{"id":194087,"date":"2026-03-16T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194087\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:18:07","slug":"college-of-central-florida-patriots-mens-baseball-team-sweeps-st-petersburg-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194087\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Central Florida Patriots Men\u2019s Baseball Team Sweeps St. Petersburg College"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pats next take on defending national champs Pasco-Hernando State College at home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

By David Houtz March 16, 2026 5:49 pm<\/p>\n

OCALA, FL (352today.com) \u2013 The College of Central Florida Patriots<\/a> took the first game of the three-game Citrus Conference series against St. Petersburg College in dramatic fashion. Victor Martinez\u2019s bottom of the ninth leadoff home run gave CF the 8-7 walk-off victory. It was Martinez\u2019s sixth HR of the season. Ignacio Salaverria connected on his first home run of the season earlier in the game. A three-run shot to right field. Balint Piros contributed three hits and two RBI.<\/p>\n

The final two game of the series shifted to Jack Russell Memorial Stadium in Clearwater on Friday and moved up a day due to impending weather. CF took advantage of five Titans errors to win 8-4. Jose Correa collected three hits while Martinez added three RBI. Richard Bello (5-1) earned the win in relief tossing 3.1 innings allowing only one hit, no runs with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"CF Coach Marty Smith. Photo courtesy of College of Central Florida<\/p>\n

The final game of the series saw the Pats pound out ten runs on ten hits to win 10-0 in six innings. Brett House (5) and Bruno Schafer (3) both hit home runs with Piros adding three RBI. Jay Jung (2-3) threw a complete game shutout with six innings pitched allowing only two hits, no runs, with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n

The sweep moves the Patriots into sole possession of second place in the conference with an 11-4 record. CF is 18-12 over-all and has won 10 of their last 11 games.<\/p>\n

CF will play on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at home at 3:00 PM vs. the defending NJCAA Division 2 National Champions, Pasco-Hernando State College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pats next take on defending national champs Pasco-Hernando State College at home on Tuesday. By David Houtz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-194087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194087","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=194087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}