CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Jacksonville University baseball scored four runs in the top of the ninth to break a 2-2 draw and captured a win over a ranked foe for the second-straight Wednesday, defeating #14/#17 Miami 6-3 at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.
 
The Dolphins (9-5) got a dominant start from Richard Long, who no-hit the Hurricanes over a career-best 5.2 innings, and posted crooked numbers in both the third and ninth innings to win the 102nd meeting all-time between the two schools.
 
JU got on the board first, plating two in the third. Elias Flowers led off the inning with a ground-rule double. Chase Malloy stood in to bunt him over, but worked the count full and swung away, pounding a two-run homer to left.
 
Miami got its first baserunner of the game with a walk to lead-off the third. The runner stole second and took third on a groundout, but Long struck out two to strand him there.
 
JU loaded the bases in the fifth with two-outs, but were kept scoreless. Again, in the sixth, the Dolphins loaded them, using a leadoff single by Colin Wetterau, an error on a sacrifice bunt and a bunt single to put men at every base. A flyball to left for the first out turned into two, with the Miami left fielder throwing out Wetterau at the plate. The Hurricanes buckled down and kept the Dolphins off the board again.
 
In the bottom half of the sixth, Miami finally started something on offense. After he struck out the side to end the fifth, Long came back out for the sixth and got a flyout to right on his first pitch. He hit the next batter and walked the one following and gave way to Bryce Fisher. A chopper to third turned into an infield single, and, after a strikeout, a two-RBI single to left tied the game at two.
 
Cam Ridley singled to center to start the seventh and went station-to-station until he was stranded at third. On the other side, Fisher and Leighton Alley combined to hold the Hurricanes scoreless in the seventh and the eighth, stranding two on in the latter inning, in part due to Justin Nadeau's glove flip to second to force out the final runner of the inning.
 
The big ninth started with one-out when Malloy drew a walk. Cam Ridley then singled to right and Kris Armstrong drew a walk to load the bases for the third time in the game. This time, JU delivered. Hogan McIntosh sent a single the other way to right to plate one, a wild pitch scored another and Nadeau smoked a single to center to plate two more, making it 6-2.
 
In the bottom half, the Canes got one back, but Chris Lotito induced a double-play, turned unassisted by Malloy, to end it.
 
ON DECK
 
Jacksonville returns home for the final non-conference weekend series, hosting Bradley for a three-game set starting Friday night at 6 p.m.
 
THREE STRIKES
 

• Chase Malloy hit this third homer of the season, after not hitting one all of last year (in 219 at-bats)
• JU scored in the ninth inning to win a game for the second-straight game and for the fourth-time this year scored in the eighth or later to tie or take the lead
• The Dolphins won multiple games against ranked teams for the first time since 2021 (#5 Florida and #21 Florida State) and now have 14 wins over  ranked foes in the six-plus seasons under Head Coach Chris Hayes