Owls Run-Rule ECU to Clinch Series

Saturday, April 5

Greenville, N.C.

4 p.m.

Florida Atlantic

22-9, 4-4

East Carolina

20-12, 6-2

Florida Atlantic

ECU

Photo by: Alex Zadorozny

4/5/2025 8:49:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

GREENVILLE, N.C. – Florida Atlantic baseball racked up 18 hits in a 14-1, seven-inning victory over East Carolina on Saturday afternoon in North Carolina. The Owls (22-9, 4-4) locked up the series and will try to sweep the Pirates (20-12, 6-2) in the finale on Sunday afternoon.

THE BEGINNING

The Owls scored early and often, hitting for the cycle as a team in the first inning. After launching a solo home run on the first pitch of the game on Friday, Marshall Lipsey kickstarted the offense again with a bunt single to lead off the game. Patrick Ward laced a triple to the left field gap to open the scoring. Jake Duer provided the double to make it 2-0, and Dylan LaPointe capped off the team cycle with an opposite-field two-run home run.

THE TURNING POINT

ECU recorded its first hit of the game – a solo home run – in the second inning. The Owls responded with a John Schroeder three-run homer in the third to make it 7-1. They would bust the game open with a five-run fifth inning. The backbreaking hit was a bases-loaded, three-RBI double by Jake Millan. Millan and John Martinez would later score on an ECU error to put the Owls up 12-1.

THE FINISH

Duer launched his second home run of the season in the sixth, and the Owls tacked on one more run in the top of the seventh (14-1). With the run-rule in place, starter Tyler Murphy held the Pirates scoreless in the bottom of the frame to finish the victory in seven innings.

THE BATS

Duer finished 4-for-5 with four runs scored and two RBI.
The junior outfielder has 17 multi-hit games and five four-hit games this season.
Ward posted a 3-for-5 line with three runs scored.
Lipsey's first-inning bunt single extended his reached-base streak to 29 games.
LaPointe singled twice in addition to his home run to finish 3-for-4.
Brando Leroux made it a quartet of Owls with three or more hits. The senior shortstop singled twice and doubled as part of a 3-for-4 day.
Schroeder's home run was his team-leading ninth of the season.

THE ARMS

Murphy (3-2) recorded his first career complete game. He allowed just three hits and one run.
The junior allowed the home run in the second and then did not concede another hit until there were two outs in the sixth.

QUOTABLE

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— Florida Atlantic Baseball (@FAUBaseball) April 5, 2025

WHAT'S NEXT

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Murphy, Tyler (3-2)

L: MORAN, Nick (1-1)

Florida Atlantic

Batting:

2B: Duer, Jake 1 ; Millan, Jake 1 ; Leroux, Brando 1

3B: Ward, Patrick 1

HR: Duer, Jake 1 ; Schroeder, John 1 ; LaPointe, Dylan 1

RBI: Ward, Patrick 2 ; Duer, Jake 2 ; Schroeder, John 3 ; LaPointe, Dylan 1 ; Millan, Jake 3 ; Boylston, Kyle 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Lipsey, Marshall 1 ; Ward, Patrick 3 ; Duer, Jake 4 ; Schroeder, John 1 ; LaPointe, Dylan 2 ; Millan, Jake 1 ; Martinez, John 1 ; Romano, Nick 1