JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball earned a victory in Game 1 of its River City Rumble series at Jacksonville, 4-2, at John Sessions Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n
With the win, North Florida remains in first place in the ASUN Conference Graphite Division. North Florida’s 6-1 start to conference play marks\u00a0its best since its Division I inception in 2006.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville opened the scoring in the bottom of the third inning on a passed ball to take a 1-0 lead. North Florida responded in a big way with four runs in the top of the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
Redshirt junior utility player Jackson Toberman<\/a> drove in North Florida’s first run of the game with a sacrifice fly to center field in the top of the fifth frame to knot the score at one apiece.<\/p>\n Junior infielder Mitchell Collins<\/a> crossed home on a passed ball later in the fifth inning to give North Florida a 2-1 advantage. Junior outfielder Gialdri Gomez<\/a> capped off North Florida’s four-run fifth inning with a two-RBI single up the middle to put UNF ahead, 4-1.<\/p>\n Jacksonville answered with one run in the bottom of the seventh frame, though it wasn’t enough to overcome UNF’s solid outings out of its bullpen.<\/p>\n Senior right-handed pitcher Brandon Adams<\/a> entered in relief amid the third frame and dealt 2.2 shutout innings without allowing a hit. Adams added four strikeouts and allowed just one walk.<\/p>\n Freshman right-handed pitcher Devin Diggs<\/a> earned the save after 2.0 frames of scoreless work while notching two strikeouts.<\/p>\n NORTH FLORIDA 4, JACKSONVILLE 2<\/p>\n Pitchers of Record Line Scores Statistical Leaders JACKSONVILLE UP NEXT
\nWin: Brandon Adams<\/a> (2-1)
\nLoss: Alex Walsh (4-4)
\nSave: Devin Diggs<\/a> (2)<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA | 4 R, 8 H, 0 E
\nJACKSONVILLE | 2 R, 3 H, 0 E<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA
\nGialdri Gomez<\/a> | 2-3, 2 RBI, 1 BB
\nJackson Toberman<\/a> | 1-3, 1 RBI
\nSantiago Ordonez<\/a> | 2-3, 1 R, 1 BB
\nBrandon Adams<\/a> | 2.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 K, 1 BB<\/p>\n
\nRoger Vergara | 1-5, 1 RBI<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida will remain at John Sessions Stadium for Game 2 at Jacksonville on Saturday, March 28 at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball earned a victory in Game 1 of its River City Rumble series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-209225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209225","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=209225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}