AUBURNDALE, FL – The 13^th-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team picked up its third straight victory on Thursday morning as the Blue Jays jumped to a 9-0 lead and rode a strong seven-inning performance on the mound from Quinn Rovner to fuel a 10-6 victory over 19^th-ranked and previously unbeaten Kalamazoo.  The Blue Jays improve to 10-5 on the year, while the Hornets slip to 9-1.
 
After a scoreless first inning, the Blue Jays scored at least one run in seven straight innings and built their lead to 9-0 after plating two runs in the top of the seventh.
 
The scoreless tie was a 3-0 Blue Jay lead in the blink of an eye in the top of the second as Caleb Cyr walked and reached second on a Jimmy Stevens single.  One batter later, Tripp Myers homered to right center to quickly give the Jays the three-run lead.
 
A Shawn Steuerer home run in the third, an Isaiah Winikur run-scoring single in the fourth, a Cyr home run in the fifth and an unearned run in the sixth pushed the lead to 7-0.  Myers then forced in a run on a bases-loaded walk and Dylan Whitney added a sacrifice fly to account for the two runs in the top of the seventh that staked Rovner to the nine-run lead.
 
While the offense was busy scoring in seven straight innings, Rovner found his grove early.  He allowed a single walk in the second, third and fourth innings, but didn't allow a hit until there were two outs in the fifth and cruised into the bottom of the seventh with a one-hit shutout working.
 
In the seventh, the Hornets got a two-out, two-run Lukas Bolton double down the left field line to trim the deficit to 9-2, but the Blue Jays answered with a run-scoring double from Cyr in the top of the eighth to make it 10-2.
 
The Hornets scratched out four runs in the bottom of the eighth, including back-to-back runs that scored on wild pitches, before Cole Eggleston, the third Blue Jay pitcher of the inning, ended the frame by inducing a groundout and Matt Savedoff retired Kalamazoo in order in the bottom of the ninth to seal the victory.
 
Cyr, Winikur and Whitney paced the Blue Jays' 11-hit attack with two hits apiece.  Cyr was 2-for-3 with four RBIs and two runs scored to highlight an offense that has now scored six or more runs in eight straight games.
 
Rovner turned his best outing of the season as he went 7.0 innings and allowed two runs on three hits with six strikeouts against four walks; he improves to 2-1 on the year with the victory.
 
The Blue Jays will continue their spring trip in Florida on Friday morning when they take on Middlebury (9:45 am).