Baseball Drops Game Two With Rutgers

Saturday, February 22

2:05 p.m.

University of North Florida

2-3

Rutgers

2-3

Rutgers

North Florida

Photo by: Britt Moore

2/22/2020 8:46:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Rutgers (2-3) swung the bats well as UNF (2-3) fell 16-4 on a blustery Saturday afternoon from Harmon Stadium Feb. 22.

Rutgers 16, UNF 4

Pitchers of Record
Win: Tommy Genuario (1-1)
Loss: Brandon Reitz (1-1)

Line Scores
Rutgers | 16 R, 16 H, E, 13 LOB
UNF | 4 R, 8 H, 0 E, 8 LOB

Behind the Line Score

Rutgers put up runs in the third, fourth and fifth to create a 9-2 advantage.
UNF got on the board in the bottom of the fourth. Tanner May and Blake Marabell tallied singles before Abraham Sequera roped an RBI double to left. After a Raff Libunao walk, Chris Matthias singled home Marabell.
Matthias drove in another on a tapper down the third base line that plated Sequera who had reached on a one-out walk.
Rutgers tacked on one more in the seventh before putting up six runs in the eighth on one hit and a number of free passes.
Tucker Horsley launched a pinch hit home run to left in the bottom of the ninth in his first career at-bat.

Statistical Leaders
UNF

Chris Matthias | 2-for-4, 2 RBI
Abraham Sequera | 1-for-3, R, RBI, BB
Raff Libunao | 1-for-3, BB
Tucker Horsley | 1-for-1, HR

Rutgers

Sam Owens | 2-for-3, 3 R, 3 RBI, 2B
Peter Serruto | 3-for-4, 3 R, BB, HR
Tommy Genuario | 6.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 2 K

Notes

UNF is 2-4 against Rutgers all-time.
Tucker Horsely hit a home run in his first career at-bat.
Jeslyn Whitehead made his UNF debut.
Cade Reich made his first career start.
Hunter Bowling made his first appearance of 2020.
UNF is 12-18 all-time against Big Ten foes.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Genuario, Tommy (1-1)

L: Reitz, Brandon (1-1)

S: Scott, Parker (1)

Rutgers

Batting:

2B: DiGeorgio, Danny 1 ; Owens, Sam 1 ; Brito, Chris 1

HR: Serruto, Peter 1

RBI: DiGeorgio, Danny 3 ; Owens, Sam 3 ; Nyisztor, Mike 3 ; Schiekofer, Richie 1 ; Brito, Chris 2 ; Sweeney, Jordan 2 ; Serruto, Peter 1 ; Valderrama, Victor 1

SF: Nyisztor, Mike 1

Base Running:

RUNS: DiGeorgio, Danny 3 ; Dezzi, Tim 1 ; Owens, Sam 3 ; Schiekofer, Richie 1 ; Brito, Chris 1 ; Shulman, Grant 2 ; Welsh, Kevin 1 ; Serruto, Peter 3 ; Valderrama, Victor 1