Oct. 2, 2004
Box Score
Baltimore, MD - Junior Steve Read (Skillman, NJ/The Lawrenceville School) scored his team-high seventh goal of the year and assisted another to lead the Johns Hopkins men's soccer team past Dickinson 2-0 at Homewood Field. The Centennial Conference win improved the second-ranked Blue Jays to 9-0-0 (3-0-0 CC) while the Red Devils dropped to 5-5-1 (1-3-0 CC).
Both teams started off slow and neither could find the back of the net in the first half when Hopkins out-shot Dickinson 10-1. Aaron Stemplewicz made four first-half saves for the visitors to keep the game scoreless at the break.
The No. 2 team in the nation wasted no time after the half, peppering the goal and connecting on its first score just 1:14 into the second period. Read beat his defender one-on-one and slipped a low shot passed Stemplewicz for a 1-0 Johns Hopkins lead at 46:14.
JHU's insurance goal came at 62:35 when Read headed the ball to sophomore Blaine Phillips (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley), whose header sailed past Stemplewicz between the posts.
The Blue Jays finished with 21 shots including five from sophomore Joe Pinero (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown) and three apiece from Phillips and sophomore Moath Hamzeh (Clarksville, MD/River Hill) while the defense held the Red Devils to just three shots. Stemplewicz had nine saves for Dickinson, and Hopkins keeper Gary Kane Jr. made all three saves to preserve his seventh shutout this year.
Johns Hopkins returns to action next Wednesday Oct. 6 at Haverford (4 p.m.).
Johns Hopkins (9-0-0): 0 2 -2
Dickinson (5-5-1): 0 0 -0
Goals: JHU - Read (46:14), Phillips (62:35)
Assists: JHU - Read
Corner Kicks: JHU - 6, DC - 2
Shots: JHU - 21, DC - 3
Fouls: JHU - 14, DC - 7
Saves: JHU - 3, DC - 9
