The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins baseball team defeated a ranked team for the first time this season, knocking off 21st-ranked Wooster 9-1. Hopkins never trailed in the game and broke open a 2-1 pitchers' duel with seven runs in the top of the eighth inning. Trevor Williams, Josh Hejkaand Ross Lazicky combined to strike out 13 hitters to help lead the Blue Jays to their third straight win.
- Alex Darwiche gave Hopkins a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning with his second career home run. Darwiche's shot hit the scoreboard over the left centerfield wall.
- Hopkins doubled its lead to 2-0 two innings later. Tommy Mee led the inning off with a double and came around to score on an RBI groundout from Raul Shah.
- The Scots scored their only run of the game in the home half of the fourth. Jamie Lackner led the inning off with a double, his second of two hits on the day, and was later driven in by Ryan Osterdorf.
- The Jays broke the game open in the eighth inning, torching the Wooster bullpen for seven runs, all with one out. Seven straight Blue Jays scored runs in the inning which featured 2-RBI hits from Conor Reynolds and Mee.
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Other JHU Highlights:
- Trevor Williams was brilliant again in his third start of the season. The senior captain struck out six and did not walk a batter en route to earning his second victory of the year.
- Shah made a tremendous over the shoulder catch running towards left field to keep the score at 2-1 with runners on first and second and no outs in the bottom of the sixth.
- Mee followed Shah's play up with a fantastic play of his own. The junior dove and caught a line drive in left centerfield to get the second out of the inning.
- Josh Hejka struck out five in just two innings of work. His biggest strikeout came with two outs and runner on third and the Jays leading by just one run in the bottom of the seventh. More pressure was added as Lackner, the 2015 Mideast Region Player of the Year, was on deck looking for his fourth hit of the game.
Team Leaders:
Johns Hopkins:
Hits: Mee (3)
Runs: Darwiche, Mee (2)
RBI: Reynolds, Darwiche, Mee (2)
SB: none
Strikeouts: Williams (6)
Wooster:
Hits: Lackner (2)
Runs: Lackner (1)
RBI: Ostendorf (1)
SB: none
Strikeouts: Houdek (5)
The Facts:
- The game featured coaches who have won a combined 2,146 career games. Wooster head coach Tim Pettorini has the most wins of any active Division III head coach with 1,100 while Hopkins
skipper Bob Babb now has 1,046.
- JHU improved to 6-3-1 all-time vs. the Scots. All 10 games have been played at neutral sites and Hopkins has now won four of the last five.
- The 13 strikeouts were the most for the Hopkins pitching staff since they also struck out 13 in an 11-4 win over Washington College on April 21, 2015.
- Hejka now has 11 strikeouts in 6.1 innings of work.
Williams' Take: "My arm felt a lot more live down here in Florida and I was able to count on my offspeed stuff to get me through the later innings. I have a great deal of confidence in our senior leaders and young arms in the bullpen, those guys have proved themselves in some pressure situations thus far." --Trevor Williams
Up Next: The Blue Jays will return to the diamond tomorrow when they play an undefeated Amherst squad (4-0) at 9:00am in Ft. Myers, FL.
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