THE FACTS
No. 3 Johns Hopkins (20-4, 3-0 CC) 34, No. 15 Gettysburg (19-4, 2-1 CC) 14
What: Centennial Conference (CC) baseball game
When: Tuesday, Mar. 31
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Johns Hopkins, ranked third in the latest D3baseball.com poll, scored 12 runs in the first inning en route to a 34-14 win over No. 15 Gettysburg in the first game of the home-and-home series.
THE LEADERS
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David Ruckman (Collegeville, Pa./Spring-Ford) went 1-for-2 off the bench with three RBIs and a run scored.
FOR THE FOES
• William Jaun led the Blue Jays with a 4-for-4 day, six RBIs and five runs scored. He had a first-inning three-run home run – one of eight long balls on the day.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Clay Hartje led off the game with a triple to start a parade of five straight hits to start the game. Lukas Geer capped the start with a two-run home run for a 5-0 lead before the first out was recorded. Two walks and a single before a pitching change and Hartje grand slam on the first pitch made it 9-0. Two more walks preceded Willian Jaun's deep fly to right to stretch the lead to 12-0.
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Robert Murphy (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) doubled with one out in the bottom of the inning before two-out doubles from
Will Stellato (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) and
Dominick Balsamo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) made it 12-2.
Jack Amirata (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) followed with a single up the middle to plate Balsamo and make it 12-3.
• After a scoreless second, Luke Baker led off the third with a first-pitch homer to left. Three straight free passes loaded the bases before a two-run Shane Keough single made it 15-3. Keiffer Ary added another three-run home run and Hamilton Adams made it back-to-back jacks for a 19-3 lead.
• A two-run Geer home run in the fourth made it 21-3 before the Blue Jays used four hits, four free passes and an error to extend the lead to 27-3 in the fifth.
• Johns Hopkins had just three hits, including a Nathan Lewis grand slam, in the seventh to aid in another seven-run frame that stretched the margin to 34-3.
• A dropped popup, walk and
Matthew Vivona (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) hard-hit single to right started an 11-run home seventh for the Bullets.
Brayden Casas (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) followed with an RBI single before a second error and
David Ruckman two-run single to left made it 34-7.
Michael Fischetti (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) followed with an RBI double before a wild pitch made it 34-9. A walk and
Connor Tongring (West Allenhurst, N.J./Ocean Township) double to left got Gettysburg to 10 runs on the day. A pair of walks around an
Andrew McGowan (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) RBI groundout reloaded the bases in a 34-11 game with just one out. Casas drew a walk to force in Tongring before a
Matt Carr (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West) walk plated McGowan. Ruckman followed with a sacrifice fly for the final tally.
THE INSIDE STORY
• The 48 combined runs were the most scored by two Centennial Conference teams in a conference game.
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Brayden Casas was 1-for-1 off the bench with a walk and two RBIs.
NEXT UP
The teams conclude the home-and-home series in Baltimore on Friday. Game time is 3:30 p.m.
