JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville University baseball dropped the final game of the series at North Florida on Sunday, falling 11-3 at Harmon Stadium.
 
Jacksonville (20-12, 6-3) surrendered the lead in the fourth and did not manage another run in dropping its first conference series of the year.
 
"I think for the first four innings, we played extremely competitive baseball. We were focused, we were locked in," said Head Coach Chris Hayes. "Credit to UNF, they made it very uncomfortable for us.
 
"They pounded the baseball and their pitcher turned it up a notch after they took the lead."

UNF jumped ahead for the third straight day, and put up a crooked number in the first for the second game in a row. A single and a double led off the inning, before an RBI groundout and a sacrifice fly gave the Ospreys the early 2-0 advantage.
 
JU answered right back in the second, also putting the first two men on and bringing them in to score. Scott Dubrule reached on an error and Cory Heffron was hit by a pitch before Jacob Southern singled to load the bases. Cory Garrastazu plated Dubrule on a groundout to first and John Cassala lifted a sacrifice fly to center to tie it at two.
 
In the fourth, Jacksonville took its first lead with a two-out rally. Cassala poked a single into the outfield and advanced to second on a wild pitch, coming home on Reagan Wright's third RBI single of the weekend to put the Dolphins in front 3-2.
 
The lead was short lived, as UNF collected three consecutive singles to begin the bottom of the fourth, the third of which drove in two to put the Ospreys back ahead 4-3. Two batters later another RBI single made it 5-3 and AJ Jones (4-2) did not make it out of the inning.
 
UNF tacked on three more runs in the fifth, two more in the sixth and one in the eighth to keep the pressure on JU, who did not manage another run, and only advanced a runner into scoring position one time the rest of the game.
 
With the loss, JU dropped its first series to the crosstown rivals since 2015. At 6-3, the Dolphins sit in second in the ASUN Conference, a game behind Liberty after three weeks of league play.
 
After finishing its longest road trip of the season with a 5-2 record, Jacksonville finally returns home to face UCF for the fourth time this season on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. The Dolphins previously took one of three from the Knights in Orlando back in March.