FAU baseball took No. 1 Florida to its limits, forcing a seventh Gainesville Regional game with a 7-4 win on Monday before falling in the decisive matchup, 5-2 early Tuesday morning, to wrap the team’s 2018 season.
After securing the first victory Monday, the two teams were right back at it 45 minutes later, and it took FAU (43-19-1) just a handful of minutes more to take the early lead. Three of the first four Owls walked, and a Gunnar Lambert bloop single to left made it a 2-0 lead. UF (45-18) got one in in the third, but were held off from getting more when Jordan Poore induced a flyout and knocked down a comeback liner to keep the tying run at third.