LANCASTER, PA – The Johns Hopkins football team scored three touchdowns in a nine-minute span midway through the first half and added three more in the first nine minutes of the third quarter to pull away for a 42-12 win at Franklin & Marshall Saturday afternoon.  The win is the fourth straight for the Blue Jays, who hit their bye with a 5-1 overall record and a 4-1 mark in the Centennial Conference.  F&M dropped its second straight and slips to 4-2 overall and 3-2 in the Centennial.
 
The loss is also the first for F&M at Shadek Stadium, which opened early in the 2017 season.
 
After being held scoreless for more than 13 minutes to open the game, the Blue Jays got going late in the first quarter as they pieced together a 10-play, 69-yard drive that senior Stuart Walters capped with a two-yard scoring run with 81 seconds left in the opening period.
 
The Blue Jays would score on their next two possessions as well to increase their lead to 21-0.  A 10-yard touchdown pass from junior David Tammaro to sophomore Ryan Hubley was the final play in an 11-play, 72-yard drive early in the second quarter and Walters took a short pass from Tammaro 42 yards down the sideline less than three minutes later to account for Hopkins' two second-quarter scores.
 
The Blue Jay defense forced F&M to punt on its first four possessions of the game, including back-to-back three-and-outs in the middle of their 21-point run.
 
The Diplomats put together their best drive of the day late in the second quarter as they went 81-yards in 13 plays and got a three-yard touchdown run from Joe Hartley-Vittoria with 2:25 left in the half to make it 21-6.
 
The Blue Jays' first three drives of the second half all covered more than 50 yards and resulted in touchdowns that staked JHU to a 42-6 lead midway through the third quarter.
 
Walters added a 16-yard touchdown run on Hopkins' opening possession of the third quarter and Hogan Irwin added a 14-yard scoring run of his own just over two minutes later to make it 35-6.  Tammaro polished off the scoring for the Blue Jays with a three-yard run that capped a four-play, 50-yard drive.
 
Like it had in the first half, the Blue Jay defense kept F&M from threatening while the offense was rolling.  The Diplomats' first six possessions of the second half ended with five punts and turnover.
 
F&M closed out the scoring with six seconds left in regulation when Zachary Bross hauled in a 19-yard touchdown pass from Jack Donaghy.
 
Tammaro was 24-of-34 for 290 yards and the two scores and also rushed for a career-high 89 yards and the one touchdown.  Walters added 64 yards rushing and two scores and the one 42-yard reception that also resulted in a touchdown.  Hubley had a career-high 12 receptions for 107 yards and the one touchdown.
 
Defensively, the Blue Jays held F&M to just 227 yards and came up with a season-high six sacks, including two each by senior Anthony Davidson and junior Mike Kalanik.
 
F&M, which entered the game averaging 28 points per game, was led by Hartley-Vitt's 42 yards rushing and the one touchdown.   Senior Tanner Erisman was 9-of-19 for 104 yards, but the Diplomats were just 4-of-16 on third down chances and struggled to sustain drives to keep the Blue Jay offense off the field.
 
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Saturday, October 20 when the Blue Jays travel to Gettysburg for another Centennial Conference game against the Bullets (1 pm).
 
Notes: The win is the sixth straight for Johns Hopkins against F&M • Walters moved into second on JHU's career rushing touchdowns list (38) • Walters also now has 47 career touchdowns – just four shy of Andrew Kase's school record of 51 • Tammaro extended his school and Centennial-record streak for consecutive 200-yard passing games to 16 • JHU is now 40-2 in games played before its bye week since 2011.