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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The 2023 FGCU baseball team (5-1) continued its impressive early-season power surge Friday night, belting three home runs in an 8-2 victory over UMass Lowell at Swanson Stadium.
 
Junior infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) hit two homers against the River Hawks – solo shots in both the second and fourth innings. Junior infielder Jacob Lojewski (West Palm Beach, Fla./Delray American Heritage HS) added a solo homer right after Felix in the second. The Green & Blue have piled up nine home runs in six games so far in 2023.
 
Felix and sophomore infielder Jake Mummau (Palm Harbor, Fla./Palm Harbor University HS/St. Petersburg College) each went 3-for-4. Senior outfielder Jalen Townsend (Orlando, Fla./Winter Park HS) was 2-for-4, and redshirt senior outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS) went 1-for-5 with an RBI – increasing his streak of reaching base to 75 games.
 
Junior right-hander Jason Woodward (Titusville, Fla./Titusville HS) earned his second straight victory this season as FGCU's Friday night starter, striking out 10 in five innings of work and allowing just two hits over 98 pitches.
 
The Felix-Lojewski outburst, coupled with Townsend's RBI single, against UMass Lowell starter LJ Keevan (0-2) gave Woodward and the Eagles a 3-0 lead in the second inning.
 
Mummau drove in two more runs with his base hit to left field in the third, Townsend again singled in a run, and Ellis drove in Mummau for a 6-0 cushion in the third inning.
 
"We challenged the bottom of our lineup to be better than they have been in the last couple games," said FGCU head baseball coach Dave Tollett. "That is where the game was done. The goal (Saturday) is to play nine innings, though, because I don't think we played the full nine tonight. We have to get better."
 
Perhaps buoyed by a new homemade bleach-blonde hairdo, Felix launched his second homer of the night in the fourth – a blast to left-center that made it 8-0.
 
The River Hawks got on the board in the eighth via a sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Robert Gallagher.
 
The two teams resume the three-game series at 2 p.m. Saturday at Swanson Stadium. FGCU is scheduled to start left-hander Mason Miller (1-0, 3.86 ERA) opposite UMass Lowell right-hander Brian Foley (0-1, 18.00).
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 676-409-3 overall record (.621) and a 228-118 (.659) 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 63 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, two National Freshman All-Americans, one National Freshman Player of the Year, one National Player of the Year and one seven-time MLB All-Star.
 
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ABOUT FGCU
FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 94 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 15-plus seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 47 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men's golf team became the first program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. 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 four of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green & 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 26 consecutive semesters. The past six semesters (Fall 2019 – Spring 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative team GPA. 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.
 
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