BALTIMORE, MD – The fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins women's soccer team extended its school-record regular-season unbeaten streak to 30 games with a 5-0 victory over visiting Ursinus Saturday at Homewood Field. The Blue Jays improve their record to 11-0-2 overall and 7-0 in the Centennial Conference, while the Bears slip to 4-5-4 overall and 1-4-2 in the Centennial.
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The Blue Jays got all the scoring they would need in a 17-minute span midway through the first half as they struck for three goals between the 17:54 and 35:01 marks to take control. A
Katie Sullivan header off a cross from
Callie Jones opened the scoring in the 18
th minute and
Breukelen Woodard went high from in close nine minutes later to make it 2-0. Just over eight minutes after that, freshman
Maria Romo-Nichols closed out the first-half scoring for the Blue Jays when she fired one to the far post off a cross from
Rebecca Rosen.
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Johns Hopkins tacked on two more goals in the second half to account for the 5-0 final score. Sullivan played a corner kick to the far post that senior
Caroline Bates got a foot on and snuck it through a crowd for her first career goal in the 56
th minute before Rosen closed the scoring in the 71
st minute after freshman
Megha Salvi sprung her on a breakaway and Rosen floated one past Ursinus goalie
Maddie Nau from nine yards out.
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The Blue Jays held a commanding 30-2 advantage in shots and took all seven corners in the game. Nau made seven saves in goal for the Bears, while
Priya Gillan and
Allyson Shick shared the shutout in goal for the Blue Jays with Shick making one save while playing the entire second half.
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Johns Hopkins will return to action on Wednesday, October 19 when the Blue Jays travel to Penn State Berks for their final non-conference game of the season (7 pm).
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