AUBURNDALE, FL – The Johns Hopkins baseball team took on second-ranked and undefeated Endicott to kick off Week 2 of its Spring Break trip Monday afternoon, falling to the Gulls 14-8. The loss is the Blue Jays' second in a row, marking the first time since 2022 they have dropped consecutive games.
 
Monday's contest started as a pitcher's duel between Endicott's John Connolly (2-0) and Hopkins' Ryan Anderson (0-2), with the duo combining to allow just three hits and no runs through the first three innings. The scoreless tie was finally broken in the fourth with both sides adding one run — Hopkins' came via a Matthew Cooper solo shot to left — before Endicott (10-0) blew the game open with a six-run fifth inning to jump in front 7-1.
 
The Blue Jays (7-5) tacked on a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth on a Damian Brown home run and sacrifice fly by Caleb Cyr, but another four Gulls runs in the top of the seventh — all of which came with two outs — put Hopkins down 13-3 before they began their comeback with a five-run bottom of the frame.
 
Seif Ingram opened the inning with a walk, with singles by Isaiah Winikur and Alex Shane loading the bases with one out. Cooper drew an RBI walk for the Jays' first run of the inning before Cyr ripped a double that bounced off the left field fence to score two more. A Dillon Souvignier RBI single followed by a dribbler from Jimmy Stevens brought in the fourth and fifth runs of the inning and cut the lead to just five.
 
Following a scoreless eighth, the Gulls added an insurance run in the top of the ninth to build its lead back to six with the Blue Jays down to their final three outs. Shane drew a leadoff walk in an attempt to spark another rally, but a pair of flyouts and a strikeout ended the game and handed Hopkins the 14-8 loss.
 
The Blue Jays will be tested once again tomorrow when they face off against Wisconsin-La Crosse and Wisconsin-Stevens Point in a doubleheader, with first pitch set for 9:30 a.m. 

Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• Hopkins' first three batters — Winikur, Shane and Cooper — combined for more than half of the team's hits with six. Shane has been particularly impressive of late, registering multi-hit days in three of the Blue Jays' four Florida games thus far.
 
• Brown continues to enjoy a breakout sophomore campaign at the plate, hitting his team-best third home run of the season. Brown has already surpassed his total from last season (1) and is hitting .529 in seventeen plate appearances.
 
• Cyr further separated himself as the Blue Jays' RBI leader, with the senior's team-high three Monday morning bringing his total to 14 on the year.