Final Score: North Florida 6, Jacksonville 4
Location: Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Records: North Florida 33-21, 12-8
ASUN | Jacksonville 32-22,
ASUN 15-5
WP: Anthony Delaney (6-1) |
LP: Shane Wise
(4-2) |
Save: Tyler DuPont (1)
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The Short Story: The North Florida baseball team plated two runs in three innings to pull off a 6-4 win over Jacksonville on Saturday at Harmon Stadium. With the win, the Ospreys bring back the Old Wooden Barrel.
LEADING OFF
- UNF has held the Old Wooden Barrel in five of the last six years.
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Alex Merritt recorded his 200th career hit with an RBI single in the fifth inning… Merritt joins teammate
Patrick Ervin as UNF players breaking 200 career hits in 2017… The duo marks the third-straight year with two players joining the 200 hit club in the same season.
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Chris Thibideau hit 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI… Ervin was a perfect 2-for-2 with a run and two walks…
Chris Berry went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
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Dalton Board snapped his hit streak of eight games…
Thibideau has hits in 22 of the last 26 games...
Ervin has reached base in 19 of 21 games...
Berry has reached base in 45 of the 48 games he has played.
HOW IT HAPPENED
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Yahir Gurrola reached base in the first inning on a fielder's choice before advancing to second on a wild pitch. Thibideau doubled down the left field line that scored Gurrola for the first run of the game… Berry followed that up with a single to left, field scoring Thibideau to extend the lead.
- Merritt drove a single through the left side of the infield that and scored Gurrola… Berry provided back-to-back base hits with an RBI single to right field that plated Thibideau.
- Sam Armstrong produced a three-run home run to left field that scored Nathan Koslowski and Scott Dubrule.
- Dubrule drove a single to left field that scored Chris Lehane to tie the game.
- Ervin began the bottom of the seventh with a single up the middle. Gurrola blasted a home run to left center field that gave UNF the lead for good.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Ospreys celebrate senior day, and wrap up the regular season, against JU on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Harmon Stadium.
