COLLEGEVILLE, PA- The fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team took the trip up to Collegeville to battle Ursinus with the hopes of building of their 4-0 start in Centennial play. The Blue Jays were riding a season long 10-game win streak heading into the doubleheader.

GAME ONE

• Score: #4 Johns Hopkins- 7, Ursinus- 4
• Records: JHU (23-2), Ursinus (10-16)
• Pitching Decision: W: Gabriel Romano (5-0), L: T.J. Snyder (1-4), S: Ben Keever (2)
• The Short Story: Gabe Romano earned his conference leading fifth win of the year on the mound with seven strong innings, after the Jays took an early 3-0 lead in the first few innings, to take game one of the doubleheader.

How It Happened

• For the sixth consecutive game, JHU cracked the score board in the first inning, putting up two on the board to take the early advantage. After a Matthew Cooper triple, Dillon Souvignier drove him in on a sacrifice fly to right field. Alex Shane picked up an RBI knock later in the inning to bring home Shawn Steuerer to push the lead out to two.
• In the middle innings, JHU pushed the lead out to five with RBI's coming from Shane, Sam Frank and Dylan Whitney. The Bears pulled back within three in the bottom of the fifth when AJ Richter sent one out to right center field to make it 5-2. It was the first home run hit off Gabe Romano this season.
• Isaiah Winikur responded with a homer of his own in the top of the seventh. It was a solo shot, which was Winikur's eighth of the season, to push the lead back up to four.
• Ursinus remained scrappy in the later innings, plating a run in the seventh and eighth inning to pull within two. Richter picked up his third RBI of the game on a base hit up the middle and the second run came in on a wild pitch.
• Ben Keever shut the door on the win with a clean ninth inning to earn the 23rd victory of the season for the Blue Jays.

GAME TWO

• Score: #4 Johns Hopkins- 4, Ursinus- 6
• Records: JHU (23-3), Ursinus (11-16)
• Pitching Decision: W: Kieran Hollander (1-3), L: Ryan Anderson (1-1), S: Matt Tuley (1)
• The Short Story: Despite a two homer performance from Matthew Cooper, the Bears rallied for five runs in the bottom of the fifth and never squandered the lead after that, handing the Blue Jays her first conference loss, 6-4.

How It Happened

• The first inning run streak continued for Johns Hopkins with Matthew Cooper belting a solo homer to left field. Dillon Souvignier also came in to score on a balk in the fourth inning to double the Blue Jays lead.
• The key inning in the game came in the bottom of the fifth when Ursinus brought five runs across the plate. Four different players picked up RBI's in the inning to give Ursinus their first lead of the day, 5-2.
• Cooper would add his name to the home run column one more time in the game, launching another one over the wall to left center field. Cooper has now hit five homers in the last six games and has four multi-homer performances in his career.
• Later in the same inning, JHU cut the deficit to one as Alex Shane came through with a clutch two-out base hit to right center that plated Sam Frank to make the score 5-4.
• In the bottom of the inning, the Bears added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning after an RBI base hit up the middle by Peter Balos to push the lead back up to two.
• Matt Tuley made life difficult on the Blue Jays lineup in the final three innings as he faced nine batters and retired all of them to close out the win for the Bears. The Blue Jays dropped to 23-3 on the season.

Up Next

• The Blue Jays return to the diamond on Monday for a non-conference matchup with Messiah at Babb Field (6 pm).