WINTER HAVEN, FL – The No. 3-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team faced Rutgers-Camden (10-2) in its Monday morning contest, defeating the Scarlet Raptors 9-4, and downing TCNJ (5-5), 15-5, in its afternoon game. With both victories, the Blue Jays improve to 4-1 on their spring break trip and 13-1 overall.
Game 1
Two defensive miscues from
Charles Monterrosa, both on failed pick offs, allowed Rutgers-Camden to take a two-run lead. However, Hopkins scored five unanswered runs in the bottom of the third.
Three straight singles to lead off the third inning scored Hopkins first run. A defensive miscue from the Scarlet Raptors first baseman allowed the inning to continue, loading the bases for
Caleb Cyr. Cyr delivered, pushing a single out to right field, scoring
Damian Brown. The Blue Jays scored their third run with help from the opposing pitcher, scoring
Jimmy Stevens on a wild pitch, followed by a
Lukas Geer single, scoring the Jays fourth run. To add insult to injury, Cyr came around to score on another wild pitch, giving Hopkins the 5-2 lead.
In the back-and-forth contest, Rutgers-Camden scored the next run before Stevens launched the Jays sixth run of the game with a home run over the left field fence. Hopkins scored an additional two runs, extending the lead to five after six. With the Jays in control of the lead,
Shawn Steuerer added Hopkins ninth run on an
Alex Shane sacrifice fly.
Blue Jay relievers,
William Boneno,
Cole Jefferson and
Tyler Sugrim, curved any momentum the Scarlet Raptors had, combining to throw the final five innings, securing the victory for Hopkins.
Charles Monterrosa earns his first win of the season, recording 4.0 innings of work, surrendering five hits, three runs – one earned – and striking out two.
Inside the Box Score
• Cyr and Steuerer extended their hit-streak to eight games, with
Dillon Souvignier recording a hit in 11-of-13 games this season.
• Stevens has scored in nine straight games and hit a home run in the last two.
• Three Blue Jay batters recorded a multi-hit game: Stevens, Steuerer and Souvignier
Game 2
Jacob Harris wasted no time giving the Jays the lead, launching a lead-off home run on the first pitch he saw over the right field fence. Hopkins continued to chauffeur Blue Jays around the bases, scoring Shane on a
Clay Hartje double, adding an additional two runs via an error by the TCNJ center fielder on a Geer fly ball.
TCNJ bounced right back into the ballgame, plating three of their own in the hop half of the second. The Blue Jays responded, scoring five in the bottom half, plating
Aaron Bock on a
Campbell Framke RBI double – his first hit of the season, a two-run home run off
Dillon Souvigniers' bat and a two-out, two RBI triple from Geer, extending the Blue Jay lead to six.
Hopkins continued to pile on runs, adding an additional two runs in the fourth on back-to-back doubles from Stevens and Hartje, and three runs in the fifth, extending the lead to 11. TCNJ then added two of their own, cutting the lead to nine. Framke walked off the Blue Jays with an RBI single, giving Hopkins the 10-run lead, allowing the Blue Jays to meet the run-rule threshold of a 10-run lead after seven innings, securing the Jays 13
th victory.
Ryan Anderson (1-1) earned the win in the blowout victory, throwing 1.2 innings of relief, striking out two and surrendering no hits.
Camden Curley also added two strikeouts and no hits over two innings of relief.
Inside the Box Score
• With his two runs scored in the victory, Stevens has come around to score in 10 straight games. Souvignier has also recorded a hit in 12-of-14 games this year.
• Stevens led the Blue Jay offense, recording three hits in four at-bats, with Framke also recording his first hit of the season with a multi-hit game.
• Anderson bounced back recording the win, after getting the loss against Endicott, throwing 1.2 innings, allowing no hits and recording two strikeouts.
The Blue Jays are back in action Tuesday, March 17 in the sixth game of the RussMatt Invitational in Florida, in a top-10 matchup, taking on sixth-ranked Denison with first pitch scheduled for 11 AM.
