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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Despite two home runs Saturday from junior infielder Jacob Lojewski (West Palm Beach, Fla./Delray American Heritage HS), the FGCU baseball team absorbed a second straight loss to North Florida – falling 11-7 to the Ospreys at Harmon Stadium.

The setback assured only the second ASUN series loss for FGCU (36-14 overall, 8-8 ASUN) this season, and dropped the Eagles 1½ games behind Lipscomb for the conference lead. North Florida, which is battling to secure a spot in the ASUN Championship that FGCU locked down Friday night, improved 28-23 overall and 13-13 in the ASUN.
 
"I felt like we were playing ourselves today," said FGCU head coach Dave Tollett. "They took walks in good at-bats and capitalized on them, just like we do. That isn't much fun to watch from the other side. If you break down the game, they scored 10 runs with two outs – and nine of them with no one on and two outs."
 
FGCU's offense delivered considerably more than it did in Friday's 9-1 loss to open the series – rattling off 10 hits to double the output from the night before. But Lojewski produced all but one of the Eagles' runs on just two swings. Entering Saturday with 16 homers, Lojewski belted a two-run shot to left-center field in the seventh. Just an inning later, Lojewski cranked a line-drive grand slam to left.
 
By the time Lojewski began perfecting his home-run trot, though, the Green & Blue were looking up once again at the Opsreys on the scoreboard. FGCU opened with a 1-0 lead in the first via a sacrifice fly from sophomore infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida), but surrendered that lead in the bottom of the first and went down 2-1 through two innings.
 
North Florida widened its lead with a three-run fourth inning, and made it 9-1 with a four-run fifth. The Ospreys also equaled Lojewski's first homer with one of their own in the seventh to extend their advantage to 11-3.
 
FGCU now has hit 117 home runs through 50 games, which leads the nation. The Eagles are also the only program in the country with at least 110 doubles (FGCU has 110) and 110 homers.
 
A day after his national-record 117-game streak of reaching base safely, FGCU graduate outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS) went 2-for-5 with a run scored. Lojewski led the Eagles with three hits, and senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) added two hits. Freshman right-hander Justin Henschel (Plantation, Fla./South Plantation HS) absorbed the loss for FGCU, with Dominick Madonna earning the victory.
 
The two teams conclude the weekend series at 1:05 p.m. Sunday. FGCU is expected to start senior left-hander Stephen Wilmer (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview HS/Pasco-Hernando State/ECU) against UNF right-hander Clayton Boroski.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 707-422-3 overall record (.626) and a 246-138 (.641) 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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