FORT MYERS, Fla. – North Florida Baseball dropped its series finale on the road at FGCU, 13-3, at Swanson Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Redshirt freshman outfielder Sean Benjamin<\/a> led the way offensively for North Florida with a 2-4 outing and one RBI. Benjamin delivered a go-ahead RBI double to right-center field in the top of the sixth inning.<\/p>\n North Florida received a solid start on the mound from sophomore right-handed pitcher Trevor Nikolis<\/a>. He dealt 5.0 innings and allowed just four hits and one run while posting three strikeouts without giving up a walk.<\/p>\n Redshirt junior utility player Jackson Schrafft<\/a> added a multi-hit performance and went 2-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Eagles opened the scoring with one run in the bottom of the second frame.<\/p>\n Junior outfielder Gialdri Gomez<\/a> tied the game in the top of the sixth inning with a solo home run down the right-field line. It marked Gomez’ fifth home run of the season.<\/p>\n Redshirt sophomore outfielder Carter White<\/a> reached base later in the sixth inning with a base hit to set up Benjamin’s go-ahead double in the gap that put North Florida ahead, 2-1.<\/p>\n Senior catcher Santiago Ordonez<\/a> notched an RBI single through the left side in the top of the seventh frame to extend North Florida’s lead to 3-1.<\/p>\n FGCU responded with four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and eight runs in the eighth, bringing the score to its eventual final margin.<\/p>\n NORTH FLORIDA 3, FGCU 13<\/p>\n Pitchers of Record Line Scores Statistical Leaders FGCU UP NEXT
\nWin: Preston Rogers (5-3)
\nLoss: John Costa<\/a> (1-1)<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA | 3 R, 11 H, 0 E
\nFGCU | 13 R, 13 H, 1 E<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA
\nSean Benjamin<\/a> | 2-4, 1 RBI
\nGialdri Gomez<\/a> | 1-4, 1 HR
\nSantiago Ordonez<\/a> | 1-4, 1 RBI
\nJackson Schrafft<\/a> | 2-3
\nTrevor Nikolis<\/a> | 5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 K, 0 BB<\/p>\n
\nEvan Dempsey | 2-5, 4 RBI, 1 HR, 2 R<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida returns to Harmon Stadium for its River City Rumble series against Jacksonville. First pitch for Game 1 is set for Friday, May 1 at 7:05 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. – North Florida Baseball dropped its series finale on the road at FGCU, 13-3, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-247634","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\/247634","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=247634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}