JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida baseball hosts Stetson in a three-game set in the first ASUN-home series for the Ospreys Friday, March 24-Sunday, March 26. 

GAME DETAILS
Date: Friday, March 24 | Saturday, March 25 | Sunday, March 26
Time: 6:05 p.m. | 2:05 p.m. | 1:05 p.m.
Location: Harmon Stadium
Opponent: Stetson
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: unfospreys.com

Weekend Starting Pitchers
Friday
Stetson | RHP Austin Amaral
UNF | LHP Peter Holden

Saturday
Stetson | RHP Brendan Walker
UNF | RHP Dominick Madonna

Sunday
Stetson | TBD
UNF | RHP Clayton Boroski
 
All-Time Series: Stetson leads, 37-32

• UNF and Stetson will have played over 70 games against one another after the conclusion of this weekend
• UNF is 26-28 against Stetson in league games
• UNF is 17-16 against Stetson at home
• The two teams split six games against one another last year

Last Time Out
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - After navigating around 16 stranded UCF runners, fanning 17 as a pitching staff and enduring three innings of consistent mist down the stretch, Jakob Runnels followed up his two-homer game at UCF March 7 with a walk-off three-run home run off the scoreboard in the bottom of the ninth to down the Knights, 4-2.

Last Time vs. Stetson
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida baseball scored four runs in the fifth to erase a four-run deficit, but after zeros went up on the scoreboard for the next four frames, visiting Stetson (22-25, 7-17 ASUN) plated three in the top of the 10th inning as UNF was clipped in the series finale, 7-5, Sunday, May 8.
 

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Walk-Off Dubs Hit Different

• UNF has won via walk-off three times this year, with the most recent being the most dramatic. Former UCF Knight, Jakob Runnels, mashed a walk-off three-run home run with two outs in the ninth, giving North Florida a 4-2 win against UCF Tuesday
• In the first game of the year, Runnels hit a walk-off pinch hit RBI single in a 3-2 10-inning win against Murray State
• Drew Leinenbach put down a walk-off squeeze bunt in a 6-5 10-inning win against Fordham March 4

17 Ks

• UNF pitchers combined to fan 17 batters and leave 16 UCF runners stranded in the 4-2 win Tuesday
• North Florida's 17-strikeout performance tied the program single game record. 
• It's the third time in UNF history North Florida has reached that mark, with the most recent coming in a game at No. 7 Florida State in March of 2019

Walk, Then Run

• UNF averaged eight walks per game during the weekend series against Austin Peay
• North Florida walked at least seven times per contest, including nine times Sunday
• The Ospreys took advantage of those opportunities on the bases by stealing 13 bags, including five apiece against Austin Peay March 17 and 19
• Four of UNF's five stolen bases Sunday came in the second inning

Hot Start for Halstead

• Righty reliever Stephen Halstead turned in 3.2-scoreless innings against Austin Peay last weekend, his longest outing since April 16 of last season
• The effort brought his ERA even lower, all the way down to 0.66 on the season

 

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Scouting Stetson

• Stetson is 14-9 and 3-0 in league play this season
• The Hatters have played much better at home, going 13-4 in home games and 1-5 in road games
• The Hatters have started off league play on the right foot, sweeping reigning ASUN Champs, Kennesaw State, this past weekend
• Stetson succumbed to a scrappy Bethune-Cookman team in Daytona Beach during midweek play, falling 13-5 after permitting 15 hits
• Catcher Daniel Labrador homered twice in the loss
• Stetson walked-off twice on Kennesaw State during the weekend series
• UNF and Stetson have played a like-opponent in Fairfield, with the Hatters splitting two midweek games. UNF won two of three against the Stags
• No one Hatter has carried the team offensively, with seven players in double-digits for RBI
• Andrew Estrella paces Stetson with six homers and 21 RBI
• Evan Griffis and Cameron Hill have caused problems on the bases, stealing 23 bags in 25 attempts
• Stetson is third in the league in homers with 29 and second in doubles with 47
• Friday night starter Austin Amaral has fanned nine in two separate games this year
• Former Osprey, Jason Gonzalez, has worked three innings

 

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MORE UNF NOTES

Notables

• UNF has three more non-conference home games remaining on the season
• UNF is only four home runs short of its mark from last year
• North Florida ranks second in the league in hits, home runs, sac flies and slugging
• Alex Lodise scored five runs in a win against Fairfield two weekends ago, the most runs by a UNF freshman in a single game in at least the DI era
• UNF won every non-conference regular season weekend series for the first time in the DI era.
• Stephen Halstead ranks eighth in DI with five saves
• Cade Reich has reached safely in 21-straight games
• Austin Brinling leads the league in stolen bases with 12, as well as steals per game

National Noise

• UNF has exploded out to 220 hits through 22 games, good for second in the league and 34th nationally. North Florida's 35 home runs is good for second in the league and 26th nationally.
• Freshman Alex Lodise is fifth in the league in home runs with seven, just three shy of setting the UNF single season freshman home run record.

Run Up the Roundtrippers

• UNF has homered 35 times this season, already only 5 shy of the team total from all 55 games played last season.
• UNF hit 18 home runs through the first eight games, setting a North Florida record for at least the DI-era.
• North Florida has posted eight multi-home run games, including two five-home run games, good for tied for the UNF DI-era record. The Ospreys have had 11 different players homer at least once this season.

Weekend Streak

• UNF has won four of the first five weekend series of the season, taking two of three from Murray State, Villanova and Fairfield, while sweeping a four-game set with Fordham. 

UNF Roots 

• Blake Pound has homered twice this season, both of which came against Fairfield this past weekend. He joins his father, Joe, as the only father-son duo in UNF history to have homered at UNF. Joe was a member of the UNF baseball team in the 90s. 
• Austin Brinling attended the University of Florida out of high school, but his UNF connection ran deep before that. Austin's uncle, Tim, is a UNF alum and received a resolution from the UNF senate wishing Austin a happy, healthy and successful life when Austin was born in 2000.