CORAL GABLES, Florida (April 7, 2021) - Luis Chavez and Dante Girardi earned their first homers of the season, but the FIU baseball team fell to 20th-ranked Miami (FL) on the road Wednesday night, 8-3. 

The Panthers and Hurricanes were evenly matched through the first three innings, before Chavez belted a pitch over the scoreboard in left field to give FIU the 2-0 lead in the top half of the fourth. The homer for Chavez was his first since Feb. 16, 2020. 

The Hurricanes plated three runs in the bottom half of the fourth to retake the lead however, before scoring five more runs over the next three innings. Girardi knocked out the first pitch he saw in the eighth inning, as the solo shot was his first career long ball as a Panther. 

Adrian Figueroa led the Panthers at the plate, getting two base hits to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. 

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FIU returns home this weekend for a C-USA series with Charlotte on April 9-11, as the Panthers and 49ers get set for a four-game weekend.

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