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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The No. 30 FGCU baseball team (31-11 overall, 14-5 ASUN Conference) opened a key ASUN series Friday night with another offensive eruption, blasting four home runs among 15 hits in a 12-2 victory over Austin Peay at Raymond C. Hand Park.
 
The four homers give FGCU a nation-best 102 home runs this year, which has also smashed the single-season school record. The Eagles also notched three doubles, which makes 102 this season – making the Green & Blue the only team in the country with 100-plus home runs and 100-plus doubles.
 
More importantly, FGCU maintained its grip on a share of first in the ASUN, as Lipscomb also earned a victory against Eastern Kentucky to also move to 14-5 in the league. Austin Peay dropped to 22-21 overall and 12-7 in the ASUN.
 
Senior pitcher/outfielder Stephen Wilmer (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview HS/Pasco-Hernando State/ECU), graduate outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS), senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State), and sophomore outfielder Harrison Povey (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla./Largo HS) all went deep Friday night for FGCU.
 
Senior catcher/infielder Alejandro Rodriguez (Cidra, Puerto Rico/Montverde Academy/Eastern Florida State) went 4-for-6 with two doubles and three RBIs. Senior right-hander Nick Love (Fernandina Beach, Fla./Yulee HS/Central College of Florida/Jacksonville) turned in arguably his best start of 2023, scattering four hits over 6 2/3 innings with six strikeouts to improve to 3-1.

"This is such a special group, and tonight it came from Rodriguez hitting in the 8-hole," said FGCU head baseball coach Dave Tollett. "Hitting four out of the park is big, but I thought it was a complete game. We got a great start from Nick Love on a Friday night, and played really well defensively."
 
Wilmer kicked things off in the second in grand fashion, bashing the first pitch he saw from Austin Peay starter Jacob Kush (6-1) over the right-field fence for a 1-0 FGCU lead.
 
The Governors tied it on a sacrifice fly in the third inning, but Ellis untied it in the fourth with a two-run homer to right-center that made it 3-1 and also extended his unofficial NCAA record for consecutive games reaching base to 111.

Austin Peay trimmed that deficit to 3-2 in the fourth, only to see FGCU erupt for three runs in the fifth. Figueredo launched his 14^th homer of the season deep to left-center, sophomore infielder Jake Mummau (Palm Harbor, Fla./Palm Harbor University HS/St. Petersburg College) singled up the middle to score a run, and Rodriguez doubled Wilmer home for a 6-2 advantage.
 
Senior designated hitter Joe Kinker (North Port, Fla./Venice HS) belted a two-run single in the seventh to make it 8-2, and the Eagles tacked on four insurance runs in the ninth – as Povey launched a solo homer to right, Rodriguez singled in a run, and a final run was pushed across via a Governors wild pitch.
 
The two teams take the field again at 2 p.m. Saturday. FGCU expects to start freshman Justin Henschel (Plantation, Fla./South Plantation HS) opposite Austin Peay's Lyle Miller-Green.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 702-419-3 overall record (.626) and a 242-134 (.644) 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 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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