2023 North Florida Baseball Game Notes
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2023 SCHEDULE
Overall: 14-11 // H: 13-6 // A: 1-5 // N: 0-0 ASUN: 3-3 // H: 2-1 // A: 1-2 // N: 0-0 February (4-5) 17 Murray State 18 Murray State 19 Murray State 21 USC Upstate 22 USC Upstate 24 Villanova 25 Villanova 26 Villanova 28 FAMU
W, 3-2 (10) L, 3-11 W, 17-7 L, 7-15 L, 4-9 L, 1-2 W, 13-11 W, 9-7 (8) L, 6-12
March (10-6) 3 4 4 5 7 11 11 12 14 17 18 19 21 24 25 26 31
W, 13-7 W, 7-6 W, 6-5 (10) W, 8-4 L, 3-10 W, 6-4 W, 16-13 L, 13-17 L, 2-7 W, 7-1 L, 7-9 L, 2-4 W, 4-2 L, 5-7 W, 16-6 (7) W, 8-7 6:00 p.m.
Fordham Fordham Fordham Fordham UCF Fairfield Fairfield Fairfield No. 5/4 Florida Austin Peay* Austin Peay* Austin Peay* UCF Stetson* Stetson* Stetson* Eastern Kentucky*
April (0-0) 1 2 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 16 18 19 21 22 23 25 28 29 30
Eastern Kentucky* Eastern Kentucky* USF Jacksonville State* Jacksonville State* Jacksonville State* FAMU Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* USF Florida State Liberty* Liberty* Liberty* Florida Queens* Queens* Queens*
May (0-0) 2 5 6 7 9 12 13 14 18 19 20 23-27
UCF North Alabama* North Alabama* North Alabama* South Carolina FGCU* FGCU* FGCU* Jacksonville* Jacksonville* Jacksonville* ASUN Championship
Home games in BOLD Italic indicates neutral site game *Indicate ASUN contest
BASEBALL
GAMES 26-28 (Earle Combs Stadium | Richmond, Ky.) NORTH FLORIDA OSPREYS (14-11, 3-3 ASUN)
EKU COLONELS (10-15, 1-5 ASUN)
Head Coach: Tim Parenton Record at UNF: 122-132 2022 Record: 22-33, 11-18 ASUN
Head Coach: Chris Prothro Record at EKU: 69-67 2022 Record: 38-20, 20-10 ASUN
TEAM STATS (as of 3.29.23) B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS SB ERA WHIP FIELDING %
UNF .294 186 40 44 6.55 1.63 .962
TEAM STATS (as of 3.29.23)
ASUN 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 10th 9th 8th
NCAA RANK 73rd 65th 28th 35th 198th 165th 209th
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Jakob Runnels (27)
ERA
Alex Lodise (30)
Alex Lodise (9)
Peter Holden (40 strikeouts)
FRIDAY STARTERS
UNF | LHP Peter Holden (3-1, 3.09 ERA, 32.0 IP, 32K, 7BB)
ASUN 9th 10th 7th 9th 9th 10th 3rd
B AVG.
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Miguel Larreal (.354)
STRIKEOUTS
Stephen Halstead (1.13 ERA)
EKU .247 136 26 21 6.55 1.72 .966
NCAA RANK 247th 189th 106th 186th 195th 203rd 160th
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
B AVG.
Austin Brinling (.367)
B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS STOLEN BASES ERA WHIP FIELDING %
Larreal/Ludwick (16)
Logan Thomason (19)
ERA Luke Reed (2.35 ERA)
SATURDAY STARTERS
Thomason/Ludwick (4)
STRIKEOUTS Rese Brown (37 strikeouts)
SUNDAY STARTERS
UNF | RHP Dominick Madonna
UNF | RHP Clayton Boroski
(2-2, 7.06 ERA, 21.2 IP, 16K, 5BB)
(1-4, 5.82 ERA, 21.2 IP, 14K, 9BB)
6:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. EKU| RHP Rese Brown EKU | RHP Cameron Kalandros EKU | RHP Luke Reed 6:00 p.m. (1-3, 6.30 ERA, 30.0 IP, 37K, 17BB) (0-1, 3.31 ERA, 16.1 IP, 11K, 5BB) (0-1, 2.35 ERA, 15.1 IP, 15K, 6BB) 6:05 p.m. 6:05 p.m. 1:05 p.m. Last Five Meetings 4:05 p.m. Overall: EKU leads, 1-0 Date Result Location 6:05 p.m. Last Meeting: EKU W, 5-3 (5.24.23) 5.24.22 EKU W, 5-3 Fort Myers, Fla. 2:05 p.m. First Meeting: Same 1:05 p.m. At UNF: N/A 6:05 p.m. At EKU: N/A 6:05 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Neutral Site: EKU leads, 1-0 4:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:05 p.m. Last Time vs. EKU year, with three coming within the last the 4-2 win Tuesday, March 21 ... North 2:05 p.m. FORT MYERS, Fla. - In a game that saw week ... Last Saturday, Alex Lodise hit Florida’s 17-strikeout performance tied 1:05 p.m.
SERIES HISTORY: UNF VS. EKU
21 combined runners left on base, North Florida baseball was two runs short 6:00 p.m. against Eastern Kentucky in a 5-3 loss to 7:00 p.m. the Colonels to op
4:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 6:05 p.m. 2:05 p.m. 1:05 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
Last Time Out JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - After exchanging the lead, North Florida baseball (14-11, 3-3 ASUN) found itself trailing by two in the ninth before scoring three in the final frame to walk-off on Stetson (15-11, 4-2 ASUN), 8-7, Sunday, March 26. Aidan Sweatt delivered the game-tying two RBI single and Austin Brinling drove in the winning run with a single to left center, giving North Florida its fifth-straight home series win on the year. Walk-Off Dubs Hit Different UNF has won via walk-off five times this
the first grand slam of his career with a towering big fly on a hanging breaking ball, sending UNF to a 16-6 mercy rule win ... One day later, Aidan Sweatt and Austin Brinling combined for three ninth inning RBI to give North Florida an 8-7 walk-off to clinch the series ... Former UCF Knight, Jakob Runnels, mashed a walk-off threerun home run with two outs in the ninth, giving North Florida a 4-2 win against UCF Tuesday ... In the first game of the year, Runnels hit a walk-off pinch hit RBI single in a 3-2 10-inning win against Murray State ... Drew Leinenbach put down a walk-off squeeze bunt in a 6-5 10-inning win against Fordham March 4 17 Ks UNF pitchers combined to fan 17 batters and leave 16 UCF runners stranded in
the program single game record ... It’s the third time in UNF history North Florida has reached that mark, with the most recent coming in a game at No. 7 Florida State in March of 2019. Notables UNF has 40 homers this year, already one more than all of last season ... North Florida ranks second in runs per game and slugging as well as first in stolen bags ... Alex Lodise scored five runs in a win against Fairfield two weekends ago, the most runs by a UNF freshman in a single game in at least the DI era ... Lodise needs one more home run to set the UNF single season freshman home run record ... UNF won every non-conference regular season weekend series for the first time in the DI era.