Your Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team split their first series of the season. Cincinnati faced off with Florida Gulf Coast (FGCU) down in Fort Myers.
The first of the four game set came on Friday. Cincinnati won 9-6 in the opener, buoyed by a banner day by junior centerfielder Griffin Merritt who went 3 for 4, belting a triple and a home run while driving in 2. Bearcats ace Tristan Weaver surrendered just one run over five innings in the win.
Cincinnati started off Saturday’s double header the right way, outslugging FGCU for a 15-14 win in 11 innings.