March 29, 2002

Box Score

WESTMINSTER, MD - Junior Jeremy Brown (Baltimore, MD/McDonogh School) struck out nine batters in seven innings as the Johns Hopkins baseball team shutout Western Maryland for the second consecutive day, 6-0, in Centennial Conference action. The Blue Jays improved to 14-4 overall and 2-0 in the Centennial, while Western Maryland fell to 8-5 overall and 0-2 in CC play.

Brown allowed just three hits and one walk as he improved to 2-0 on the season and moved into a tie for the team lead in strikeouts (24). Senior Jason Setty (Mt. Pleasant, TX/Mt. Pleasant) continued to pitch well as he shut down the Green Terror in the final two innings, striking out two with just one walk.

The game remained scoreless until the top of the fifth when sophomore Rob Morrison (Malibu, CA/Loyola) singled and later scored on a bases-loaded walk from junior Jay Cieri (Pine Brooke, NJ/Montville). JHU then added three runs in the top of the sixth inning to take a 4-0 lead. Junior Joe Urban (Nanticoke, PA/Bishop Hoban) and sophomore Craig Cetta (Randolph, NJ/Randolph) hit back-to-back solo home runs and senior John Krivonak (Canfield, OH/Canfield) scored on a single by sophomore Doug Hitchner (Haverford, PA/Episcopal Academy).

The Blue Jays added two runs in the eighth inning as sophomore Sven Stafford (Evanston, IL/Evanston) led off with a solo home run and Krivonak scored on a Cieri single. With three home runs on the day, Hopkins now has 25 in 18 games after hitting 31 all of last season. Urban's home run was his third of the year, which ties him for the team lead, while Cetta and Stafford each hit their second. Jeff Starcher suffered the loss for WMC as he allowed four runs on five hits in 5.1 innings.

The back-to-back shutouts are the first for JHU since shutting out Washington College, 10-0, and Franklin & Marshall, 9-0, last season. The last time Hopkins shutout three straight opponents was during the 1983 season when the Blue Jays blanked Haverford twice and Ursinus on consecutive days.

The Blue Jays return to action Saturday as JHU hosts Haverford College in a Centennial Conference doubleheader starting at 12:00 p.m.

Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, R H E
Johns Hopkins (14-4, 2-0 Centennial) 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0, 6 9 0
Western Maryland (8-5, 0-2 Centennial) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0, 0 3 2

Battery
Johns Hopkins - Brown, Setty (8) and Hitchner
Western Maryland - Starcher, Hoffman (6), Cornelius (9) and Laffey

Extra-Base Hits
2B - Laffey (WMC)
HR - Cetta (JHU), Stafford (JHU), Urban (JHU)