UNF to Play Two with No. 7 FSU

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The University of North Florida baseball team is set to take on No. 7 Florida State in a pair of midweek games. The Ospreys (16-14) and Seminoles (21-6) will take the field on Tuesday, April 6, at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in a game slated for 6 p.m. before meeting up for a game in Tallahassee, Fla. on Wednesday, April 7, at 6 p.m.

Florida State won the last matchup between the two teams on March 10, 2010, claiming a 6-2 victory at Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla.

Offensively in the game, the Ospreys collected eight hits. Leading the way for UNF was the senior tandem of Preston Hale and Justin Preckajlo. Hale finished the game with a home run and a double. He scored a run and drove in a pair. Preckajlo finished the game 2-for-3.

Starting pitcher Robbie Collier took the loss for the Ospreys. The junior worked 4.2 innings, scattering four hits. He was charged with four runs, with three being earned. Collier walked four batters and tied a career-high with five strikeouts. He retired six of the first seven batters he faced and did not allow an earned run through the first four innings of play.

Senior John Atteo is slated to start for UNF against the Seminoles at the Baseball Grounds. In his last outing, the hurler scattered seven hits in 7.1 innings of work. He allowed just two runs, but only one earned run. Atteo fanned five batters while issuing just two free passes. He retired eight consecutive batters during a stretch from the third through the fifth.

In their last outing, the Seminoles battled for 27 outs but in the end Florida State held on for the 9-6 victory over Virginia Tech Sunday afternoon on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium. The Seminoles scored seven runs over their final two at-bats to cap the come-from-behind victory and to give Hall of Fame head coach Mike Martin career win No. 1,600.

Martin became just the fourth coach all-time to achieve 1,600 career victories and just the third at the Division I level. The Seminole ball coach now joins an elusive Division I group that includes Texas' Augie Garrido and Wichita State's Gene Stephenson.

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