COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The uncharted waters the Haverford College field hockey team finds itself in are more than welcome as the Fords earned the right to play in their first conference championship game after downing Johns Hopkins University, 6-2, Saturday afternoon in a Centennial Conference tournament semifinal match-up.

Haverford (14-4) exploded for four goals over a 12 minute, 30 second span in the second half to break open a 2-2 deadlock with the Blue Jays (11-7).

Two minutes after Hopkins tied the contest at the 44:10 mark, Mary Hobbs started the second half onslaught with her 17th goal of the season.

Alex Waleko's 18th of the year, coming on a corner opportunity, followed not even two minutes later. Roxanne Jaffe and Hobbs both earned assists on the marker.

Four minutes later, Juliana Morgan-Trostle scored an unassisted goal, her team-leading 20th, then Hobbs put the bookend on the four-goal outburst with her second of the game, this one coming off an assist from Alyssa Mayo.

The Fords never trailed in the contest as Bryn Byssey and Margaret Selsor gave the team a two-goal lead by the 23rd minute.

Hopkins got a tip-in with six seconds remaining in the opening half then picked up the equalizer early in second half action, but Hobbs got the ball rolling soon after and the Fords never looked back.

The victory avenged an earlier, 4-3, loss to the Blue Jays on their home turf in early October. The Fords out shot their hosts by a 30-18 margin in that loss but Blue Jays goalie Kim Stein came up with 12 saves and got help from a defensive assist.

In Saturday's semifinal Stein stopped eight shots but surrendered six goals to a Haverford squad that owned a 27-19 edge in shots and 12-8 advantage in corner chances.

Haverford goalie Maggie Cronin picked up the win -- pushing her program career-best total to 29 -- after making eight saves and getting help with a defensive assist from Jaffe.

The Fords set a new program high water mark of 13 wins with the regular season finale victory over McDaniel College, and Saturday's win increases that new single-season record by one.

Sunday's 2 p.m. championship final will be the first for the Fords, and they will face top-seed and third-ranked Ursinus College (17-1) who advanced into the championship with a 6-0 win over Washington College in the day's other semifinal.