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Ervin
4
Winner North Florida UNF 26-11, 5-2 A-Sun
3
Lipscomb LIP 19-12, 1-3 A-Sun
Winner
North Florida UNF
26-11, 5-2 A-Sun
4
Final
3
Lipscomb LIP
19-12, 1-3 A-Sun
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Florida UNF 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 9 0
Lipscomb LIP 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 10 1

W: Baker, Bryan (4-2) L: PRYOR, John (1-2) S: Olmstead, Corbin (6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

@OspreyBSB Wins Series Opener at Lipscomb in Last At Bat

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The back and forth battle between North Florida (26-11, 5-2 A-Sun) and Lipscomb (19-12, 1-3 A-Sun) was finally decided in the ninth inning as the Ospreys clipped the Bisons, 4-3 on the road this evening. It was the third-straight one-run victory for the Ospreys as they extend their win streak to seven games.
 
With two outs and runners on first and third in the top of the ninth, Patrick Ervin singled up the middle to bring in Trent Higginbothem and the go-ahead run. It marked the fifth time this season the Ospreys have won in their final at bat and the 14th one-run game this season.
 
Junior Corbin Olmstead recorded a save in his third consecutive outing as he retired all three batters he faced in the bottom of the ninth. Centerfielder Alex Bacon aided in Olmstead's sixth save of the year with a diving grab on a shallow fly ball for the second out of the inning. Olmstead runs his unearned run streak to 24.2 innings on the season.
 
The bullpen in front of him helped keep the Bisons off the scoreboard in the final three trips to the plate. The Bisons threatened to recapture the lead in the bottom of the seventh with the go-ahead run on third base with one out. Head Coach Smoke Laval called on lefty Jamie Cardwell to get out Lipscomb's top-hitter, Jonathan Allison. Cardwell did his job and fanned the Bisons' three-hitter on four pitches. Right-hander Bryan Baker then came on and struck out clean-up hitter Josh Lee to end the inning.
 
Baker went on to pitch one more inning and earned his fourth victory of the season.
 
Lipscomb scored in its first two turns at the plate including the first home run of the season by Hunter Hanks in the bottom of the second. The Ospreys tied the game twice courtesy of lead-off home runs by Keith Skinner in the second and Donnie Dewees in the fourth. Eight of the Ospreys league-best, 31 home runs this season have led off an inning. The home run by Skinner was his first in a North Florida uniform and Dewees' long ball was his league-leading 11th of the year.
 
The Ospreys took their first lead of the game in the top of the fifth when Dewees manufactured his own run. The speedy right fielder led the frame off with his league-best sixth triple of the year. After legging out the three-bagger he scored a few pitches later on a wild pitch by Bison pitcher Ian Martinez-McGraw.
 
The lead was short lived as the Bisons knotted the game up back up in the bottom half of the frame on an RBI single by Mike Korte that scored Hanks from second. Hanks led the inning off with a single and was sacrificed to second by the following batters.
 
The Ospreys 2-3-4 hitters, Dewees, Higginbothem and Skinner combined to go 6-for-11 with all four runs scored, two home runs and two RBIs. The Ospreys are 6-1 this season when hitting two or more home runs.
 
Game two of the three game series against Lipscomb is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. EST tomorrow afternoon at Ken Dugan Field. Lefty Tyler DuPont (4-1) will take the mound for the Ospreys and will be opposed by freshman right-hander Jeffrey Passantino (0-0).
 
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