BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins football team closed the 2019 regular season with a dominating 42-0 win over rival McDaniel Saturday afternoon at Gill Stadium. The win, the Blue Jays' 19th straight against their long-time rival, improves Hopkins' record to 7-3 overall and 6-3 in the Centennial Conference. McDaniel ends the season at 3-7 overall and 2-7 in the Centennial.
The Blue Jays wasted no time taking control as they jumped to a 14-0 lead just 6:07 into the game and pushed that margin to 35-0 at the half. Four of the five first-half scoring drives for the Blue Jays covered more than 50 yards as Johns Hopkins rolled up a 303-61 advantage in total offense in the opening 30 minutes.
After forcing a quick McDaniel three-and-out to open the game, Johns Hopkins went 67 yards in eight plays with senior David Tammaro hitting junior tight end Stephen Gervasi with a two-yard scoring pass to open the scoring with 10:35 on the first-quarter clock.
It took less time – and just two plays – to push the lead to 14-0 as a short McDaniel punt gave the Blue Jays possession at the McDaniel 42 and freshman running back Danny Wolf, who was making the first start of his career, went 27 yards on the second play of the drive to give Johns Hopkins the 14-point lead.
An eight-yard touchdown run by Tammaro on the first play of the second quarter and a three-yard strike from Tammaro to senior Nick Fries less than four minutes later doubled the 14-point lead to 28 with 11:01 still remaining in the first half.
That lead held until the final minute of the half when Tammaro capped a seven-play, 53-yard scoring drive with a four-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Harrison Wellmann that pushed the lead to 35-0. The catch was the 10th of the first half for Wellmann.
Johns Hopkins added an early third-quarter touchdown to go up 42-0 as the Blue Jays went 75 yards on nine plays on the opening possession of the second half with freshman Jonas Larson covering the final five yards after starting inside and darting outside to go into the end zone untouched.
Tammaro was 23-of-31 for 236 yards with three touchdowns and added 18 yards and the one rushing touchdown. Wellmann finished with 10 receptions for 89 yards and the one score and the Blue Jay freshman running back tandem of Larson and Wolf combined for 116 yards and two touchdowns.
The Blue Jay defense held McDaniel to just 139 yards of total offense, including just 68 through the first three quarters. A pair of McDaniel quarterbacks combined to go 12-of-30 for 123 yards and the Terror managed just 16 rushing yards on 27 attempts. Nick Seidel and Macauley Kilbane led Johns Hopkins with seven tackles apiece.
Johns Hopkins will close the season next Saturday in the Centennial-MAC Bowl Series. The matchups for the three-game series featuring teams from the Centennial Conference and the Middle Atlantic Conference will be announced on Sunday, November 17 after the bracket for the 2019 NCAA Tournament is released.
Notes: Tammaro's touchdown run in the second quarter was the 100th touchdown of his career – at that point he had 20 rushing touchdowns and 80 passing touchdowns (overall total jumped to 102 at the end of the game) • He is just the second player in Centennial Conference history to account for 100 career touchdowns • He also threw for 236 yards on the day and became the second quarterback in school history and the third in Centennial history to go over 10,000 career passing yards • Wellmann's 10 receptions give him 72 on the year – the eighth-highest single-season total in school history • The shutout is the first for Johns Hopkins against McDaniel since 1984, when the Blue Jays won 26-0.
Blue Jays Shutout Rival McDaniel, 42-0, to Improve to 7-3
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| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins (7-3) | 14 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 42 |
| McDaniel (3-7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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