Florida Baseball Defeats FAU; Two Wins Away From Omaha

For the fifth time in eight years under the guidance of head coach Kevin O’Sullivan, the Florida baseball team will be advancing to the Super Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Gators rolled through its NCAA Regional with a win against Florida Atlantic 2-1 on Sunday. Florida fell behind to Florida Atlantic in the first inning when Ricky Santiago picked up an RBI single. After giving up the only earned run from Florida starting pitchers this weekend, Alex Faedo began to settle in. The freshman had his best outing of the year canada pharmacy according to Kevin O’Sullivan who was very happy with his team’s performance on the hill. “It’s a valuable lesson learned; elimination games are never going to be easy. I thought Sean Labsan (FAU) did a great job, and I thought that Alex Faedo pitched his best he has all year. Bobby Poyner came in and pitched outstanding, and Taylor Lewis came in and 20 mg cialis closed it out. We played great defense. We’re excited about moving forward and playing in the Super Regional here next week.” Faedo finished the game with six full innings on the mound alongside a canada pharmacy career high six strikeouts. Faedo earned the win and handed the ball over to lefty senior Bobby Poyner who pitched for two innings until the game went into a 67 minute rain delay. Taylor Lewis closed things out for Florida in the ninth in simple fashion only facing four batters. Offensively it wasn’t the most dominant performance we have seen out of Florida this canada pharmacy online rx season, but it was enough to get the job done. The Regional MVP JJ Schwarz finished with one hit and one RBI. In the fourth Schwarz hit a ball to the second baseman that he couldn’t handle giving Florida it’s first run. Schwarz finished Regional play with a batting average of .538 and six RBI over three games. Schwarz says that hitting has been contagious for UF as of late. “When guys are in scoring position, it’s easy to hit. I think that everyone as a whole is benefiting off of each other.” Florida took the final lead in the sixth when Schwarz delivered an RBI single to left field. Josh Tobias was also big on Sunday going 3 for-4 with one run scored. The Gators now await the winner of Florida State and College of Charleston who play Monday at 2. College of Charleston will have to knock off FSU twice in order to gain a date with the Gators this upcoming weekend. Post game sound from Sunday:

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