{"id":210989,"date":"2026-03-29T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:01:09","slug":"jacksonville-drops-series-finale-12-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/210989\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Drops Series Finale, 12-6"},"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\/2025\/11\/Florida.png\" alt=\"University of Florida\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at University of Florida<\/p>\n<p>3\/31\/2026 | 6:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 31 (Tue) \/ 6:30 PM&#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\/2025\/11\/Florida.png\" alt=\"University of Florida\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0University of Florida&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Jacksonville dropped the series finale to North Florida, 12-6, on Sunday afternoon at John Sessions Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>North Florida\u00a0 struck early and never trailed, plating a run in the first before extending the lead with a two-run homer in the third. The Ospreys added another long ball in the fifth and broke the game open with a two-run sixth and two-run seventh to build an 8-0 advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville found life in the seventh, putting together its most productive inning of the day. The Dolphins scored four runs in the frame, highlighted by RBI knocks from <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sam-grunberg\/8593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8593\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Grunberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/conner-spelman\/6810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6810\" target=\"_blank\">Conner Spelman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sammy-mummau\/7048\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7048\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Mummau<\/a>, while Nick Delisi added a sacrifice fly to trim the deficit in half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Florida responded immediately, however, tacking on four runs in the eight to push the lead back to eight and regain control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins added two more in the ninth on a two-run single from Mummau, but the late push wasn&#8217;t enough to overcome the early deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mummau led the way offensively with a multi-hit performance and three RBIs, while Grunberg continued his consistent stretch at the plate, recording a hit in six of his last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>On the mound, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brendan-holland\/8600\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8600\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Holland<\/a>\u00a0took the loss, allowing four runs over five innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dominic-pieto\/8605\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8605\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Pieto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/austin-williamson\/8598\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8598\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Williamson<\/a> combined for the bulk of the relief work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville will look to bounce back as it heads into midweek action in Gainesville on Tuesday, followed by a Thursday-Saturday home series against the Stetson Hatters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at University of Florida 3\/31\/2026 | 6:30 PM &#13; Mar. 31 (Tue) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-210989","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\/210989","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=210989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}