FREDERICKSBURG, VA – The eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins women's soccer team scored twice in a five-minute span midway through the first half to take control of Saturday's non-conference game at Mary Washington and the Blue Jays closed the regular season with a 2-0 victory over the Eagles at the Battlefield Soccer Complex.
 
The Blue Jays end the regular season at 13-2-2 overall and 8-1-1 in the Centennial Conference.  The Blue Jays will be the number two seed in the upcoming Centennial Tournament and will host a semifinal game in the tournament on Friday, November 3 (6 pm).  Johns Hopkins and Swarthmore finished with identical 8-1-1 league marks and the top seed in the tournament was determined by a coin flip after the other tie-breaking procedures failed to bump one of the two teams ahead of the other; Swarthmore won the toss to earn the top seed.
 
Johns Hopkins grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 28^th minute when graduate student Lyndon Wood converted a feed from junior Katie Sullivan for her second goal of the season.  Just under five minutes later, sophomore Natalie Smith subbed in and made an immediate impact as freshman Ava Venuti lofted a cross into the box that Sullivan headed to Smith and Smith buried it from in tight to push the lead to 2-0.
 
The Blue Jay defense did the rest of the work as Hopkins allowed just X shots and freshman goalie Eva Breiland was forced to make just one save to preserve the shutout.
 
With her two assists, Sullivan reached the 100-point mark for her career as she now has 39 goals and 23 assists for 101 points.  She is the fifth player in program history to reach 100 career points.
 
As the number two seed in the Centennial Tournament, the Blue Jays will host the highest remaining seed after Tuesday's first-round games.