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SERIES THREAD: FAU @ Florida International - May 16-18, 2013

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What:    Florida Atlantic (32-20,16-11) at Florida International (25-27, 13-14)

When:  Thu, May 16 at 6:00 p.m.
              Fri, May 17 at 6:00 p.m.
              Sat, May 18 at 1:00 p.m.

WhereFIU Baseball Stadium


Audio:    Here

Stats:    Here


Series:  The Owls lead 49-44 all time versus the Panthers.


Projected Starting Pitchers:


Thu:        FAU - LHP Austin Gomber (5-4, 3.04 ERA)
              FIU - LHP Tyler Alexander (4-6, 4.46 ERA)

Fri:          FAU - RHP Jeremy Strawn (4-2, 3.44 ERA)
              FIU - RHP Mike Franco (5-4, 5.11 ERA)

Sat:        FAU - TBA
              FIU - RHP Alex Seibold (3-5, 4.13 ERA)


As the call went out to finish strong, the Owls have responded. Winners of four straight, and the last 5-of-8, the team polished off Central Florida 4-3 on Tuesday night to complete a regular season sweep of the neighbors to the north.

The Owls retook the lead in SBC team pitching with the recent performances, and now stand once again in the top spot at 3.83 overall. That's almost a quarter run better than South Alabama, who sits second with a 4.06 overall ERA.


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Bo Logan (photo above) had his best outing on the season in mid relief Tuesday, tossing 50 pitches over 3.2 innings, and striking out a career high six batters. He could see time again this weekend at a point from Friday forward, as his pitch count was second longest of the season behind a 54 ball effort against Troy back in April.

Also on the mound, FAU has a national story in the making in that of  Hugh Adams. The Maryland native registered his 27th career save last night, and is now just one shy of tying the all-time Sun Belt record of 28 set in that area by former USF pitcher Bob Undorf. Safe to assume the mark will tumble when it is all said and done.

Offensively, after being out for a spell, Brendon Sanger made his way back into the top 15 conference hitters. He's raised his production to a healthy mark of .344 to lead the Owls, and also has a team best 38 runs scored. Center fielder Nathan Pittman is getting aboard at a stealth .447 clip, placing him 7th in the conference.

Although being out scored 17-13 in the final run tally, FAU came away with a 2-1 series victory against FIU (6-0, 6-5, 1-12) back in March in Boca Raton. Austin Gomber tossed 7.1 innings while allowing eight hits, as Florida Atlantic shut out FIU in game one to kick things off.

But the remaining games will need to stay in favor of the visitors. Head Coach John McCormack (below) sees 34 wins as the pivot point for post season consideration heading into the Sun Belt Tournament without a victory therein. If he's right, one loss won't kill the chances, as FAU is also gracing the projection sites once again ahead of the weekend's action.


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As far as the competition goes, FIU is coming off a winning weekend after taking two of three games from Arkansas-Little Rock.

Junior Tyler Alexander started things off on Friday with a 13 strikeout performance to notch his fourth victory of the season and offensive leader Aramis Garcia drove in a career-best five runs with two doubles.

Most importantly, the win snapped an alarming nine game skid dating back to an April 27th match-up against ULL.

The Trojans would take the second game of the series 1-0 on Saturday in a pitcher's duel before the Panthers earned a 7-1 Sunday victory to clinch the series. Garcia (49 RBI, 4th SBC) went 2-for-4 with a homer, double and three runs driven in for the finale and 3B Josh Anderson added two doubles and two RBI.

Like the Owls, the Panthers had trouble with Troy the weekend prior, going down in sweeping fashion (5-11, 3-14, 1-3).

Florida International has a current mark of 19-15 at home on the season, while the Owls are 12-8 away from FAU Baseball Stadium. Friday's contest has been moved up to a 6:00 PM start.
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