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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The 19^th-ranked FGCU baseball team continued its torrid offensive spree Wednesday night, hitting three home runs en route to a 12-5 victory over FIU at FIU Baseball Stadium.
 
FGCU improves to 18-4 this season heading into a three-game weekend series at North Alabama. Wednesday's three homers give the Eagles 43 for the season, the most in the ASUN and tied for 11^th in the country. FIU falls to 12-10. Wednesday marked the 13th multi-homer game for FGCU this season, and the Eagles lead the ASUN in homers.
 
Sophomore outfielder Harrison Povey (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla./Largo HS), senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) and by junior infielder/pitcher Jacob Lojewski (West Palm Beach, Fla./Delray American Heritage HS) all went deep for FGCU – which improved to 6-3 against in-state schools.
 
Junior William Haberstock (Roswell, Ga./Centennial HS/North Alabama) earned the win in relief of sophomore starter Jackson Woodward (Titusville, Fla. Titusville HS Eastern Florida State College), scattering four hits over four innings and recording four strikeouts.
 
"We had 10 hits and they had nine, but ours were just a little bit louder," said FGCU head baseball coach Dave Tollett. "Mid-week games are tough, and those two guys really stepped up. (Redshirt freshman) Dylan Wolff did a decent job, too, in the end. These are huge wins for us, these mid-weeks against state schools."
 
FGCU wasted little time smacking baseballs all over FIU Baseball Stadium, as senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) ripped a two-run double down the left-field line, and junior infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) lifted a sacrifice fly for a 3-0 lead in the first inning.
 
FIU responded in the bottom of the first with two runs to trim the margin, but that seemed to just kick FGCU into another gear – as Lojewski and Povey each launched solo homers in the top of the second to make it 5-2.
 
The Panthers trimmed it to 5-3 in the fifth, but FGCU roared back again in the seventh. Senior designated hitter Joe Kinker (North Port, Fla./Venice HS) roped an RBI double to left and Rodriguez added an RBI single for a 7-3 advantage.
 
The eighth saw more FGCU fireworks, as redshirt senior outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS) doubled in another run and Figueredo cranked a three-run homer – his eighth of the season – to left for a 12-4 lead. FIU was only able to muster a run in the bottom of the ninth before Wolff shut the Panthers down for good.

Ellis went 1-for-3 and was hit by pitches twice, reaching base in his 91st consecutive game, which is 10 games shy of matching an unofficial NCAA record held by Mark Payton of Texas over the course of the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
 
The Eagles continue their road trip with a three-game set beginning Friday at ASUN foe North Alabama. FGCU returns home March 31-April 2 to face Jacksonville at Swanson Stadium.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 689-412-3 overall record (.625) and a 230-118 (.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 96 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 48 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. Nine FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20 in 2021-22 and No. 22 in 2022-23), baseball (No. 19 in 2023), 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 3.66 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 27 consecutive semesters. The past seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 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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