The Basics 
• Score: #12 Johns Hopkins – 3 • Dickinson College – 0 (25-11, 25-22, 25-11)
• Records: #12 Johns Hopkins (18-0, 4-0 Centennial) • Dickinson College – (10-7, 2-3 Centennial)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gymnasium
• The Short Story: For the first time in nearly a month and just the second time all season, the Blue Jay volleyball team returned to Goldfarb Gymnasium Thursday night, sweeping Dickinson in three sets to earn its 18^th consecutive victory.

How it Happened

SET ONE
• Johns Hopkins would not trail throughout the first set, jumping out to a 3-0 lead on the back of a pair of Natalie Aston service aces. Aston would finish the night with three of Hopkins' eight aces.
• Simone Bliss and Eleni Panagopoulos tied for a team-high with three kills each in the first set.
• It was a tale of two different sides in the opening frame. Hopkins, the nation's most efficient attacking team, opened the night by hitting a cool .500 (seven kills on 14 attacks). On the other side, Dickinson handed the Blue Jays ten points on errors and hit -.319 as a team.
 • Louisa Kishton closed out the first set from the service line with the Jays scoring on five consecutive points to take set one 25-11.

SET TWO
• The second set was the best test the Blue Jays faced since their match against Juniata back on September 27. Thursday night's second set featured eight ties and five lead changes, with the largest lead for either side being just three.  
• A Morgan Biggs kill gave Dickinson an 8-5 lead. It was only the second time all season that Hopkins had trailed in a set by at least three points. The Blue Jays would counter with a pair of Kishton aces and a Bliss kill to ultimately retake a 10-8 advantage.
• The two sides exchanged the next 11 points with Dickinson never being able to regain a lead. With set point at 24-22, Panagopoulos tomahawked an Aston set from the middle to give Hopkins a two set cushion.

SET THREE
• After hitting a relatively low percentage in the second set (.250), the Blue Jays rebounded nicely in the third, hitting a season-high .591 in the third.
• After Dickinson took an early 3-2 lead, Hopkins scored 11 out of the next 12 points to effectively end the night. Helped by ten errors from the Red Devils, JHU would tally 13 kills in the final set on just 22 attacks. Lauren Anthony gave the Jays match point following her sixth kill of the night, and Kishton put the finishing touches on the night with her sixth kill as well.

Inside the Box Score
• The .403 hitting percentage from Hopkins was the team's third highest percentage of the season, and highest since its last home match back on September 17 against Bryn Mawr (.548).
• Bliss totaled a team-high ten kills; she has tallied double-digit kills in 12 of the team's 18 matches this season.
• As a team, Hopkins recorded eight blocks on the night, the seventh time this season they have totaled at least eight blocks.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins avenged last year's regular season loss to Dickinson and has now won 30 of the 37 all-time meetings with the Red Devils.
• The Blue Jays have now matched the program record set in 2017 for the most consecutive matches won with 18. It was also the 23^rd straight win for Hopkins inside of Goldfarb Gymnasium. They haven't dropped a home match since October 27, 2016 against Stevenson.

Up Next
• Hopkins returns to Goldfarb on Saturday for a pair of home matches. The Jays host Muhlenberg at noon before battling with Mary Washington at 4 p.m. JHU defeated Mary Washington already once this year in four sets back on September 14.  

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