BALTIMORE, Md. - The McDaniel College baseball team fell to No. 6 Johns Hopkins and Ursinus on Saturday, ending its run in the 2026 Centennial Conference Baseball Championship.
The Green Terror (29-14) finish the 2026 season with 29 victories, the second-highest total in program history and a win shy of the program's second-ever 30-win campaign. The 2016 team won 31 games and advanced to the second round of the Centennial Conference tournament.
Game 1: Johns Hopkins 18, McDaniel 3
An 11-run fifth inning propelled the Blue Jays (32-9) to a win in game one.
First-year
Jack Morin drove in junior
DJ Stolba for the game's first run on an RBI-double in the second inning. Johns Hopkins answered in the bottom half of the frame with a two-run homer to take a 2-1 lead.
Three more runs came across to score in the third for the Blue Jays, going in front 5-1. Morin then launched his first career home run into left field; the two-run shot cut the deficit to 5-3 in the fourth.
Johns Hopkins took control of the game with an 11-run fifth inning. The Blue Jays started the scoring with a grand slam to make the score 9-3 and added a 10
th and 11
th run on an RBI-double and a sacrifice fly. A two-run single gave the Blue Jays a 13-3 lead and a three-run homer completed the scoring in the frame. Hopkins added two more runs in the sixth for the game's final margin.
Morin had a perfect day at the plate, going 3-for-3 with three RBIs and his first career homer. Six other Green Terror batters collected base hits in the opener; junior
Ethan Haddock and Stolba also scored runs.
First-year
Jack Kinsey took his first loss of the season on the mound, tossing four innings as the starter and allowing seven earned runs on 66 pitches. Junior
Kevin Hyde pitched two innings in relief, allowing only one hit and recording a strikeout.
The loss matched the Green Terror with the Bears (25-17-1) in the day's second game, who used a four-run third inning to hold off a late comeback and win 6-4.
Game 2: Ursinus 6, McDaniel 4
Ursinus loaded the bases to begin the third and capitalized with a grand slam to take an 4-0 lead early in game two. McDaniel plated two runs in the bottom of the third to cut the deficit in half on a sacrifice fly from sophomore
Thomas Mezzullo and an RBI-single from sophomore
Anthony Cerone.
The 4-2 score held until the seventh, when Morin drove in his fourth RBI of the day on a sacrifice fly to draw within one.
The Bears added an insurance run in the eighth on an RBI-single to make the score 5-3, adding another on a solo homer in the ninth. Junior
Shea McKenna drilled a pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the ninth, but the Green Terror couldn't complete the comeback, falling 6-4 to exit the conference tournament.
Cerone and Haddock each finished 2-for-4 at the plate in game two while Cerone, Mezzullo, Morin and McKenna each collected an RBI. Senior
Ben Davis went 1-for-2 with two walks while graduate student
Shane Daly went 1-for-4 with a run scored.
First-year
Alex Von Behren took the loss as the starter, totaling one strikeout, four walks, four earned runs and four hits in 2.2 innings. Senior
Tyson Nercessian pitched 5.1 solid innings in relief, striking out three and surrendering only one earned run on five hits and one walk.
