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Matthew Flood went 3-for-4 in his NCAA Championship debut, including a three-run homer – the first of his career
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Matthew Flood went 3-for-4 in his NCAA Championship debut, including his first-career home run, against the Blue Jays
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Farmingdale State FSCBB 26-15
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Winner Johns Hopkins JHU 40-3
Farmingdale State FSCBB
26-15
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Final
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Johns Hopkins JHU
40-3
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Farmingdale State FSCBB 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 7 11 1
Johns Hopkins JHU 3 8 1 0 1 1 5 0 X 19 15 1

W: Quinn Rovner (7-0) L: Dougherty, Johnny (4-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Downed by No. 1 Johns Hopkins in NCAA Opener

2025 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship - Baltimore Regional
No. 1 Johns Hopkins 19, Farmingdale State 7
POST-GAME PRESS CONFERENCE
BALTIMORE | Farmingdale State College fell in its opening game of the 2025 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship on Friday, as the Rams were defeated by top-ranked host Johns Hopkins University, 19-7.

FSC (26-15) will next play an elimination game at Babb Field on Saturday at 11 a.m., against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – which fell in Friday's other first-day contest to Rutgers-Camden by a 6-5 count.

The Rams scored one run in the top of the first inning against the Blue Jays (40-3). Senior third baseman Tyler DiRocco (Commack, N.Y.) led off Farmingdale State's first NCAA appearance since 2019 (also at Johns Hopkins) with a double down the left-field line, before advancing 90 feet two batters later on a sacrifice bunt by freshman shortstop Kaolis Delacruz (Levittown, N.Y.). From there, senior first baseman Jordan Lambert (Plainview, N.Y.) lofted a sacrifice fly to right-center field, plating DiRocco and recording the program-record 142nd run batted in of his career.

JHU got their offense going with three runs in the home half of the first, before the Rams sliced their deficit to 3-2 in the second inning, when junior catcher Ryan Plocker's (Dix Hills, N.Y.) ground-rule double to left field scored senior outfielder Matthew Flood (Islip, N.Y.).

After the Blue Jays broke the game open with an eight-run second inning, junior outfielder Richie Heyder (Holbrook, N.Y.) sent a 2-0 pitch well over the right-field fence for a lead-off home run in the third inning. 

Flood (3-for-4, 2 R, BB) connected on a three-run homer to left-center field in the top of the fifth inning – the first of his career – scoring Lambert and junior Christopher Sais (Hicksville, N.Y.) on the play. FSC rounded out its scoring in the top of the eighth inning, when junior outfielder Mike Kocovic (Mahopac, N.Y.) crossed the plate on a two-out infield error after leading off the frame with a double to right-center field.

Kocovic ended the day 2-for-4 at the dish, while Heyder (BB) extended his hitting streak to 11 games with his third-inning homer. Sais and junior Christian Villacci (Smithtown, N.Y.) added one hit apiece for Farmingdale State.
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