2025 WSOC Team
Dave Janosz
0
Stevens STE (12-4-6, 6-1-0)
2
Winner Johns Hopkins JHU (17-4-1, 8-2-0)
Stevens STE
(12-4-6, 6-1-0)
0
Final
2
Johns Hopkins JHU
(17-4-1, 8-2-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Stevens STE 0 0 0
Johns Hopkins JHU 1 1 2

Game Recap: Women's Soccer |

Women’s Soccer’s Season Concludes With 2-0 Loss to Johns Hopkins in NCAA Tournament Second Round

BALTIMORE, Md. – The Stevens Institute of Technology women's soccer team's 2025 season came to an end Sunday evening with a 2-0 loss to Johns Hopkins in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Ducks finish the season with a 12-4-6 record, including a 6-1 mark in MAC Freedom play, capped by a conference tournament championship that snapped Misericordia's 46-match win streak in conference matches (regular season and postseason), and a First Round NCAA Tournament win over Virginia Wesleyan.

HOW IT HAPPENED
With each team allowing one goal in their last seven matches and fewer than 10 shots per match for the year coming in, neither side registered a shot on goal until the 26th minute. Kenny Donley was called into action for Stevens, poking away a Caroline Marcus rainbow volley from about 15 yards out heading for the top left corner. Off a corner kick less than a minute later, Carolyn Johnson broke through for the Blue Jays, knocking home a near-side corner kick from Kei Kitamura.

Hanna Kusinski recorded Stevens' first shot on goal in the 30th minute with a long line drive off a free kick into the mitts of Blue Jays' keeper Ella Kruntchev. Donley made another strong save in the 44th minute, leaping to her right to poke away a shot from the top of the box off the foot of Maria Romo-Nichols. The teams headed to the locker room with Johns Hopkins (17-4-1) holding a 7-2 advantage in shots (3-1 in attempts on goal).

Molly McCann had a strong look one step inside the box in the 49th minute, but Kruntchev sprawled toward the right post and just managed to get her hands on the ball, keeping the Blue Jays in front. In the 56th minute, Romo-Nichols delivered a pinpoint strike just beyond the reach of a lunging Donley, extending the Johns Hopkins lead.

Donley kept it a two-goal deficit in the 59th with another jumping save of a ball headed for the top right corner, then knocked a 40+ yard free kick from Kitamura over the crossbar in the 61st minute with what wound up being the final shot on goal of the match.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Donley finished with six saves, her eighth 5+ save effort this season and first in her last nine appearances dating back to a MAC Freedom win over Arcadia on October 18. The senior moved into seventh place on the program's all-time saves list (142)
  • The team's 12 wins are the most in a season for the program since the 2019 MAC Freedom champions finished 17-4-1
  • The team's four-year seniors – Donley, Angela Dinh, Sarah Wnorowski, and Lauren Alley – finish their Stevens careers with a 0.596 win percentage (40-25-13), including a 24-5 mark in MAC Freedom play (a 0.828 win percentage)
UP NEXT
The Ducks return to the pitch in the Fall of 2026, seeking a second straight MAC Freedom Championship.

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