BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins defense forced three turnovers, collected three sacks and held visiting Franklin & Marshall to a pair of field goals as the Blue Jays slipped past the Diplomats, 13-6, at Homewood Field Saturday afternoon. The win is the third straight overall and fourth straight against F&M for Johns Hopkins, which improves to 5-1 overall and 2-0 in the Centennial Conference with the victory. The Diplomats dropped their second straight and fall to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the league.
In a game controlled by the defenses from the outset, it was the Diplomats who struck first as Laurence Miller connected on the first of his two field goals in the game from 22 yards out early in the second quarter to give F&M a 3-0 lead.
The Blue Jays answered late in the quarter when they turned a Luca Lutzel interception into their best drive of the game as they went 82 yards in 11 plays and capped the drive with a one-yard touchdown run from senior quarterback James Rinello. Johns Hopkins converted a pair of third-down chances on the drive, including a 24-yard scramble from Rinello on third and 10 from the F&M 25; his one-yard scoring run came two plays later and gave the Jays a lead they would never relinquish…