BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's basketball team broke open a close game early in the second half with a 25-1 run that turned a 39-34 lead into a 64-35 advantage and the Blue Jays went on to a 90-55 victory over visiting Washington College in Goldfarb Gym Wednesday night.  The Blue Jays run their winning streak to 11 and improve to 21-3 overall and 15-2 in the Centennial Conference, while the Shoremen slip to 3-20 overall and 2-15 in the Centennial.
 
Nursing the five-point lead after the Shoremen opened the half with a Kedrick Frink basket, the Blue Jays scored 25 of the next 26 points to put the game away.  John Windley ignited the game-turning run with a three-pointer and the Blue Jays would hit six triples, including two each from Carson James and Lincoln Yeutter, to fuel the spree; Yeutter scored 10 of the 25 points for the Blue Jays during the run, which last just over five minutes.
 
The Blue Jays pushed the lead to as much as 41 at 90-49 with just under 90 seconds remaining before the Shoremen scored the final six points of the game to account for the 90-55 final score.  Hopkins outscored Washington 51-23 in the second half as the Blue Jays hit 17-of-30 (.567) shots from the floor with seven of their three-pointers coming after halftime.
 
The Blue Jays had sprinted out to a 14-0 lead in the first four minutes of the game as James and John Windley combined for 10 points in an opening surge that would see Hopkins hold the Shoremen scoreless for the first 4:25.
 
The Blue Jays still led by 14 at 22-8 after a Colin Crothers jumper with 12:27 on the first-half clock, but the Shoremen quickly sliced the deficit to eight as Grant Kemp and Marcus Scott, Jr. hit back-to-back three-pointers and Hopkins went scoreless for more than three minutes after Crothers' basket.
 
As quickly as the lead was trimmed to eight it was back up to 17 (33-16) as a Sidney Thybulle layup sparked an 11-2 spurt that was capped with another Thybulle bucket and included a three-pointer from Brian Johansson and driving layups from James and Yeutter.
 
The Shoremen closed the half with a 16-6 run that made it a seven-point game (39-32) at the break.  Washington College, which entered the game in the top 30 in the nation in three-pointers per game (9.8) used three triples to spark the half-ending run with Scott, Jr. hitting twice and Jason Zielinski once from beyond the arc.
 
The Frink bucket to open the second half came less than a minute after play had resumed, but Windley's three-pointer followed and the Blue Jay lead was never threatened over the final 18 minutes.
 
Yeutter led the Blue Jays with a career-high 17 points, while James added 15.  Windley and Crothers chipped with nine and 12 different players scored for Johns Hopkins.  The Blue Jays held a 61-27 advantage on the glass and collected 20 offensive rebounds in the victory.  Windley and Will Sykes tied for the team-lead with eight rebounds apiece.
 
Scott, Jr. paced the Shoremen with 19 points and he hit three of their six three-pointers in the game.  Frink (12) and Kemp (10) joined him in double figures as that trio accounted for 41 of Washington College's 55 points on the night.
 
The Blue Jays will close the regular season on Saturday, February 18 when they travel to Ursinus (1 pm) to take on the Bears.