(Hanover, Md.) – The Dickinson baseball team opened the Centennial Conference season with a big win at Johns Hopkins on Tuesday afternoon. The Red Devils scored runs in each of the first three innings and erupted with five in the seventh to post an 11-5 victory.

First-year Ryan Dolan (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Germantown Academy) led-off the game with a walk and moved to third on a double from senior catcher Hank Sanders (Wellsville, Pa./Northern). He came in to score on a single from Joe Tursi (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City).

Matt Primavera (Erdenheim, Pa./Chestnut Hill) was hit by a pitch and Phil Werner (Potomac, Md./St. Andrew's) drew a two-out walk to drive in Sanders for a 2-0 lead.

Junior Mitch Helmandollar (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro) singled in the second and scored on a single from Sanders. Tursi tallied another RBI, scoring Sanders on a ground out to stretch the lead to 4-0.

A one-out walk and three straight singles led to a pair of runs for the Blue Jays in the bottom of the second. The Devils answered in the third. Mark Adams (Mount Olive, N.J./Mount Olive) drew a lead-off walk and scored on a single from Dolan.

Dolan doubled and came in to score when Steven Haynes (Mt. Kisco, N.Y./Horace Greeley) reached on an error to match a Hopkins run in the fourth, giving the Devils a 6-3 advantage.

The Devils blew the game open in the seventh, scoring five runs to stretch the lead to 11-3. Sam Wachs (Severna Park, Md./Severn School) started the rally when he was hit by a pitch.

Haynes doubled to score Wachs and Helmandollar, and Tursi drove in two runs with his second hit of the game. First-year Henry Milano (Armonk, N.Y./Salisbury School) drove in a run with a pinch-hit single to close out the scoring for the Devils.

Back-to-back doubles led to a pair of Blue Jay runs in the eighth, but that would be all as the Red Devils claimed the conference opener, improving to 15-2 overall.

Junior Harley Moore (Deltaville, Va./Middlesex) earned the win, improving to 4-0 on the season. He went three and two-thirds innings before Ryan Kramer (New Vernon, N.J./Morristown Beard) came on to earn the save with a solid five inning effort.

Tursi went 3-for-6 with four RBIs to lead the Red Devil offensive that finished with 15 hits on the day. Haynes went 3-for-6 with two doubles and two RBIs while Sanders was 2-for-3 with one RBI and three runs scored. Dolan went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, and Helmandollar came around to scored twice on the day as well.

The Red Devils (15-2, 1-0) return home to face the Blue Jays again on Friday. First pitch is set for 3:30 pm at MacPhail Field.