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Media Credit: Daniel Litwin Senior Dan Schifner pitched three innings in Friday's win.

On the Friday of Spring Fair weekend, the Hopkins baseball team destroyed McDaniel at home 26-10, and played a doubleheader against Haverford on Saturday, winning both games.

The game against McDaniel was over from the start, as the Blue Jays offense dominated, scoring 11 runs in the first inning alone. In the inning prolonged by two McDaniel errors, the Jays collected six hits and four walks, including a three-run homer by Ryan Biner. McDaniel starter Brian Rosato was only able to retire two batters before exiting the game.

The score was 18-0 Hopkins, before the Green Terror had a mini scoring spree of their own in the fifth. McDaniel scored seven times in the inning off Marco Simmons, including a grand slam. The game continued on with more scoring, as the Blue Jays featured a seven-run inning as well in the eighth. Stephen Bejsiuk got his first hit of the season, a three-run homer. The Blue Jays won 26-10. Simmons got the win, pitching five innings, giving up seven runs over seven hits.

In the doubleheader against Haverford, the Fords took the lead in the second inning, when Jeff Butera hit a solo homer off Hopkins starter Chez Angeloni. The Jays were kept off the scoreboard until the fourth inning. With two runners on, Jesse Sikorski cranked a three-run homer off starter Stefan Pappius-Lefebvre, to give Hopkins a 3-1 lead. In the sixth inning, Lee Bolyard padded the lead with a solo homer to left field, extending the lead to 4-1. Each team added a run in the seventh, and the game ended at 5-2 Hopkins. Angeloni pitched a great game to earn the win, going all seven innings, giving up two runs over four hits and two walks, striking out six.

In the nightcap of the doubleheader, the Jays offense struck early on. Dan Merzel and Todd Emr got on base with singles, before Brian Youchak unloaded a three-run homer to right, off Haverford starter Ben Regan. Hopkins starter Dave Fioretti retired the top of the order with only three pitches. The Jays got back to work against Regan in the second inning. Sikorski led off the second with a solo homer. John Swarr was hit by a pitch and subsequently scored on a Dave Kahn double, putting Hopkins up 5-0.

Haverford got on the board in the bottom of the second inning, when Jeremy Zoll knocked in Charlie Carluccio with a single. In the third inning, Louis DeRosa came in to score on a Dean Lagnosky single and Merzel throwing error. Carluccio drove in a run, to push Haverford closer. Haverford tied the game in the fourth inning, Jake Kaden leadoff the inning with a homer, to pull Haverford within one. DeRosa subsequently drove in Chris Dooley on a squeeze bunt, tying the game at five. Ryan Biner gave Hopkins the lead again, with a solo homer to left field. The Blue Jays added two more insurance runs for an 8-5 lead.

The lead was in jeopardy in the seventh inning: Carluccio and Lagnosky executed a double steal, and came around to score on Zoll double, cutting the lead to one. Fioretti was relieved by Greg Harbeck. Harbeck went on to retire all eight batters he faced, to preserve the Hopkins win, 8-7. Fioretti got the win, pitching six and one third, giving up seven runs over ten hits. Harbeck pitched two and two-thirds innings for a long save.

The Jays improve to 21-13, and finished at 13-5 in Centennial Conference play. Hopkins secures a number two seed in the Centennial Conference Tournament, hosting F&M on Friday.

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