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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The 2023 FGCU baseball team (6-1) turned in its most dramatic victory of the young 2023 season Saturday afternoon, as junior catcher Mac Moise (Cape Coral, Fla./Ida Baker HS) delivered a pinch-hit single in the bottom of the ninth inning to outlast UMass Lowell 7-6 at Swanson Stadium.
 
The victory is FGCU's fifth in a row at home this season, and it drops the River Hawks to 0-5.
 
Junior infielder/pitcher Jacob Lojewski (West Palm Beach, Fla./Delray American Heritage HS) continued his torrid start, going 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Both junior outfielder Harrison Povey (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla./Largo HS) and senior designated hitter Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) hit home runs.
 
FGCU almost wasted a superb start by junior pitcher Mason Miller (Odessa, Fla./Mitchell HS), who was sterling through five compete innings – not allowing a hit and striking out 11 on 88 pitches.
 
"Five innings and no hits with 11 punchies is so good, and he has been great so far as a 1-2 combination with Woody," said FGCU head baseball coach Dave Tollett of Miller's Saturday presence behind junior right-hander Jason Woodward (Titusville, Fla./Titusville HS). "We just kinda went through the motions a little bit at times, and I thought we would be better than that. It is not up to our expectations."
 
The Eagles overcame a two-error lead in the top of the first that allowed a UMass Lowell run when Povey launched a two-run homer to right and Lojewski got plunked with the bases loaded for a 3-1 advantage.
 
The Green & Blue added to its lead in the third via Lojewski's RBI single to left, and made it 5-1 with Figueredo belted a solo shot to center field.
 
The River Hawks would score a run in the seventh on an FGCU passed ball, and took a 6-5 lead in the eighth courtesy of shortstop Fritz Genther's opposite-field three-run homer.
 
"That kind of woke us up," Tollett said. "It seems like in the middle innings we are taking melatonin or something. We need to play nine and keep the pressure on, to add more when we have the lead."
 
That deficit wouldn't last long, however, as senior first baseman Joe Kinker (Titusville, Fla./Venice HS) just missed a homer to right that still easily sacrificed Povey in from third to make it 6-6.
 
FGCU turned a huge inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth, and then loaded the bases in the bottom half on base hits by Lojewski and junior infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) and an intentional walk to sophomore infielder Jake Mummau (Palm Harbor, Fla./Palm Harbor University HS/St. Petersburg College).
 
Moise drew the pinch-hitting assignment, and smacked a 1-0 pitch down the left-field line to score Felix and touch off a wild celebration in the middle of the Swanson Stadium diamond.


The two teams complete the three-game series at 10 a.m. Saturday at Swanson Stadium. FGCU is scheduled to Lojewski (0-0, 4.91 ERA) opposite UMass Lowell graduate right-hander Matt Draper (0-1, 9.64 ERA).
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 677-409-3 overall record (.622) 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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