ASHLAND, Va. – The Randolph-Macon women's soccer hosted nationally ranked Johns Hopkins on Wednesday night. The Blue Jays took home the victory after jumping out to an early lead.
The Basics
Score: Johns Hopkins 5, Randolph-Macon 2
Venue: Ashland, Va. / Randolph-Macon College / Nunnally Field
Records: Randolph-Macon (4-4-1, 1-1-0 ODAC); Johns Hopkins (7-1-1, 3-0-0 CC)
How it Happened
- The Blue Jays did not waste time to take an early lead, as Juliana Taxter found the back of the net on an assist by Maria Romo-Nichols from the corner in the fifth minute.
- Taxter netted her second goal of the game less than 30 seconds from her first goal to put Johns Hopkins up 2-0 early.
- The Yellow Jackets cut the lead in half in the 19th minute, when Riley Russ (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne) found Olivia Owens (Salisbury, Md./James M. Bennett) in the box for RMCs first goal of the game.
- Johns Hopkins added two late first-half goals by Ava Venuti and Natalie Smith to push its lead to 4-1 to go into the halftime break.
- The biggest lead of the game for the Blue Jays came in the 60th minute on a Katie Sullivan cross into the box that found Sophia Stone to extend the lead to 5-1.
- Sammie Hoefs (New Market, Md./Linganore) scored her first goal of the season on a Randolph-Macon penalty kick in the 64th minute to end the scoring in the match.
Inside the Numbers
- The Blue Jays edged Randolph-Macon in shots on goal 12-to-3.
- Randolph-Macon tallied two corner kicks in 90 minutes.
- Owens and Hoefs both scored for the Lemon and Black.
- Russ tallied her fifth assist of the season.
- Abby Cook (Glen Allen, Va./Glen Allen) made seven saves in 90 minutes in goal for RMC.
Up Next
Women's Soccer is back in action on Saturday, September 30 to take on (RV) Washington and Lee at 11:00 a.m.
