GAINESVILLE, Fla., JUNE, 4, 2017 – The University of South Florida baseball team was eliminated from the Gainesville Regional with Sunday's 6-3 loss to Bethune-Cookman, ending a tremendous year.
The Bulls (42-19) finish the season with the most wins since 1996 and accomplished a great deal. They led the country in strikeouts per nine innings for nearly three-straight months, raddled off the program's second longest winning streak with 19 and entered the top-25 in both the Baseball America and D1Baseball polls for the first time since 2013.
It didn't take long for the Bulls to take an early lead against the Wildcats (35-24) Sunday thanks to a first-inning solo shot to right from junior Kevin Merrell (Odessa, Fla.