Bethesda, Md. - The Georgetown University baseball team snapped a five-game losing streak with an 8-6 win over visiting Coppin State on Tuesday night at Shirley Povich Field. Georgetown improves to 18-24 overall.

Senior Matthew Johnson (Bothell, Wash./Newport) earned his first career victory on the mound tossing a season-best five innings in relief. He struck out nine batters and allowed just one hit while collecting two RBI at the plate.

Senior Ryan Craft (Jupiter, Fla./The Benjamin School) tattooed his fifth homer of the season with a long two-run homer in the first before senior Drew Dargen (Edmund, Okla./Edmund North) followed with his third homer of the season in the first. It marked the first time this season the offense posted back-to-back home runs.

Matthew Harrigan (Syracuse, N.Y./Christian Bros. Acad) went 2-3 with two runs scored in his fourth game at first base while Mark McLaughlin (Walnut Creek, Calif./De La Salle).

Coppin State (8-32-1) pushed across two unearned in the top half of the first. After a leadoff walk, Graham Johnson scored from second on an infield error that allowed Corey Greene to reach with two outs. After Greene stole second base, Matt Mansfield laced a RBI single to leftfield for a 2-0 CSU advantage.

In the home half of the first Georgetown sent nine batters to the plate and took a 4-2 lead. Matthew Bouchard (E.Greenwich, R.I./Bishop Hendricken) walked with one out and scored when Craft hammered his fifth homer of the season over the centerfield wall. Three pitches later, Dargen followed with his third round tripper of the season.

After McLaughlin doubled just out of the reach of the Eagle centerfielder, Harrigan recorded an infield single to put runners on the corners. A RBI groundout by Matthew Maranges (Miami, Fla./Belen Jesuit Prep) gave the Hoyas a 4-2 lead.

Georgetown extended their lead to 6-2 in the third inning. McLaughlin single to lead off the frame. The junior proceeded to steal both second and third and just before Harrigan walked with no outs. Matthew Johnson then drove a sacrifice fly to right to plate McLaughlin. Harrigan then stole second base before coming all the way around to score on a CSU fielding error.

Coppin State plated a run in the fourth Tommy Stratchko was hit by a pitch with two outs. Carlos D'Costa singled to rightfield to put runners at the corners. Ryan Powell cut the Hoya lead to 6-3 when he collected a RBI with a single to right.

The Eagles tied the game at 6-6 in the fifth. With runners on second and third with one out, Greene pushed across a run with a sacrifice fly. Two more runs came in on the Hoyas' second fielding error of the game.

After Johnson's RBI single in the fifth put the Hoyas up again, GU went ahead 8-6 in the sixth. McLaughlin drove in a run with a one out sacrifice fly to the warning track in centerfield to plate Timmy Jones (Ledgewood, N.J./Morristown) who lead off the inning with a double.

The Hoyas return to the diamond on Wednesday, April 26 when they travel to Barcroft Park in Arlington, Va. for meeting with the George Washington Colonials. First pitch is set for 2:30 p.m.