Baseball team sweeps SCF-Manatee on the road Saturday

The Eastern Florida State College baseball team picked up a couple more Citrus Conference wins on Saturday with a sweep at the State College of Florida-Manatee.

The Titans, who are now 17-13 in the conference, won all three games in the series to move up in the standings. Eastern Florida State College won 15-4 in five innings in the first game and then 13-10 in the second game. It is the first series sweep for the Titans this season.

The offense was clicking as they had 15 runs on 11 hits in five innings led by Gustavo Mendez who had three hits and scored twice. Seven of the nine hitters had a hit in the game as Jason Mack and Bryce Jackson each had two hits.

Garrett Smith tossed 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief to pick up the win and Landen Moore pitched a scoreless fifth inning.

In Game 2, the Titans took an early lead scoring twice in the first inning and another run in the second but SCF-Manatee battled back and led 7-4 after five innings. The Titans were not done as they scored seven times in the next two innings and scored a run in the eighth and the ninth to win.

Jason Mack continued to swing a hot bat with three more hits in the second game, driving in three runs. Bryce Pax also drove in three runs in the win. Bryce Jackson also had three hits and scored twice.

Jacob Goldman, Houston Wills and Moore teamed up to shoot 2 1/3 scoreless innings to finish the game.

Eastern Florida State College has now won five games in a row and are 9-2 in the past 11 games. The Titans will wrap up the regular season this week with a three-game series against Miami Dade College. The first game of the series will be at Miami Dade with a conference doubleheader on Sunday, April 27 at Bruce Bochy Field. The first game of the doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m.