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Baseball Comes Back to Defeat St. Thomas University

Tim Coenraad, Staff Writer
Issue date: 4/14/09 Section: Sports
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Junior Ricardo Martinez
Junior Ricardo Martinez
NSU's baseball team (28-10; 4-8 SSC) dropped a series, 1-2, to Sunshine State Conference rivals Rollins College the weekend of April 3 and 4, bringing them to seventh in the SSC and eight in the South Region. However, the Sharks were able to pick themselves back up and defeat St. Thomas University, 12-8, in a non-regional match-up on April 7.

After falling short 7-0 in the first few innings, the Sharks fought back and chipped away at the St. Thomas Bobcats' lead. Senior Dexter Butler scored in the third inning to put NSU on the scoreboard, 8-1. Fellow senior, Dale Alberto, got a Shark rally going toward the bottom of the fourth inning after driving in two RBIs off of a solid triple to right field. Butler added an RBI of his own off of a squeeze bunt, bringing Alberto in to score.

NSU continued hacking away the Bobcats' lead, until they saw the lead for the first time all game in the bottom of the eighth inning, as junior J.D. Martinez scored on a passed ball, 9-8.

The Sharks did not stop there as they took all they could get, with freshman Chris Hamper scoring on another Bobcats' passed ball and senior Pete Simon adding on the insurance runs after slamming a two-run homerun.

The Sharks will be back in action, on their home turf, on April 17 at 6 p.m. for the first in a three-game series against SSC rivals Barry University.
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