Student athletes set goals to remember

ANDREW KASE

• Occupation: Student-athlete at Johns Hopkins
• Home: Wyomissing, Pa.
• Achievement: The junior running back rushed for a game-high 168 yards and a touchdown to lead the Blue Jays to a 14-0 victory over Ursinus in a Centennial Conference game in Collegeville, Pa., on Saturday. Kase’s five-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter proved was the decisive score and his 11th of the season, tying the school’s single-season record.  Kase has rushed for 971 yards on 202 carries for the Blue Jays, who are 5-2 overall and 3-2 in league play.

CASEY TOWNSEND

• Occupation: Student-athlete at Maryland
• Home: Traverse City, Mich.
• Achievement: The freshman forward scored two goals to power his men’s soccer team to a 4-0 victory over Evansville in College Park on Friday. Townsend, who scored the game-winning goal in a victory over Lehigh this past Tuesday, has a team-high 10 goals to go along with two assists for the sixth-ranked Terrapins (11-3). The Terrapins face West Virginia in Morgantown on Tuesday night at 7.

NICOLE MURACCO

• Occupation: Student-athlete at Maryland
• Home: Sewell, N.J.
• Achievement: The junior forward scored the game-winning goal with five minutes remaining to lift her second-ranked field hockey team to a 2-1 victory over Old Dominion in College Park on Friday. After Maryland’s Emma Thomas tied the game, 1-1, with 11 minutes remaining, Muracco took a pass from Katie O’Donnell and scored her 15th goal of the season to improve the Terrapins to 13-2.

LIZZIE BARNES