BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins baseball team hosted SUNY Maritime in its second game of the weekend Sunday afternoon, routing the Privateers 10-2. The Blue Jays came out of the dugout swinging, scoring four on five hits in the opening frame, capped with a two-run bomb from Jacob Harris.
 
Disaster rang for Hopkins (2-0) in the top-half of the first inning when Quinn Rovner walked the bases loaded, however, the graduate student escaped the self-inflicted wound with a comebacker he turned into a double-play. Rovner then dominated the next three innings, retiring all nine batters he faced.
 
The Blue Jays red-hot offense struck again in the bottom of the third piling on an additional six runs, spearheaded by back-to-back-to-back hits by Dillon Souvignier, Jacob Harris and Jimmy Stevens to lead off the inning, scoring two runs.
 
Maritime (0-3) did not go away quietly, scoring two runs in the sixth on a pair of hits, however the deficit proved to be too much for the Privateers, leading to a Blue Jays victory.
 
The Blue Jays are back in action Wednesday, Feb. 26 at home with a matchup against Cairn at 3 PM.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins

• Rovner struggled after retiring the first batter he faced, walking the bases loaded. However, escaped disaster with a double play to end the inning. He then retired the next nine batters he faced, striking out four.
 
• Blue Jays relief pitchers, Drew Grumbles (1), Nicolas Jos (2), Thomas Cancian (1), Grant Meert (2), and Tyler Sugrim (3) combined for nine strikeouts over the final five frames.
 
• Four Hopkins hitters recorded a multi-hit game: Shawn Steuerer, Souvignier, Harris and Stevens

Inside the Box Score – SUNY Maritime

• The Privateers' relief pitchers surrendered just three hits over the final 5.1 innings, with starter Frank Santeramo allowing all 10 runs.
 
• Maritime finished the weekend in Baltimore, going winless (0-3) after dropping two to St. John Fisher and losing to Hopkins.