BALTIMORE, Md. -- In the first matchup since the two teams faced off in the 2017 NCAA Division III Tournament, the nationally-ranked showdown between 17th-ranked Johns Hopkins and 37th-ranked Christopher Newport fell in favor of the home Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon, 8-1. The Captains fell to 8-8 on the season while Johns Hopkins improved to 9-3 overall. 

It was the first of three matches this weekend for Christopher Newport, who will travel to Pennsylvania for a Capital Athletic Conference doubleheader tomorrow at Penn State Harrisburg and York College (Pa.). 

The lone victory of the day for CNU came in a matchup of regionally-ranked doubles tandems at No. 1 in pairs play. CNU's fifth-ranked David Reed and Justin Cerny downed eighth-ranked David Perez and Scott Thygesen, 8-5, to put the Captains on the board. 

Johns Hopkins won the other two pairings at No. 2 and 3 by scores of 8-4. 

In singles play, all six matches were competitive with the closest bout coming at No. 2 as Cerny stretched Eric Yoo, ranked 17th in the Atlantic South, to a tiebreaker in the second set. Yoo finished off the CNU senior 6-2, 7-6 (5). At No. 1 singles, a top-15 bout in the region saw 13th-ranked Vishnu Joshi topple 10th-ranked David Reed 6-3, 6-3 as the Blue Jays would sweep singles play for the 8-1 win. 

The four remaining Captains picked up at least four game wins each, including Dillon Sykes, who was the only player to not see action against the Blue Jays in last year's postseason. Sykes fell to David Perez in No. 6 singles, 6-3, 6-1.