Two-minute walkthrough: Black Panthers hope to keep going; FHSAA Baseball, Softball Finals
The Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs won two home games through the second round of the NHL playoffs respectively.
It's the Stranger River City Rumble Baseball Weekend between the University of North Florida and Jacksonville.
Both teams scored 15 runs on back-to-back blowout rates.
100Th The game between the two teams lasted only 7 innings.
A pitcher duel ended with another turnover victory in six innings, this time UNF brought two games of the series to the Dolphins on May 15-17, winning the series with the Dolphins in March and leaving both teams 3-3 in the normal season of 2025.
Strangely, the final three games of the regular season didn’t change the final graphite division standings: JU (28-23, 17-13) remains second only to champion Stetson and Florida’s Gulf Coast second, ahead of Ospreys (27-27, 15-15).
UNF and JU are now turning their attention to the Asun Championships in Deland from May 20-25, where Stetson will defend its 2024 championship. JU will play in Alabama at 9 a.m. May 20, and Osprey will face Golden Division champion Austin Peay at 12:30 p.m.
If UNF and JU win, they will lose to either team in the second round at 2pm on May 22, which will put them in the knockout round on May 21.
River City rumbles provided fireworks from start to finish, and Ju got the final adjustment before the game.
UNF center goalkeeper Nick Monile scored 3-5 with four scores and four RBIs as the Osprey won 15-4 with eight runs in the final three innings.
The Dolphins had the only lead when Jonah Shields tripled and scored on Josh Steidl's Sacrifice Fly, but Ju Pitcher Richard Long has been confused over the past two seasons to make the game better, starting with a third place in three straight wins. Monile's doubles were Jabin Bates' two singles, and two JU throw errors were the key piece.
The Ospreys won three more games in Game 4, Monile made another throwing mistake in two games with one single, and St. John Country Day graduate Seth Alford doubled and led 7-1.
UNF had a seventh pour of five, a two-shot single with two juice mistakes (Dolphins made five times in the race) and a walk of three bases, all highlighting it with a 3-2 count, earning another 3 runs in ninth place.
Kai Etwaru (4-4) won the victory after starting 2.2 innings to ease Meadows starter Clay Hendry, who hit four in three innings.
Jacksonville didn't wait long to be at 100Th Meeting between the two teams. Sammy Mummau's two consecutive doubles kicked off a six-game winning streak, two singles from Aidan Masters and a RBI single from Chad Hentz.
In the first five innings, the Dolphins continued at least one shot. Shields led second with home runs and Blake Delamielleure scored in the second inning. Mummau singled, stealing second and third, scoring on the inside ground in third. Hunts hit two three-pointers in the fourth inning. Steidl was highlighted by a home run.
The six JU players made two hits, with Mummau and Masters having three RBIs respectively.
Blake Barquin (5-4) beat five wins in 2.2 innings.
Monile scored six points in the series with eight RBIs (eight hits), breaking a close game with two home runs in seventh place, while two-thirds singles opened two rounds of singles.
Clayton Boroski (2-0) released two innings to ease starter Trevor Nikolis and scored a victory. Boroski beat three of the seven bats he faced. Nikolis beat five and six unpitched players, with a total of 13 strikeouts and just 1 walk.
MacClenny's Conner Moore doubled his winning streak to 15 games in the first inning. Moore hit .491 during his winning streak (57 28) with 13 runs and 11 RBIs.
Shields played against UNF in the series with a 4-2 score.