March 28, 2009
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
The Maryland Terrapins and Florida State Seminoles played bonus baseball Saturday afternoon at Shipley field, completing Friday night's suspended game, as well as playing the regularly-scheduled contest. The Seminoles won both games, 6-2 and 10-2, respectively.
Friday night's suspended game was resumed at 11 a.m. with Florida State (15-8, 5-4 ACC) leading 5-2 in the middle of the sixth inning. The Seminoles tacked on one more run on a Stephen Cardullo solo homer and the Terps' bats couldn't plate any more runs.
Sean Gilmartin got the win for the Seminoles, improving to 5-1. Matt Fullerton was the losing pitcher, falling to 2-2. Geoff Parker tossed four shutout innings to earn his first save of the season.
The originally-scheduled game got underway at 12:33 p.m. and the Seminoles got on the board early against Maryland starter Scott Swinson.
After a walk and a strikeout to the first two batters, Florida State third baseman Stuart Tapley homered to dead center field to put the Seminoles up 2-0.
The Terps went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the first and the Seminoles put up four more runs in the top of the second against Swinson.
Left fielder James Ramsey led off the second with an opposite-field home run to left. Tommy Oravetz drove in a run with a ground-out, Tapley added an RBI double and Cardullo pitched in a run-scoring single to chase Swinson.
Florida State added two runs each in the fifth and seventh innings to complete its scoring.
Gerry Spessard had an RBI fielder's choice in the bottom of the fourth and second baseman Matthew Murakami added an RBI single in the seventh to account for Maryland's scoring.
Swinson was the losing pitcher, allowing six runs on eight hits in 1 2/3 innings. Swinson fell to 1-4 with the loss. Freshman left-handed pitcher Brian Busch earned the win for Florida State, tossing eight strong innings to earn his first career victory.
Maryland will try to salvage the final game of the series at 1 p.m. Sunday.
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