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University of North Florida Athletics

German
1
Northeastern NU 2-5
11
Winner North Florida UNF 4-4
Northeastern NU
2-5
1
Final
11
North Florida UNF
4-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Northeastern NU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 3
North Florida UNF 0 1 0 3 3 0 3 1 X 11 11 1

W: German, Frank (2-0) L: Murphy, Kyle (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Jim Moyes

Baseball Tops Northeastern 11-1 in Series Finale

Final Boxscore (pdf)

JACKSONVILLE -- North Florida used some outstanding pitching from Frank German, coupled with some solid power hitting in their 11-1 defeat of Northeastern in the series finale at Harmon Stadium.

The convincing win was the second straight over the visiting Huskies, earning a split of the four game weekend series and evening up their season record at 4-4.

After scoring 35 runs in their last 5 games, Northeastern's hot bats were chilled by German who scattered 6 hits, struck out 5, allowed no walks and gave up but one run in 7 innings of work to earn his second straight victory of the season.

Although the wind was blowing in, the balls were sailing out of the park as Osprey hitters  Tanner Murphy, Yahir Gurrola, and Chris Thibideau all blasted home runs to supply more than enough runs for German.

UNF scored a run in the 2nd inning with a RBI ground ball out from Chris Berry, scoring Blake Voyles.  Murphy had earlier moved Voyles, who had walked, into scoring position at third base with a line drive double down the left field line.

The Ospreys received a big break in the fourth inning when an apparent double play ground ball off the bat of Voyles was misplayed for an error.  Murphy made the Huskies pay with a long home run to left, driving in Voyles and Alex Merritt (single) and stretching the UNF lead to 4-0.

Northeastern was able to break the shutout in their half of the 5th inning with a double from Pat Madigan that scored Cam Walsh, who opened the inning with a ground ball single to left field.   German quickly quelled any Husky hopes for a crooked inning by retiring the next three hitters.

The Ospreys flexed their muscles in the bottom half of the fifth inning with a pair of home runs. Gurrola hit a solo shot that bounced over the roof the of the building housing the batting cages in left field.  After a base-on-balls issued to Patrick Ervin, Thibideau blasted his third home run of the season to push the Osprey lead to 7-1.

UNF added another 3-run spot to their total in the 7th inning.  Gurrola led off the inning with a walk.  Ervin's single to center field moved Gurrola to third where he would score on Thibideau's third RBI of the game, and 8th RBI in the past two games, making the score 8-1.  Merritt's long fly ball out to right field was deep enough for both Thibideau and Ervin to move up a base.  Ervin would cross the plate for the ninth Osprey run of the game on a Berry ground out.  

Murphy, who already had hit a home run and a double in earlier trips to the plate, then hit what might be one of the shortest extra base hit of his career, as his wind blown infield pop fly landed out of the reach of a number of Husky infielders for an RBI double.

Merritt drove in the final run of the game with an 8th inning single that pushed Mac Wilson, who had earlier reached on an error, across the plate.

Austin Howze came on in relief of German and struck out the three batters he faced before giving way to Cooper Bradford who hurled a scoreless 9th inning.  

Gurrola, Thibideau, Merritt and Murphy all had multi-hit games for the Ospreys, as UNF hopes to take their hot bats with them Tuesday to Savannah State for a 5:00 PM start. The Ospreys will return to Harmon Stadium to host Penn, for a three-game set beginning Friday (Mar. 3) at 4:00 PM.

 
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