JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida baseball starts a busy week by wrapping up an eight-game home stand with midweek games against USF and FSU.

The Ospreys look to sweep the season series against USF while UNF and FSU play for the first time since 2021 and the first time in Jacksonville since 2010.

GAME DETAILS
Date: Tuesday, April 18 | Wednesday, April 19
Time: 6:05 p.m. | 6:05 p.m.
Location: Harmon Stadium
Opponent: USF | FSU
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: unfospreys.com
 
All-Time Series vs. USF

• UNF leads, 14-10
• Second meeting of the season
• UNF won the first meeting, 5-4, April 4 at USF
• North Florida has won six-straight

All-Time Series vs. FSU

• North Florida and Florida State are playing for the first time since 2021
• FSU leads the all-time series, 11-3
• It's the first meeting at UNF since April 6, 2010
• North Florida won the last contest in Jacksonville, 3-1
• FSU plays its first-ever game at Harmon Stadium after the previous two games in Jacksonville were held at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville

Last Time Out
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - UNF baseball (19-16, 7-8 ASUN) got career-long outings from both Dominick Madonna and Clayton Boroski en route to a doubleheader sweep of Central Arkansas (16-19, 7-8 ASUN) Saturday, April 15.

Last Time vs. USF
TAMPA - With two outs and USF (12-18) batting with the tying run at third base, Matthew Clements charged a chopper to third and threw on the run to get USF's Eric Snow at first, ending the game in favor of UNF, 5-4, in 10 innings Tuesday, April 4.

Last Time vs. FSU
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - UNF baseball (1-2) had a shot at taking a road series from No. 24/21 FSU (2-1), but the Seminoles hit their way to a doubleheader sweep Sunday, February 21.

Touch 'em All

• North Florida surpassed the 50 home run milestone this past weekend
• It's the first time the Ospreys have reached that marker in a season since 2015
• UNF has 12 more home runs this season than all of last year
• North Florida is 21 homers shy of setting the UNF DI-era single season record

Start it Up

• North Florida got the most of its starting pitching during a doubleheader sweep of UCA this past Saturday
• Dominick Madonna and Clayton Boroski combined to go for 14 innings, permitting just four earned runs
• Both twirled career-long outings, with Boroski starting off a combined shutout as Lance Bolton nailed down the seven-out save

Notables

• UNF has 51 homers this year, already 12 more than all of last season
• UNF ranks fourth in the league in home runs, RBI, stolen bases and runs
• North Florida has won six weekend series this year
• This is the final home-midweek game of the season
• North Florida is playing the second of its four Power Five games on the season Wednesday
• UNF won every non-conference regular season weekend series for the first time in the DI era.

Scouting USF

• USF is 16-21 and 5-4 in the American Athletic Conference
• The Bulls took one of three at Houston this past weekend, capping the weekend series with a 13-2 win
• The Bulls have scored at least 10 runs in four of their last six games
• South Florida ranks 49th in the country in hits with 362
• Eric Snow paces the team with a .341 batting average, while Daniel Cantu is the team leader in the power department with nine homers
• USF's projected starter, Nolan Hudi, enters with a strong strikeout-to-walk ratio, fanning 32 while permitting just six walks. He's been wild in the zone, with hitters hitting .306 off of him in 29 innings of work

Scouting FSU

• Florida State comes into Wednesday's game with a 13-21 record, having lost 19 of its last 21 games
• The Seminoles were swept by NC State in the latest weekend series
• Cam Smith homered for the sixth time in his freshman campaign against NC State Sunday, a team-high among first year players.
• FSU is coached by Link Jarrett in his first season at Florida State after helping lead Notre Dame to the College World Series a year ago. He was a two-time National Coach of the Year pick and touts a 301-198 record entering the 2023 season
• He also coached at Flagler College for three seasons, getting his start at the collegiate level
• He had 802-career assists as a shortstop with Seminoles as a collegiate student-athlete
• Florida State was tabbed to finish third in the preseason ACC Atlantic Division
• Despite the recent travails, Jackson Baumeister was named National Pitcher of the Week April 11. He's a Jacksonville, Fla., native.
• FSU ranks 21st in the country in double plays and 35th in strikeouts per nine innings

MORE UNF NOTES

Top Ten Worthy

• Austin Brinling made a diving catch with two outs and two on in the top of the ninth, recording the final out as UNF defeated Jacksonville State, 5-3, Friday, April 7.
• Brinling's play earned him a spot at number six in SportsCenter's Top 10 that evening

Freshman Records

• Alex Lodise has already set the UNF single season freshman home run record, belting 10, one better than the previous record
• The shortstop is well on his way to more freshman records. He's fourth in runs (35), tied for tenth in doubles (9), tied for fourth in triples (2), third in RBI (36) and tied for second in stolen bases (6).

Settling In

• North Florida had an eight-game home stand to start the season, one of its longest in program history to open a year
• UNF concludes its eight-game home stand with two midweeks. It's UNF's final midweek baseball at home this year.

Green Light Means Go

• Austin Brinling and Aidan Sweatt are a combined 28-for-31 in stolen bases this season
• UNF is already only 14 stolen bases from setting the UNF DI-era single season team record set with 71 in 2013

Walk-Off Dubs Hit Different

• UNF has won via walk-off five times this year, with three coming last week
• March 25 Alex Lodise hit the first grand slam of his career with a towering big fly on a hanging breaking ball, sending UNF to a 16-6 mercy rule win
• One day later, Aidan Sweatt and Austin Brinling combined for three ninth inning RBI to give North Florida an 8-7 walk-off to clinch the series
• 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 March 21
• 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

Weekend Winning

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