Release courtesy of Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications
HARTFORD, CT – The second-ranked Johns Hopkins women's soccer team scored three goals in each half and had five different players score in a 6-0 win over Lesley in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Trinity (CT) College Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays improve to 18-0-2 on the year and advance to Sunday's second round, where they will take on the host Bantams, who slipped past SUNY Geneseo on penalty kicks.
The Blue Jays got all the scoring they would need in the first 25 minutes of the game as they got goals from graduate students Breukelen Woodard and Kendall Dandridge and freshman Megha Salvi to grab an early 3-0 lead.
Woodard was on the back end of some nifty one-touch passing and finished from the middle of the box off an assist from Rachel Jackson in the 13th minute. Dandridge punched one home from a tough angle 50 seconds later and Salvi made it 3-0 just 10 minutes after that.
The Blue Jays outshot the Lynx 19-1 in the first half and carried the three-goal lead into halftime before adding three more goals in a 21-minute span midway through the second half.
Senior Rachel Jackson opened the second-half scoring early in the 54th minute when she converted off a feed from freshman Maria Romo-Nichols before graduate student Kaleigh Gallagher scored twice in a seven-minute span in the 68th and 75th minutes to close out the scoring.
Emma Huntzinger (1 save / 45 minutes) and Divya Inaganti (2 saves / 45 minutes) combined to post three saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who held a 43-4 advantage in shots and took all six corner kicks in the game. Aubrey Calhoun posted 19 saves in goal for the Lynx.
Notes: The six goals ties the Johns Hopkins single-game record for goals in an NCAA Tournament game; JHU previously scored six goals in wins against Eastern Connecticut (2011) and Brooklyn College (2013). The shutout today is the 15th of the season for the Blue Jays. Today's win is the 16th straight for JHU dating back to a 2-2 at Carnegie Mellon September 11.