CHESTERTOWN, MD – The fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins women's soccer team got two goals in the final 15 minutes of the first half, added an insurance goal in the second and posted a seventh consecutive shutout with a 3-0 victory at Washington College Saturday afternoon.  The Blue Jays improve to 9-0-2 overall and 5-0 in the Centennial Conference, while the Shorewomen slip to 4-3-4 overall and 1-2-3 in the Centennial.
 
Washington College held the high-scoring Blue Jays in check through the first 30 minutes before graduate student Breukelen Woodard made the Shorewomen pay for a giveaway deep in their half of the field.  Woodard intercepted a pass near the top of the box and maneuvered down close to the end line.  There, she side-stepped a defender and stuck the game-opening goal just under the crossbar from the right of goalie Hailey Sharpe to give Hopkins a 1-0 lead at the 32-minute mark.
 
Fellow graduate student Rebecca Rosen doubled the lead 12 minutes later when she also made WC pay for a mistake in the back.  After a defender misplayed a clearing attempt to Sharpe's left, Rosen collected the loose ball on the side of the box and fired into the far corner to make it 2-0.
 
Sharpe kept Washington within two early in the second half as she stopped a Woodard penalty kick in the 52^nd minute, but the Blue Jays got their insurance goal in the 70^th minute when freshman Maria Romo-Nichols got inside her defender, collected a perfect feed from Rosen and slotted one past Sharpe form eight yards out to close the scoring.
 
Emma Huntzinger went the distance in goal for the Blue Jays and recorded three saves to secure the seventh straight shutout for Johns Hopkins.  The Blue Jays have not allowed a goal in 669:01 dating back to a second-half goal allowed at Carnegie Mellon.
 
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Wednesday, October 12 when the Blue Jays welcome McDaniel to Homewood Field (7 pm).