BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Atlantic baseball captured the first two in a four-game series with Harvard after an 11-3 win on Saturday afternoon. The Owls will go for the series win on Sunday.
THE BEGINNING
The Owls got off to a fast start on Saturday with a run in the bottom of the first. With two outs, Nolan Schanuel lined an automatic double to center field. Schanuel stole third on ball four to Jackson Ross. He then scored on a single to right field by Mitchell Hartigan.
While the offense was clicking, starting pitcher Jacob Josey was in control on the mound. The redshirt junior gave up a run in the third but was otherwise dominant over six innings.
THE TURNING POINT
FAU added two on a home run by Ross in the third and broke it open with four runs in the fourth. Armando Albert found a hole for a two-RBI base hit, Ross tacked on his third RBI of the day with a single, and Hartigan brought the fourth run across with a sacrifice fly.
The Owls continued to pour it on with three more runs in the fifth inning. With one out, freshman Patrick Ward made his first collegiate hit a memorable one. An opposite field solo home run made it an 8-1 game. Later in the inning, an RBI triple by Dylan Goldstein and an infield single by Schanuel led to two more on the board.
THE FINISH
Schanuel reached base for the fifth time in the game when he led off the eighth inning with a towering solo HR over the right field foul pole.
The Owls used three lefties in relief of Josey to finish off the eight-run victory. Max Martzolf, Sam Drumheller, and Tyler Monzon combined to close the door in the seventh, eighth, and ninth.
THE ARMS
- Josey logged six innings with five hits and one run allowed. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter. His ERA sits at 1.69 through four starts.
- Martzolf conceded two runs in his lone inning of work. He K’d two and walked one.
- Drumheller contributed his seventh consecutive appearance without allowing an earned run.
- Monzon recorded two strikeouts in a clean ninth inning.
THE BATS
- The Owls totaled 12 hits as a team.
- Schanuel homered, doubled, singled, and was hit-by-a-pitch twice. The HR was his seventh of the season.
- Ross finished 2-for-4 with three RBI.
WHAT’S NEXT
Game three first pitch is scheduled for noon on Sunday.
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