FGCU Baseball Splits Double Header, Captures Atlantic Sun Regular Season Title

(Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson)

Despite splitting Friday's double header at Lipscomb, the FGCU baseball team clinched the Atlantic Sun regular season title.

In game one, redshirt sophomore Brady Anderson started on the mound. Over 7.1 innings, the Arcadia, Fla. native struck out six Bison while giving up zero earned runs. In support, both Colton Bottomley (Parkland, Fla.) and Zack Tillery (Naples, Fla.) sent solo shots over the wall. Tillery then pitched a clean slate in the ninth to capture the save, as the Eagles won 3-2.

Florida Gulf Coast ran out of steam in the final game of the series, however. Jack English allowed two earned runs in three innings of work, and the Bison tacked on more later to defeat the Eagles, 7-1. But with Mercer's 7-6 loss to ETSU, the Eagles still claimed the outright Atlantic Sun regular season title.

This is Florida Gulf Coast's fifth Atlantic Sun Regular Season Championship of the 2013-14 season. The men's basketball, women's basketball, men's soccer, and women's soccer programs captured the other four. It is also the Eagles' 35th Division I conference title.

With team success, person accolades are just icing on the cake. After recording two base knocks in each double header contest, Jake Noll's season hit total is now up to 96 - tied for best in the NCAA.

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The Eagles finished the regular season with a 19-8 conference mark which, in addition to the title, gives them the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Sun Baseball Championship in Fort Myers. The Blue and Green will face off against the No. 8 seeded North Florida Ospreys on Wednesday, May 21 at 5:00 p.m.

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