BALTIMORE, MD. - The Cortland baseball team, ranked 15th nationally by D3baseball.com, dropped both games of a doubleheader at nationally third-ranked and unbeaten Johns Hopkins. The host Blue Jays (8-0) won the opener, 9-3, and the second game, 10-1.
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Cortland (5-4) will travel to Rutgers-Camden for a single game Sunday at noon.
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Johns Hopkins 9, Cortland 3
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Kieren Collins allowed three hits and two walks with three strikeouts over six scoreless innings to earn the win and improve to 3-0 on the season. William Boneno pitched the final three innings for the save. He gave up three runs, one earned, in the ninth inning and finished with three hits allowed, three strikeouts and two walks.
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Nick Jessen (Syracuse/West Genesee) took the loss after allowing five runs on seven hits in an inning and a third.
Ryan Banks (Woodbury/Syosset) struck out five batters and allowed one hit, one walk and one run in two and two thirds innings of relief.
Brady Mazzeo (Averill Park) tossed a scoreless fifth and
Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius), Cortland's fourth relieve, gave up just one hit and no walks and struck out three over the final one and two thirds innings with no runs allowed.
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Caleb Cyr finished 3-for-4 with a homer, double, walk, two RBI and two runs and Shawn Steuerer was 2-for-4 with a homer, double, four RBI and two runs for the Blue Jays. Lukas Geer also homered and finished 1-for-3 with two walks and two RBI.
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Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) was 2-for-4,
Danny Jackson (Lagrangeville/Arlington) went 1-for-2 and
Nolan Smith (Hamburg) and
Marc Stockhausen (Bronx/St. Raymond) each drove in a run for the Red Dragons.
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Johns Hopkins 10, Cortland 1
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Drew Grumbles picked up his second win of the season after tossing five hitless innings with six strikeouts and two walks. Ryan Anderson followed with two innings of one-hit scoreless ball. Tyler Sugrim allowed a run in the eighth and Thomas Cancian pitched a scoreless ninth.
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Luis Misla (Tampa/Riverview) gave up five runs, two earned, over four innings and took the loss. He allowed six hits and two walks and struck out three.
Zack Zarrilli (Farmingdale) allowed one hit and no walks with three strikeouts and gave up one run in two and a third innings.
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Hopkins took a 2-0 lead on a Dillon Souvignier two-run homer in the second and scored three unearned runs in the fourth when a two-out error kept the inning alive and, after a Jimmy Stevens single, Clay Hartje hit a three-run homer. Jacob Harris homered in the sixth to make it 6-0. The Blue Jays added a run in the seventh and three in the eighth.
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Stevens finished 3-for-4 with two runs, Hartje was 2-for-4 with a homer, three RBI and two runs, Souvignier was 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBI, Cyr was 2-for-4 with a walk and RBI and Alex Shane went 2-for-5 with two doubles.
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Smith finished 1-for-2 with a walk and RBI and Bonacci went 1-for-3 with a walk for Cortland.