May 20, 2010

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TRENTON, NJ - The top-ranked and top-seeded Johns Hopkins baseball team prevailed, 9-4, over fifth-seeded and 21st-ranked Keystone in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional at Waterfront Park in Trenton, NJ. Hopkins now advances to the winner's bracket final tomorrow at 4:30 pm against the winner of the game later tonight between second-seeded Kean and sixth-seeded Rowan. The Blue Jays are now 41-4 on the season while Keystone falls to 30-8.

The Blue Jays are just one win away from tying the school record for wins at 42, set by the 2008 team.

Keystone will play third-seeded Widener in an elimination game at 10:00 am.

The Blue Jays took advantage of five unearned runs on three Keystone errors. Hopkins played flawless defense and had 12 hits while Keystone had seven hits.

Lee Bolyard (Burke, VA/Lake Braddock) had the big two-out hit to put the Blue Jays ahead in the sixth inning and was also a part of all three outs in the ninth inning to put the Giants away.

The first runs of the game were scored in the fourth inning. Brian Youchak (Pittsburgh, PA/Vincentian Academy) gave Hopkins a 1-0 lead in the top of the inning on a solo home run to right field.

Keystone answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning with two line-drive home runs to left center. Yazy Arbello led off the inning with one and Andy Vega hit a two-run shot to put the Giants up, 3-1, after four innings.

Both teams added a run in the fifth. Stephen Bejsiuk (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) scored for Hopkins on a RBI fielder's choice by James Teta (Centereach, NY/Sachem). Eric Groff scored for Keystone on a double to right center by Arbello.

The Blue Jays took the lead in the next inning by pushing three runs across the plate, all with two outs. Bolyard hit a 3-1 pitch through the left side of the infield with the bases loaded to score Youchak and Jesse Sikorski (Syracuse, NY/Christian Brothers Academy), who both reached on walks. Teta then hit a 2-2 pitch to right field to score John Swarr (Radnor, PA/Conestoga).

Hopkins added to its lead in the seventh inning to make it 9-4. Sikorski hustled out a double to right center that scored Youchak. Sikorski and Dave Kahn (New Hyde Park/Herricks) both came across when Swarr laced a double in the left center gap. Swarr would then score on a Giant error.

Sam Eagleson (Reading, PA/Governor Mifflin) improved to 11-0 on the season in the win for the Blue Jays. Eagleson allowed four runs on six hits in 6.1 innings of work. He had four strikeouts and three walks and is now just one win shy of tying the Johns Hopkins single-season record for wins by a pitcher.

Sean Murphy took the loss in a complete game for Keystone. Murphy allowed all nine runs, just four of which were earned, on 12 hits. He added six strikeouts and two walks.

Youchak had two hits, giving him 32 multi-hit games this season, which ties Todd Emr for the Hopkins single-season record. Youchak also scored three runs. Swarr had two hits, two RBIs, and two runs scored while Kahn and Bolyard also had two hits apiece.

Arbello and Vega each had two hits and two RBIs for the Giants.

Hopkins returns to action Friday, May 21 at 4:30 pm.