BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's basketball got 17 points and six rebounds from senior Tanti Felli and held 24^th-ranked Franklin & Marshall more than 27 points below its season scoring average as the Blue Jays topped the Diplomats, 60-43, in Goldfarb Gymnasium Saturday evening.  Johns Hopkins improves to 17-6 overall and 8-3 in the Centennial Conference with the win, while the Diplomats slip to 19-4 overall and 8-3 in the Centennial.
 
The win was also the 200^th for Johns Hopkins head coach Ryan Cain, who improved his overall career record to 200-89 with tonight's victory; he is 54-23 in nearly three full seasons at Johns Hopkins.
 
The Blue Jays led 26-21 at half and were up just 30-26 after the Diplomats' Kevin Nowoswait got to the basket with just over 15 minutes remaining.  Just under two minutes later, a Nick Klaiber three-pointer ignited a 15-4 Blue Jay run that extended the lead to 45-30 with 8:23 remaining.  Klaiber (6) and freshman Evan Rainville (5) fueled the run as they combined for 11 of the Blue Jays' 15 points during the spree.  The Diplomats missed four of six shots and turned the ball over four times during the Hopkins run.
 
It took just over a minute – 65 seconds to be exact – for F&M to slice the 15-points deficit to eight as they used a lightning-quick seven-point run to pull with 45-37 with 6:39 to play.  Nowoswiat jump-started the run with a layup and Steve Donahue capped it with a three-pointer, but that would be as close as the Diplomats would get as Johns Hopkins closed the game with a 15-6 run to seal the victory.
 
Felli did most of the damage during the game-deciding run as he scored nine of his 17 points down the stretch.  Included in Felli's late-game surge were seven points in a 98-second span that turned a 46-37 lead in to a 53-37 advantage that would never be threatened.  He capped his personal seven-point run with a corner triple and closed the win with a dunk with 36 seconds on the clock.
 
Neither team could get going early as the Diplomats held a 6-3 lead just under six minutes into the game before a Will Stevenson jumper ignited a 19-3 Blue Jay run that turned the three-point deficit into a 22-9 lead as the clock dripped towards the seven-minute mark.  Six different players scored during the run for the Blue Jays with Rainville leading the way with six points; the Diplomats hit just one field goal and had eight turnovers during the nearly seven-minute Blue Jay spurt.
 
The Diplomats would score 12 of the final 16 points of the first half to account for the 26-21 Blue Jay lead at the break and they had the lead down to four after the Nowoswait layup made it 30-26, but Klaiber's triple followed and the Blue Jays never led by less than seven in the final 14 minutes.
 
Wyatt Eglinton Manner (13), Klaiber (11) and Rainville (11) joined Felli in double figures for the Blue Jays, who turned 22 Diplomat turnovers into 22 points and held a 24-6 advantage in bench scoring.
 
Donahue was the only Diplomat to score in double figures as he scored a team-high 13 points, while Nowoswait added nine points and eight rebounds.
 
The Blue Jays will return to action on Wednesday, February 18 when they travel to Swarthmore for a key Centennial Conference game against the Garnet.
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