BALTIMORE, MD – The 22^nd-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team used a late 13-2 run to turn a four-point lead into a 15-point cushion with less than three minutes remaining in the second half to fuel a 90-82 win over local rival Stevenson in Goldfarb Gymnasium Saturday afternoon.  The win, the third straight and eighth in nine games for Johns Hopkins, bumps the Blue Jays' record to 9-2, while the Mustangs slip to 8-3.
 
Johns Hopkins led for more than 23 minutes in the game and was nursing a 71-67 lead with just over seven minutes remaining after an Andrew Brooks jumper for the Mustangs.  Less than 15 seconds and two Wyatt Eglinton Manner free throws later and the lead was six and the Blue Jays were off on their 13-2 spurt that would build their lead to a game-high 15 (84-69) and, essentially, put the game out of reach.
 
The run, which started with the Eglinton Manner free throws and ended with a Charlie Jackson driving layup, took exactly four minutes and saw Jackson (6) and Eglinton Manner (5) combine for 11 of Hopkins' 13 points.  At the other end, the Mustangs went cold from the field and the line as they missed all five of their field goal attempts and went just 2-for-8 from the free throw line during the game-deciding Blue Jay spree.
 
Johns Hopkins had carried a 39-37 lead into the half, but in a back-and-forth game that featured 13 ties and six lead changes, it took the Mustangs just over three minutes to turn the two-point deficit into a four-point lead at 51-47 as they scored 14 of the first 21 points of the second half.  Kendall Seguignol (5) and Kole Beaman (4) combined for nine points during the run for Stevenson, which held a game-best five-point lead (49-44) before the Blue Jays brought the run to an end.
 
The game was tied three times over the next several minutes before a Nick Klaiber layup gave the Blue Jays the lead for good with 12:24 to play (58-57).  Johns Hopkins would never trail over those final 12 minutes, but didn't put the game away until Eglinton Manner sprung the 13-2 run after Brooks' jumper that made it a 71-67 game with 7:04 on the clock.
 
Early on, the Blue Jays built a 9-4 lead as they hit 4-of-5 from the field in the first 2:05 of the game.  The Mustangs pulled even at nine-all on a Beaman triple just over a minute later and that was the first of six ties over a nine-minute span, the last of which came when Jeb Williams got free inside for the Blue Jays to make it 23-23 with 8:12 on the first-half clock.
 
The Williams layup ignited a 14-0 Blue Jay run that turned a 23-21 deficit into a 35-23 lead.  Williams opened and closed the spree with layups and Eglinton Manner scored five points during the run for Johns Hopkins, but the Mustangs would outscore the Blue Jays 14-4 over the final 4:14 of the half to account for the 39-37 Johns Hopkins lead at the break.
 
Jackson and Eglinton Manner both scored 22 points for Johns Hopkins, which held a 38-26 advantage on the glass and outscored the Mustangs 52-32 in the paint.  Eglinton Manner added a career-best 10 rebounds and five assists to his 22-point effort; the double-double is the first of his career.
Beaman matched Jackson and Eglinton Manner with 22 points of his own and Myles Jackson (17) and Christian Jackson (15) also scored in double figures for Stevenson.
 
The Blue Jays will return to action on Wednesday, January 7 when they make the trip to Newport News, Virginia to take on Christopher Newport.  The Captains are 13-3 after topping Stockton 77-57 on Saturday and were the second team listed outside the top 25 in the most recent D3hoops.com Poll with 42 points.
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