GAME ONE
• Score: Johns Hopkins - 4, Cortland - 9
• Records: JHU (0-1) • CORT (4-0)
• Pitching Decision: W: Matt Funk (1-0) • L – Kieren Collins (0-1) 
• The Short Story: Trailing 3-2 after four, #2 Cortland scored five runs in the fifth inning to earn a road victory over #4 Johns Hopkins on Friday afternoon in Baltimore, MD.

How it Happened
• Junior right-hander Kieren Collins started off hot, striking out a pair of Red Dragons to start the contest. After allowing a base knock, Collins retired Danny Coleman for a scoreless first. 
 • The Jays jumped on the board first in the bottom of the second inning, taking a 2-0 lead. After Matt Fusco retired James Ingram to start the inning, Sam Frank reached base on an error, hitting the ball sharply to short. Jack Walters took a hit-by-pitch and the Jays had runners on first and second. After a Dylan Whitney fly-out advanced Frank to third, Sam Browning drove in the first run of the season with a knock to left. Walters moved up to second on the single and scored on an RBI single from AJ King moments later. 
 • The Red Dragons bit back in the top of the third inning, tying the contest at 2-2 on a Mat Bruno homer. Andrew Michalski led the inning off with a single, advancing to second on a wild pitch. Antonio Pragana walked, putting runners on first and second. On a botched bunt attempt, Michalski was caught leaning and King picked off the runner for out number one. Bruno then squared up the next pitch, driving it over the wall in right-center to tie it at 2-2.
• JHU re-took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, as Frank, making his first career start in the outfield, hit his first career homer, crushing a ball onto University Parkway to lead off the inning. 
• The Blue Jay lead was short lived as Cortland scored five runs on six hits in the top of the fifth. Ben Rhodes opened the inning up with a double, advancing to third on a fielder's choice. Pragana tied the game with a double to right center, driving in Rhodes. Bruno singled into center, but Ingram played it well and kept Pragana on third. Collins got a flyball from Scott Giordano, getting out number two, but giving Cortland the lead with a sacrifice fly. With Bruno on second, Coleman ripped a homer to right-center, pushing the Cortland lead to 6-3 and chasing Collins from the contest. With Matt Savedoff onto pitch, James Varian doubled to right field. Varian advanced on a wild pitch and scored on a single from Paul Franzese. Savedoff retired Matthew Krafft to end the inning with the Jays trailing 7-3. 
• The Jays cut the deficit to three with another lead-off home run, this one coming off the bat of King. Funk retired the next three batters and sent the game to the sixth with a 7-4 Cortland lead. 
• Brendan Disonell came on for Cortland to start the sixth and began to trade perfect innings with Savedoff. Neither team had a base runner in the sixth or seventh innings. 
• Cortland added some insurance in the eighth inning, starting with Franzese reaching on an infield single with one away. Franzese stole second and advanced to third on a fly-out. With two away, Savedoff's pitch got past King and Franzese came in to score on the passed ball, making it 8-4. The Red Dragons tacked on an extra in the ninth, picking up a 9-4 victory. 

 Inside the Box Score
• King & Frank both had multi-hit games for the Blue Jays. King homered and drove in two runs while Frank homered, doubled and drove in one run. King drew a walk in the first inning of the game, giving him the same amount of walks as strikeouts for his career. With two extra-base hits, five of Frank's six career hits are of the extra-base variety. 
• Savedoff threw 3.1 innings out of the bullpen in his Blue Jay debut, allowing just one earned run. Savedoff retired eight straight hitters during one stretch. 
• Freshman Shawn Steuerer was robbed of sure extra-bases twice in the contest on diving catches from Bruno in the fifth and Pragana in the eighth,

What It Means
• The Jays have dropped their season-opening contest for the fourth straight year. The Jays went on to reach the College World Series in 2019 & 2021 and the 2020 postseason was canceled. 
• The series history is tied at 5-5 now as the Red Dragons have ended the Jays five-game winning streak in the series. This is the first win over Hopkins for Cortland since 2016.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins will host MIT tomorrow at roughly 4 p.m. in the final game of Saturday's triple header. MIT will take on NC Wesleyan at 1245 pm before facing off with the Jays at 4 pm