Game Notes
Tournament Page
 
In The Tournament:
The Johns Hopkins baseball team returns to the NCAA Tournament after missing out last season as the Blue Jays captured an automatic bid by winning the Centennial Conference Tournament. This is JHU's seventh NCAA appearance in the last 10 years and 23rd overall.
 
New Format:
This is the first season Division III baseball has gone to the regional and super regional format. Thirteen regional sites will have four teams competing and three regionals will have two teams competing. The four-team regionals are a double-elimination format while the two-team regionals are a best-of-five series. The 16 advancing teams will move onto the super regionals, which are a two-team, best-of-three tournament. Those winners will move onto the double-College World Series in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with the final two teams competing in a best-of-three series to determine the national champion.
 
The Field:
Joining the Blue Jays in the regional are TCNJ, Farmingdale St., and Susquehanna. All four teams in the regional earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournament. TCNJ won the NJAC while the River Hawks claimed the Landmark and the Rams captured the Skyline title. JHU has only face the Lions in the tournament as TCNJ holds a 3-1 record against the Blue Jays in tournament play. Hopkins and TCNJ are the only ranked teams in the regional as TCNJ is ranked seventh and Hopkins is ranked 21^st. Three of the four teams have won 30 or more games with the River Hawks being the lone team to not reach the 30-win plateau.
 
Last Time Out:
The Blue Jays had over a week off after capturing the program's 11^th Centennial Conference Tournament title on Monday, May 6. JHU went a perfect 3-0 in the tournament, which was played at Babb Field, outscoring its opponents 33-6. In the title-clinching game, which the Blue Jays won 11-1 over Haverford, senior Josh Hejka pitched a complete game allowing just six hits with one walk and two strikeouts. Juniors Mike Eberle and Chris Festa each had three hits in the game and Eberle was named the tournament MVP as he went 7-15 with four RBIs in JHU's three games.
 
Power Surge:
Hopkins has been one of the best power hitting teams in the country as the Blue Jays are tied with Christopher Newport for the most home runs in Division III with 72. Johns Hopkins has hit a home run in 30 of 41 games this season including a seven-home run game against McDaniel on April 12. JHU is 7-4 this season when not hitting a home run in a game, but are 16-4 when hitting at least two homers in a game. Nate Davis is tied for the fourth most home runs in Division III with 15 and two other JHU players have hit at least 10 home runs this year as Chris Festa has 13 and Chris DeGiacomo has 11. Overall, 15 different Blue Jays have hit a home run this season.
 
Milestone Watch:
• Davis is just two home runs shy of tying the single-season program record for home runs (17) which was set by John Christ in 1998.

• Jack Bunting (11-0) is second all-time in single-season victories as the senior needs just one more win to match the program record which was set by Sam Eagleson in 2010.

• Hejka needs one more save to tie the career record, held by Sven Stafford, as he currently has 13. His 21 appearances this season are also the second most all-time in a single-season in JHU team
history. Blake Platt holds the single-season record of 22 which he set in 2012. Hejka holds the program record for most career appearances as he has appeared in 70 games so far.

• The 72 home runs by Johns Hopkins are eight shy of matching the program record of 80, which was set in 2010.

• Senior Tim Kutcher is five hits away from 100 in his career while Eberle is one hit shy of his 150th career hit.