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Florida Atlantic FAU 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 11 11 0
FIU FIU 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 6 10 1

W: Hunter Cooley (5-3) L: Myrick, Tyler (6-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Panthers Stumble In Series Opener with FAU

Cartaya belts first-career homer

MIAMI (April 23, 2021) – The FIU baseball team fell on Friday night by a score of 11-6 to the visiting FAU Owls, as Derek Cartaya hit his first career homer. 

Adrian Figueroa and Justin Farmer led the Panther offense in the series opener as they both drove in two runs apiece. Cartaya added another RBI with his first-career home run to lead off the game for FIU. Figueroa, Dante Girardi and Alec Sanchez each had a multiple-hit evening.

Following the Cartaya homer that jump-started the home half of the first, Sanchez and Figueroa singled before a double steal resulted in a Sanchez swipe of home and a 2-0 FIU lead after one.

FAU scored five unanswered runs to take a 5-2 lead before Sanchez scored on a Figueroa groundout for his second of three runs on Friday to cut the Owl lead to 5-3 in the fifth. 

Three late-inning homers pushed the visitor's lead to 11-4 before a Panther rally plated a pair in the ninth to make the final score 11-6.

UP NEXT
The series continues on Saturday at 2 p.m., with a doubleheader slated between FIU and FAU.

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