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Alex Lodise high-fiving Kyle Brooks
Jose Visaez
The Lodise lore continued Saturday with a grand slam and two-run home run.
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Stetson STETSON 15-10, 4-1 ASUN
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Winner North Florida UNF 13-11, 2-3 ASUN
Stetson STETSON
15-10, 4-1 ASUN
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Final
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North Florida UNF
13-11, 2-3 ASUN
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Stetson STETSON 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 6 3
North Florida UNF 5 0 3 0 0 0 8 16 13 0

W: Madonna, Dominick (3-2) L: Walker, Brendan (1-2) S: Halstead, Stephen (6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Lodise, Madonna Catalyze 16-6 Run-Rule Win Against Stetson

Ospreys Homer Three Times, Lodise Drives in Six and Madonna Spins Career-Long Outing

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Alex Lodise drove in six with a grand slam and two-run home run, Dominick Madonna went a career-long 6.1 innings and North Florida (13-11, 2-3 ASUN) evened up the series with Stetson (15-10, 4-1 ASUN) thanks to a 16-6 run-rule win on a warm Saturday at Harmon Stadium.

The game was decided in the bottom of the seventh due to the run rule benchmark being met with the 10-run margin.

Lodise hit a towering two-run homer off the top of the batting facility in the first before bookending the game with a massive grand slam on a hanging curve to send UNF to a run-rule walk-off win in the seventh. Aidan Sweatt and Cade Reich both belted three-run home runs as the Ospreys scored 12 of their 16 runs off four-combined roundtrippers. 

Madonna was magnificent, spinning a career-long effort while permitting four runs on four hits across 78 pitches. He picked up his third win in the effort, tying Peter Holden for the team lead in that category. 

North Florida upped its home run total to 39, tying the mark from all of last season. Lodise now has nine home runs this year, good for tied for the UNF program single season record. The Ospreys had been without a homer through the first four ASUN games, but the four-homer effort lifted them to their 10th multi-home run effort this year.

UNF 16, Stetson 6 (7 innings)

Pitchers of Record
Win: Dominick Madonna (3-2)
Loss: Brendan Walker (1-2)
Save: Stephen Halstead (6)

Line Scores
Stetson | 6R, 6H, 3E, 0 LOB
UNF | 16R, 13H, 0E, 7 LOB

Behind the Line Score
  • UNF's power shone through in the first inning as Cade Reich belted a three-run home run to left center and Alex Lodise followed with a towering two-run home run off the top of the batting facility down the left field line.
  • Aidan Sweatt got in on the home run fun in the third with a three-run home run to left center, scoring Blake Pound and Matthew Clements
  • Dominick Madonna was rolling, turning in six scoreless before Stetson finally got going in the seventh. The Hatters put up a six-run seventh that included two home runs. A hit by pitch was followed by a Yohann Dessureault long ball. A walk, bloop single and RBI base hit through the left side sent another run through. 
  • Stetson's Daniel Labrador hit a pinch hit three-run home run on a high and outside pitch, bringing the hatters within two. ,
  • UNF destroyed any chance of Stetson continuing its momentum, getting a leadoff double from Lodise in the seventh to ignite an eight-run outburst. Three-straight walks and a wild pitch scored Lodise and Drew Leinenbach, setting up a two-RBI single from Gabriel Esquivel. 
  • Reich kept the inning going with another single, Pound walked and Lodise hit a hanging curveball about as hard as one can hit it, launching a walk-off grand slam over the batting facility in left.

Statistical Leaders
STETSON
  • David Bermudez | 3-for-3, R, RBI
  • Yohann Dessureault | 1-for-3, HR, 2 RBI
  • Daniel Labrador | 1-for-1, HR, 3RBI

UNF
Notes
  • Lodise is tied for the UNF single season freshman home run record with nine
  • Lodise tied Peyton Sybrandt for the most RBI in a game by an Osprey this season with six 
  • North Florida has hit at least two home runs in 10 games
  • UNF has reached double-digit runs six times this season
  • Madonna's previous career-long outing was six innings. He most recently did that against Fordham earlier this year
  • Reich extended his reached base streak to 23 games
  • 16 of UNF's 15 runs came via an RBI
  • Stetson didn't leave anyone on base
  • It was Stetson's first league loss
  • Brinling is 13-for-13 in stolen bases to start the season
  • Clements walked three times, two more than he has had all year
  • It was the second time this season UNF has had a game end on a home run that was not a walk-off in the ninth or later after UNF defeated Villanova 9-7 in eight innings Feb. 26. The Wildcats hit a two-run home run as the final play of the game as it was called due to travel curfew.

Up Next
UNF squares off with Stetson in the rubber game tomorrow at 1:05 p.m.
 
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