BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins volleyball team hosted Haverford and Carnegie Mellon Saturday afternoon, sweeping both the Fords (25-17, 25-18, 25-15) and Tartans (25-14, 25-18, 25-14) to extend its win streak to double digits with a pair of dominant outings. The Blue Jays also celebrated their seven graduating seniors at the conclusion of Saturday's matches.
 
Match 1: Johns Hopkins 3, Haverford 0
 
Saturday's opening match was the more tightly contested of the two, with the Blue Jays (20-2, 4-0 Centennial) hitting .283 compared to .130 for the Fords (9-10, 2-2 Centennial). Simone Adam finished with a team-best 13 kills followed closely by a season-best 10 from Chidinma Onukwugha, with Helena Swaak (16) and Kate Danaher (14) both eclipsing double digit assists.  The biggest separator in Saturday's opener was the service game, where Evelyn Batista piled on a career-best nine aces.
 
Despite what the final score might suggest, it was Haverford using a pair of kills from both Eliana Brown and Gia Frank to leap in front 5-0 before Onukwugha gave Hopkins its first point of the afternoon. The lead stayed at four until it was 9-5 when four straight kills from Adam and Pamela Chiakpo leveled things at nine. A service error knotted things once again at 11 before consecutive aces by Roxy Karrer were the catalyst behind another 4-0 run that put the Blue Jays up 15-11. A kill from Haverford's Kayla Chu cut the deficit to two at 19-17, but Chiakpo struck again to kickstart a set-closing 6-0 run to close things out 25-17.
 
The second set saw back-to-back rejections that included Brooklyn Pater put Hopkins up before the Fords tightened things up early. With the score 4-3, however, a blocking error by Haverford ignited a 10-0 Blue Jays run that included a trio of Batista aces and Adam kills to rocket Hopkins in front 14-3. The lead got as big as 12 at 18-6 following an Onukwugha finisher before Haverford began to climb back, getting as close as six at 24-18 before a service error ended Set 2 25-18.
 
Set 3 of Saturday's opening match began with the Fords up 4-1, but as was the case in the second set it was a Haverford error bringing Batista to the line to turn the tides. With the score 4-2, Batista racked up five of her nine aces as part of a 13-0 run that shot Hopkins in front 14-4. Consecutive Onuwkugha kills — the senior hit .714 with 10 kills on just 14 attempts — built the lead to 11, with back-to-back finishers off the swing of Virag Murhpy making it 20-9. A block Pater-Chiakpo block set the Blue Jays up with match point at 24-12, but it was the Fords scoring the next three points before an error wrapped up the set and match in convincing fashion.
 
Match 2: Johns Hopkins 3, Carnegie Mellon 0
 
Saturday's second match told much of the same story, with the Blue Jays offense rolling to the tune of a .311 hitting percentage while holding the visitors to a season-low .050. After sitting out the first match, it was Jilienne Widener (13) and Ivy Swafford (12) pacing Hopkins' attack, with Widener and Alice Yu registering a match-best four blocks apiece.
 
Runs came in threes to start the afternoon's final match, with Hopkins sandwiching a pair of 3-0 runs around a Fords 3-0 burst to go in front 6-3. The visitors stayed close, with a block by Neha Tummala and and Elizabeth Phillips cutting the deficit to one at 10-9 before Swafford's second kill of the set started a 4-0 run to put Hopkins back in control 14-9. A Swaak service ace capped off another 4-0 to make it a 22-13 game, with the Blue Jays using a Swafford kill, Adam-Yu block and Simrin Carlsen ace to finish Set 1 25-14.
 
Hopkins trailed early in the second set until an Onukwugha solo rejection turned a 5-3 deficit into a 7-5 advantage. A pair of 4-0 runs that included kills from Danaher, Carlsen, Widener and Onukwugha built the lead to seven at 18-11 before a 5-1 response from Carnegie Mellon made the score 19-16. The Tartans were unable to get any closer, however, with Swafford, Widener and Danaher combining for the final three points of the set, closing things out 25-18.
 
Set 3 was Hopkins' best from an attacking standpoint, with the Blue Jays racking up 16 kills while hitting .419. Swafford and Widener did the majority of Hopkins' damage, combining for nine kills in the frame. The set was close at its start with the Blue Jays tying things at seven before Swafford rattled off back-to-back kills to give Hopkins a lead it would never relinquish. Kai Herchenroether kept Carnegie Mellon within two at 11-9 before Yu (two kills), Widener (three kills) and Carlsen (three aces) combined for an 8-0 run to balloon to lead to 18-9 and all but put the match to rest. A service error trimmed the lead to single digits at 23-14, but that was the final point Hopkins would allow before a Carlsen kill and Swafford-Yu stuff wrapped up the set 25-14 and match 3-0.
 
The Blue Jays are back in action Wednesday, Oct. 23 for a match against Washington College that will begin a stretch of three straight Centennial Conference contests. First serve of the mid-week bout is scheduled for 6 p.m.