{"id":183436,"date":"2026-03-08T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:41:08","slug":"baseball-falls-to-florida-atlantic-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183436\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Falls to Florida Atlantic in Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772998868_576_Florida-Gulf-Coast.png\" alt=\"FGCU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> FGCU<\/p>\n<p>3\/10\/2026 | 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 10 (Tue) \/ 7 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772998868_576_Florida-Gulf-Coast.png\" alt=\"FGCU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0FGCU&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/fgcu\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"267\" data-start=\"125\">BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2013 The FIU baseball program dropped the weekend finale to Florida Atlantic, 7-3, Sunday afternoon at FAU Baseball Stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"444\" data-start=\"269\">Florida Atlantic struck first with a run in the opening inning before breaking the game open with a four-run fifth and adding two more in the sixth to secure the series sweep.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"677\" data-start=\"446\">FIU trimmed the deficit with a three-run eighth inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-cleveland\/13387\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13387\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Cleveland<\/a> launched his first home run of the season to right field, while <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/andrew-ildefonso\/13390\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13390\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Ildefonso<\/a> continued his strong weekend at the plate with a two-run double to make it 7-3. He now has five hits in his last two games, coming off a four-hit performance Saturday evening vs the Owls.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"917\" data-start=\"679\">The Owls opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first. In the fifth, three consecutive RBI singles and a fielder&#8217;s choice pushed the lead to 5-0. Florida Atlantic added a pair of RBI hits in the sixth to extend the advantage to 7-0.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1257\" data-start=\"919\">On the mound, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/julian-mlodzinski\/13392\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13392\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Mlodzinski<\/a> made his third start of the season, allowing just one earned run across a career-high four innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jeremy-urena\/13433\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13433\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Urena<\/a> was tagged for four earned runs in 0.1 inning of relief, while <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tracen-cameron\/13385\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13385\" target=\"_blank\">Tracen Cameron<\/a> surrendered two runs over 1.2 innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cooper-foster\/13429\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13429\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Foster<\/a> closed the game with two scoreless innings and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1444\" data-start=\"1259\">Offensively, FIU recorded 10 hits as a team, led by two-hit performances from <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/aidan-cohall\/13424\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13424\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Cohall<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mario-trivella\/13451\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13451\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Trivella<\/a>. Cleveland, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/trey-freeman\/13461\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13461\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Freeman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fiusports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cooper-rasmussen\/13448\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13448\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Rasmussen<\/a> each added a hit in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFIU takes on FGCU on Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. from FIU Baseball Stadium. It will be streamed live on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>TICKETS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information on FIU tickets to FIU home games, including student ticketing, call 305-FIU-GAME or visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fiutickets.com\/tickets\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BAPTIST HEALTH<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPresented by Baptist Health, The Official Sports Medicine Provider of FIU Athletics<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL MEDIA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGet all the latest information on the team by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIUBaseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUBaseball<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIUBaseball\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FIUBaseball<\/a>\u00a0on X and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fiu.baseball\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIU.Baseball<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIUAthletics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FIUAthletics<\/a>\u00a0on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: FGCU 3\/10\/2026 | 7 p.m. &#13; Mar. 10 (Tue) \/ 7 p.m.&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-183436","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\/183436","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=183436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}