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FB Senior Day 2024
35
Winner Johns Hopkins JHU 9-1 , 6-0
0
McDaniel MCD 1-9 , 0-6
Winner
Johns Hopkins JHU
9-1 , 6-0
35
Final
0
McDaniel MCD
1-9 , 0-6
Score By Quarters
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
JHU Johns Hopkins 7 14 7 7 35
MCD McDaniel 0 0 0 0 0

Game Recap: Football |

Football Falls to No. 18 Johns Hopkins on Senior Day

WESTMINSTER, Md. - No. 18 Johns Hopkins scored touchdowns on long plays of 24, 36 and 69 yards en route to a 35-0 win over the McDaniel College football team Saturday at Gill Stadium on Senior Day.

The Green Terror (1-9, 0-6 CC) wrapped up the season by gaining 257 yards of total offense led by freshman Jayden Booker, who completed 23-of-31 passes for 192 yards. Freshman Jacob Wagner caught a career-high nine passes for 58 yards while gaining 28 yards on the ground.

Junior Kenneth Dempster turned two screen passes into 35 yards and senior Sebastian Wiggins made four catches for 29 yards. 

The Blue Jays (9-1, 6-0 CC) began the contest with a 53-yard pass on their first play from scrimmage, but McDaniel's defense shut down the drive, sacking James Rinello twice and forcing a fumble. Geoff Schroeder rattled off two long runs on the ensuing possession, finding the end zone on a 36-yard scamper for the game's first score. 

Andrew Rich scored from 24 yards out to make the score 14-0 with 11 minutes left in the second quarter. Booker moved McDaniel into Blue Jay territory with completions to Wagner and graduate student Wesley Nchinda but was stopped short on a fourth-and-two run from the 36 yard-line. Booker orchestrated another long drive midway through the second, but Johns Hopkins made another stop on fourth down. The Blue Jays needed just three plays to move 78 yards, scoring their third touchdown of the half on a four-yard dive by Griffin Cleveland with 28 seconds left.

The Green Terror opened the third quarter with a 9-play, 44-yard drive which ended on a fourth-down run by Booker that fell short of the sticks. Ethan Lollar took over at quarterback for the Blue Jays and led the team on another scoring march, with Schroeder scoring his second touchdown of the contest with 3:12 left in the quarter.

Lollar connected with EJ Talarico on a 69-yard touchdown pass to begin the fourth. Booker and the Green Terror responded with a 9-play, 65-yard drive that stalled at the six-yard line on fourth-and-five. The Blue Jays possessed the ball for the final 8:27 of the game, sealing the win with a 21-yard pass play.

The Green Terror controlled the pace of the game by running 60 plays and winning the time-of-possession battle by 11 minutes. But Johns Hopkins prevented McDaniel from converting any of the team's fourth-down attempts, going 0-for-4 on the afternoon.

Rinello and Lollar averaged 17.4 yards per pass for the Blue Jays offense, completing 12 of 15 passes. Johns Hopkins totaled 164 rushing yards compared to just 65 for McDaniel.

With the win, the Blue Jays clinched the Centennial Conference championship outright, finishing a perfect 6-0 in conference play for the second year in-a-row.
 
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