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Sophomore forward Micah O'Leary (image courtesy of Jordan Modjeski)
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Winner Saint John's Univ. SJU (12-4-3, 5-4-1 MIAC)
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Hamline University HAM (9-8-3, 1-7-2 MIAC)
Winner
Saint John's Univ. SJU
(12-4-3, 5-4-1 MIAC)
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Hamline University HAM
(9-8-3, 1-7-2 MIAC)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Saint John's Univ. SJU 1 0 1
Hamline University HAM 0 0 0

Game Recap: Soccer | | Ryan Klinkner, SJU Director of Athletic Communications and Jordan Modjeski, SJU Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

SJU Soccer Blanks Hamline 1-0 in Regular-Season Finale


Box Score 

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Saint John's soccer closed its regular-season schedule with a 1-0 shutout at Hamline on Saturday, Nov. 1.  

SJU (12-4-3, 5-4-1 MIAC) earned its fifth consecutive win and third shutout in the last four games. The 12 regular season wins are the most for the Johnnies since the 2015 campaign, when the team went 12-4-2 (7-2-1 MIAC) and finished second in the conference.  

Hamline's season ended at 9-8-3 (1-7-2 MIAC), while Saint John's tied for fifth in the league standings. 

Sophomore forward Ronan O'Connor (Woodbury, Minn./Hill-Murray) scored the eventual game-winner 3:10 into play, a goal that gave him the program's single-season scoring record outright. O'Connor now has 20 goals, which passes the record set by Ken Potts in 1974 with 19 in 18 games. His 50 points (20g/10a) are also second-most in a season behind Potts' 56 in '74. 

Sophomore defender Thomas Theising (Minneapolis, Minn./Wayzata) started O'Connor's record-breaking goal with a takeaway in the midfield that went off a Piper for an SJU throw-in just past half. Theising launched the throw down the field for freshman forward Lisle Cherwien (Mound, Minn./Orono). Cherwien beat a defender on the outside and fed O'Connor on the rush who tapped it between the goal post and the keeper.  

Hamline had its best chance to even the score at minute 38 of the first half, as a shot from Drew Axel bounced around in the box, but freshman goalkeeper Cole Hanson (Urbandale, Iowa) made a quick jump behind him to keep the ball from crossing the line.  

The Pipers mustered five of their seven shots in the second half, but Hanson's shutout held with none of the attempts making it on target. 

SJU out-shot Hamline by a margin of 12-7 (4-1 on goal). Corner kicks were 4-3 in favor of the Johnnies, but all four came in the first half and all of the Pipers' in the second.  

The sixth-seeded Johnnies travel to face third-seeded No. 6 Augsburg (16-1-2, 7-1-2 MIAC) in the MIAC quarterfinals at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, at Edor Nelson Field in Minneapolis. 

SJU handed then-No. 3 Augsburg its only loss of the season, 5-2, earlier this season on Sept. 30 in Collegeville. 



 
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