{"id":232287,"date":"2026-04-15T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232287\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:38:09","slug":"bethune-cookman-baseball-beats-no-20-florida-for-another-ranked-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232287\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethune-Cookman baseball beats No. 20 Florida for another ranked win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bethune-Cookman<\/a> baseball beat a ranked SEC team. If that headline feels familiar, that\u2019s also because it happened last week.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wildcats took down No. 20 Florida 13-7 in Gainesville on April 14 to pick up their second ranked win over an SEC team in seven days. Bethune-Cookman defeated defending national champion and then-No. 24 LSU 10-7 on April 7.<\/p>\n

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The last and only instance the Wildcats beat the Gators was a 6-2 win on June 4, 2017, which was their last ranked win prior to last week\u2019s LSU game.<\/p>\n

B-CU was able to earn its second-ever triumph against the Gators, who are fourth in the NCAA\u2019s RPI, with a seven-run seventh inning that broke a 5-5 tie. The two major scoring plays were an Andrey Martinez double and a Jorge Rodriguez single that each plated two runs.<\/p>\n

Darryl Lee and Michael Rodriguez singled to pick up two additional RBIs, and Erick Almonte reached base on a throwing error that allowed Maikol Lucena, who walked at the beginning of the inning, to score.<\/p>\n

Kyle Jones hit a sacrifice fly and Brendan Lawson doubled to drive two Gator runs to the plate in the bottom of the seventh, but Bethune-Cookman\u2019s lead proved to be insurmountable.<\/p>\n

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Lee put a stamp on the Wildcats\u2019 victory with a solo shot to right field in the top of the ninth inning, and Justin Morales shut the door in the bottom of the ninth.<\/p>\n

Martinez and Lee were Bethune-Cookman\u2019s primary catalysts in its consecutive win over a ranked SEC power. Both players finished 3 for 6 from the plate with a dinger to combine for seven RBIs \u2014 four from Martinez and three from Lee.<\/p>\n

However, all nine players in the Wildcats\u2019 batting order finished with at least one hit, and Jose Fernandez added a third homer to Bethune-Cookman\u2019s night in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

The win further legitimizes the Wildcats\u2019 record of 26-11, which now includes four wins over top-100 teams in the RPI \u2014 Florida, LSU and a pair against South Florida. They\u2019ll have an opportunity to add to that with a home series against Alabama A&M from April 17-19.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Bethune-Cookman upsets No. 20 Florida baseball on the road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethune-Cookman baseball beat a ranked SEC team. If that headline feels familiar, that\u2019s also because it happened last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24798,103914,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-232287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bethune-cookman","9":"tag-darryl-lee","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232287","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=232287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}