TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Right fielder Jaime Ferrer doubled twice, his team-high 14th and 15th of the season, in Saturday’s contest against Virginia Tech. Ferrer now leads FSU with 56 hits and a .350 batting average.
The teams traded runs in the second inning, with each side scoring courtesy of three hits. The Hokies added a run in the third and fourth innings to take a 3-1 lead against FSU starter Conner Whittaker.
Ferrer doubled to score James Tibbs in the sixth inning and cut the deficit back to one, but the Hokies answered in the top of the sixth against Andrew Armstrong. Pitching in his 24th game of the year – and fifth consecutive – Armstrong allowed one run over the final 4.0 innings.
Virginia Tech’s Drue Hackenberg pitched a complete game, striking out 12 batters. DeAmez Ross hit FSU’s third single of the ninth inning to score Treyton Rank, but FSU’s tying run was stranded on third to end the game.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T2 | VT 1, FSU 0
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Jamie Arnold and Doug Kirkland combined for five hitless innings as Florida State beat Virginia Tech, 4-3, Sunday afternoon to salvage the final game of the series. Arnold improved to 2-4 on the year, while Kirkland did not allow a baserunner over the final two innings for his first career save.
At the plate, James Tibbs hit his second home run of the weekend, a two-run shot in the third inning, while DeAmez Ross and McGwire Holbrook provided RBI singles.
Holbrook began the game with a knock to the shortstop and just beat out the throw which allowed Tibbs to score from second for the game’s first run. This extended Holbrook’s six game hitting streak, all of which were singles.
In his next at-bat, Tibbs unleashed a powerful strike over the right field fence to send himself and Colton Vincent home for a three-run lead. The sophomore finished the series with five hits and took sole possession of home run leader on the team with his 12th of the season.
RALEIGH, North Carolina – NC State scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat Florida State, 5-4, Sunday afternoon at Doak Field in Raleigh. Cam Smith had both of FSU’s extra-base hits in the contest, including a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the 10th. Andrew Armstrong pitched four scoreless innings in the contest. He was one of eight Florida State pitchers to appear in the game. Armstrong entered with the bases loaded and one out in the third inning with FSU already trailing 2-0. Armstrong struck out both batters and proceeded to get an inning-ending strikeout in the fourth and fifth innings as well. When Armstrong did run into trouble in the seventh inning – the first two Wolfpack batters of the inning reached – Armstrong fielded a sacrifice bunt attempt and threw out lead runner at third base. Ben Barrett entered in relief and needed just four pitches to force a pop up and groundout. FSU cut the Wolfpack lead in half on Jordan Carrion’s groundout in th
RALEIGH, North Carolina – Nander De Sedas and Jaime Ferrer both homered in Florida State’s 14-3 loss Friday night at NC State, accounting for all three of FSU’s runs in the contest.
Florida State took a 2-0 lead in the second on De Sedas’s fourth home run of the season, scoring Jordan Carrion. Carrion reached on a leadoff single to extend his hitting streak to seven games.
After facing the minimum in the first two innings, Jackson Baumeister (2-3) allowed three hits and walked three batters in the third inning, surrendering six runs in just 2.1 innings pitched. NC State sent 12 batters to the plate and scored seven to take the lead. The Wolfpack added another six runs in the eighth inning.
Ferrer hit a solo home run for the Seminoles, his sixth of the season and 15th of his career. He has a hit in three straight games and 23 of the last 24.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T2 | FSU 2, NCSU 0 De Sedas home run, Carrion scored
B3 | FSU 2, NCSU 2 �
GAINESVILLE, Florida – Freshman Ben Barrett pitched five scoreless innings and allowed just one hit in FSU’s 5-3 loss at No. 3 Florida in front of 7,441 fans at Condron Family Ballpark Tuesday night.
Barrett, from Orlando, allowed just three batters to reach base in his fourth career start. He forced a double play and stranded two other runners.
Neither team scored in the first five innings – and it took under one hour to complete that much – before the Seminoles took a 3-0 lead in the sixth inning. Jordan Carrion, a former Gator, opened the inning with his second hit of the game and scored on DeAmez Ross’s RBI double. After Jaime Ferrer reached on a fielding error, James Tibbs tripled FSU’s lead with his eighth two-bagger of the year.
The Gators got one back in the bottom of the sixth against reliever Andrew Armstrong, but two fly balls with runners on base kept the score 3-1. After scoring a run on an error, Florida took the lead for good with a three-run home ru