March 30, 2002

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - The Johns Hopkins baseball team swept a Centennial Conference doubleheader from Haverford this afternoon winning 6-4 in the opening game and 12-1 in the second game. The Blue Jays improved to 16-4 overall and 4-0 in the conference, while Haverford fell to 7-9 overall and 0-4 in CC play.

Sophomore Matt Righter (Clarion, PA/Lawrenceville Prep) picked up a complete-game victory in the opener as he allowed just two earned runs and four hits in seven innings. Righter struck out seven batters and walked two to improve to 2-1 on the year. Marcus Welles also pitched a complete game and took the loss for Haverford.

Haverford jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but JHU responded in the bottom of the inning as senior Karl Sineath (West Chester, PA/West Chester Henderson) and junior Jay Cieri (Pine Brooke, NJ/Montville) hit back-to-back home runs to tie the score. The Fords scored two unearned runs in the top of the second to take a 4-2 lead, but Hopkins would score single runs in each of the next four innings.

Senior John Krivonak (Canfield, OH/Canfield) doubled and scored in the bottom of the second inning and Cieri hit his second solo home run of the day to tie the score at 4-4 in the bottom of the third. Senior Ben Taylor (Pawling, NY/Trinity-Pawling) scored on a groundout by senior Tom Prevas (Baltimore, MD/Gilman) in the fourth to give JHU a 5-4 lead, and sophomore Carl Ippolito (Ewing, NJ/Pennington School) capped the scoring in the fifth with a solo home run, his fourth of the season.

In the second game, sophomore Russ Berger (Owings Mills, MD/Owings Mills) struck out seven and allowed just three hits in six shutout innings to improve to 2-0 on the season. Steve Zyman suffered the loss as he gave up nine runs on nine hits in two innings.

Hopkins took control of the game in the bottom of the first scoring seven runs on six hits. Sineath and Cieri scored on a double from Ippolito, who was driven in on a double from Taylor. Taylor then scored on a single from sophomore Craig Cetta (Randolph, NJ/Randolph), and Krivonak drove in Cetta with a double. Sophomore Rob Morrison (Malibu, CA/Loyola) followed with his third home run of the year to right field.

The Blue Jays added two runs in the second as Taylor followed sophomore Joe Urban's (Nanticoke, PA/Bishop Hoban) double with a two-run home run to give JHU a 9-0 advantage. Freshman Dave Montegari (West Hempstead, NY/Chaminade) smashed his first career home run, a solo shot to right center in the fifth, and sophomore Bryan Eberle (Frederick, MD/Urbana) hit his first career home run, a two-run bomb in the sixth for a 12-0 lead.

With eight home runs in the doubleheader, JHU has surpassed its home run total of last year with 33 in just 20 games. The Blue Jays are on pace to hit 66 home runs over a 40-game schedule, which would easily break the school-record of 45 set during the 1998 season. Fifteen players have hit home runs for Hopkins this year compared with six all of last season. JHU also sports its best record through 20 games (16-4) since starting the 1998 season with a 19-1 record.

The Blue Jays return to action Tuesday as JHU travels to face Washington College at 3:00 p.m.

Game 1 Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, R H E
Haverford (7-8, 0-3 Centennial) 2 2 0 0 0 0 0, 4 4 2
Johns Hopkins (15-4, 3-0 Centennial) 2 1 1 1 1 0 -, 6 9 2

Battery
Haverford - Welles and Odom
Johns Hopkins - Righter and Prevas

Extra-Base Hits
2b - Genna (HC), Krivonak (JHU)
HR - Sineath (JHU), Cieri 2 (JHU), Ippolito (JHU)

Game 2 Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, R H E
Haverford (7-9, 0-4 Centennial) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1, 1 4 1
Johns Hopkins (16-4, 4-0 Centennial) 7 2 0 0 1 2 -, 12 18 0

Battery
Haverford - Zyman, Baker (3), Fischer (6) and Debrich, Walters (5)
Johns Hopkins - Berger, Overstreet (7) and Hitchner

Extra-Base Hits
2b - Ippolito (JHU), Taylor (JHU), Urban (JHU), Krivonak (JHU)
HR - Montegari (JHU), Taylor (JHU), Morrison (JHU), Eberle (JHU)