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SERIES THREAD: FAU vs Charlotte - Apr 5th - 7th, 2019

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Typical  fau style. Get to the bull pen, then beat them up. What a roll this team is on.
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Down 5-0 through three, and without a hit until the fourth, the Florida Atlantic University baseball team would go on to score 12 unanswered runs and finish out the weekend sweep of Charlotte on Sunday afternoon, 12-5.

With the win, the Owls improved to 23-9 overall, and stayed atop the Conference USA standings at 11-1. The team is now 20-3 in their last 23, and 17-2 in the last 19.

Charlotte (12-18-1, 3-8-1 C-USA) jumped out early, scoring twice in the first and adding three in the third. Meanwhile, the Owl bats were limited to just a walk through three, and the first hit didn’t come until the fourth. They chipped away at the deficit, making it 5-3 in the fifth in a six-hit frame, and then took the lead for good with six in the sixth.

Michael Schuler came on in the third and limited the damage, then threw scoreless innings from the fourth through the seventh. In fact, Owl relievers in the series combined to throw 16 2/3 innings of no-run baseball. That included two frames by Vince Coletti to close out Sunday. He was buoyed by three more runs by the FAU offense in the ninth for the final margin.

“I told the team after the game, I thought this was one of our better wins", said Head Coach John McCormack. "Coming off an extra-inning game, you’ve won the series, sometimes there’s a letdown. We did not get off to a good start, down five-nothing in the third, but they just kept grinding."

Schuler (2-1) got the win in his longest outing as an Owl, 4 2/3 innings. Ten of the first 12 outs he recorded were flyouts, and he did not walk a batter.

Four Owls had multi-hit games: Urbaez with three hits, and with two apiece, Rivera, Joe Montes and Wilfredo Alvarez. Pages, Montes and Alvarez all scored two runs each.

- FAU Baseball SID Jonathan Fraysure

UPDATED SCHEDULE: 2019 FAU Baseball Schedule - FAU Owl's Nest
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