TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - North Florida baseball went for its third-straight multi-home run game, belting a trio of roundtrippers, but FAMU (3-6) bested the Ospreys in that department as UNF was out-slugged, 12-6, in an unseasonably hot afternoon on the final day of February.
UNF posted 12 hits but stranded 10 runners as the Ospreys (4-5) fell in their first road game of the season.
Aidan Sweatt,
Gabriel Esquivel and
Jakob Runnels all homered, expanding UNF's team-home run total to 18 for the year.
FAMU 12, UNF 6
Pitchers of Record
Win: Amir Asghar (1-1)
Loss:
Clayton Boroski (0-2)
Line Scores
UNF | 6R, 12H, 2E, 10 LOB
FAMU | 12R, 15H, E, 6 LOB
Behind the Line Score
- Aidan Sweatt teed off on the payoff pitch for a leadoff home run to left field in the top of the first, his second home run of the season and fifth of his career
- FAMU quickly got even in the second after a leadoff walk was followed by a Joe Pierini RBI double. The damage continued on a two-run home run to left center one batter later.
- UNF tied it up, 3-3, in the third. Drew Leinenbach singled up the middle, Sweatt doubled down the line and Austin Brinling scored Leinenbach with a single. Cherokee NIchols sent one deep enough into right field for the sac fly.
- FAMU jumped in front again after a single was followed by a one-out double in the third.
- The Rattlers posted a four-run fourth with the help of back-to-back home runs, a double and a single
- FAMU got the leadoff runner to second off an error in the sixth, but Ty Angevine retired the next three batters to strand an insurance run
- Dallen Leach opened the seventh with a single, but FAMU would work out of it with a groundout and two punchouts
- FAMU pushed an unearned run across in the seventh to expand its lead to 9-3
- Esquivel launched a 3-2 delivery to left for a solo shot in the eighth, giving UNF some late life. Cade Reich worked a walk and Leach singled, but FAMU got out of the jam with a groundout
- FAMU answered with its own solo home run in the bottom of the ninth, Ty Hanchey's second of the game. The Rattlers followed with a two-run home run two batters later, giving them a 12-4 lead
- Sweatt got the third piece of the cycle with a single in the ninth, setting up Runnels' two-run bomb, cutting the deficit to 12-6. FAMU got two more fly outs to end it.
Statistical Leaders
UNF
FAMU
- Ty Hanchey | 3-for-5, 2R, 3RBI, 2HR
- Jared Weber | 3-for-5, 3R, HR
- Will Brown | 3-for-3, 2B
Notes
- This was UNF's first road game of the year
- North Florida is at game nine of an 18-game stretch of games inside the state of Florida
- UNF and FAMU met for the 32nd time
- Clements made his UNF debut as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning
- Trent Becker made his UNF debut in the bottom of the eighth inning
- It was UNF's fifth multi-home run game this season and third straight
- North Florida has hit at least three home runs four times this year
- Six Ospreys have hit at least two home runs, as Runnels, Esquivel and Sweatt all hit their second home runs of the season
- Reich had his eight-game hitting streak snapped
- Boroski started last year's game at FAMU
- Angevine earned a save in last year's win at FAMU. This season he spun two innings, not allowing an earned run
- Sweatt had three home runs through his first 105 games as an Osprey. He has had two in the last three games
- Leach went 2-for-4 in his return to his hometown. Last year he was 3-for-4
- It was UNF's first loss against FAMU since 2018
Up Next
UNF opens up its first four-game series Friday at 6:05 p.m. against Fordham.
