BALTIMORE, MD – Junior Adam Weiner provided ninth inning fireworks with his first career home run to lift the Johns Hopkins baseball to a 3-2 walk off win over Washington College at the JHU Baseball Diamond, Friday afternoon.

With the game tied at two a piece, Weiner came up to the plate with one out and the bases clear. After watching the first strike, the second baseman took two balls before getting a fast ball up in the zone and unloaded on the pitch to drive it over the left field fence for his first home run of his baseball career. Weiner rounded the bases for a walk off home run to lift the Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Shoremen.

The Blue Jays improved to 22-10-2 on the season and 12-2 in the Centennial while the Shoremen slip to 23-8 and 8-6 in the conference.

Down 2-0 in the bottom of the seventh, Johns Hopkins began its come back. Junior Ryan Zakszeski took the first pitch he saw to deep left field for the first home run of the game for the Blue Jays and cut the Shoremen lead in half, 2-1.

The Blue Jays tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with two outs in the inning. Sophomore Richie Carbone drew a walk to put a runner on base. With two outs and Carbone running on the pitch, Zakszeski laced a ball to deep right center that brought around Carbone to tie the game.

Senior Alex Eliopoulos dazzled on the mound after a tough second inning and set down the last 10 batters he faced in his second complete game of the season. Eliopoulos worked five perfect innings while allowing just two runs, both unearned, on three hits two walks while striking out five Shoremen. Eliopoulos now has 211 career punch outs for the Blue Jays, one shy of tying fourth on the JHU career list.

The Shoremen got their only two runs in the top of the second on two hits and two Blue Jay errors. After the first two runners of the inning reached on errors by the Jays, freshman Dennis Thomas got WC on the board with an RBI single to left. Nick Marinelli stole third and came around to score on a ground out from Matt Christopher. After the second inning, no Washington College base runner would come into scoring position as Eliopoulos and the Blue Jay defense turned away the Shoremen.

Not only did Weiner deliver the game winning home run, the second baseman was stellar in the field. Weiner denied Tyler Cotterell of a base hit, snaring a line drive out of the air in the top of the fourth.

Zakszkeski and Weiner each went 2-for-4 at the plate for the Jays while only one Blue Jay fell victim to a strikeout.

Barring potential rainy weather tomorrow, the Blue Jays will travel to Allentown, PA to face Muhlenberg is a Centennial Conference double header with the first pitch of the first game scheduled for 12:30 pm.