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Collins
2
Haverford HAVBB 20-20
5
Winner Johns Hopkins JHU 37-3
Haverford HAVBB
20-20
2
Final
5
Johns Hopkins JHU
37-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Haverford HAVBB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 1
Johns Hopkins JHU 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 X 5 12 1

W: Collins, Kieren (5-0) L: Wyatt Mattison (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Joey Madore - Athletic Communications Assistant

#1 Johns Hopkins Takes Conference Tournament Opener 5-2 Over Haverford

Collins' Seven Scoreless Guides Blue Jays to Victory

  • Score: #1 Johns Hopkins- 5, Haverford- 2
  • Records: JHU (37-3), Haverford (20-20)
  • Pitching Decision: W: Kieren Collins (5-0), L: Wyatt Mattison (1-3)
  • The Short Story: The first-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team received a great start from senior pitcher Kieren Collins who tossed seven scoreless innings to help guide the Blue Jays to 5-2 win in the opening round of the Centennial Conference tournament.
How It Happened
  • After a scoreless first inning, Johns Hopkins came up in the bottom of the second with a good chance to strike first after Shawn Steuerer stung a double into the right center field gap. Tripp Myers moved Steuerer up to third with a ground out to first base and gave Caleb Cyr a chance to bring him in. On a 2-1 pitch, Cyr flied a ball into fairly deep left field that was hauled in by Jack Wallis. Steuerer raced in from third base while Wallis threw a one-hop dart into the plate and was able to sneak his foot on the plate under the tag of the catcher Chuck Norton to allow the Blue Jays to push across the game's first run.
  • The Blue Jays were threatening to add on in the fourth inning after three straight singles loaded the bases with nobody out. Haverford's pitcher August Williams punched out the next batter to get the key first out of the inning. Williams followed that up with an inning ending double play to the short stop to squander the Blue Jays opportunity to add on to the lead.
  • Johns Hopkins bounced right back in the inning, once again starting the inning with back-to-back singles from Dylan Whitney and Alex Shane. That brought up Matthew Cooper and he unloaded a first pitch three-run homer to opposite field in right to push the lead out to 4-0. That was Cooper's 20th home run of the season, and he became the first player in program history to hit 20 home runs in a single season.
  • Collins was solid on the mound throughout the game, only allowing three hits in his first six innings. Collins ran into some trouble in the top of the seventh after Norton smoked a double to right center, followed by a base-hit from Zach Crampton to put runners at second and third with one out. Collins was able to bear down and retire the next two Ford hitters to finish off his second seven inning shutout performance of the season.
  • The Blue Jays added on one more insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Whitney drove in Steuerer on a sacrifice fly to left field. Shane picked up a base-hit next but Haverford cut down Myers at the plate on a relay throw from the outfield to keep its deficit at five.
  • The Fords picked up two runs in the ninth inning on RBI's from Daniel Rosman and Harry Genth, but Ben Keever sealed the victory by striking out Jonny Flieder to close out a 5-2 win for JHU to move into the winner's bracket of the tournament.
Inside the Box Score
  • Two Blue Jays finished the game with three-hit performances, Alex Shane and Shawn Steuerer. For Steuerer it was his team leading ninth three-hit game of the season and was the sixth for Alex Shane.
  • Against conference opponents, Collins has pitched to a 0.33 ERA in 27 innings pitched. Centennial opponents are only hitting .189 against him on the season.
  • Haverford missed many opportunities to push across runs in the game, stranding 10 on base in the loss.
Of Note
  • With Cooper's home run, the Blue Jays tied the team and conference records for home runs in a regular season with 83. The team tied the mark set by the 2019 Blue Jays and the Blue Jays have now homered 80+ times in a season three times in program history.
  • The Blue Jays punched out four batters in the game, which allowed them to tie the school and conference single season record for strikeouts by a pitching staff in a season. It took JHU 359 innings to tie the record, while the 2008 team who held the record did it in 433.2 innings.
  • Johns Hopkins moves to 34-7 in home games in the Centennial Conference tournament and are now 10-5 in first round games.
Up Next
  • The Blue Jays will return to action and take on F&M, who defeated Dickinson today, 8-7, at Babb Field at approximately 12:30 pm.
  • The Diplomats are the team the Blue Jays have played the most in the conference tournament and hold a 12-4 record all-time against F&M in the conference tournament. The last time they squared off was in the 2019 semifinals and Johns Hopkins won that game 8-1.
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