April 5, 2009
Box Score
BALTIMORE, MD - After a doubleheader in Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins baseball team remains tied in the Centennial Conference standings with Ursinus, dropping game one to the Bears, 3-2, before rebounding in game two to win it 9-7. The Blue Jays (12-9, 5-2 Centennial) have split seven of 15 all-time Centennial Conference doubleheaders with Ursinus since 1994. The Bears move to 13-7-1 (5-2 Centennial) after the day in the Charm City.
The Hopkins defense retired the first three batters to kick start the day. James Teta led off for the Blue Jays and popped up to center field. Brian Youchak flied out to the right fielder next before Ryan Biner sent a line drive to first base for the third out.
Back on defense, Dave Fioretti walked the first Bear of the second inning. Sam Young, and the Blue Jays took care of the rest, pulling off the double play for the first two outs. A groundout to second base finished the second inning.
Todd Emr flied out to right field before Dave Kahn grounded out to shortstop. Chris Huisman batted cleanup, grounding out to the pitcher to push to the third inning.
In the third, Brendan Walsh sent one over the left field wall to score the first run of the game.
Ursinus's Ben Lockman threatened with a double and Ryan Schmidt reached on an error to put runners on the corners. A hit by Steve Benavage allowed Lockman to score to tie it, 1-1 in the top of the fifth.
Swarr doubled with two outs in the bottom of the fifth to bring up Teta. Teta would ground out to second to end the fifth inning.
Mike Schwager homered over the right field wall to put the Bears up 2-1 in the sixth. A dropped fly in left field and a wild pitch put Randolph on second with one out. Two ground-outs would end the inning for Ursinus.
Youchak lined out to third to start off the sixth for the Blue Jays. Biner singled to left to get things moving for JHU. Emr singled to center to move Biner to second to bring up Kahn. Matthew Bernardi entered as a pinch runner for Biner and stole third on the next play. Kahn walked to load the bases for Huisman. Huisman got the sacrifice and moved Emr to third as Bernardi scored to tie the game.
Neither could score in the seventh to send game one to an extra inning. In the eighth, Matt Wiegand entered in relief of starting pitcher Dave Fioretti. Brett Umstead homered to begin the inning, spelling disaster for Hopkins as the winning run of game one. The Bears got the 3-2 victory after the eighth.
John Swarr went 2-for-3 in game one to lead the Blue Jays' offensive efforts and Dave Fioretti struck out five in seven innings to earn the no-decision.
In game two, the Bears were the first to score, with one run coming across in the second inning. Ursinus went on in the third to score another three to earn the 4-0 advantage. Umstead knocked his second homerun of the day. Sam Young would reach on an error by Dan Merzel and advanced to second on a wild pitch before teammate Rob Vogt sent one over the wall to score the second on third runs of the inning. Lee `magic man' Bolyard made it happen in the bottom of the third for the Blue Jays, opening the inning with a solo home run to put Hopkins on the board. Todd Emr later doubled to score Youchak and Merzel to bring JHU within one, 4-3 after three innings.
Ursinus would add another run in the fourth inning to go up 5-3 after an error.
The Blue Jays kept the Bears silent in the fifth and sixth innings of game two before getting two across the plate in the bottom of the sixth. Dave Kahn grounded out to start the sixth for JHU, but Jesse Sikorski came behind him to knock a solo shot. Bolyard singled to reach, stole second and got to third base on a wild pitch as Swarr was hit by a pitch. Swarr as tagged out at second on the next play as Merzel reached on a fielder's choice. Bolyard would score on the play to tie the game, 5-5.
In the seventh, Huisman rattled a home run over right field with two outs to take the first lead of the game for JHU, 6-5. Hopkins went on to scored three unanswered runs in the eighth innings ad Ursinus brought Young in as a reliever. The Blue Jays exited the eighth inning with a 9-5 lead.
Ursinus was able to score a pair of runs in the top of the ninth, but it wasn't enough to steal the game as the Blue Jays escaped with the 9-7 victory.
Chez Angeloni threw a complete game in game two, striking out six and walking two.
The Blue Jays are back in action on Monday, April 6, hosting McDaniel after a rain-out from last Friday. The contest is slated for a 3:30 p.m. start.
