BALTIMORE, MD – The 18th-ranked Johns Hopkins football team outscored visiting Dickinson 27-0 in the second quarter to turn a 3-0 deficit into a 27-3 halftime lead and the Blue Jays were never seriously threatened in the second half of a 37-17 win at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the third straight for Johns Hopkins, which improves 8-1 overall and 7-1 in the Centennial Conference. Dickinson slips to 3-6 overall and 3-5 in the Centennial with the loss.
After generating just 27 yards on their first two possessions and watching the Red Devils grab an early 3-0 lead, the Blue Jay offense starting cashing in on the flurry of turnovers being forced by the Hopkins defense. After coming up with a fumble recovery deep in their own end, the Blue Jays went 78 yards on 14 plays and took the lead for good early in the second quarter on a three-yard touchdown run by sophomore Spencer Uggla.
A Macauley Kilbane interception on Dickinson's second play after the Uggla touchdown then set the Blue Jays up at the Red Devil 32-yard line and junior Ryan Stevens hit Quinn Revere with a five-yard touchdown pass four plays later to push the lead to 14-3.
After the Johns Hopkins defense forced a quick Dickinson punt on its ensuing possession, the Blue Jays needed just 2:39 to go 65 yards with freshman Jacob Chapman capping the drive with his first career rushing touchdown from three yards out to give the Blue Jays an 18-point lead (21-3) late in the quarter.
The Blue Jay defense forced its fourth turnover of the opening half on Dickinson's second play after the Chapman score as Nick Seidel recovered a Tim Graham fumble at the Red Devil 18 to set Johns Hopkins up in the red zone at the 18-yard. It took just two plays – an 11-yard strike to Revere and a drive-capping seven-yard run by Danny Wolf – for the Blue Jays to extend the lead to 27-3.
Any hopes for a Dickinson comeback were dashed on the third play of the third quarter when Stevens hit Harrison Wellmann in stride behind the defense with a 51-yard touchdown pass to make it 34-3. At that point, not including an 11-second possession at the end of the second quarter, the Blue Jays had scored touchdowns on five consecutive possessions.
Dickinson would sandwich a three-yard Robert Geiss touchdown run and a Geiss-to-Princeton Douglass three-yard pass around a career-long 47-yard field goal by Johns Hopkins' John Krill to account for the 37-17 final score. The Douglass touchdown came with just 15 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Blue Jays outgained the Red Devils 445-321 as Stevens threw for 253 yards and two scores and Wolf led a 166-yard rushing attack with 96 yards and the one score. The Blue Jays' wide receiver trio of Revere, Wellmann and Ryan Hubley was again a difference for the Blue Jays as they combined for 21 receptions 227 yards and two scores.
Defensively, the Blue Jays finished with five takeaways for the second straight game (3 INTs, 2 FR) and added four sacks in the victory. Nick DiFiore counted four tackles for losses and 2.5 sacks among his six tackles on the day. Seidel had a hand in four of the five Blue Jay takeaways has he had two interceptions and two fumble recoveries to go along with five tackles and one pass breakup.
Geiss and Graham combined to go 17-of-29 for 191 yards and one touchdown, while Douglass had five receptions for 99 yards and the one score and rushed for a team-high 64 yards on just three carries. Ellis Thompson posted 12 tackles and added one interception and one pass breakup for Dickinson, but the five turnovers by the Red Devile offense were more than they could overcome.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, November 13 when the Blue Jays travel to McDaniel to take on the Green Terror. Kickoff is set for 12 pm.
Notes: Wellman's 98 receiving yards boost his season total to 1,039 yards … he is the first player in school history with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons • The Blue Jay defense has forced 10 turnovers in the last two games (6 INTs, 4 FR) and has now forced 25 turnovers on the year (14 INTs, 11 FR) • The Blue Jays have now won eight or more games in each of the last 13 seasons … prior to this run, Johns Hopkins had won eight or more games in a season just four times in its history • All 17 seasons of eight-plus wins have come since 2002.
Defense, Big Second Quarter Lift Johns Hopkins Past Dickinson, 37 -17
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Dickinson
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37
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dickinson (3-6) | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
| No. 17 Johns Hopkins (8-1) | 0 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 37 |
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