JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball secured its River City Rumble series over Jacksonville with a 10-0 seven-inning run-rule win in Game 3 at Harmon Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
North Florida has now won five of its six games against Jacksonville this season. Over North Florida’s six games against Jacksonville this season, the Ospreys out-scored the Dolphins 46-20.<\/p>\n
It marked North Florida’s second series win over Jacksonville this season. It’s the first time North Florida has won two series over JU in the same season since 2021.<\/p>\n
Redshirt junior utility player Jackson Toberman<\/a> led the way offensively for North Florida with a 1-1 outing, one home run, two RBI, two runs and three walks. Toberman’s homer marked his sixth of the season.<\/p>\n Redshirt junior utility player Boone Hosey<\/a> worked a pair of walks to improve his on-base streak to 33 games.<\/p>\n Sophomore right-handed pitcher Trevor Nikolis<\/a> delivered a solid start on the mound for North Florida. Nikolis pitched 4.2 innings and allowed just one hit while posting three strikeouts.<\/p>\n Redshirt-senior right-handed pitcher John Costa<\/a> entered in relief of Nikolis and shoved 2.1 shutout innings without allowing a hit. Costa gave up just one walk while dealing one strikeout.<\/p>\n Toberman opened the scoring with a two-run opposite-field home run in the bottom of the second inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n North Florida broke the game open with a five-run fourth frame. Redshirt sophomore outfielder Carter White<\/a> plated a pair of runs with a RBI single to center field in the bottom of the fourth inning to put UNF ahead, 4-0.<\/p>\n Redshirt freshman outfielder Sean Benjamin<\/a> belted an RBI double down the left-field line in the bottom of the fourth frame to extend North Florida’s lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n Redshirt junior utility player Jackson Schrafft<\/a> drove in White with a sacrifice fly to right field later in the bottom of the fourth inning to give the Ospreys a 6-0 advantage.<\/p>\n Freshman infielder Drew Buchanan<\/a> capped off UNF’s five-run fourth frame with an RBI double down the left-field line, allowing North Florida to command a 7-0 edge.<\/p>\n White tallied his third RBI of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning with a hard hit ball to first base that plated Hosey. White’s third RBI gave North Florida an 8-0 advantage.<\/p>\n Junior infielder Mitchell Collins<\/a> drove an opposite-field RBI double down the left-field line in the bottom of the sixth frame to put UNF ahead, 9-0.<\/p>\n Schrafft secured the run-rule walk-off win with a double in the left-center field gap in the bottom of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n NORTH FLORIDA 10, JACKSONVILLE 0<\/p>\n Pitchers of Record Line Scores Statistical Leaders JACKSONVILLE UP NEXT
\nWin: Trevor Nikolis<\/a> (3-3)
\nLoss: Kyle Powers (1-2)<\/p>\n
\nJACKSONVILLE | 10 R, 6 H, 0 E
\nNORTH FLORIDA | 0 R, 1 H, 1 E<\/p>\n
\nNORTH FLORIDA
\nJackson Toberman<\/a> | 1-1, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R, 3 BB
\nCarter White<\/a> | 1-3, 3 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
\nJackson Schrafft<\/a> | 1-3, 2 RBI
\nTrevor Nikolis<\/a> | 4.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 K, 3 BB<\/p>\n
\nSam Grunberg | 1-3<\/p>\n
\nNorth Florida travels to Condron Ballpark in Gainesville, Fla., for a midweek game against No. 25 Florida on Tuesday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida Baseball secured its River City Rumble series over Jacksonville with a 10-0 seven-inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-256954","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\/256954","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=256954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}