ALLENTOWN, PA – The Johns Hopkins baseball team cruised to a pair of run-rule victories over Muhlenberg Saturday afternoon, topping the Mules 15-0 in Game 1 before securing the series sweep with a 19-2, Game 2 victory. The entire Blue Jays batting order was unstoppable on the day, with their 22 hits in the second round serving as a season-best mark.
 
Game 1: Johns Hopkins 15, Muhlenberg 0 (7 inn.)
 
The Blue Jays (25-8, 13-1 Centennial) rode their graduate students to a dominant Game 1 win, getting near-perfect outings from Quinn Rovner on the mound and Seif Ingram at the plate en route to their first shutout victory since March 19.
 
After a scoreless opening inning, Hopkins would go on to score 12 unanswered runs over the next three innings to put itself firmly in the driver's seat. Jimmy Stevens, Ingram, Dylan Whitney and Jacob Harris brought in the first three runs of the game before back-to-back two-RBI doubles from Tripp Myers and Ingram built the lead to eight.
 
An Alex Shane single to left brought in the Blue Jays' sixth run of the third to make it 9-0, with fourth-inning RBIs coming from Steuerer and Ingram — his season-best fourth of the game in just three at bats — as well as a wild pitch making it a 12-0 game just over halfway into the contest.
 
While Hopkins got their bats going, Rovner continued to perplex Muhlenberg (7-25, 1-13 Centennial) on the mound, holding the Mules without a hit through the first four innings before the no-hitter was finally broken in the fifth on a single to center field.
 
The Blue Jays emptied the dugout in the sixth and seventh innings but the story at the plate remained the same, with Jimmy Nunez knocking in his third RBI of the season in the sixth before a single through the right side from Campbell Framke scored Michael Baturin — who registered his first collegiate hit two at-bats prior — and Damian Brown to put Hopkins up 15.
 
Camden Curley stepped on the mound in the seventh and allowed just one walk before back-to-back groundouts forced the newly instated run-rule to end Game 1 after seven innings.
 
Inside the Game 1 Box Score – Johns Hopkins:
• Rovner was excellent in his return to Allentown, allowing just one hit and striking out a season-high seven batters in five shutout innings. The win was the graduate student's fifth of the season and brings his Centennial Conference ERA down to 1.38.
 
• While Rovner controlled the mound it was Ingram running things at the plate, going 3-3 and tying his career-high with four RBIs. After tallying hits in both games, the graduate student has now put one in play in each of his last five.
 
• Harris was the lone other Hopkins player to register multiple hits, going 2-2 with two runs and an RBI. After going a career-best 4-4 in Game 2 the sophomore now has multiple hits in each of his last five games and his batting .700 in that stretch.
 
Game 2: Johns Hopkins 19, Muhlenberg 2 (7 inn.)
 
Saturday's second game told the same story as the first, with Hopkins racking up 19 runs on a season-high 22 hits to clinch its second win via mercy in as many contests.
 
The Blue Jays scored the game's first eight runs on RBIs from Dillon Souvignier, Steuerer, Harris, Matthew Cooper and a pair of homers by Shane and Myers before Muhlenberg broke the shutout with a home run of their own to make it 8-1 through three.
 
A trio of runs in the fourth and fifth innings put Hopkins in run-rule territory before a six piece in the sixth all but locked up the game. Steuerer opened the frame with a double after which a single from Harris putting runners on the corners. Cooper roped a double to left to score one, with a Whitney single clearing the bases before Lukas Geer and Clay Hartje went yard on consecutive at bats to make it a 16-run game.
 
Jake Siani joined the party with a two-RBI single in the seventh to put Hopkins up 18 before a final run scored by the Mules in the bottom of the frame ended a dominant day for the Blue Jays with a 19-1 win.
 
Hopkins now gets Sunday off before returning to Babb Field Monday, April 22 to take on Lebanon Valley. First pitch for the Blue Jays' final non-conference game of the season is set for 4 p.m.
 
Inside the Game 2 Box Score – Johns Hopkins:
• Savedoff secured his second win of the season and first in conference play, allowing one run on three hits while fanning seven across five innings. Thomas Cancian tossed a shutout sixth before William Boneno allowed an unearned run in the seventh to close out the game.
 
• Seven different Blue Jays registered multiple hits en route to the team's highest tally of the season, with their .537 batting average also serving as a season high. Souvignier's two hits in Game 2 marked his fourth time in the last five contests in which he had multiple hits, with Shane extending his hitting streak to 11 games after putting one in play in both outings.
 
• Geer and Hartje's homers in the sixth were their first of the season while Shane and Myers hit numbers nine and five respectively in Hopkins' third game of the season in which they hit four homers.