PISCATAWAY, NJ – Bailey Cheetham scored with 1:30 left in overtime to lift ninth-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 13-12 comeback win at Rutgers Saturday night in Big Ten action. The Blue Jays improve to 10-3 overall and 2-1 in the conference, while the Scarlet Knights fall to 6-7 and 0-5 in the B1G.
 
Cheetham's only goal of the game gave the Blue Jays their first lead of the day as they rallied from a 12-9 deficit with under two minutes to play. Back-to-back goals by Michelle Warren and Cassidy Spilis gave the Scarlet Knights a three-goal cushion with 2:31 to play. But Hopkins wasn't done. Maeve Barker scored her career-best fifth goal of the game at 1:49 to spark the late rally. Marielle McAteer scored twice in a 32-second span and just like that it was a tie game with 43 ticks on the clock.
 
Hopkins won the ensuing draw and then drew a late green card on Rutgers and held the ball for overtime. After both teams got stops on defense, it was Cheetham, who had two assists on the day, that came up with the winner. She took a pass from Ava Angello at the top of the fan and dodged the right alley before firing a shot over the head of Rutgers' goalie Sophia Cardello to cap the comeback.
 
Barker put the Blue Jays on the board just 2:01 into the first as they capitalized on a Kacie Riggs takeaway. Jordan Carr scooped up the ball and cleared it before finding Barker alone on the doorstep. The Scarlet Knights answered with five straight goals, including a pair from Spillis, and Rutgers led 5-1 after one.
 
Angello scored back-to-back goals to open the second to pull Hopkins back within two at the 9:19-mark. Michelle Warren got one back for Rutgers when she grabbed a rebound off the post and buried it at 6:48. Campbell Case got that one back, scoring in-tight off a feed from Cheetham just 35 seconds later. Spillis pushed the lead right back to three with her third of the game.
 
Barker came right back with a beautiful behind-the-back goal off the helper from Ashley Mackin. Ava Chiarella and Spillis scored back-to-back goals in a 68-second span and the Scarlet Knights led 9-5 with 1:20 left in the second. The Blue Jays weren't done yet, however. A Reagan O'Brien check led to a Hopkins' clear and ended with a Barker buzz-beater for her third of the half.
 
After a scoreless third quarter for both teams, Angello broke through at 12:01 in the fourth. She curled around a Case screen and blew home her third of the afternoon from seven meters out. Marielle McAteer then buried an eight-meter shot and Hopkins was back within one with 9:54 on the clock. Chiararella answered with a free position goal of her own, snapping a scoreless drought of more than 24 minutes and putting Rutgers up 10-8 at 6:49.
 
Another Carr takeaway led to another transition goal for the Blue Jays. After the Carr clear, some tic-tac-toe passing ended with a cross-crease pass from Case to Barker for the score. Warren and Spillis answered with a pair of goals and Rutgers led 12-9.
 
Barker led the Blue Jays with her career-high five goals, while McAteer and Angello had four points (3g, 1a) each. McAteer's three goals and four points are both career-bests. Cheetham (1g, 2a) and Case (1g, 1a) also had multi-point games. Abbey Hurlbrink and Jennifer Barry had six draw controls each as the Blue Jays dominated the draw, 19-9. Carr and Riggs had three caused turnovers each for the defense, while Carr had a team-high three ground balls.
 
Notes: This is the fourth straight one-goal game between Hopkins and Rutgers and the first overtime contest • This was the second time in the last three meetings with RU that JHU trailed by at least four goals and won • Barry now boats 92 draws on the season, the second most in school single-season history • Cheetham now has 52 career assists, the most by a midfielder in JHU history.