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Izac Coleman
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The Blue Streaks end the season at 16-5-1. 
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John Carroll JCU (16-5-1)
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Winner Johns Hopkins JHUM (14-1-7)
John Carroll JCU
(16-5-1)
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Final
3
Johns Hopkins JHUM
(14-1-7)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
John Carroll JCU 0 0 0
Johns Hopkins JHUM 1 2 3

Game Recap: Men's Soccer | | Gianluca DiGiacomo, Staff Writer

Men's Soccer Bows Out of NCAA Tournament in Second Round at Johns Hopkins

BALTIMORE, MD – On Sunday evening, the John Carroll Blue Streaks were on the road once again for the NCAA Division III National Tournament, looking to match their prowess from the previous season with a familiar tournament foe in the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.

Last year, the John Carroll Men's Soccer played in this exact scenario over in University Heights, as they defeated the Blue Jays with a 2-1 scoreline, courtesy of goals from Benjamin Hryszko and Jack Foht. This would lead Wenzler's Warriors into the Round of 16, where they would ultimately fall to Middlebury College.

With extremely cold weather, an incredibly in form John Carroll team, and a high intensity, vengeful Johns Hopkins side, the leadup was incredible from Homewood Field.

Unfortunately the result did not live up the hype, as the Blue Streaks suffered a 3-0 defeat in the Second Round. 

The game opened with guns blazing. The Blue Streaks looked to keep a calm head, while the Blue Jays came in with full intensive energy. There was not a lot of activity offensively, outside of a close call shot from Patrick Koenig, and a Johns Hopkins chance put to a stop by a goal line clearance from Daniel Kalic.

As the match marched on, the Blue Jays really had John Carroll on their heels as they continued to create attacking chances and put extreme amounts of pressure on every angle of John Carroll's efforts to move from the back.

The Blue Streaks did a solid job to bend but not break for a good majority of Johns Hopkins' run, until the hosts would eventually break the deadlock.

With 12:37 remaining in the half, it would be the Blue Jays to open the scoring. After some clunky play coming from the back, the ball would end up under the foot of the freshmen Scotty Coleman. With formidable poise, Coleman would evade a few tackles on the right hand side of the box, take it in towards the six-yard box, and poke it just past the goalkeeper Jake Vogrin to open the scoring in the later stages of the first half.

With a majority of John Carroll's play falling under the prevent defense category for the remainder of the half, there would surely be much to talk about heading into the half, urgent to make a change for the second 45 minutes of action.

The Blue Streaks opened the second half in a new formation with a newfound offensive motivation, as they created three chances in just the opening six minutes of play.

The game would stay evenly matched after that, as Johns Hopkins would slowly begin to chip away at John Carroll's momentum from the half.

With 24:10 remaining in the second half of play, the Westport, Connecticut native Scotty Coleman would knock in another goal, finding his way behind the defense and slotting past the keeper into the bottom left hand corner to increase the Blue Jays' advantage.

Both teams would remain largely stagnant in their respective offensive thirds until a final dagger would be put into the contest. A final goal from Johns Hopkins came from Francis Meyer with 1:24 remaining for the icing on the cake.

Both teams would remain largely stagnant in their respective offensive thirds, until the clock finally ran down to triple zeroes, as Johns Hopkins would get a well-earned win and redemption from the year prior.

The Blue Streaks season ended in Baltimore, with the team suffering their first away loss of the season to end it. 

It was an incredible season from Wenzler's Warriors, finishing the year with a solid 16-5-1 record to show for, as well as their fifth consecutive OAC Championship.
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