{"id":462121,"date":"2026-09-13T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462121\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:34:12","slug":"johns-hopkins-takes-down-fresno-pacific-17-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462121\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Takes Down Fresno Pacific, 17-9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    SALEM, WV \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/max-blecher\/25645\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25645\" target=\"_blank\">Max Blecher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/alec-baker\/25643\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25643\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Baker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/jasper-hirt\/25656\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25656\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper Hirt<\/a> tallied four points each to lead Johns Hopkins to a 17-9 win over Fresno Pacific in a game that was twice delayed by lightning. The Blue Jays are now 5-2 on the season while the Sunbirds fall to 1-7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBaker and <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/owen-bartlett\/25644\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25644\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Bartlett<\/a> scored twice in the opening 87 seconds to give JHU an early 2-0 lead. Jordan Lambert got FPU on the board at 5:35, but Hopkins answered with three straight to push the lead to 5-1 late in the first. Tristin Fox had the final say of the quarter, scoring an extra-man goal with 32 ticks on the clock to make it a 5-2 game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFox then sandwiched a pair of scores around a strike from Hirt and just like that it was a 6-4 game at the 2:37-mark. Coming out of a delay, the Blue Jays got goal from Hirt and Blecher to take an 8-4 lead into the half. Fox opened the third quarter scoring at 3:19, but a Hirt score just 25 seconds later sparked a methodical 9-4 run that saw Hopkins go up 14-7 with 5:50 to play in the fourth. Seven Blue Jays scored during the run that spanned just over 13 minutes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFox and Chris Sandino scored back-to-back goals midway through the fourth to cut the deficit to five. But Hopkins got three goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/ben-lucas\/25651\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25651\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lucas<\/a> and Blecher in the final four minutes to secure the win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBlecher (3g, 1a), Hirt (2g, 2a) and Baker (1g, 3a) led the Blue Jays with four points each. Baker&#8217;s goal was the 100th of his career. <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/ethan-babel\/25642\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25642\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Babel<\/a> picked up the 100th assist of his career, just the 11th player in program history to reach the mark. Giauque added a hat trick and four drawn exclusions while Lucas notched three points (1g, 2a), four steals and a block. <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinssports.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/chris-poisler\/25654\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25654\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Poisler<\/a> finished with eight saves and a pair of steals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHopkins returns to action on Sunday, September 13 against George Washington and Gannon at the Salem Open.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; SALEM, WV \u2013 Max Blecher, Alec Baker and Jasper Hirt tallied four points each to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-462121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}