FORT MYERS, Fla. – For the second day in a row, the FGCU baseball team walked-off Kennesaw State, this time off the bat of junior Stephen Wilmer (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview HS/Pasco-Hernando State/ECU), who hit an RBI single with two outs in the tenth to take down the Owls, 7-6. The Eagles improve to 20-8 and 7-2 in the ASUN while the Owls fall to 18-9 and 7-2 as well in league play.

"We'll take them any way we can," said head coach Dave Tollett. "Both teams are really good. What a great series for us. We got a great effort from Mugavero today out of the bullpen and a big hit by Stephen Wilmer. Just a great, great win against a great team."

Wilmer's walk-off came in a pinch-hitting situation and just a day after junior Joe Kinker (North Port, Fla./Venice HS) won the game on Saturday as the Eagles earned a series win against the number 11 team in the RPI.

Junior Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) led the Eagles with three hits on the day while freshman Harrison Povey (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla./Largo HS) and junior Luis Rodriguez (Guarenas, Venezuela/Miami Christian HS/Santa Fe College/Dyersburg State) each added home runs.

On the mound, senior Joey Mugavero (Estero, Fla./Estero HS/Florida Southwestern State) was stellar as he threw five innings in relief and allowed just one run while striking out four. Junior Tyler Tipton (Tampa, Fla./Gaither HS/South Florida State) earned the win after throwing a perfect tenth inning.

Kennesaw jumped out to an early 3-0 lead with two runs in the first and another in the second. Rodriguez got one run back in the bottom of the second with a run-scoring fielder's choice.

After the Owls tacked on a fourth run in the third, Povey tied up the game in the bottom half with a three-run home run, his eighth of the season.

KSU retook the lead in the fourth with a run but again the Eagles responded as graduate student Logan Sartori (Lincoln, Neb./Lincoln Southwest HS/Texas A&M/Hutchinson CC) knocked in a run with an RBI single.

Mugavero and Kennesaw's Smith Pinson traded zeroes for the next three innings until Rodriguez connected on a solo home run in the eighth to give the Eagles a 6-5 lead.

The lead was short-lived, however, as the Owls hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth to tie up the game.

In the bottom of the tenth, Figueredo led off with a single and was replaced by pinch-runner Jalen Townsend (Orlando, Fla./Winter Park HS), who proceeded to steal second. After a couple of strikeouts and an intentional walk, Wilmer walked to the plate where he looped a 2-2 pitch down the right-field line allowing the speedy Townsend to score easily.

The Eagles will return to action on Tuesday when they travel to face #12 Miami. First pitch from Coral Gables is set for 6 p.m.

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FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 656-393-3 overall record (.623) and a 218-117 (.647) record in the ASUN. He is the only head coach in the program's history and led the program to its first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2017. He is a five-time ASUN Coach of the Year and has guided the Green and Blue to five ASUN Regular Season Championships and one ASUN Tournament Championship. His team has been ranked nationally on several occasions, including as high as No. 9 in the country in 2017, and has coached 58 all-conference selections, 33 draft picks, three current major leaguers, 13 current minor leaguers, four ASUN Pitchers of the Year, four All-Americans, three ASUN Players of the Year, one National Freshman Player of the Year, one National Player of the Year and one seven-time MLB All-Star.
 
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FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 89 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 14+ seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 10 seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 43 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. Eight FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20, 2021-22), beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as three of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green and Blue posted a department-best sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors' Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS institutions. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida best seven teams earn the NCAA's Public Recognition Award for their Academic Progress Rate in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.50 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2020 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 25 consecutive semesters. The past five semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2021) each saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher team GPA in each. The Eagles also served an all-time high 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 - being recognized as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.