{"id":166105,"date":"2026-02-23T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166105\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:59:09","slug":"cf-patriots-lose-to-scf-manatees-on-the-road-take-on-tallahassee-state-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166105\/","title":{"rendered":"CF Patriots Lose to SCF Manatees on the Road, Take on Tallahassee State Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ocala’s College of Central Florida Patriots missed an opportunity to secure their second Citrus Conference series win over the weekend.<\/p>\n

By David Houtz February 23, 2026 3:33 pm<\/p>\n

OCALA, FL (352today.com<\/a>) \u2013 The College of Central Florida Patriots<\/a> had a chance to secure their second Citrus Conference series win in a row but fell twice on the road to the State College of Florida Manatees, 6-5 and 12-10, this past Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. CF Head Coach Marty Smith said, \u201cWe gave ourselves the opportunity to win in both games, but we need to learn to close games out better.\u201d<\/p>\n

CF hit four homeruns\u2013all solo\u2013in the first game of the day but fell 6-5 when SCF\u2019s Holden Brauner singled home Ryan Kaitz for the walk-off win in the bottom of the seventh inning. Lance Hartley started on the mound for the Pats and went four innings allowing five hits, four runs with five strikeouts. Brett House hit two homeruns (3,4) while Jose Correa hit his third of the season and Talan Beckford connected for his fourth HR of the year.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Patriots pitcher Jay Jung. Courtesy College of Central Florida<\/p>\n

In the second game of the day the Pats built a 10-1 lead in the sixth inning only to see the Manatees (10-7, 4-2) rally for one run in the sixth and ten runs in the bottom of the seventh inning for the 12-10 win. Jay Jung had a quality start for CF going 5.2 innings allowing 5 hits, 2 runs, 0 walks and 6 strikeouts. The Pats hit three more homeruns in this game with Bruno Schafer (2), Cal Johnson (4), and Victor Martinez (4) all going deep.<\/p>\n

The Patriots are currently 8-10 on the season and 3-3 in Citrus Conference play. They will look to rebound at home on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at 2:00 PM against Tallahassee State College. All home games are played at Goodlett Field<\/a> on the CF campus in Ocala and are free to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocala’s College of Central Florida Patriots missed an opportunity to secure their second Citrus Conference series win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-166105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}