LEXINGTON, VA – Host and 13^th-ranked Washington & Lee scored the first two goals of the game and then held off a strong push from fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins as the Generals topped the Blue Jays, 2-1, in key non-conference women's soccer game Sunday afternoon. The Generals improve to 3-1 with the victory, while the Blue Jays slip to 2-2-1.
 
Washington & Lee fired off seven of the nine first-half shots in the game and broke the ice in the 30^th minute off a corner kick.  Bryn Bissinger played her offering from the flag into the middle of the box, where Sarah Zimmerman got a head on it to keep it in play.  Zimmerman's header landed right at the foot of Amelia Manke, who punched home her first goal of the season to give the Generals a one-goal lead.
 
The one-goal cushion held until the 57^th minute, when Megan Zimmerman slipped a cross through the box that Helen Otteni redirected past a defenseless Ella Kruntchev to double the Generals' lead.
 
Johns Hopkins turned up the pressure after Otteni's goal, opening up the game and firing six shots over the next 10 minutes before finally breaking through in the 68^th minute.
 
Working the middle of the field, senior Maria Romo-Nichols slipped a pass to junior Caroline Marcus, who one-touched a feed to Carolyn Johnson on the run down the middle of the field.  Johnson split a pair of defenders and went in alone from the top of the box and pulled General goalie Kate McEnroe off her line before slotting home her third of the year just inside the far post.

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W&L-2, JHU-1

Blue Jays cut the deficit in half on Carolyn Johnson's team-leading 3rd of the year. #GoHop pic.twitter.com/grwGXILuRm

— Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer (@HopkinsWSoccer) September 7, 2025

 
Johns Hopkins kept the pressure up throughout the final 21 minutes after Johnson scored, but couldn't solve McEnroe again despite registering 12 of the game's 15 second-half shots.  McEnroe made seven saves in the final 45 minutes with the Blue Jays' final shot, an offering from the side of the box from Johnson, drifting over the crossbar with just over two minutes remaining.
 
The Blue Jays held a 14-10 advantage in shots and the teams evenly split the four corners in the game.  McEnroe posted seven saves (all in the second half), while Kruntchev turned away a pair of W&L offerings.
 
Johns Hopkins will close a six-games in 12 days stretch on Wednesday, September 10 when the Blue Jays welcome Salisbury to Homewood Field (4 pm).