BALTIMORE - The ninth-ranked Loyola University Maryland women's lacrosse team outscored No. 21 Johns Hopkins 9-1 in the second half to run away with a 14-5 season-opening victory Saturday afternoon at Homewood Field.
 
Led by graduate student Livy Rosenzweig, senior Jillian Wilson and sophomore Sydni Black, the Greyhounds dominated the draw, winning 19 of 21 and the first 14-straight. Wilson finished the game with a career-high 11 draw controls, while Black won a personal-best five draws and Rosenzweig added two.
 
Rosenzweig also contributed a game-high four goals and six points, while Wilson's first of back-to-back fourth-quarter goals within one minute of each other saw her record her 100th career point. Black finished with one goal and one assist.
 
Graduate student Ellie Kluegel added three points on two goals and one assist, while freshmen Chase Boyle and Georgia Latch each scored their first career goals. Latch's first collegiate point came on an assist to Kluegel for the Greyhounds' first goal of the game.
 
Graduate student Sam Fiedler made her return after missing the last five games of last season, scoring one goal and adding an assist to stretch her goal-streak in active games to a team-best 48-straight games. Catie Corolla and Emily Wills rounded out the scoring with one goal apiece.
 
Defensively, senior Shay Clevenger and Fiedler shared a game-high of three ground balls, while graduate student Kaitlyn Larsson stopped seven shots in goal.
 
For Johns Hopkins (1-1), Charlotte Smith scored twice and Kathleen Garvey made nine stops in goal.
 
The Greyhounds won all 11 draw controls of the first half, but Loyola was unable to turn those into goals, as the Blue Jays netted the first goal of the game at the 12:49 mark. Latch then found Kluegel at the 9:50 mark to keep the game even, but a pair of Hopkins goals gave the Blue Jays a 3-1 advantage just 10 minutes into the game.
 
Loyola's defense would shut the Blue Jays down after that though, holding them scoreless for more than 17 minutes while Rosenzweig scored twice and assisted Fiedler to flip the score and give the Greyhounds a 4-3 lead with 10:28 to go in the opening half. That wouldn't be enough, as Bailey Cheetham's free-position goal tied the game for Hopkins at the 3:17 mark, before Rosenzweig's free-position goal less than one minute later sent Loyola into halftime with a 5-4 advantage.
 
The Greyhounds came out of halftime and dominated the second half, as Loyola rattled off four-straight goals from Kluegel, Black, Corolla and Boyle before the Blue Jays' third-quarter buzzer-beater halted Loyola's run. That would be Hopkins' lone half goal of the second half though, as Wilson's back-to-back goals sparked a 5-0 run to close out the game. Wills, Rosenzweig and Latch accounted for the final three goals.
 
The Greyhounds will return to action on Wednesday when they host Towson at Ridley Athletic Complex. Opening draw is scheduled for 3 p.m.