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J.T. Wilcox
5
Florida Memorial FMU21 13-22, 6-17 TSC
12
Winner Southeastern SEUBA21 36-4, 14-3 TSC
Florida Memorial FMU21
13-22, 6-17 TSC
5
Final
12
Southeastern SEUBA21
36-4, 14-3 TSC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Florida Memorial FMU21 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 3 1
Southeastern SEUBA21 4 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 X 12 16 1

W: Jayden Hartle (2-1) L: Fernandez, Rafael (4-3)

0
Florida Memorial FMU21 37-4, 6-18 TSC
6
Winner Southeastern SEUBA21 13-23, 15-3 TSC
Florida Memorial FMU21
37-4, 6-18 TSC
0
Final
6
Southeastern SEUBA21
13-23, 15-3 TSC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Florida Memorial FMU21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Southeastern SEUBA21 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 X 6 12 0

W: Zach Rice (5-0) L: Negron, Krystian (3-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | J.T. Wilcox, Sports Information Director

Lions Drop Two Saturday, Gets Swept By No. 2 Southeastern

LAKELAND, Fla. – Florida Memorial University battled No. 2 Southeastern University to a bitter end in the series-opening game between the teams Friday and hoped that performance could be a momentum-carrying precursor for the remaining two games Saturday.
 
Unfortunately, the Lions couldn't put up the same kind of fight as they dropped both games of Saturday's doubleheader and yielded a series sweep to the Fire.
 
FMU fell behind early – thanks to three Fire home runs in the first two innings and four total – in the Saturday's first game and could never climb out of the hole and fell 12-5. The second game was an even tougher outing as Southeastern hit three more home runs and handed the Lions a 6-0 loss.
 
While Florida Memorial (13-23, 6-18 The Sun Conference) had its streak of games recording at least six hits snapped in Friday's game against SEU, the Fire once again quieted the Lions' bats Saturday – holding FMU to three hits in each of Saturday's games.
 
Manuel Mollinedo, Luis Rivera, and Nathan Harris Jr. were recorded the three FMU hits in the first game. Because hits were at a premium, Florida Memorial's offense was aided by the eight walks the batting order drew against the Southeastern pitchers along with capitalizing on a couple of pass balls to manufacture runs in the third and fifth innings.
 
Rivera went 1-for-2 in the first game with 2 runs scored while Zachary Urso, Yunior Sanchez, and Julio Creazzola all scored runs.
 
Senior pitcher Rafael Fernandez, who had back-to-back strong outings for the Lions over the past two weeks didn't have the same mojo working as he was the starter for Saturday's first game. Fernandez went just 4 and two-third innings on the mound while giving up 11 hits to just 4 strikeouts. Ramon Garcia, who entered in relief of Fernandez, pitched well – throwing 3 and a third innings while allowing just 1 hit and 1 earned run – but Florida Memorial had already fallen into too deep of a deficit.
 
Saturday's second game saw Southeastern hit three homers – a solo shot sandwiched between a pair of 2-run jacks – to build a 5-0 lead by the end of the seventh inning.
 
The Fire tacked on a punctuation run in the bottom of the eighth and kept the clamps on Florida Memorial's bats to seal the 6-0 final.
 
FMU, which is set to play at Georgia Gwinnett next weekend, got single hits from Creazzola, Axel Gomez, and Jalen Young.
 
Senior Krystian Negron started the second game for the Lions and threw seven full innings – giving up 9 hits and 5 runs, striking out 2 and forcing 14 flyouts.
 
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