April 12, 2002

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - Junior Joe Urban (Nanticoke, PA/Bishop Hoban) and sophomore Carl Ippolito (Ewing, NJ/Pennington School) each homered and drove in three runs as the Johns Hopkins baseball team crushed Dickinson, 20-2, this afternoon in Centennial Conference action. The Blue Jays scored 20 runs for the second time this season to improve to 23-5 overall and 9-1 in conference play, while the Red Devils fell to 8-14-1 overall and 4-6 in CC action. Hopkins also reached the 20-run mark in a 27-7 win against Robert Morris earlier this season.

After a Geoff Neese solo home run in the first inning gave Dickinson a 1-0 lead, the Blue Jays responded in the bottom of the frame with four runs on three hits. Senior Karl Sineath (West Chester, PA/West Chester Henderson) led off with a single and junior Jay Cieri (Pine Brooke, NJ/Montville) followed with a walk before Urban belted a three-run home run to left field, his fourth of the year. Later in the inning, Ippolito brought home freshman Mike Durgala (Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson) with a single.

In the bottom of the second inning, JHU struck for two more runs. With one out, Sineath walked and Cieri followed with a single before senior Ben Taylor (Pawling, NY/Trinity-Pawling) drove in both runners with his second triple of the season. With the two RBIs, Taylor became the 11th player in school history to reach the 100-RBI mark for his career.

The Blue Jays then added three runs in the third inning to put the game out of reach. Sophomore Craig Cetta (Randolph, NJ/Randolph) singled to start the inning and Ippolito followed with his fifth home run of the year down the left field line. With three runs batted in for the game, Ippolito increased his team-leading total to 27. On the very next pitch, senior John Krivonak (Canfield, OH/Canfield) smacked his first career home run to left field to give Hopkins a 9-1 lead.

JHU scored a single run in the fifth, two in the sixth, and four in both the seventh and eighth innings. Sophomore Doug Hitchner (Haverford, PA/Episcopal Academy) drove in two runs with a double in the seventh and freshman Paul Winterling (Glenelg, MD/McDonogh School) hit a three-run homer, just inside the foul pole down the left field line to highlight the scoring. The home run was Winterling's first of his career and the 50th on the year for the Blue Jays.

Senior Yani Rosenberg (Baltimore, MD/Gilman) improved to 5-0 on the year by winning his 13th straight decision, the second longest streak in school history. He struck out seven and allowed just one run on five hits in seven innings. Rosenberg is now 24-3 (.888) for his career and needs just 12 strikeouts to become JHU's all-time leader. Eric Simoni suffered the loss for the Red Devils to fall to 2-2 on the year. He pitched four innings and allowed nine runs on 10 hits.

The Blue Jays return to action tomorrow as JHU travels to face Swarthmore for a Centennial Conference doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m. in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, R H E
Dickinson (8-14-1, 4-6 Centennial) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0, 2 6 3
Johns Hopkins (23-5, 9-1 Centennial) 4 2 3 0 1 2 4 4 -, 20 21 0

Battery
Dickinson - Simoni, Dwinell (5), Knor (8) and Dwinell, Rohm
Johns Hopkins - Rosenberg, Setty (8), Jarashow (9) and Hitchner

Extra-Base Hits
2B - Neese (DC), Ippolito (JHU), Hitchner (JHU), Casale (JHU)
3B - Taylor (JHU)
HR - Neese (DC), Urban (JHU), Winterling (JHU), Ippolito (JHU), Krivonak (JHU)