BALTIMORE, MD – The No. 3-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team hosted No. 15 Cortland in a double-header Saturday, downing the Red Dragons 9-3 in the opening game, before completing the sweep with a 10-1 victory in Game 2. The Blue Jay offense proved too powerful for Cortland, scoring 11 of a combined 19 runs in the first four innings of both games.
 
Game 1: Hopkins 9, Cortland 3
 
Hopkins sent all nine batters to the plate in the opening frame, scoring four runs on five hits. Shawn Steuerer and Caleb Cyr lined up to hit back-to-back doubles, before Jacob Harris drove in the final run of the inning. The Blue Jays continued to pile on insurance runs via the long ball from Cyr, Steuerer and Lukas Geer, building the lead to nine. However, the Red Dragons avoided the shutout, plating three runs in the top of the ninth, scoring two unearned runs on William Boneno, who earned the eventual three-inning save.
 
Kieren Collins moved to 3-0 on the season, pitching six innings of scoreless baseball, surrendering only three hits. In relief, Boneno cruised through his first two innings of work, retiring six of eight batters faced, allowing all three runs – two unearned – in the final frame.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
 
• Steuerer extends his program record for home runs hit in a Hopkins uniform, totaling 47.
 
• Cyr was a triple shy of the cycle, recording three hits, two RBIs and two runs.
 
• Eight different Hopkins players registered a hit in the win, with Cyr and Steuerer recording multi-hit games.
 
• Blue Jay pitching tossed eight innings of scoreless baseball with Collins receiving the win (3-0) and Boneno being credited with a save (1).
 
Game 2: Hopkins 10, Cortland 1
 
Hopkins went away easy in the opening frame of the second game before Dillon Souvignier hit a two-run bomb to open the scoring. Over the course of the next three innings, the contest was shaping up to be a pitcher's duel. However, with two outs in the fourth, Clay Hartje rocked a three-run home run onto University Parkway extending the lead to five. The Jays piled on an additional five runs in the last three innings to secure the series sweep over Cortland.
 
The Red Dragons avoided the shutout, however, scoring the lone run in the eighth off Tyler Sugrim. Drew Grumbles recorded his second win of the season, hurling five innings of no-hit baseball, striking out six. He then turned the ball over to Ryan Anderson, surrendering only one hit in two innings of work, followed by Thomas Cancian recording the final three outs.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
 
• Hartje and Jacob Harris both hit moonshots onto University Parkway.
 
• Blue Jay pitching tossed eight scoreless innings, surrendering one run to the Red Dragons in the eighth. Drew Grumbles recorded his second win of the season, throwing five innings of no-hit baseball, striking out six.
 
• Nine different Hopkins players registered a hit in the win, with Alex Shane, Cyr, Souvignier, Jimmy Stevens and Hartje recording multi-hit games.
 
The Blue Jays are back in action Sunday, March 9 in their first road test of the season against seventh-ranked Salisbury, with first pitch scheduled for 1:30 p.m.