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JACKSONVILLE ( www.jaxsportsday.com ) -  Jacksonville University Athletics announced a partnership with Gemstone Media, Inc. to create a program that enables student experiential learning opportunities in conjunction with producing nearly 100 ESPN+ broadcasts per school year. "Our collaboration with Gemstone Media will greatly elevate our ESPN broadcasts while simultaneously providing our students the opportunity to gain professional skills while studying here at JU," said Deputy AD/COO Rick Canter. "Gemstone Media's secret sauce is our amazingly talented team. By establishing trust, collaboration, and ongoing communication with the JU students, we can create and surpass the magic our clients may expect from their live sports production," says Gemstone Media President Philip L. Green. "When student engagement and professional skills training is done properly, it has a powerful and lasting effect." GMI has been involved with broadcast production of spor...

COLUMBIA, SC ( www.jaxsportsday.com ) -  Jacksonville Men's soccer fall 1-0 against SEC South Carolina on Tuesday night. The, which marked the beginning of breast cancer awareness, ultimately ended with the Gamecocks holding onto an early 1-0 lead. However, Jacksonville did not accept defeat without giving USC a good match.  In the previous 2019 matchup held in Columbia, SC, the Dolphins emerged victorious over USC, winning 3-2. Both the Dolphins and Gamecocks were seeking their third win of the season. USC, with 12 overall wins, found a way to score early in the 18th minute when USC forward Adam Luckhurst opened the match with a goal in the left corner. After USC's goal, the Dolphins made several solid runs that resulted in five shots on goal out of their total of ten attempts. The Gamecocks started the evening strong, which motivated the Dolphins to respond appropriately and improve their play throughout the match.  The Dolphins were led by Cason Wood and Michael Mancus...

JACKSONVILLE ( www.jaxsportsday.com )  - North Florida men's soccer (2-3-4) played an eventful River City Rumble match on the road with a 1-1 draw against Jacksonville (2-5-2) on Saturday evening. After 72 minutes of play, the Ospreys were the ones to break the scoreless tie with Joaquin Acuna dishing a perfect pass to Luc Granitur for the score on the run.  Just 10 minutes afterwards, JU's Mason Duval (Andres Perez de Gracia)  responded with a goal with a header on a free kick placed in the top right corner of the frame to force a draw. The Ospreys head back to their home stadium for another weekend of conference play against FGCU on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. The Dolphins will continue conference play and head to DeLand, Florida, on Saturday, September 30, to take on Stetson. The match will begin at 7 PM.

ATLANTA - Jacksonville University men's golf redshirt junior Alexandre Vandermoten was named to the ASUN All-Conference Third Team on Monday, as announced by the league office. The native of Baillargues, France made an all-conference team for the second-straight year, one of five players on the team this year to have made multiple all-conference squads. He led the team in multiple statistical scoring categories this season. His 72.20 stroke average was the best amongst JU players, and he also recorded the most rounds in the 60s, with seven total. His compiled 14 rounds of par-or-better and 30 of his rounds have counted towards the total team score. His best finish of the season was a T5 at The Southern Invitational, helping the Dolphins capture the team championship that week. His low 18-hole score was a 64, which he shot in the final round of the Streamsong Invitational to open the season. He was an All-Conference Second Team member last season, and made the All-Freshman Team in ...

ATLANTA -  Jacksonville University baseball senior Hogan McIntosh was named ASUN Player of the Week, as announced by the league office on Monday. McIntosh helped the Dolphins to a 3-2 week, with wins over top-10 Florida and a series victory against Southeastern Louisiana, highlighted by his walk-off, three-run home run on Sunday afternoon. The Charleston Southern transfer extended his team-high hit streak to nine games and registered multi-hit games in four of the five he played in last week. He now has a team-best six multi-hit games on the year. McIntosh drove in at least one run in all five games as well, memorably punctuated by his first home run of the year, a walk-off three-run shot to beat SLU and deliver the series win to JU. He is the first Dolphin to receive Player of the Week honors since Scott Dubrule was recognized on May 14, 2018.

JACKSONVILLE (SportsTicker) - The Jacksonville Dolphins men's basketball team fell to the University of North Florida 77-63 on Thursday night. The opening parts of the first half were almost polar opposite to last year's contest in Swisher. North Florida led for almost the entire half, and at one point more than doubled Jacksonville's score 27-13 with less than eight minutes to play.  A huge part in the opening stages included a near 67% shooting percentage from the field in the first 13 minutes by UNF, which included 50% from deep. The Dolphins shot 26.3% for comparison in that span, and didn't connect on any of their seven three point shots. In the final seven-plus minutes of the half, the same story was being written as JU still could not get hot on the offensive side and didn't hit a three pointer. The Ospreys were able to continue to build on their lead and were up by as much as 21 in the first half, though they led by 19 at the end of the half. The Dolphins ca...

TORONTO (SportsTicker) - Five Jacksonville University men's lacrosse players heard their named called Saturday evening in the 2022 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft, held at The Carlu in downtown Toronto. The Dolphins had three of the first 12 selections in the draft, with Dylan Watson (#2 overall, Las Vegas Desert Dogs), Zack Deaken (#8 overall, New York Riptide), and Bo BowHunter (#12 overall, Halifax Thunderbirds) heard their names called early in the draft.  Jacksonville was one of three schools with multiple selections in the first round. In the third round, Troy Hettinger became the fourth 'Phins to hear his named selected, going 57th overall to the Philadelphia Wings.  In the six round, Max Waldbaum rounded out the Jacksonville draft selections, going 103rd overall to the Philadelphia Wings.