BALTIMORE, MD – Senior Axel Whamond scored the game's only goal in the 56^th minute to lead the sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's soccer team to a 1-0 win over Haverford in Centennial Conference action.
 
Haverford had two great chances early on back-to-back shots in the 10^th minute. Paul-Andre Coulibaly fired a low shot from the top of the box that hit the post. The ball ricocheted out to Meinhardt Rentrup on the six, but he blasted the shot over the goal. Just a minute later, freshman Giulian Laudisa fired a shot from 10 yards out, but Dylan Ioffreda turned it away.
 
In the 51^st minute, an Aidan Dunphy header off a great ball from freshman Will Andrus just missed wide. The Blue Jays got on the board in the 56^th minute, capitalizing on a turnover deep in the Fords' end. Graduate student Andres Chacon intercepted a Fords' pass and slipped a through ball to Dunphy. He carried into the box, drew a double team and then slotted a short pass to Whamond, who chipped a shot over Ioffreda and into the goal.
 
Whamond nearly made it two goals in the 70^th minute with a left-footed shot from seven yards out, but it went just high. A quick Haverford counterattack led to a good look for Liam O'Malley, but graduate student Alex Morgret made the save in the 79^th minute. O'Malley nearly tied the game in the 85^th minute on a header, but junior Logan Falzarano cleared the ball off the line.
 
Hopkins had a 16-7 advantage in shots and a 10-1 advantage in corners. Morgret finished with three saves to post his seventh shutout of the season. Ioffreda made six saves in the loss for the Fords.
 
Hopkins returns to action on Wednesday, September 28 as the Blue Jays host the McDaniel Green Terror. The Centennial Conference contest is slated for a 4:00 pm start.
 
Notes: Hopkins runs its unbeaten streak to eight games (6-0-2) • The Blue Jays are unbeaten through their first eight games for the third time in the last five seasons • Morgret extended his shutout streak to 574:41 – the eighth longest in program history.