BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins women's basketball team kicked off a three-game week with a matchup against Franklin & Marshall Tuesday evening, holding the Diplomats to their lowest point total (32) and shooting percentage (18%) of the season in a dominant, 68-32 win.
 
Michaela O'Neil led all scorers with 17 points on a near-perfect 7-9 shooting to secure her ninth straight game eclipsing double figures, the longest streak of her career. Narrowly missing out on the 10-point mark were Beth Corelli (9) and Jadyn Murray (8), while elsewhere it was Macie Feldman leading the team in both rebounds (9) and assist (5).
 
Defensively is where the Blue Jays (19-2, 15-1 Centennial) showed their prowess, limiting F&M's top two scorers to a combined eight points on 2-24 shooting, the fewest points the duo had scored in a game this season.
 
Hopkins took an early lead in the first quarter and never looked back, opening the game on a 9-0 run on a trio of buckets from O'Neil and a triple by Layla Henderson. The Diplomats (9-12, 4-12 Centennial) finaly broke the drought at the 5:24 mark on a made 3-pointer, only for the Blue Jays to go on another 13-0 run capped by a pair of shots from Corelli to fly in front 22-3.  F&M made its second bucket of the quarter on the team's 16^th shot attempt, with a layup by Maya Johnson on the other end sending Hopkins into the break up 24-5.
 
The Diplomats' shooting woes continued in the second shooting just 3-13, but the Blue Jays cooled off themselves in a frame in which they only outscored the visitors 13-8. O'Neil scored Hopkins' first five points of the quarter to keep the lead at 19, with her last three igniting a 11-3 run that gave the Blue Jays a commanding 37-13 lead at halftime.
 
F&M scored the first two points of the second half on a pair of free throws by leading scorer Jacyln Feit — the only points she would score on the evening — before an O'Neil put back kickstarted a 9-0 run to balloon the lead to 31. Shots finally began falling for the Diplomats, who went 4-5 from deep in the quarter, but the continued success of the Blue Jays offense only let the lead get cut to 54-30 heading into the fourth.
 
Tuesday's fourth quarter put the game firmly out of reach, as Hopkins held the Diplomats to just 1-17 shooting, including 0-8 from deep, while shooting 50% from both the field and 3-point territory themselves. A 12-0 run to start that quarter that featured back-to-back Milliken threes — the graduate student dropped a season-best seven points in the win — gave the Blue Jays their biggest lead of the night at 36. After being held scoreless over the first seven minutes of the period, F&M avoided the shutout with a layup at the 2:41 mark. That bucket was answered by a layup from Grace Soltes off a pretty feed from Milliken to lock up the 68-32 win.
 
Hopkins returns to action Thursday, Feb. 8 to take on Dickinson, with tipoff set for 7 p.m.