Box Score MIAMI (Feb. 25, 2014) – Led by junior Josh Anderson's 6-for-7 effort, the FIU baseball team reached the 9-0 mark for the fourth time in program history with a 23-1 victory over Florida Memorial on Tuesday evening. FIU collected 19 hits on the evening and hit three home runs.
 
FIU's three homers came from junior Aramis Garcia, sophomore Edwin Rios and freshman Derek Deler, the first of his career. Senior Ty Sullivan tied junior Mike Ellis and freshman Chris Mourelle for the team lead in wins, as he earned his second victory of the season. Sullivan scattered three hits and struck out three in the victory.
 
Deler's home run was one of a few career-firsts for the Panthers tonight. Freshman Kolby Follis tallied his first career-hit, which was a triple that came late in the game. Junior Alec Beyersdorf also tallied his first career hit in a Panther uniform in the eighth inning, a single up the middle. Anderson tallied six hits in a game for the first time in his career, falling one hit shy of tying the school record of seven.
 
FIU has scored in the first inning in all nine games this season as the Panthers plated five in the first. Senior Zach Sweety highlighted the inning with a two-run double. FIU came back in the second with four more, led by a three-run homer from Garcia to extend FIU's lead to 8-0 at that point.
 
Senior Chris May recorded his first career RBI off a single in the third to left field to give FIU a 10-1 advantage at that point. Rios would homer later in the inning. FIU would jump out to a 17-1 lead and would make it 19-1 in the sixth inning on RBI singles from Anderson and freshman JC Escarra. Deler's two-run homer in the eighth would give FIU 23 runs on the evening, the most since scoring 24 at UALR on March 14, 2009.
 
The Panthers head up to Jupiter, Fla. this Thursday and will take on the Miami Marlins in an exhibition contest at 1:05 p.m.
 
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Season tickets for the upcoming FIU baseball season are now on sale. Tickets for the 2014 campaign cost just $50 per ticket for all fans this year. Fans can purchase tickets online, over the phone by calling 305-FIU-GAME, or in person at the R. Kirk Landon Fieldhouse Box Office. Student admission is free to all FIU baseball home games.
 
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including U.S. Century Bank Arena and Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida¹s anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.