BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins baseball team erupted for one of its most complete offensive showings of the season on Day 2 of the Baltimore Regional Saturday afternoon, tallying season-best marks in both hits (26) and home runs (7) en route to a dominant, 20-8 win over Arcadia. The victory advances the Blue Jays to their second straight Regional Championship, with the Knights going on to win their elimination game against Ramapo to earn their right to a rematch tomorrow.
 
After a quiet opening inning, it was Hopkins (34-9) breaking open the scoring on their first home run of the afternoon off the bat of Caleb Cyr to make it 1-0. Shawn Steuerer got in on the action with a three-run shot in the third that scored Dylan Whitney and Alex Shane and quadrupled the Blue Jays' lead, with another RBI single from Cyr building the lead to 5-0.
 
Arcadia responded with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, with the score remaining at 5-2 through the fourth before Hopkins began to pull away with its first of four straight innings putting up a crooked number.
 
In the fifth inning it was Isaiah Winikur launching a ball to left field and over the fence to score Dillon Souvignier and make it a five-run game once again. Souvignier returned the favor one inning later with an RBI single to right center that plated Shane before Winikur doubled his home run tally with another long ball to left — this time a three-run homer — that made it 12-2 Blue Jays.
 
While Hopkins ran up the score, Quinn Rovner continued to put on a showcase on the mound. After allowing the two-run third inning, the graduate transfer held the Knights without a hit in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to help the Blue Jays establish their lead. Following Rovner's third straight shutout frame, Shane and Cyr went back to work at the plate.
 
The sophomore got things going with his first and Hopkins' fifth home run of the game — tying their season-best mark set on five different occasions — to extend its advantage to 11 before Cyr launched his second of the day that snuck just over the fence in left center, scoring Souvignier and Steuerer to balloon the lead all the way to 16-2.
 
Arcadia stole back two runs in the seventh on a double off the bat of Kevin Wheeler to trim the deficit to 16-4, but it was the Blue Jays scoring three of their own to give themselves their largest lead of the afternoon after the top half of the eighth.
 
Jimmy Stevens drew a leadoff walk, advancing to second on a wild pitch before Jake Siani stepped up to the plate as a pinch hitter and blooped a ball to left center that would score the senior. On the very next at-bat it was Steuerer hitting his second home run of the day — the third Hopkins player to do so in the game — plating Siani and making it 19-4.
 
The sides traded runs in the next two half innings — the Knights using a sac fly to score their fifth run of the afternoon while Lukas Geer tacked on an RBI single up the middle for the Jays' 20^th run of the night — with a three-run homer from Arcadia's Nick Bon Tempo trimming the lead to 20-8 before Ryan Anderson retired the final two batters to secure the win and put Hopkins just one game away from a Regional Title.

With the Knights defeating Ramapo in Saturday night's elimination game, the Blue Jays will face off against Arcadia Sunday, May 19 at 11 AM in the Baltimore Regional Championship Game. Should the Knights win Game 1, a second game will be played 45 minutes after the conclusion of the first contest.
 
Inside the Box Score – Johns Hopkins
• Rovner was excellent in his first NCAA Tournament appearance, allowing four runs on eight hits and fanning five in 6.2 innings. After allowing five runs in just 1.2 innings of work in his first matchup against Arcadia back in February, the graduate student looked much-improved in the rematch.
 
• Steuerer, Cyr and Winikur combined for six of the Blue Jays' season-best seven home runs, hitting two each. Steuerer extended his home run streak to five games and tied his total from last season, Cyr moved his season-long tally up to 18 — the second most in a single season in program history — and Winikur registered his second multi-home run game of the year to bring his total to six in 2024. The trio all finished with five RBIs.
 
• Whitney (2-5), Shane (2-3), Souvignier (4-5), Jacob Harris (3-6) and Matthew Cooper (2-5) all registered double digit hits in the win. Shane added a homer, Souvignier scored a team-high four runs with two RBIs and Harris added a run.
 
• Hopkins extended its streak of games scoring in double digits to five, all of which have come in the postseason. The Blue Jays have scored at least 10 runs in 14 of its last 15 games dating back to April 16.