2023 North Florida Baseball Game Notes
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2023 SCHEDULE
GAMES 53-55 (John Sessions Stadium | Jacksonville, Fla.)
Overall: 28-24 // H: 20-13 // A: 8-11 // N: 0-0 UNF OSPREYS (28-24, 13-14 ASUN) ASUN: 13-14 // H: 7-8 // A: 6-6 // 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 (10-7) 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 L, 13-15
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 (8-10) 1 2 4 6 7 8 11 14 15 15 18 19 21 22 23 25 28 28 29
Eastern Kentucky* Eastern Kentucky* USF Jacksonville State* Jacksonville State* Jacksonville State* FAMU Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* USF Florida State Liberty* Liberty* Liberty* No. 4/4 Florida Queens* Queens* Queens*
May (6-2) 2 5 6 7 9 12 13 14 18 19 20 23-28
UCF L, 10-16 North Alabama* W, 7-6 North Alabama* W, 9-3 North Alabama* W, 5-2 #6/7 South Carolina W, 8-5 FGCU* W, 9-1 FGCU* W, 11-7 FGCU* L, 2-10 Jacksonville* 7:00 p.m. Jacksonville* 7:00 p.m. Jacksonville* 1:00 p.m. ASUN Championship (DeLand, Fla.)
Home games in BOLD Italic indicates neutral site game *Indicate ASUN contest
BASEBALL
JACKSONVILLE DOLPHINS (30-22, 14-13)
Head Coach: Tim Parenton Record at UNF: 136-145 2022 Record: 22-33, 11-18 ASUN
Head Coach: Chris Hayes Record at JU: 190-165 2022 Record: 27-28, 13-16 ASUN
TEAM STATS (as of 5.16.23) B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS SB ERA WHIP FIELDING %
UNF .294 378 74 71 6.51 1.61 .964
TEAM STATS (as of 5.16.23)
ASUN 4th 3rd 4th 4th 9th 6th 9th
NCAA RANK 66th 74th 59th 77th 198th 146th 226th
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Alex Lodise (61)
ERA
Brinling/Lodise (57)
Alex Lodise (16)
STRIKEOUTS
Stephen Halstead (2.50 ERA)
ASUN 9th 8th 9th 7th 5th 3rd 5th
THURSDAY STARTERS
B AVG.
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Josh Steidl (.338)
NCAA RANK 235th 153rd 143rd 136th 126th 133rd 170th
Chase Malloy (48)
Kris Armstrong (63)
Kris Armstrong (22)
ERA
Peter Holden (75 strikeouts)
UNF | LHP Peter Holden (4-4, 4.48 ERA, 80.1 IP, 75K, 32BB)
JU .262 333 54 56 5.73 1.59 .968
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
B AVG.
Austin Brinling (.392)
B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS SB ERA WHIP FIELDING %
STRIKEOUTS
Evan Chrest (2.81 ERA)
FRIDAY STARTERS UNF | RHP Dominick Madonna
Evan Chrest (86 strikeouts)
SATURDAY STARTERS
UNF | TBD
(8-2, 5.23 ERA, 75.2 IP, 47K, 24BB)
W, 19-11 L, 5-6 JU | RHP Evan Chrest JU | RHP Blake Barquin JU | RHP Richard Long W, 5-4 (10 inn.) (6-2, 2.81 ERA, 80.0 IP, 86K, 32BB) (3-3, 6.35 ERA, 39.2 IP, 29K, 13BB) (4-3, 6.23 ERA, 56.1 IP, 46K, 28BB) L,6-8 W, 5-3 L, 1-16 (7) Last Five Meetings Postponed Overall: JU leads, 51-38 Date Result Location L, 0-5 Last Meeting: UNF W, 9-3 (5.25.22) 5.25.22 UNF W, 9-3 Fort Myers, Fla. W, 9-5 First Meeting: JU W, 3-1 (3.6.88) 5.14.22 JU W, 5-4 JU W, 5-0 5.13.22 JU W, 6-4 JU W, 10-0 (7) 4.10.22 JU W, 12-4 Harmon Stadium W, 15-14 (10) L, 8-12 4.9.22 UNF W, 5-3 Harmon Stadium W, 8-3 L, 3-9 L, 2-6 L, 9-11 Last Time Out the program’s DI era, reaching 74 this past May Flowers L, 2-8 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - UNF baseball took weekend ... The previous school record The North Florida Ospreys have flourished L, 6-7
SERIES HISTORY: UNF VS. JU
a brief lead in the first inning on an Alex Lodise RBI double, but the FGCU (37-14, 19-8 ASUN) bats found their groove in the series finale as the Ospreys (28-24, 13-14 ASUN) had their season-best six-game winning streak snapped in the home finale on Mother's Day Sunday, May 14. Last Time vs. JU FORT MYERS, Fla. - Five Ospreys had multi-hit games, Justin Holmes and Abraham Sequera launched towering home runs and Jason Gonzalez turned in a quality start as UNF baseball upended Jacksonville, 9-3, in one of North Florida's most complete wins on the year.
Roundtripper Record UNF baseball set the program single season home run record for a team during
was 71, set back in 2010 ... The all-time record is 92, posted in 1999.
SC Top Ten Aidan Sweatt made Monday, May 15th’s SportsCenter Top 10 list after making a sliding over-the-shoulder catch on a deep flare in Sunday’s game against FGCU ... Sweatt is the second Osprey to make the list this season after Austin Brinling made the list back in April on a game-saving diving catch Swiped UNF has stolen 71 bags in 90 attempts this year ... The Ospreys are currently tied for the most stolen bases in the program’s DI era, previously set in 2013 ... The all-time record stands at 136 back in 1988
in May, going 6-2 during this month ... The Ospreys swept North Alabama on the road, while going to No. 6 South Carolina and winning 8-5 before taking two of three against FGCU in the home-series finale ... UNF’s six wins came consecutively, tying its best streak since 2019 ... Austin Brinling and Aidan Sweatt are both hitting over .400 during this month Dominant Madonna Dominick Madonna is 8-2 and leads the league in wins ... The righty is the first Osprey pitcher since Frank German in 2018 to reach eight wins ... Madonna is also 17th in the country in wins and is 3-0 over the last 15 games ... He’s been great in league play, going 6-1 while winning six of his last eight decisions.