Baseball Clobbers Six Home Runs in 14-1 Tuesday Rout

Tuesday, March 13

Boca Raton, Fla.

6:30 PM

Florida Atlantic

12-4

North Florida

8-10

North Florida

Florida Atlantic

3/13/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

March 13, 2018

Box Score

BOCA RATON, Fla. - The Florida Atlantic University baseball team had hit seven home runs as a team in their first 15 games. On Tuesday night, the Owls clubbed six home runs in the span of three innings in overwhelming visiting North Florida, 14-1.

Quotable

"The guys have been working really hard," said Head Coach John McCormack of the team's recent strides on offense. "Coach Mams (Greg Mamula) has worked really hard with them, and they've been out here early, working on their day off, (working) by themselves, doing a really good job. Fourteen runs is a lot, but this is what we thought the offense would look like a little more. Tonight, it was really good."

The Turning Point

UNF (8-10) tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth, but the Owls (12-4) went back ahead the next half-inning without benefit of a hit. In fact, through five, FAU had two runs, but just one hit. The Ospreys had a chance to regain the lead, putting two on with two out, but reliever Nick Swan stranded them, making for 10 left on base for UNF to that point. In the home sixth, the first five Owls reached, and with two runs already in, Eric Rivera deposited a 2-2 pitch out to left for the first FAU grand slam of 2018. Two batters later, Tyler Frank hit one to about the exact same spot for a two-run shot to culminate an eight-run inning.

The Finish

Matt Harris came in for the seventh and left two more Ospreys on, and the Owls added three solo home runs in the bottom half: back-to-back big flies to rightfield by pinch-hitter Jared DeSantolo and Gunnar Lambert, and two batters later, a shot by Andru Summerall crushed just to the right of the batter's eye in center. Frank finished off the scoring by leading off the eighth with his second dinger of the game, and Dylan O'Connell closed things out with two strikeouts in his FAU debut.

The Bats

The six total home runs was one off the team record in a game, set on Feb. 14, 1999 against Kentucky
Frank and Rivera each had four RBI, and they along with Lambert all scored twice, while Summerall had three runs scored
Frank and Joe Montes extended their hitting streaks to 11 and eight games, respectively
For DeSantolo, it was the first hit of his Owls' career, and it was Summerall's first-ever FAU home run
Eight of the nine Owls' starters had a hit, and eight scored at least one run
The team has scored 35 runs in their last three games, and had at least a four-run inning in each of the last four outings

The Arms

Marc Stewart pitched four innings of shutout baseball to start, before leaving due to a predetermined pitch count. He gave up three hits and walked one, while striking out three
Swan (1-0) earned the win, allowing an unearned run and also notching three strikeouts
In his two scoreless innings of work, Harris struck out three as well
O'Connell's debut inning took just 19 pitches with the two K's

What's Next

The Owls and Ospreys wrap their brief series Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 4 p.m. The pitching matchup will be Nick Prather for FAU against UNF's Brad Deppermann.

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Monday, March 23

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Sunday, March 22

Owls Edge Past UTSA to Even Series

Saturday, March 21

Owls Held in Check in Conference Opener

Friday, March 20

Next Event

North Florida

W, 10-9

Mar 14 (Wed)

4:00 PM

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Swan, Nick (1-0)

L: BRADFORD, Cooper (1-1)

North Florida

Batting:

2B: MATTHIAS, Chris 1 ; BERRY, Chris 1

RBI: PRATHER, Jay 1

Base Running:

RUNS: MURPHY, Tanner 1

SB: MURPHY, Tanner 1

HBP: WILSON, Mac 1 ; BERRY, Chris 1

Florida Atlantic

Batting:

2B: Pages, Pedro 1

HR: Frank, Tyler 2 ; DeSantolo, Jared 1 ; Lambert, Gunnar 1 ; Rivera, Eric 1 ; Summerall, Andru 1

RBI: Frank, Tyler 4 ; Pages, Pedro 1 ; Wilson, Cody 1 ; DeSantolo, Jared 1 ; Lambert, Gunnar 1 ; Rivera, Eric 4 ; Summerall, Andru 1 ; Johnson, Diamond 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Frank, Tyler 2 ; Montes, Joe 1 ; Miranda, David 1 ; Pages, Pedro 1 ; Wilson, Cody 1 ; DeSantolo, Jared 1 ; Lambert, Gunnar 2 ; Rivera, Eric 2 ; Summerall, Andru 3