BALTIMORE, MD. - The nationally 17th-ranked Cortland baseball lost a pair of closely contested games at fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins on Saturday, falling 6-5 in the first game and 6-4 on a two-run homer in the ninth in the second game.
 
Cortland fell to 3-4-1, while Johns Hopkins improved to 8-2.
 
Johns Hopkins 6, Cortland 5
 
The host Blue Jays did most of their damage in the fourth inning with five runs and five of their seven hits. Cortland came back to score two in the sixth and one in the eighth to draw within one at 5-4. Johns Hopkins scored in the bottom of the eighth and Cortland plated a run in the ninth.
 
Anthony Carlo (North Bellmore/St. Anthony's) finished 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI for the Red Dragons. He doubled in a run in the sixth and singled home a run in the eighth. Nolan Smith (Hamburg) finished 2-for-4 with a walk and two RBI. He hit a solo homer in the second to give Cortland an early 1-0 lead and singled in Cortland's run in the ninth.
 
Logan Karwowski (Clay/Cicero-North Syracuse) went 2-for-4, including an RBI double in the sixth, and Tristan Gatchalian (Manorville/Eastport-South Manor) ended 2-for-5. Tyler Blake (Cortland) started and kept the Blue Jays hitless and scoreless through three innings before being charged with three runs in the fourth. Zack Zarrilli (Farmingdale), Cortland second of three relievers, allowed two hits and one run over three and two thirds innings.
 
Kieren Collins went five innings for the win for Hopkins. he allowed two runs on five hits with five walks and two strikeouts. Lukas Geer went 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and two runs, Alex Shane was 2-for-4 with a double, and Shane Keough went 1-for-3 with a triple, walk and two RBI. Keough's two-run triple capped the Blue Jays' five-run fourth, while Geer's leadoff in the eighth provided a crucial insurance run.
 
Johns Hopkins 6, Cortland 4
 
Cortland rallied from 2-0 down to score once in the seventh and three times in the eighth to go up 4-2. Hopkins, however, tied the game in the bottom of the eighth on a double play groundout and a Geer RBI single. The Blue Jays won the game in the ninth when Keough singled with one out and Damian Brown hit a walk-off two-run homer.
 
Cortland starter Warren Miller (Plattsburgh) allowed only two runs on two hits over the first six innings. He struck out eight and walked three. Smith went 2-for-3 with a double, walk and RBI and accounted for two of Cortland's four hits. Carlo and Lucas Granger (Horseheads) also drove in runs.