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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The FGCU baseball record books took a beating by the 2023 Eagles, as several single-game, single-season and career accomplishments both by individuals and the team set marks that could stand for some time.

In all, the 2023 squad broke 30 different records –  13 team season records, six individual season records, six individual career records, three individual game records and two team game records.
 
Among the most significant was FGCU's 142 home runs, which not only led the nation in 2023 but eclipsed the program's single-season mark by an incredible 48 homers from the previous record (94, 2022). To put in perspective, the 48-homer difference is more than 12 previous FGCU teams mustered in their respective seasons.
 
FGCU (42-18) also snapped its own single-season record with 578 runs – which currently also leads the nation and was 66 runs clear of the 2007 squad. FGCU's .593 slugging percentage also leads the nation, and was 79 points higher than the 2003 Eagles.
 
The Green & Blue's 550 RBIs in 2023 re-sets the single-season school record by 100 over the 2022 squad. And FGCU drew a single-season program record 310 walks (305, 2017). And FGCU's 1,252 total bases in 2023 were an incredible 221 total bases over 2010's previous record.
 
FGCU batters were plunked 126 times by pitches in 2023, 14 more than the 112 by the 2022 team. The Eagles also recorded a single-season record 35 sacrifice flies (34, 2013).
 
FGCU pitchers didn't fare quite as well, as the 2023 Eagles recorded the highest earned run average (6.11), most earned runs allowed (346), most runs allowed (407), most intentional walks allowed (12) and most home runs allowed (75).
 
Sophomore infielder Edrick Felix (Orlando, Fla./Victory Charter HS/College of Central Florida) set several individual records in 2023. The ASUN Player of the Year slugged .774 to snap broke Zach Mayfield's slugging percentage record (.738, 2009), and he also outlasted his own teammate – senior infielder Alejandro Figueredo (Sucre, Venezuela/West Oaks HS/Seminole State) to hit a single-season record 25 home runs. Figueredo finished with 23 homers, which also bested Ian Farrow's previous record of 21 set in 2022.
 
Felix also drove in a school-record 83 runs, outlasting the 77 that senior infielder Joe Kinker (North Port HS, Venice HS) recorded – both of which were better than Farrow's 75 in 2022. Felix (188) and Figueredo (167) each tallied more total bases than did Tim Roberson in 2009.
 
Graduate outfielder Brian Ellis (Oviedo, Fla./Hagerty HS) broke his own single-season school record by scoring 80 runs – six more than in 2022. Junior infielder/pitcher Jacob Lojewski (West Palm Beach, Fla./Delray American Heritage HS) was hit by a single-season record 24 pitches, outlasting Ellis' 21 HBP that was also Mike Cleghorn's 2006 record.
 
Kinker snapped Nick Rivera's previous career home run record (46, 2013-17) early in the 2023 season, and finished with 61 homers. Kinker also struck out a career-high 277 times (200, Marc Coffers, 2017-21) and struck out looking a career-high 94 times (54, Gage Morey, 2014-18).
 
Felix's .774 slugging percentage eclipses the career record of .690 set by Chris Brown (2003-04). Senior outfielder Jalen Townsend (Orlando, Fla./Winter Park HS) set school's career stolen base percentage record at .895 (34 of 38 attempts).
 
Ellis was hit by 61 pitches in his career, which erases the mark of 58 set by Chris Perry (2003-06).
 
Senior pitcher LJ McDonough (Blanchard, Okla./Blanchard HS/Wichita State) finished his career in Green & Blue with 11.60 strikes/nine innings – which eclipses Chris Sale's former record of 11.53 (2008-10).
 
FGCU's seven home runs in a 28-7 victory against North Alabama on March 24 ties for the most in a single game. FGCU also allowed a single-game record 15 walks at Eastern Kentucky on April 14.
 
Senior catcher/infielder Alejandro Rodriguez (Cidra, Puerto Rico/Montverde Academy/Eastern Florida State) tied Graig Smith's single-game record of 18 putouts at FIU on April 19. Rodriguez also allowed a single-game-most seven stolen bases against Jacksonville on March 25. Freshman pitcher Justin Henschel (Plantation, Fla./South Plantation HS) tied Michael Murray (3-27-15) by allowing four homers against Jacksonville State on April 22.
 
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COACH TOLLETT
FGCU coach Dave Tollett currently owns a 713-426-3 overall record (.626) and a 248-140 (.639) 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 16 seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 12 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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