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BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins freshman Addi Dauler was a month past her birthday the last time the Blue Jays met Franklin & Marshall in the Centennial Conference Women's Soccer Semifinals – that would be her 14^th birthday of course.

The last time the Blue Jays (14-1-2) and Diplomats met in this round of the tournament, it was the Diplomats who escaped  Homewood Field with a 1-0 victory in 2021.

Fast forward five years and it was Dauler, now a month past her 19^th birthday and playing in the first post-season game of her college career, who provided the only goal in a 1-0 victory that propels the 13^th-ranked Blue Jays into the conference championship game for the fifth consecutive year and the 24^th time since the league added a tournament in 2001.
 
After just over 60 minutes of scoreless action, the Blue Jays broke through on Dauler's fifth goal of the season.  Sophomore Carolina Chao played a long ball from midfield to the edge of the box that was headed away by an F&M defender, but right to the foot of Dauler, who collected the loose ball, side-stepped a defender at 20 yards and lofted a left-footed bender just inside the far post.

2H | 29:24 JHU-1, F&M-0 DAULER breaks the ice with her 5th of the year. #GoHop https://t.co/KpekVfwZXG

— Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer (@HopkinsWSoccer) November 6, 2026

 
Dauler had a chance to double the lead a short time later off a free kick offering from Kendall Malmros, but F&M goalie Lucy Fleming made a full-extension diving save low to her left off Dauler's header to keep it a one-goal game.
 
That save was the best of the three Fleming made in the game, while her counterpart, sophomore Ella Kruntchev, made four stops on the night for the Blue Jays, including three in the second half.  None of the four matched Fleming's diving stop of Dauler for dramatics, but she collected her eighth solo shutout of the year with the four-save clean sheet.  F&M pressed hard in the final 20 minutes for an equalizer, but for the second time this season couldn't solve Kruntchev or the Blue Jay defense.   Meg Balerno had the cleanest strike over that time for the Diplomats, but her 22-yarder with pace was right at Kruntchev.
 
Chances were few and far between in the first half as the two defenses clamped down from the outset.  Both teams collected a pair of shots and Fleming and Kruntchev each collected one save in the opening 45 minutes.  Fleming also came strong off her line late in the half to snag a dangerous cross from Blue Jay freshman Natalie Kokenda that just missed a cutting teammate in the middle of the box.
 
Both teams registered six shots on the night with F&M (8-5-4) also collecting five of the game's seven corners.
 
Johns Hopkins will play the winner of the other semifinal game between second-seeded Swarthmore and third-seeded Dickinson in Sunday's championship game at Homewood Field.  The time of the game (12 pm or 1 pm) will be finalized after the Johns Hopkins men's soccer team finishes its semifinal game against Muhlenberg later tonight.  If both teams are hosting championship games, the women will play at 12 pm.  If only the women are hosting, their game will start at 1 pm.
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