April 24, 2002

Box Score

GETTYSBURG, PA - Senior Mike DePalma (Norwalk, CT/Norwalk) and sophomore Carl Ippolito (Ewing, NJ/Pennington School) each collected four hits, four runs, and three RBIs to lead the Johns Hopkins baseball team to a 22-4 rout of Gettysburg this afternoon. The Blue Jays won their seventh straight game to improve to 29-5 overall and 15-1 in the Centennial Conference. JHU can secure the top seed in the Centennial playoffs with one more conference victory or a loss by second place Franklin & Marshall. Gettysburg fell to 9-20-1 overall and 4-12 in conference play.

Hopkins took control from the start with six runs in the top of the first and added two in the second and one in the third to take a 9-0 lead. Gettysburg scored two in the bottom of the third before JHU exploded for nine runs in the top of the fourth to take an 18-2 lead. After a pair of Gettysburg runs in the fourth, the Blue Jays added four runs for the final 22-4 margin.

Ippolito finished the day 4-for-4, while DePalma went 4-for-7 and junior Jay Cieri (Pine Brooke, NJ/Montville) was 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Senior Karl Sineath (West Chester, PA/West Chester Henderson) added a pair of hits and scored three runs to become the all-time leader in school history with 165 career runs scored.

Seniors Ben Taylor (Pawling, NY/Trinity-Pawling) and John Krivonak (Canfield, OH/Canfield) each drove in two runs as did junior Joe Urban (Nanticoke, PA/Bishop Hoban) and sophomore Craig Cetta (Randolph, NJ/Randolph). The Blue Jays totaled a season-high 27 hits and scored 20 or more runs for the third time this year. Hopkins has now scored 10 or more runs in 15 games and scored four or more runs in an inning 23 times this season. JHU is averaging 10.05 runs per contest.

Sophomore Russ Berger (Owings Mills, MD/Owings Mills) earned his fourth victory of the season, with six solid innings of work. Berger allowed one earned run on five hits with one walk to lower his ERA to 2.20. Freshman Jason Hochfelder (Briarcliff, NY/Hackley) and senior Mark Jarashow (Annapolis, MD/Annapolis) combined for six strikeouts in three scoreless innings of relief. Joe Gossweiler took the loss for Gettysburg and fell to 0-3 on the year.

The Blue Jays return to action Thursday as JHU travels to face York College in a non-conference game beginning at 3:30 p.m. Hopkins will then conclude its Centennial Conference schedule with a doubleheader at Muhlenberg on Saturday.

Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, R H E
Johns Hopkins (29-5, 15-1 Centennial) 6 2 1 9 2 0 1 1 0, 22 27 3
Gettysburg (9-20-1, 4-12 Centennial) 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0, 4 5 7

Battery
Johns Hopkins - Berger, Hochfelder (7), Jarashow (8) and Hitchner, Prevas (6)
Gettysburg - Gossweiler, Epstein (1), Urich (4), Viola (8) and Fuchs, Caviston (5)

Extra-Base Hits
2B - Sineath (JHU), Winterling (JHU), Cieri (JHU), Ippolito (JHU), Taylor (JHU), DePalma (JHU)