Oct. 20, 2009
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A LOOK BACK
Johns Hopkins played two games last week as the Blue Jays traveled to Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday and hosted Muhlenberg Saturday night. At Franklin & Marshall Erica Suter scored two goals in the half leading the Blue Jays to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first half. Suter’s first goal in the 18th minute was her fourth game winning goal of the season. Jessica Hnatiuk put Blue Jays up 2-0 at 22:15 with her fourth goal of the season. Suter closed out the scoring for the game when she netted a perfect cross from Allie Zazzali with less than two minutes to play in the first half. This was Suter’s first multi-goal game of the season. Kristen Redsun and Meredith Maguire combined for the team’s ninth shutout of the season. The win extended the Hopkins conference unbeaten streak to 23 games (22-0-1).
The streak came to end on Wednesday night as Muhlenberg upset the Blue Jays at Homewood Field, also ending Hopkins 24-game home unbeaten streak (21-0-3). After a scoreless first half, Kimberly Hacker scored the game winner in the 55th minute. Christina O’Grady scored in the 82nd minute giving the Mules the 2-0 win. The Blue Jays have been shutout in each of their three losses this year.
THE WEEK AHEAD
Johns Hopkins’ only game this week is Saturday, October 24, at 1:00 pm when Bryn Mawr comes to town. The scheduled game for October 21 against TCNJ was cancelled because inclement weather caused the Lions to cancel a league game which they are making up in the middle of the week.
Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series with Bryn Mawr 15-1. The series started back in 1993 with Bryn Mawr picking up its only win in the series. The Blue Jays have won 15 straight and have outscored Bryn Mawr 80-7 in the all-time series. The last meeting between the two teams was a high-scoring affair with Hopkins coming out on top, 5-3.
Johns Hopkins comes into the week with a record of 11-3 overall and 6-1 in the Centennial Conference. They are in first place in the conference leading second place Muhlenberg (5-1) by half of a game. Bryn Mawr enters the week with an overall record of 5-6-1 and a mark of 0-5 in the conference.
YEAR OF THE SHUTOUT
The Blue Jays have played 14 games this season and 12 of those have been shutouts. Hopkins has been on the winning end nine times. The program record for shutouts in a season is 17, set last season. In all, 19 of the Blue Jays’ 23 games last year were shutouts. The 2-1 win at Haverford on October 3 was Hopkins first game this year that was not a shutout.
STREAKING
Sophomore goalie Kristen Redsun saw her shutout streak come to and end last week in the second half of Saturday’s game against Muhlenberg. The streak ended at 496:11, which is good enough to put Redsun sixth on the all-time consecutive scoreless minutes list at Johns Hopkins. The streak began on October 25, 2008 at Bryn Mawr. In addition, senior goalie Karen Guszkowski had a shutout streak of 479:34 that was snapped in the win over Haverford on October 3. That streak stretched from September 12 to October 3. It was her fifth shutout streak since October 2007 of 400+ minutes. In addition, four of those five streaks were over 450 minutes.
TOUGH SLATE
Head coach Leo Weil does not shy away from playing ranked teams as the Blue Jays enter this week’s action having played five top-20 teams, with four of those ranked in the top 10. JHU is 3-2-0 against ranked opponents this season. Hopkins’ only two losses this season have come to top-10 opponents, Messiah and William Smith, which boast a combined record of 20-3-2. The Falcons, the top-ranked team in the nation, shut out the Blue Jays, 2-0, on September 9. Three days later, Hopkins lost a heartbreaker, 1-0, at #9 William Smith. The Falcons are now ranked second in the nation, while the Herons are currently ranked 12th.
CLOSE CALLS
Seven of Hopkins’ 14 games so far this year have been decided by just one goal and the Blue Jays are 6-1-0 in those games. Since 2004, Hopkins is 38-9 (.808) in games decided by one goal and 85-45 (.654) all-time in one-goal games.
IN THE POLLS
The Johns Hopkins women’s soccer team is ranked 14th in the NSCAA poll this week- a drop of five spots. The Blue Jays have been ranked in the NSCAA for 19 consecutive weeks. The Blue Jays are ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Hopkins is ranked 16th in the D3soccer.com poll, dropping nine spots from last week.
MOVING UP THE RANKS
Sophomore Erica Suter is tied for 13th in program history with 18 career goals and ranks 16th in program history with 40 points. She moved up in both categories last week thanks to a two-goal, four-point performance at Franklin & Marshall.
Senior Karen Guszkowski enters this week with 174 career saves and 26 career shutouts, ranking her third in program history in both categories.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Johns Hopkins opened its 18th season of women’s soccer with a 1-0 win over then eighth-ranked Washington University. The following afternoon the Blue Jays defeated then 10th-ranked Lynchburg, 1-0, to capture the JHU Invitational title.
AT THE HELM
Head coach Leo Weil has been at the helm of the women’s soccer program at Johns Hopkins since it began in 1992. He has taken the program to new heights in the last decade, recording 12 wins or more each season, including three 18-win seasons, a school-record.
Weil boasts an impressive 220-87-27 (.699) career record at Hopkins. In 1997, in just the sixth year of its varsity status and one year following its first winning season, Hopkins went 15-3-1 on its way to clinching its second straight Centennial Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, the first postseason appearance in program history. The Blue Jays have since earned seven NCAA Tournament berths, two ECAC South titles and five more Centennial championships.
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
The Blue Jays will be led by captains Karen Guszkowski, Natalie Held and junior Allie Zazzali this season.
CENTENNIAL PRESEASON PICKS
Hopkins was picked to win its fifth consecutive Centennial Conference title in a preseason vote of the conference’s head coaches. The Blue Jays are searching for their fifth consecutive conference title and another NCAA Tournament berth. In 2008 the Blue Jays finished the season a program best 18-1-4 and their only loss came at the hands of William Smith in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.
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