Ursinis hammered by Johns Hopkins, 52-6
BALTIMORE, MD. >> The Ursinus College football team’s undefeated start came to a crashing halt on Saturday as the Bears suffered a 52-6 defeat at the hands of Johns Hopkins.
The Bears were powerless to stop the Blue Jays’ juggernaut, yielding 665 total yards and struggling to get its own offense going. Junior Thomas Garlick’s 75-yard touchdown pass to freshman Ryan Loughlin with 8:45 remaining in the first quarter was the only score of the day for Ursinus.
Ursinus (4-1, 3-1) shocked the Division III football world with a stirring upset of Johns Hopkins a year ago, ending the Blue Jays’ 40-game Centennial Conference winning streak. The magic was not to be this time around, and the blue and white exacted revenge.
Stuart Walters got the scoring going with a 6-yard touchdown run on the Blue Jays’ first possession, but Garlick answered back on the next play with his bomb to Loughlin, who hauled in his fourth touchdown of the season.
It is almost as if someone has placed “No Fishing” signs just outside our inlets. Weather and water conditions have conspired almost all month long to make for a roiled ocean that has kept even the biggest boats secured to their docks. It certainly will be interesting to see what the anglers find when all of this calms down and we can start visiting the deep water.
As I predicted last week, with the New Jersey summer flounder season ending a week ago yesterday, we could expect some doormats to be caught. There were any number of impressive fish caught since the closing but they all had to be released back into the water. I didn’t hear of any in the 10-pound range but there were plenty that got close to 5-pounds.
Actually, the beach, inlet and back bay fishing has been quite good this month, possibly a tribute to the massive amount of baitfish. I wonder if the churned ocean is forcing these smaller fish to seek shelter in the calmer waters inside. Huge schools of peanut bunker, mullet, spot and spearing abound and that is the dinner bell for all sorts of predator fish and birds as well.
Small snapper blues are making a nuisance of themselves. At times your bait barely hits the water before it draws a strike from one of these little guys. I mentioned a few weeks ago that these snappers make great liveline bait, so why not try hooking up one a tossing it out and see if anything comes along looking for an easy meal.
Anglers working the surf have been finding increasing numbers of cobia and pompano. Cobia can grow to huge sizes but all those around here are just a couple of pounds or so. Both pompano and cobia traditionally have been regarded as southern fish, rarely venturing much above North Carolina. But, for the past couple of years it appears they have expanded their grounds. Mixed in among the pomps and cobia you will find kingfish.
In the inlets, especially
ACROSS THE BAY
The biggest attraction in Delaware and Maryland continues to be the small bluefish which are stacked up along the beaches and in the inlets. Probably the best area is the Indian River jetty. Most of these are quite small but if you can get into some of a bit larger size they make great eating.
Out on the piers, the action mainly is croakers and spot with a couple of kingfish thrown in. I haven’t heard of any, but I must assume there also are some pompano and cobia in there as well. There is no closed summer flounder season in Delaware and you can expect to find some of them.
The ocean conditions have been no better than New Jersey so there isn’t much going on outside.