Baseball Rallies Late But Comes Up Short at FGCU, 6-5

Friday, March 8

Fort Myers, Fla. / Swanson Stadium

3:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

3-5

Florida Gulf Coast

10-4

Quinnipiac

FGCU

Baseball Rallies Late But Comes Up Short at FGCU, 6-5

3/8/2019 8:54:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Scafariello Leads Bobcats with Pair of RBIs, Poulin Sharp in No Decision

By: QU Athletic Communications

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Quinnipiac baseball team scored a pair of runs in the top of the ninth inning as Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) and Ian Ostberg (Northampton, Massachusetts) recorded RBI singles but the Bobcats could not complete the comeback in a 6-5 loss at Florida Gulf Coast to open the three-game weekend.

Quinnipiac scored a pair of runs in the top of the seventh inning to take a 3-2 lead after Scafariello and Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) hit back-to-back sacrifice flies in the seventh inning to take a 3-2 lead but the Eagles answered for four runs over the next two innings.

Scafariello led the Bobcats with a pair of RBIs and a single while Evan Vulgamore (Bow, New Hampshire) doubled, walked and scored a pair of runs.

Tyler Poulin (Randolph, New Jersey) recorded the no-decision in the loss for the Bobcats after striking out five batters in six innings while allowing just two runs on four hits.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 5, Florida Gulf Coast 6

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (3-5) | Florida Gulf Coast (10-4)

LOCATION
Swanson Stadium | Fort Myers, Fla.

BOBCATS SCORING SUMMARY
SIXTH INNING

Huscher sliced a first pitch single to right field with two outs in the top of the inning before scoring from first on Maves' double to left field

SEVENTH INNING

The Bobcats took the lead in the seventh inning, starting with a lead-off walk for Dylan Lutz (Denver, Colo.) before he moved into scoring position on an Evan Vulgamore (Bow, New Hampshire) double down the left field line
Scafariello and Moskey each lifted sacrifice flies to left field which scored Lutz and Vulgamore, respectively, to take the 3-2 lead at the end of the top of the seventh

NINTH INNING

Andre Marrero (West Springfield, Massachusetts) led off the ninth with a walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Marrero promptly stole third base before a Vulgamore walk put runners on the corners
Scafariello singled to left field to score Marrero and moved Vulgamore up to second
With two outs in the inning, Ostberg singled up the middle to score Vulgamore and Scafariello went first-to-third on the single

NOTES

The Bobcats have now scored 28 runs in the seventh inning or later in the first eight games of the season
Scafariello brought home a pair of RBIs for the Bobcats in Friday afternoon's game for the 88^th RBIs of his career
Scafariello's single was the 100^th hit of his career
Vulgamore recorded a hit for a third straight game has now reached base safely in six consecutive games
His two runs scored on Friday now gives him 10 runs this season
Ostberg extended his hitting streak to eight games to open the season with his ninth inning single and is now batting .313 on the season
Poulin dazzled once again on the mound for the Bobcats as he struck out five in six innings of work
He has allowed two earned runs or fewer in back-to-back starts while he is up to 27 strikeouts on the season
Maves tallied an RBI double for his second extra-base hit of the season
Lutz scored his fourth run of the season and now has a walk in three straight games after drawing a walk Friday

UPCOMING GAME

Quinnipiac continues its weekend series at Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday with first pitch scheduled for 2 p.m. from Swanson Stadium.
Chris Enns (Canton, Connecticut) is the probable starter for the Bobcats and Brenden Heiss is the probable starter for the Eagles.