COLLEGE PARK, MD -- Top-seeded Johns Hopkins used a four-goal game-ending run to pull away from fourth-seeded Penn State in the Big Ten Men's Lacrosse Semifinals at the University of Maryland Thursday night as the Blue Jays topped the Nittany Lions, 14-9, to advance to Saturday's championship game. The victory runs Hopkins' winning streak to four games and improves JHU's record to 8-6, while Penn State had its season come to an end at 5-9. In a game of runs, it was Hopkins' final salvo that proved to be the difference. After Penn State sliced a 10-7 deficit to 10-9 early in the fourth quarter, it was the four-goal Blue Jay run that proved decisive. Back-to-back goals by senior Wells Stanwick and sophomore Cody Radziewicz in a 31-second span extended the one-goal lead to three at 12-9 with just over nine minutes remaining. Stanwick scored into an open net when Penn State goalie Connor Darcey came out to challenge him on the wing, while Radziewicz got to the middle of the field from the wing and scored in traffic. An extra-man goal by Shack Stanwick three minutes after the Radziewicz strike and an open-net goal by Connor Reed with 2:17 to play sealed the win for the Blue Jays, who picked up the win in their first-ever conference tournament game. The late-game run didn't look like it would be necessary early on as the Blue Jays led 3-0 less than four minutes in as Shack Stanwick scored back-to-back goals in the opening 2:40 and Reed scored his first of the night 69 seconds after Stanwick's second. When Holden Cattoni and Wells Stanwick scored in a four-minute span late in the first quarter, the Blue Jays had a 5-0 lead and, seemingly, all the momentum. But as quickly as that momentum came, it was gone. The Nittany Lions got four first-quarter saves from Darcey to keep them in the game and the Penn State offense, after managing just a TJ Sanders goal with nine seconds left in the opening period, caught fire in the second. Hopkins still led 5-1 with nine minutes remaining in the second quarter -- thanks in part to five Darcey saves in the first six minutes -- but it took less than two minutes for the four-goal lead to be gone as Ryan Keenan and Sanders scored consecutive goals in a 38-second span to make it 5-3 and Matt Florence scored twice in four seconds to knot the game at 5-5 with 6:44 remaining. When Penn State grabbed the lead 2:22 later on a Dan Craig unassisted goal, the momentum was now wearing all dark blue. The Blue Jays needed just 29 seconds after Craig's strike to draw even as Reed dodged the alley out of a timeout and blew home a left-handed runner and the 6-6 tie held into the third quarter. Reed's goal ignited a 5-1 spree for the Blue Jays that covered more than 16 minutes of game time as a Phil Castronova transition goal and an extra-man tally by Ryan Brown in a 40-second span gave Hopkins an 8-6 lead. An extra-man goal by Brian Prestreau halted the three-goal run for the Blue Jays, but Joel Tinney blew a left-handed laser home with 3:11 on the clock in the third quarter and Michael Pellegrino bounced one home 60 seconds later to give Hopkins the 10-7 lead. Penn State was within one less than 20 seconds into the fourth quarter as James Burke scored off the faceoff following Pellegrino's goal and Matt Sexton went low-to-high for an extra-man goal with 14:42 to play in the game. The 10-9 lead held for just over five minutes with Johns Hopkins' Eric Schneider making two big saves while the Blue Jays nursed the one-goal lead. The second of those two saves came with 10:15 on the clock on a Keenan shot and was followed 36 seconds later by the Wells Stanwick goal that jump-started the game-ending four-goal run for the Blue Jays. Wells Stanwick totaled two goals and a game-high four assists, while Shack Stanwick added three goals and two assists. Reed chipped in with his first career hat trick to pace a Blue Jay offense that saw nine different players score goals. Florence led the Penn State offense with two goals and two assists, while Sanders added two goals and one assist, but the player of the game for the Nittany Lions was Darcey, who was spectacular in defeat with a career-17 saves. Seven of his 17 saves came in the second quarter when Penn State outscored Johns Hopkins 5-1. He added six saves in the second half, but Schneider made seven in the final 30 minutes and of Penn State's three goals in the second half, two came on the extra man and Burke's was in transition off the faceoff; the Nittany Lions did not score a settled six-on-six goal after intermission. NOTES: Ryan Brown tied the Johns Hopkins single-season record with his 52nd goal of the season and extended his national-best goal-scoring streak to 30 games -- the streak is the longest by a Johns Hopkins player since Terry Riordan had a school-record 56-game run from 1992-95 Wells Stanwick extended his point-scoring streak to 33 games Johns Hopkins is now 7-0 all-time against Penn State.