| 2/27/2025 | Baseball BOCA RATON, Fla. – Fresh off another one-run victory over an in-state opponent, Florida Atlantic baseball (7-1) returns home on Friday night to start a three-game series against Fordham (2-6). First pitch for the opener is set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s middle game gets underway at 4 p.m., while Sunday is scheduled for a noon start. Sunday’s finale is once again a Sunday Funday presented by Demand the Limits Injury Attorneys. Collect your Max Martzolf / James Litman trading card, run the bases, and get autographs postgame. OWLS IN REVIEW The Owls came from behind to defeat UCF 4-3 on Tuesday night in Orlando The Owls led 2-0 in the fourth inning after a Jake Millan home run After falling behind 3-2, Kyle Boylston and Jake Duer came through with RBI hits in the sixth UCF had runners in scoring position in each of the last four innings Max Martzolf, Kide Adetuyi, Braden Ostrander, and MJ Bollinger held the Knights scoreless Bollinger pitched the last two innings to earn his second save WHO’S HOT Jake Duer is ranked third in Division I with 19 hits The native of Flower Mound, Texas, has multiple hits in five-straight games entering Friday Marshall Lipsey ranks eighth in DI with a .667 on-base percentage Lipsey has been hit or walked as many times as he has official at-bats (15)Trey Beard has struck out 10 in each of his first two starts this season Beard is 12 strikeouts away from 100 for his career THE OPPONENT Fordham earned its second win of the season on Wednesday, defeating Iona 18-10 The Rams have been swept by NC State and Northwestern – their first win of the season came against Harvard on February 21 Fordham competes in the A-10 Conference FAU holds the all-time series at 6-1, with the Owls winning the last outing back on March 6, 2022 by a 10-3 score WHAT’S NEXT The Owls will head to Gainesville to take on No. 8 Florida next Wednesday THE TICKETS To purchase FAU tickets, call 1-866-FAU-OWLS or click HERE. Stay informed by reading FAUSports.com, or through the baseball’s Twitter and Instagram accounts @FAUBaseball. |
