Box Score

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Hannah Kronick scored with just over 34 seconds remaining in regulation to lift eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 2-1 victory over the Swarthmore College women's soccer team on Thursday, Oct. 2 at Clothier Field.
 
With time winding down and the teams deadlocked at 1-1, Kronick provided the heroics by heading home on a corner kick taken by Alyssa Morgan. It was the senior's ninth goal of the season to keep the Blue Jays unbeaten in conference play since falling to Muhlenberg by a 2-0 decision on Sept. 22, 2012.
 
At the beginning of the match, Swarthmore (6-3, CC 2-2) got on the scoreboard in the blink of the eye to take a 1-0 lead. Junior defender Amanda Bosworth sent a long ball to sophomore Mele Johnson, who made her way through the Blue Jay defense and fired a shot right around Blue Jay goalkeeper Clara Aranguren and into the center of the net at the 1:18 mark of the contest.
 
Johns Hopkins (9-2, CC 3-0), however, had an answer at the midway point of the first half when Morgan won a ball on a long throw in through a scrum of players inside the box and took a diving shot that made its way to the back of the net. The strike, which was set up by Bailey Monaco, tied the match in the 22nd minute.
 
With the teams still deadlocked at 1-all, Swarthmore almost regained the lead in the opening minutes of the second half. After Swarthmore goalkeeper Reba Magier intercepted a pass at the other end, Johnson sent a dangerous cross inside the box that was headed just wide left of the goal in the 53rd minute by sophomore Hannah Lichtenstein.
 
The Blue Jays, who held a commanding 19-5 advantage in total shots, had an opportunity to go ahead in the 74th minute when Ana Bengoechea fired a rocket on target. Swarthmore senior defender Ellen Bachmanhuff, however, leaped in the air and blocked the shot from about six yards out. The visitors then earned a corner kick that was successfully cleared away by the Garnet defense that kept the score tied at the time before the Blue Jays would later get the deciding goal from Kronick.
 
Magier made two saves between the pipes for Swarthmore, while Aranguren of Johns Hopkins turned away one shot to pick up the victory.
 
Swarthmore returns to action when it visits Penn State Abington for a non-conference match on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m.