{"id":220950,"date":"2026-04-06T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:26:08","slug":"costa-earns-asun-pitcher-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220950\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Earns ASUN Pitcher Of The Week Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball redshirt senior right-handed pitcher John Costa<\/a>\u00a0was named ASUN\u00a0Conference Pitcher\u00a0of the Week on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We are very excited that John is receiving this award as a result of the work he’s put in this year,” North Florida Pitching Coach Parker Bangs<\/a> said.\u00a0“Having a guy with his mindset and experience coming out of the bullpen is huge for the pitching staff and for the team. I’m looking forward to watching him continue to build on this success throughout the rest of the season.”<\/p>\n

Costa delivered\u00a0three dominant appearances out of North Florida’s bullpen to help the Ospreys win their fourth consecutive series to start ASUN play. Costa dealt 7.1 shutout innings and tallied five strikeouts\u00a0and one win across\u00a0three appearances. He allowed\u00a0just three hits, one walk, one extra-base and a .130 opponent batting average\u00a0across three appearances.<\/p>\n

Coast dealt 2.1\u00a0perfect innings without allowing a hit or walk in North Florida’s midweek game against Georgia Southern on Tuesday. Costa followed up with 2.0 scoreless frames and a season-high four strikeouts while allowing just one hit and one walk\u00a0in Game 2 of North Florida’s series against Queens on Friday.<\/p>\n

In North Florida’s rubber match\u00a0against Queens on Saturday, Costa earned the win and shoved\u00a03.0 scoreless innings without allowing a walk while posting one strikeout.<\/p>\n

Costa marks North Florida’s first ASUN Pitcher of the Week this season. He joins junior infielder Mathew Farner<\/a> as the second Osprey to receive an ASUN weekly award in 2026.<\/p>\n

North Florida continues ASUN play on the road at West Georgia\u00a0on Friday, April\u00a010\u00a0at 6\u00a0p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball redshirt senior right-handed pitcher John Costa\u00a0was named ASUN\u00a0Conference Pitcher\u00a0of the Week on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-220950","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\/220950","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=220950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}