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BOCA RATON, Fla. – The FGCU baseball team (37-15) dropped its final mid-week game of the regular season Tuesday, falling 15-5 to Florida Atlantic in eight innings at the FAU Baseball Stadium.
FGCU went 7-5 this season in mid-week games, but was 1-3 against the Owls. FAU improved to 30-23 heading into its final Conference USA series at UAB. The Eagles also finished the regular season with a 19-9 record away from Swanson Stadium
The Eagles now focus on a three-game series beginning Thursday at home against Kennesaw State (23-27 overall, 12-15 ASUN). At 19-8 in the ASUN Conference, FGCU is a game behind Lipscomb for first place. The Green & Blue have a chance to lock up the regular season title and the No. 1 seed in next week's ASUN Championship tournament by finishing tied with the Bisons – as FGCU likely holds the tiebreaker on the virtue of a stronger NCAA RPI rating.
FGCU clubbed two home runs Tuesday afternoon against FAU, extending its national lead to 122 homers. Both senior outfielder
Stephen Wilmer (
Sarasota, Fla./Riverview HS/Pasco-Hernando State/ECU) and senior first baseman
Alejandro Figueredo (
Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) went deep with solo shots for the Eagles.
"We were in a tough situation today on a short week with our pitching staff," said FGCU head baseball coach
Dave Tollett. "We are set and ready for senior weekend."
The Green & Blue gave up 15 hits to the Owls, with Armando Albert and Jackson Ross each homering. Tollett sent eight pitchers to the mound, with graduate
Max Rippl (
Fort Myers, Fla./Southwest Florida Christian Academy/Kent State) absorbing the loss.
Aside from Wilmer and Figueredo, who each also recorded RBI doubles, FGCU managed just five hits.
The Kennesaw State series begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Friday's game is also set for 6:30 p.m., with Saturday's game at 1 p.m. FGCU's 10 seniors will be celebrated pre-game before Saturday's regular-season finale.
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach
Dave Tollett currently owns a 708-423-3 overall record (.626) and a 247-138 (.642) 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 49 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 3.57 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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