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TAMPA, Fla. – The No. 30 FGCU baseball team (30-11) continued its torrid offensive binge Tuesday, smacking three home runs in a 14-3 rout of South Florida at USF Baseball Stadium.
 
Sophomore outfielder Harrison Povey (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla./Largo HS) belted two three-run homers in the latest power surge, and junior infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) cranked his team-leading 19^th homer as part of a 13-hit barrage.
 
Eight of the nine Eagles who came to the plate notched hits against South Florida (17-25), which lost its fourth game out of the last five overall and third straight to FGCU – which is now 20-8 all-time against the Bulls. FGCU's three homers makes 98 for the season, already a school record.
 
"That was a really good game for us all the way around – from the offensive side, with us piecing it together on the pitching side, and playing good defense," said FGCU head baseball coach Dave Tollett. "It was a good, good mid-week win for us all the way around."
 
South Florida struck first, as Daniel Cantu belted a two-run homer in the first off FGCU senior Stephen Wilmer (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview HS/Pasco-Hernando State/ECU) – who was making his first collegiate start on the mound. But Wilmer almost instantly settled down, finishing three innings with just that blemish against three strikeouts.
 
Wilmer helped his own cause in the second with an RBI single, and the Eagles tied it up in the third on a RBI single from and senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State).
 
Even though the Bulls had seen FGCU's lineup twice through four innings, the Bulls were wholly unprepared for what was to come in the fifth – a seven-run explosion that began with Felix's mammoth solo shot to center, continued with a run via a USF error and another on an RBI single from graduate outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS), and ended with Povey gofling a three-run shot to right nearly off his shoe-tops.
 
"We had some big hits with two outs, and Povey got two really good swings," Tollett said. "Things like that show that our offense came to play today."
 
South Florida had a chance to substantially narrow the margin in the sixth, loading the bases with no outs. But FGGU junior reliever William Haberstock (Roswell, Ga./Centennial HS/North Alabama) forced a ground ball fielder's choice, then another that the Eagles defense turned into an inning-ending double play after allowing just one run.
 
The Eagles then put it out of reach for good in the seventh – dropping five more runs on the Bulls to complete the season sweep. Povey ripped his second three-run homer to right, USF wild-pitched a run home and Figueredo added a sacrifice fly.

Ellis finished 2-for-4 with a walk, extending his unofficial NCAA record for consecutive games safely reached base to 110. Wilmer earned the victory, with USF's Chandler Dorsey taking the loss.
 
The Eagles remain on the road this weekend, traveling to Clarksville, Tenn., to face Austin Peay in a three-game ASUN series beginning Friday night.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 701-419-3 overall record (.626) and a 241-134 (.643) 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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FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 98 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. 15 in 2023), beach volleyball (No. 20 in 2022), and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as five 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 3.67 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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