TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Snapping a five-game winning streak, the Jacksonville University baseball team dropped a weekday matchup in Tallahassee against No. 16 Florida St. on Tuesday evening. The Dolphins (5-3) split the season series with the Seminoles (5-3) and continues on the road against Winthrop on Friday, Feb. 27.

"We didn't take advantage of the opportunities that were given to us," said head coach Tim Montez. "On the road, you need to capitalize on every scoring opportunity. We let them off the hook and we didn't play clean in all phases of the game. Our composure, being on the road for the first time, was a little different than in the comfort of our home. Seeing different body languages, but it is a learning process for us and its good to be in that situation. We have to learn from it, put this one behind us and get ready for a tough weekend series against a good Winthrop team."

Jacksonville out hit FSU 16-11, the most of any team against the Seminoles this season leading to scores in four of the last six innings, but the home team scored four in the sixth inning to to take a two-run lead.  

In the eighth inning down 9-6, the Dolphins would continue to claw back as Angelo Amendolare would record his fourth hit of the game, being it a double to centerfield for his second of the like on the evening. The senior is batting .650 in his last four games (13-for-20). The nation's leading RBI getter, Connor Marabell continued his clutch hitting with an RBI-single in the same frame, extending his games with an RBI to eight-straight. 

FSU would answer with one right back in the eighth after Nathan Disch would strike out two and continue his campaign with no earned runs. Trouble arose when a fly-out to Marabell in foul territory deep enough to provoke the runner at third to attempt the score, Ruckel would gather and throw back to third base, ricocheting off the runner, leading to the score. 

Starting with a JJ Gould (0-for-3) walk to begin the sixth inning, the junior would tally his first stolen base as a Dolphin, and later score off a Parker Perez (2-for-4) single. Amendolare drove in his 11th RBI of the year along with his third hit of the game, with a single on a 2-2 count. 

Jacksonville would get to starting pitcher Bryant Holtmann in the fifth inning, knocking him around for three-runs on five-straight hits. Cameron Gibson (2-for-5) delivered yet again with a two-RBI double after a single by Garret Ruckel (2-for-4) and Perez's first double of 2015—scored on the play. Amendolare recorded his fourth-straight multi-hit effort after a double in the first, and a single in the fifth.

With Marabell tacking on a single for his 20th-straight game reaching base, the bases were loaded for Austin Hays (1-for-4) who fought off nine pitches from incoming pitcher Drew Carlton to drive a fly into left field, scoring Gibson and tying the game at four-apiece.

In the fourth inning, the Dolphins would score one as Drew Luther (2-for-4) RBI-single scored Austin Hays, who singled. Before Luther, Dylan Dillard (1-for-2) doubled down the third-base line for his second of the year and was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second. One run on three hits for the Fins.

FSU's big inning would come in the sixth when they would tally four runs on four hits including a two-run homerun by Darren Miller. The win goes to Dylan Silva (1-0) who went 1.2 IP recording four strikeouts, while Billy Strode records the save, his second.       

Redshirt-junior Jeff Tanner (1-1) threw 60 pitches in 3.1 innings surrendering four earned runs and striking out three. Josh Baker relieved Tanner going two innings, striking out two, three earned runs. Spencer Stockton entered in the sixth, giving up two earned, on three hits. 

A LOOK AHEAD

The Dolphins continue their road swing with a trip to Winthrop for a weekend series beginning, Friday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m., and concluding on Sunday, March 1, at 1 p.m. before returning home for a weekday matchup with Florida A&M, Tuesday, March 3 at 5 p.m.

'FIN NOTABLES

• The 16 hits recorded by the Dolphins were the most in a game this season, and most on the Seminoles for the year.
• Marabell has recorded hits in 17-of-19 games dating back to last season
• Amendolare had two doubles for the second-consecutive game
• Hays extends his hitting streak to six games
• Gibson has hits in seven-of-eight games this season
• Perez recorded his ninth hit of the season, has 33 for his career
• Luther captures first RBI of 2015
• Disch recorded his 11th strikeout, two today
• Dillard has hit safely in three-straight games

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