University of North Florida
FIU
Baseball Returns Home for Series with FIU
3/21/2011 3:02:27 PM | Baseball
Game Notes
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The University of North Florida baseball team returns home to Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium for a pair of midweek games against FIU. The first game of the series is Tuesday, Mar. 22 at 7:00 p.m., while game two is Wednesday, Mar. 23 at 4:00 p.m.
Both games will be broadcast on ASun.TV, while Tuesday's game will also be aired on the radio on WHJX Hot 105.7 FM.
Tuesday's game versus FIU will be the first ever “Toss It Back Tuesday.” Toss It Back Tuesday is $1 Beer Night. Toss It Back Tuesday will take place in the Left Field Lounge. There will be three (3) kegs of Coors Light served for $1 per beer in the Left Field Lounge. The draft beer will last until the kegs are gone. Limit two per customer per visit. Must be 21.
North Florida enters the midweek non-conference series with a 10-10 overall record, while FIU is 13-8 overall.
The Ospreys return to Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium after a six-day road trip in which UNF played five games. North Florida started the road trip with a 9-8 loss to UNC Wilmington before snapping its four game skid with an 11-7 victory over the Seahawks. The Ospreys downed Atlantic Sun Conference foe USC Upstate 14-5 in the first game of a three-game conference series. North Florida won the series 2-1, splitting with the Spartans in a doubleheader on the final day (L, 0-2; W, 12-11).
North Florida and FIU have met three times in school history with the Panthers holding a 2-1 (.667) advantage in the series. UNF is 1-0 (1.000) all-time against FIU in Jacksonville.
North Florida won the first ever meeting between the two schools, edging out FIU, 5-4, on Mar. 17, 2008 at Harmon Stadium. The next year, the Ospreys dropped a pair of games to the Panthers in Miami. North Florida lost 10-6 on Mar. 17, 2009 and 3-0 on Mar. 18, 2009.
FIU is the second team this season the Ospreys will face from Florida. North Florida opened the conference season against Florida Gulf Coast. UNF dropped the first game of the series (L, 4-8) before claiming the second game (W, 10-3). In the rubber match, the Ospreys led 4-0 but ultimately fell, 5-4 in a season-high 13 innings.
Scouting the Opposition:
FIU enters the midweek series with a 13-8 overall record and a 1-2 mark in Sun Belt Conference play. The Panthers enter the series on a two-game skid, dropping the final two games of a conference series with Florida Atlantic.
The Panthers are in a bit of a slump, dropping six of their last eight ball games. However, FIU has played some perennial baseball powers in that stretch, losing games to Rice, Texas A&M (twice) and Baylor.
FIU is 11-2 at home, but is just 2-6 away from Miami. The Panthers have been on the road since Mar. 9 – eight games – heading into the series with UNF.
