JU Dolphins Drop Game Two at No.16 FGCU

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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Jacksonville University baseball's six-game winning streak ended on Saturday with a 14-4 loss at #16 FGCU.

The Dolphins (19-9, 5-3) got on the board first, but the Eagles hit five home runs to even the series at one apiece.The tone was set in the first inning, when JU started by recapturing a little of the two-out magic it had displayed the night before. Kris Armstrong roped a double to left center and Tommy Joseph drew a walk, bringing up Hogan McIntosh. 

He delivered with an RBI single through short to make it 1-0 early in favor of the Dolphins. Blake DeLamielleure followed with another walk to load the bases, but a ground out ended the threat, the first of two times JU left the bases loaded on the afternoon.FGCU immediately answered, drilling a one-out double to right. A couple of walks loaded the bases, and with two outs, they found some magic of their own, smacking a bases clearing double and following that with a third double of the inning to plate another, putting the Eagles up 4-1, a lead it would not relinquish.After FGCU tacked on two in the third and built the lead out to 10 with a five-run fifth, JU found some life at the plate to start the sixth. McIntosh hit a leadoff homer to straightaway center, followed by DeLamielleure doubling on the wall in left center. 

After a wild pitch advanced him to third, Colin Wetterau battled his way to a 10-pitch at-bat, ending it with a single the other way to score DeLamielleure. 
With two outs, Chase Malloy drew a walk and Justin Nadeau's single to the right side was kept at the edge of the infield, loading the bases for Armstrong. After a wild pitch scored Wetterau and opened up first base, Armstrong was intentionally walked, and a strikeout kept the Dolphins from getting any closer than 11-4.The Eagles immediately got those runs back in the bottom half with a solo homer to right and a two-run shot to center, to push the margin back to 10. After a quiet top of the seventh, the game was called due to the ASUN Conference run-rule.

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