TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – North Florida Baseball fell in Game 1 of its weekend series at Alabama, 7-2, at Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n
Junior outfielder Gialdri Gomez<\/a> crushed a two-run home run to right field in the top of the top of the fifth inning to cut North Florida’s deficit to 3-2. It marked Gomez’ first home run as an Osprey. Gomez finished the night 2-3 with two RBI, one run and one home run.<\/p>\n Redshirt junior Boone Hosey<\/a> and redshirt freshman outfielder Sean Benjamin<\/a> each added 1-4 outings, respectively.<\/p>\n Redshirt junior left-handed pitcher Dakota Stone<\/a> turned in a solid start on the mound for North Florida. Stone dealt 4.0 innings and allowed three runs with six strikeouts and just two walks. He improved on his team-high total in strikeouts and now has 27 in four appearances in 2026.<\/p>\n Alabama plated one run in the second inning, two in the third, two in the fifth and two in the seventh to bring the score to its eventual final margin.<\/p>\n NORTH FLORIDA 2, ALABAMA 7<\/p>\n Pitchers of Record Line Scores Statistical Leaders ALABAMA UP NEXT
\nWin: Dakota Stone<\/a> (3-1)
\nLoss: Tyler Fay\u00a0(3-1)<\/p>\n
\nALABAMA | 7 R, 14 H, 1 E
\nNORTH FLORIDA | 2 R, 4 H, 3 E<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA
\nGialdri Gomez<\/a> | 2-3, 2 RBI, 1 HR, 1 R
\nDakota Stone<\/a> | 4.0 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 8 H, 6 K, 2 BB<\/p>\n
\nTyler Fay | 7.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 11 K, 1 BB
\nPeyton Steele | 2-3, 3\u00a0RBI, 1 3B, 1 BB<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida plays at Alabama in Game 2 of its weekend series on Saturday, March 7 at 3 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – North Florida Baseball fell in Game 1 of its weekend series at Alabama, 7-2, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181981","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=181981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}