BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins baseball team hosted McDaniel in Centennial Conference action Friday afternoon, tying its season high with five home runs in a 12-7 win over the Green Terror. Shawn Steuerer etched his name in the record books in the win, hitting three homers to join Caleb Cyr and Matthew Cooper as the single-game record holders, with Cyr launching two himself in a game in which moon shots were aplenty.
 
Like the first meeting between the sides, Johns Hopkins (23-8, 11-1 Centennial) jumped in front early with a three-run opening inning. Alex Shane started the rally with a single back up the middle, advancing to second on a Cyr walk before Dillon Souvignier poked a single to load the bases. Steuerer was next to the plate, drawing an RBI-walk, with a wild pitch that went out of play scoring Cyr. The Jays' final run of the first came off the red-hot bat of Jacob Harris, who roped a single through the left side to bring Souvignier across home plate and make it 3-0 early.
 
McDaniel (16-13, 7-5 Centennial) responded well, plating three runs of their own in the second — two of which came via Todd Calhoun's first home run of the afternoon — but it was Steuerer responding in the next inning with his first of three homers to put Hopkins back up 5-3.
 
Following a quiet fourth inning, the Green Terror bats heated back up to take their first lead of the game with a three-run top of the fifth. It was Calhoun striking once again, this time with a three-run homer to the almost identical spot in left center, but going shot for shot with the sophomore was Steuerer, who hit a solo shot to dead center in the bottom half of the inning to level things at eight.
 
Ryan Anderson entered the game in relief in the sixth, tossing a perfect inning before the Blue Jays pieced together another four runs — all via the long ball — in the bottom half to take the lead for good.
 
Shane once again got the inning going with another single to right, setting up Cyr to rip his first long ball of the day to make it 8-6, but Hopkins was not done there. Souvignier reached base safely after an error by McDaniel's shortstop to keep the inning alive, and on his fourth at-bat of the day it was Steuerer blasting his career-best third home run to build the Jays' lead to 10-6.
 
The Green Terror stole a run back in the seventh, but a second home run of the day from Cyr in the eighth all but put the game out of reach, with a ninth inning in which Tyler Sugrim struck out the side bringing things to a close and clinching the 12-7 Hopkins win.
 
The Blue Jays are back Saturday, April 20 to take on Muhlenberg in a road double header, with first pitch of the twin bill set for 12 p.m.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• Steuerer became just the seventh player in program history to hit three home runs in a single game, and is the third to do it in as many years — Cooper in 2022 and Cyr in 2023. The junior now leads the team in home runs with 10, with his six RBIs also tying his career high set a season ago.
 
• Cyr registered his first multi-home run game of the season in the win, going 2-4 to bring his already team-best RBI tally to 36 on the season. The senior also drew his 20^th walk of the season to up his OPS to an other-worldly 1.214.
 
• Shane and Souvignier accounted for six of the Blue Jays' runs and five of their hits, going 2-4 and 3-5 respectively. Shane's two base knocks brings the sophomore's hitting streak to nine games and 19 of his last 20, while Souvignier tallied three hits for the second straight game to bring his batting average to a team-best .319.
 
• Harris stayed hot at the plate, going 2-5 and was the lone Hopkins player not named Steuerer or Cyr to grab an RBI. The sophomore now has three straight multi-hit efforts, leading to a .447 batting average in 38 at bats.
 
• Anderson earned his first win of the season on the mound, allowing just one run on two hits with three strikeouts in two innings. Entering after the sophomore was Sugrim, who looked excellent in two shutout innings, letting up just two hits and fanning four.