to 12 at the half.
 
There was little to separate the sides in a third quarter that saw Ursinus outscore Hopkins 19-18 to make it just an 11-point game heading into the final frame.
 
Ursinus stayed persistent, scoring the first four points of the fourth to cut the lead to seven — the first time the game was within single digits since the first half — before a Feldman jumper got the Blue Jays on the board. The Bears made it a seven-point game again on the ensuing possession, but this time Hopkins responded with a decisive 6-0 run on points from O'Neil, Soule and Miller to extend the lead back to 13 with three minutes to go. With time winding down Mehl hit her third and fourth 3-pointers of the afternoon, but the Jays' lead was too much to overcome en route to the 67-58 victory.
 
Hopkins returns to action Thursday, Jan. 11 when they travel to Pennsylvania to take on Swarthmore in Centennial Conference play, with tip-off set for 5 p.m.