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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The No. 30 FGCU baseball team (30-11 overall, 13-5 ASUN Conference) travel to Clarksville, Tenn., this weekend for a key weekend conference series against Austin Peay. First pitch in Friday's series opener is set for 7 p.m., and will be televised on ESPN+.
 
The Eagles are tied with Lipscomb atop the ASUN standings, one game ahead of Austin Peay (22-20, 12-6) and Stetson (24-17, 12-6) – next weekend's opponents for the Green & Blue.
 
FGCU is coming off a 14-3, seven-inning rout of South Florida – a victory that earned a series sweep against the Bulls. The Eagles swatted three home runs in Tuesday's blowout, raising their season mark to 98 home runs – already a school record, and also the most homers by any program in the country.
 
The Green & Blue lead the country in scoring (10.2 runs per game), runs (418), homers per game (2.39) and slugging percentage (.605). FGCU is also third in on-base percentage (.442) and hit-by pitch (93), fourth in hits (474), and fifth in batting average (.327).
 
Junior infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) is the hottest FGCU hitter in a stacked lineup – as he leads the Eagles with a .411 batting average, .881 slugging percentage, 20 doubles, 19 home runs and 59 RBIs. Felix is just two homers shy of equaling Ian Farrow's single-season school record set in 2022.
 
Felix is hardly alone, though, as eight FGCU position players are hitting at least .300, and six Eagles have hit at least 10 home runs – as 5.5 percent of the team's plate appearances have resulted in home runs this season.
 
Graduate outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS), who has a shot at setting the FGCU career record for on-base percentage (his .493 career OBP is level with the mark set by Chris Brown in 2003-04) has already broken the unofficial NCAA record for consecutive games safely reaching base – a 110-game streak entering the weekend.
 
The Governors are 11-6 at home and have won four straight at Raymond C. Hand Park. Austin Peay won its fifth ASUN series and fourth straight by taking two of three on the road at Jacksonville last weekend. The Governors earned a walk-off victory Wednesday against Western Kentucky.
 
Lyle Miller-Green leads Austin Peay with a .380 batting average to go with 12 home runs, and Garrett Martin is hitting .337 with a team-best 15 homers. The Governors hit .309 as a team, 18 points behind FGCU but still second in the conference.
 
FGCU sends senior Nick Love (Fernandina Beach, Fla./Yulee HS/Central College of Florida/Jacksonville) to the mound Friday night. Austin Peay will counter with Jacob Kush.
 
Friday marks the first meeting between Austin Peay and FGCU on the diamond. First pitch Saturday is set for 2 p.m., with Sunday's series finale at 1 p.m.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 701-419-3 overall record (.625) 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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#FEEDFGCU
FGCU Athletics sponsors events in November and April to benefit the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food Bank (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics' charities of choice. For more information, including how to make a contribution, please visit https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry and utilize the hashtag #FeedFGCU to help raise awareness. 
 
ABOUT FGCU
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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