BALTIMORE – The No. 2 seed Haverford College baseball team suffered a 21-5 loss to top-seed and No. 1-ranked Johns Hopkins University Saturday afternoon at Homewood Field in the second day of the Centennial Conference tournament. All 21 of Hopkins' runs were earned and came on 18 hits.

Haverford (23-15) trailed 8-0 after three innings, but cut the deficit in half with a four-run fourth. The Blue Jays, however, went on to score runs in four of the last five innings.

Hopkins (36-3) touched up Fords' starter Dan Hochberg (2-3) for eight earned runs in 2.2 innings. Jesse Sikorski's two-run homer in the first got the ball rolling for the Blue Jays. Stephen Bejsiuk followed Sikorski's lead with a two-run shot of his own in the third.

Jeff Butera belted a one-out home run to left in the fourth to get Haverford on the board. Chase Kennedy walked and Bobby Bailey singled to set the plate for Charlie Carluccio, who blasted a no-doubt-about-it homer to straight-away left to make the score, 8-4.

That would be as close as the Fords would get as five relievers were touched up for 12 runs. Sam Eagleson (10-0) settled in nicely for Hopkins, allowing just the four runs in the fourth in 7.0 innings while striking out six.

The Fords face No. 3 seed Swarthmore College at 4:05 p.m. in an elimination game. The Garnet defeated No. 3 seed Washington College, 5-1, earlier Saturday. The winner of Haverford-Swarthmore faces Hopkins in Sunday's championship at noon.