April 3, 2002

Box Score

BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings and held on for a 9-6 win over visiting Catholic University today in non-conference baseball action. The Blue Jays improved to 18-4 with their sixth straight win, while Catholic fell to 17-10-1 overall.

Hopkins scored four runs in the first inning as junior Joe Urban (Nanticoke, PA/Bishop Hoban) and freshman Mike Durgala (Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson) each tallied an RBI single and sophomore Brian Morley (Tappan, NY/Don Bosco Prep) hit his second home run of the season, a two-run shot to right field. Morley would finish the game 2-for-3 with four runs batted in, while Durgala went 4-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored, and two RBIs. Durgala is now hitting .541 (20-for-37) for the season.

The Blue Jays added two runs in the second to take a 6-0 lead. Freshman Paul Winterling (Glenelg, MD/McDonogh School) drove in sophomore Bryan Eberle (Frederick, MD/Urbana) with a sacrifice fly and Urban scored on a wild pitch after doubling earlier in the inning.

Catholic came back and scored three runs in the top of the third to cut the margin to 6-3. JHU then scored a single run in the fourth as senior Ben Taylor (Pawling, NY/Trinity-Pawling) scored on a Mike Durgala double for a 7-3 advantage. The Cardinals came back once again in the sixth inning with two runs to cut the lead to 7-5. The Blue Jays added to their lead with a run in the sixth and a run in the eighth, and Catholic managed just one run in its final trip to the plate.

Senior Neal Lynch (Pennington, NJ/Notre Dame) improved to 2-0 with his second complete game of the season. Lynch struck out six batters and walked just two. Doug Sherry suffered the loss for Catholic and fell to 1-4 on the year as he allowed six runs on five hits in 1.2 innings. Brian Pietryka led the Catholic offense as he went 4-for-5 with two runs batted in.

The Blue Jays return to action Friday as JHU hosts Washington College in a Centennial Conference game beginning at 3:00 p.m. Hopkins defeated the Shoremen 17-10 on Tuesday.

Line Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, R H E
Catholic (17-10-1) 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 1, 6 12 0
Johns Hopkins (18-4) 4 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 -, 9 12 2

Battery
Catholic - Sherry, Tiedemann (2), Bowron (6) and Dennis
Johns Hopkins - Lynch and Eberle

Extra-Base Hits
2B - Dennis (CU), O'Rourke (CU), Urban (JHU), Durgala (JHU) 2, Morley (JHU)
HR - Morley (JHU)